(CavemanCircus.com)
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Top 10 moments at The House That Gretzky Built - ESPN.com
1. May 19, 1984: The Oilers won their first Stanley Cup title and ended the New York Islanders’ dynasty in the process. Gretzky scored a memorable breakaway goal as the Oilers wrapped up the series in five games.
3. Oct. 15, 1989: Gretzky, in his second season with the Los Angeles Kings, tied and then broke Gordie Howe’s all-time NHL record of 1,850 points. Gretzky’s goal with 53 seconds left in the third period tied the score and was the record-breaking point. After a lengthy on-ice ceremony, Gretzky punctuated the night by scoring the winner in overtime.
Complete list (ESPN.com)
3. Oct. 15, 1989: Gretzky, in his second season with the Los Angeles Kings, tied and then broke Gordie Howe’s all-time NHL record of 1,850 points. Gretzky’s goal with 53 seconds left in the third period tied the score and was the record-breaking point. After a lengthy on-ice ceremony, Gretzky punctuated the night by scoring the winner in overtime.
Complete list (ESPN.com)
I Could Never Be A Race Car Driver
7 Reasons Why It Sucks To Be An F1 Driver
While the glitz and glamour of the F1 lifestyle sure looks appealing, here are seven reasons why it must actually suck to be paid to go fast
1. Intense training
While the glitz and glamour of the F1 lifestyle sure looks appealing, here are seven reasons why it must actually suck to be paid to go fast
1. Intense training
- All drivers who enter Formula One have to cope with the high physical demands of the sport in terms of stamina and endurance. Drivers need to be strong enough to last for full race distances where they’ll experience anything up to 5g. Additionally, drivers can sweat off anything up to 3kg of their body weight during the course of a race. As an average, drivers tend to spend more than 10 hours a week on cardiovascular exercise and have below 10 per cent body fat.
- A healthy diet is fine, but only having high protein and complex carb meals (carrots, parsnips, potatoes or fruits) must be boring as hell. Drivers very rarely eat pasta or bread, while alcohol and sugary drinks are out (except on the podium). By the end of mid-season, then, F1 drivers must be craving a takeaway or a bacon roll!
- It must be annoying answering obvious questions, especially when things don’t go according to plan on the track. A failed team strategy is also a difficult thing to explain. When this happens, all an F1 driver wants to do is to stick his head in the sand and pretend that it never happened.
- Travelling around the world every weekend must take it out of an F1 driver what with jet lag, the crappy aeroplane air and simply not knowing what time zone/day of the week it is. When they want to sleep, it’s likely they’ll be needed out on track for testing, and that’s probably the last thing on their minds.
- Teammates don’t always get on, so imagine working with the guy you think is a colossal douchebag. What’s more, F1 drivers are always competing each other in the team, and when favouritism means that you’re not allowed to pass the guy you think is slower than you to preserve points, then guess what? You’re going to absolutely hate the bloke!
- F1 is a dangerous game, and despite seriously impressive safety measures, good guys die and drivers continue to have spectacular crashes - just take a look at what Alonso went through recently. It must suck, then, to know that at any moment a blown tyre or a lapse in judgement could well mean the difference between life and death.
- Starting out, it must be nice to have loyal fans who love what you do as much as you do. But there comes a time when all an F1 driver wants to do is to be left alone (here’s looking at you, Kimi). Unfortunately, the life of an F1 driver is anything but private. Fans will always beg for your attention, and the press will always be waiting for you to screw up or say something stupid.
This Has Got To Be Too Good To Be True
Now's Your Chance To Buy A Brand New BMW E39 M5
This immaculate BMW E39 M5 has just come up for sale with fewer miles on its odometer than you'd walk in just two months! This is possibly the cleanest E39 in the world right now!
As the headline of this piece suggests, the M5 in question is factory fresh, and anyone with a Fitbit will have worked out the rough mileage - 10,000 steps per day (that’s recommended) is equal to around 300 miles of walking in just two months. That’s right, this M5 has only 309 genuine miles on the clock, which will mean that the tyres have barely turned and that the interior probably hasn’t been coughed, sneezed or eaten in . . . . .
According to the description by seller Enthusiast Auto Group, the M5 is fully optioned with Park Distance Control, M-Audio with Enhanced Bass, Power Rear Sunshade with Door Blinds, DVD, Sat-Nav and everything else you’d expect from a car with a £70,000 / $100,000 sticker price when new.
(CarThrottle.com)
This immaculate BMW E39 M5 has just come up for sale with fewer miles on its odometer than you'd walk in just two months! This is possibly the cleanest E39 in the world right now!
As the headline of this piece suggests, the M5 in question is factory fresh, and anyone with a Fitbit will have worked out the rough mileage - 10,000 steps per day (that’s recommended) is equal to around 300 miles of walking in just two months. That’s right, this M5 has only 309 genuine miles on the clock, which will mean that the tyres have barely turned and that the interior probably hasn’t been coughed, sneezed or eaten in . . . . .
According to the description by seller Enthusiast Auto Group, the M5 is fully optioned with Park Distance Control, M-Audio with Enhanced Bass, Power Rear Sunshade with Door Blinds, DVD, Sat-Nav and everything else you’d expect from a car with a £70,000 / $100,000 sticker price when new.
(CarThrottle.com)
Talk About Getting Four, Four, & Four
With fourth title in hand, Breanna Stewart delivers for UConn
INDIANAPOLIS -- Life after UConn -- a very, very busy life -- is about to begin for the amazing Breanna Stewart. Catch your breath, Stewie, because a lot is going to happen.
Which is not to say a great deal hasn't happened already. Stewart finished off a historic collegiate career Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and there's no way to overstate what an accomplishment it is. For the program, of course, which won its 11th championship -- and fourth in a row -- with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse.
But for Stewart personally, too. She was part of 151 victories and only five losses at UConn. She was Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four an unprecedented four times. She won the Wade Trophy twice. Stewart, fellow senior Moriah Jefferson and redshirt junior Morgan Tuck, became the first college basketball players, men or women, to win four titles.
(ESPN.com)
INDIANAPOLIS -- Life after UConn -- a very, very busy life -- is about to begin for the amazing Breanna Stewart. Catch your breath, Stewie, because a lot is going to happen.
Which is not to say a great deal hasn't happened already. Stewart finished off a historic collegiate career Tuesday night at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, and there's no way to overstate what an accomplishment it is. For the program, of course, which won its 11th championship -- and fourth in a row -- with an 82-51 victory over Syracuse.
But for Stewart personally, too. She was part of 151 victories and only five losses at UConn. She was Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four an unprecedented four times. She won the Wade Trophy twice. Stewart, fellow senior Moriah Jefferson and redshirt junior Morgan Tuck, became the first college basketball players, men or women, to win four titles.
(ESPN.com)
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