Blogcritics Category: Sports: Recreational

Filipino Boxer Manny Pacquiao Should Fight Everyday

Clarence Yu — Sun, 7 Dec 2008 13:25:17 EST

During Manny Pacquiao's prize fight there was a brief period when crime stopped in the Philippines.
Manny Pacquiao, now the undisputed wonder of the boxing world, should start fighting everyday. According to this report from USA Today, the crime rate in the Philippines during his fight versus Oscar De La Hoya was virtually nil.What do you say, Manny? If you really want to make a change, instead of running for Congress or public office, just fight...

iBurn: The Disco Running Mix

Michael Pascua — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:54:29 EST

An exercise mix set to the tune of disco.
Welcome to the first iBurn. Before we get started, I’d like to explain my thought process behind this series. I’ll be frank: I’ve always perceived myself as the fat kid. I still suffer from a bit of low self esteem because of it. My family and friends have always been smaller than me and I’ve tried different ways of losing...

Volunteering for the Ironman World Championships or How I Spent My Weekend

Russ Evenhuis — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:28:55 EDT

If you can�t do an Ironman triathlon, the next best thing is to volunteer for one.
Even though the sport of triathlon has exploded exponentially and there are now Ironman events all over the world, the race in Hawaii is the one everyone knows. In 1978, 15 men and 1 woman waded into the water at Waikiki for the first Ironman triathlon race. Three years later, the race moved to the small town of Kona on the Big Island. Tell someone...

Satire: How To Be A Bike Snob

Bekah Terry — Sun, 5 Oct 2008 09:06:50 EDT

Here's a pretty one, a red cruiser bike perfect for showing yourself off around town.
Since the invention of the wheel, how we travel and how fast we travel has changed. No, not changed -- it has improved. Almost every major form of transportation depends upon the wheel in some form or other. It has gone, in a mere 5,500 years, from a rotating wooden slab attached to an ancient Mesopotamian cart, to a high-velocity spin demon made...

Book Review: Breath by Tim Winton

Ted Gioia — Fri, 8 Aug 2008 03:20:53 EDT

Breath is not so much about surfing -- and it may be the great surfing novel -- as it is about risk-taking.
It’s been a great year for literary books about sports. Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, a novel about cricket, is one of the most highly lauded works of fiction so far this year. Garth Stein’s The Art Of Racing In The Rain deals with race car driving. And two weeks ago, Haruki Murakami, of all people, weighed in with a memoir...

Satire: Area Cyclist Agrees to Share the Road

Eric Whelchel — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:39:42 EDT

One local cyclist agrees to change his biking habits.
Local cycling enthusiast Randall B. Pieder shocked family and friends at his surprise 30th birthday party when he reluctantly agreed to share the road with motor vehicles. As the party lapsed into the early morning hours and the cyclist received his 14th water bottle as a gift, it soon turned into a mass intervention, as Randall's tearful wife,...

Youth Sports: A Game Plan For Life

Debbie Friend — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:25:39 EDT

Throughout the country, countless kids play on numerous organized sports teams. What is the experience really teaching them?
The tension level steadily escalated both on the playing field and in the stands. Only minutes remained in the fourth quarter. The score was tied and either side could have easily secured the victory. However, desperate times called for desperate measures. Two coaches from one of the teams paced back and forth along the sidelines, conferred with...

Accommodation News and Review: The Iron Horse Hotel

Lou Novacheck — Thu, 1 May 2008 15:35:06 EDT

Move over, Milwaukee. There�s a new horse moving in.
The faithful will be making their annual pilgrimage to Mecca on the Milwaukee this August, and it's shaping up to be one heckuva Mecca.Move over, Milwaukee. There's a new horse moving in: The Iron Horse.The Iron Horse Hotel is scheduled to open in Milwaukee in July of this year, just prior to the grand opening of the new Harley-Davidson Museum.I...

Music Review: The Lance Armstrong Run Longer Coaching Mix

Ernesto Burden — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:59:14 EDT

If you�re looking for something to spice up your interval training, it�s definitely worth checking out.
An icy spring wind howled across New Hampshire, down the Merrimack Valley and into the athletic complex at Manchester’s Livingston Park. When Lance Armstrong and I stepped onto the track, a few walkers, bundled up in parkas with scarves wrapped around their faces, were trundling around the oval, heads down against the early evening gale. I...

It's Spring!

Lou Novacheck — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:30:27 EDT

144 days left till August, but who�s counting?
Ahhh, spring!Today's officially the first day of spring. I don't care that the calendar says it was two weeks ago. It's today. I can tell by the sound of the amplified flatulence of the Harleys running up and down the street that today is the day.Here in Milwaukee, it's in the sixties today. The sixties! That's equivalent to giving a man dying...