My Sport Locker

EASPORTS asked:

As a response to a fan video from Tiger Woods PGA TOUR 08, Tiger Woods and EA SPORTS demonstrate that the “glitch” Levinator25 thought he found in the game, is not a glitch at all.

longhornbambam asked:

Title pretty much says it all. This dude is stacked!! Low body fat percentage! Strong! and just a beast! Check out his freshman image to present time. This dude is awesome!

maywest86 asked:

The top 10 of the most awkward interviews.

Ann Marier asked:


Those searching for the perfect sports collectible have a variety of different sports collectible options to choose from. Baseball, football, soccer −− all of those sports have a range of memorabilia that are sure to satisfy a devoted fan. However, basketball, with its famous players and amazing history, has the ultimate sports collectible to offer: basketball jerseys.

Why Basketball Jerseys are Such a Desirable Sports Collectible

The history of basketball is filled with talented players who stood out from the rest: Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Shaquille O’Neal, even Dennis Rodman. Each of these players brought either immense talent, or, in the case of Dennis Rodman, flashy personality to the game of basketball.

With such notoriety being generated by these basketball players, of course the sports industry had to manufacture copies of each player’s basketball jersey in the hopes of it becoming valuable sports collectibles. The fans did not disappoint, and after every basketball game stadium vendors were met with long lines of fans wanting to get basketball jerseys as a sports collectible.

Of course, the basketball jerseys that a fan could get at a game or at a local sports shop were great ways to show their devotion to a particular player. However, for those sports memorabilia collectors, simply owning a copy of their favorite player’s jersey was not enough.

Extremely devoted fans would wait outside locker rooms in the days when security was less strict, in the hops of getting their favorite player to sign a jersey. Many players obliged, thus increasing the value of the jersey by potentially hundreds of dollars.

Nowadays, outside of fan events, it has gotten considerably harder to obtain that much-wanted autographed basketball jersey. Thus, avid sports collectors are flocking to specialty shops and to online sites such as eBay, looking for the perfect basketball jersey as a sports collectible.

Of course, it would be ideal to have the actual basketball jersey of one’s favorite player, but one truly needs thousands of dollars to fulfill such a wish, if such a wish is even obtainable. Prices of basketball jersey skyrocket when they were actually owned by the player, and even more so if the player’s number was retired.

Basketball jerseys are the ultimate sports collectible because they are a way to pay homage to players of a truly exciting sport, a sport that has merged with the entertainment industry to be both a sport and a veritable who’s who of both celebrity fans and players.

So, for those who want a true piece of fascinating sports history, buy a basketball jersey. Whether original and signed, or just bought at a game or sports shop, it is guaranteed to be the ultimate symbol of fan devotion to this great game.

James Brown asked:


Every sport requires the use of specific muscles in the body, and the muscle building objectives for sports are many times only known to coaches and other supervisory staff on the team. The information that certain players might require further muscle building sessions could interfere with their eligibility for lucrative contracts and endorsements if the shortcomings of the individual were released to the public.

The muscle building objectives for sports such as ice skating might be centered on building the muscle tone in the calf, and in the muscles that support the ankles. There is more to ice skating than meets the eye and some people might not understand how many grueling hours must be spent in training and what muscle development must take place to compete on a professional level.

For professional athletes that participate in contact sports, the muscle building objectives might include weightlifting and a change in diet and the amount and type of physical exercise that is done on and off the court. Many professional athletes will be guided by trainers to achieve the correct body weight that will better support the muscular structure that their body currently features yet still be able to handle the heavy gear that they must wear during every game.

Some people choose to take their own route and change the muscle building objectives for sports outlined by their training by using illegal steroids that rapidly produce muscle that is falsely enhanced on their bodies and will not hold up to scrutiny on annual drug tests. The muscle building objectives for sports should be equal across the board, and Congress has only begun to be interested in finding a way to keep steroids out of the locker room.

There are many opportunities for muscle building exercise machines on television. The muscle building objectives for sports can now be maintained in a home environment rather than making the athlete spend a surmountable amount of time away from the home and family in a gym. The muscle building exercise machines are also used by professional sports teams to allow athletes to exercise in an environment that holds their focus longer.

The muscle building objectives for sports are in place because athletes need to build a better body to reach the top of their professional ladder. Professional athletes are always challenged and will never reach the top of the ladder because the muscle building objectives for sports will change every year as new people are introduced into the mix of athletes vying for the same career goals. Whatever physical objectives are set, a true athlete will at least excel in trying to reach those objectives through all means that are at their disposal.

fivealex2009 asked:

Norm MacDonald @ Sports Awards, 1998

Jim Brown asked:


As football season approaches, there is typically a lot of activity that occurs in a football fans household. Many women prefer not to think of themselves as football widows from September of one year to January of the next year. They prefer to look at themselves as women who can begin to rearrange a wardrobe for football season.

When organized properly, football season can be a lot of fun. The National Football League buys their football players the finest football uniforms that money can buy. Families deserve to dress just as nice as the men on the playing field and their favorite team should be proudly displayed all over town too. So many committed football wives will take that to task and begin shopping for NFL team jerseys, NFL banners, and even get a few NFL posters and pig-skin footballs for their child’s room.

A family favorite for wear during the football season has always been the Team tee-shirts. Closets are easy to organize when most of the clothes are made of lightweight materials that are easy to wash and maintain, even after the football season has ended. Since many tee-shirt sizes fit several body types, they are more affordable to own and buy too.

NFL tee-shirts are designer wear for family members at very affordable prices. The cost to rearrange a wardrobe is minimal and if organized properly, a family of four might be able to afford season tickets to all of the home games of their favorite NFL team. Souvenirs would be possible too and everybody that goes to an NFL game always wants one or two for other family members that did not make it to the game.

Keeping a good stock of NFL socks on hand is always a good idea. NFL socks are good quality socks that always seem to keep everybody’s feet warm during a game even if there is snow on the ground. If the wardrobe locker at home is truly organized for football season, NFL football fans will always find a nice pair of socks ready to be worn so that everyone can get to the game on time.

Of course, there are special tee-shirts that have to be purchased for post season wild card games. All of the souvenir jerseys might come out of the wardrobe locker for the divisional playoff games that typically will occur on Saturdays. For the Conference Championships, people might have to dig out their NFL team windbreakers and heat up some cocoa because mid-January has a tendency to be quite chilly, even in the South.

The wardrobe locker might begin changing once again by the time the Super Bowl arrives in February. Depending on which team makes it to the Super Bowl every year, it may be necessary for someone to pay attention to who wins the Conference Championships. The last task of the NFL football season will be to make sure that everybody in the family will be wearing either an AFC Champion clothes selection or a jersey or jacket that reflects a team in the NFC. Buying Super Bowl gear will be the thrilling culmination of a terrific football season.

Nicholas Tan asked:


The Twenty Four Hour fitness center is like your one stop shop to everything about fitness and your well-being. Imagine it as the Walmart of the fitness industry. Twenty Four Hour fitness centers are located in a number of areas in the state. All of them have equipments which cater to weight training as well as cardio vascular equipments. A variety of fitness gear is also available. Twenty Four Hourfitness centers all have locker rooms and – believe it or not – baby sitting accommodations. Over all, the Twenty Four Hour fitness center is a complete, clean and extremely well maintained facility that especially caters to all your fitness wants, needs and preferences.

Join Us

It is very easy to get started on your path to fitness. Twenty Four Hour fitness centers have over three hundred clubs located in the whole nation and is open for twenty four hours. There is no long term contract to sign up in. You have the option to pay monthly, but you are offered a complete personal training package that suits your body type, body weight and built so you are ensured with a service that is truly personalized.

Which club do you belong in?

Twenty Four Hour fitness center gives you the option to choose the specific type of club that you desire. The active club involves a group exercise as well as free weights and cardio machines to work off that fat. The sport club also includes everything in the active club but with additions such as basketball, heated pools and whirlpool. The super-sport club also includes the amenities found those in the active club and the sport club but with more additions such as massages, a sauna as well as a steam room. The ultra sport club is the works. It includes most of the amenities found in the active, sport and super sport club, plus a day spa, courts for racquetball as well as an executive locker room.

The Path to Performance

It all depends on what you want to achieve. In Twenty Four Hour fitness centers, a uniquely specialized fitness program is available to anyone who simply wants to improve their performance in a specific sport or is seriously training for competition. The program is designed by athletes.

The Performance program includes a menu plan specifically customized for those intense workouts. A resistance training is also available as well as a full cardio workout. After your exercise, a metabolic rate test is conducted.

This program is designed for those who wants to get started as soon as possible but has no clear and specific idea how. This is clearly the best option for them because all the information on nutrition, resistance training is learned through this program. This is the foundation one needs in order to have results that would last your body a lifetime.

The Components of Fitness

A regular exercise, an intense workout is just part and parcel of your path to health, fitness and well-being. There are other factors that should just as well play a part and which Twenty Four Hour fitness center teaches you.

Food intake is one of them. A menu is provided to those who follow the performance path. This details what you should or should not eat, or at least eat less of, if not completely avoid. Cardio is also one as this enhances your endurance to stress and exercise. Vitamins and supplements are a necessity unless you are sure that you are able to receive the proper amounts of iron, calcium, vitamin C or D or E in a day. If not, it is best to take them in. Resistance training is a feather in your fitness cap and is a necessary tool for being healthy, wealthy and wise.

Spencer Wood asked:


Coaches and athletes alike are well aware of the individual differences that exist in skill levels on any given team. Some players are better athletes than others, while other players are better defensively, better rebounders, or have better individual offensive skills or passing ability than others. Because of these differences, smart coaches build offenses and defenses and assign roles based on the respective skill levels of the athletes currently in their program. Yet, for as many differences as there are in physical traits within any given team, there are an equal number of extremely important mental trait differences among the players. Unlike the differences in physical traits and skill among players that are typically well understood and effectively utilized, the differences in mental traits among players are not nearly as well understood or utilized. When athletes and coaches do not pay attention to these mental trait differences, the team is often robbed of some of its potential. The result is a team which lacks consistency, often underperforms, and finishes the season with a win-loss column that does not reflect its true potential and ability. Nowhere is this lack of attention to mental trait differences more apparent than in the coaches’ pre-game speech and in each athlete’s own pre-game preparation.

Part 1 of this two part series on pre-game preparation will focus on the pre-game speech, while part 2 (to be published in the next WBCA Journal) will discuss how to maximize an athlete’s own pre-game preparation.

The difference between intensity and emotional arousal

Some athletes perform extremely well when they are on an emotional high, while others are at their best with relatively low emotions. On an emotional arousal scale of 1-10 (with a 1 equal to an almost comatose pre-game state and a 10 equal to the athlete that regularly high fives teammates so hard their hands sting for 10 minutes!) and a performance scale of 1-10 (with a 1 equal to a lifetime worst performance and a 10 equal to a lifetime best performance), I have played with athletes who needed to have an emotional arousal level around 2-4 (very low) in order to consistently perform at an 8-10 level (very high). I have also played with athletes who needed to have an emotional arousal level around an 8-10 in order to consistently perform at an 8-10 level. One of the biggest mistakes that inexperienced coaches and players make is believing that the entire team should be at the same emotional arousal level. Note that emotional arousal level has NOTHING to do with intensity. Athletes do not always have to be ‘jacked up,’ ‘hyped’ or highly emotionally aroused to perform at 100% intensity. Yet many coaches and athletes remove themselves and many of their players from their optimal arousal level, and onto a knife edge of heightened emotions, poor shooting percentages, defensive errors, and mistakes under pressure. Unfortunately, Hollywood caliber sports movies have done an outstanding job of extending a traditional sports fallacy that the team that appears to ‘want it the most’ and comes out of the locker room the most fired up and ‘psyched to the gills’ will get the win. Some coaches even count their fiery emotionally laden pre-game speech abilities among their most useful skill sets. Yet, experience teaches us that while high intensity is critical for most parts of the game of basketball (rebounding and defense as an example), lower intensity is needed for certain types of offensive execution and fine motor skills coordination (try shooting a high percentage from the foul line or shooting a jump shot while ‘jacked up’ with maximum intensity…. your percentage will look like a minor league baseball batting average). This is not to say that there is not a time and place for the emotionally charged percussion of a great pre-game speech. But the great coaches and athletes understand that basketball is like a great symphony, made up of so much more than raw percussion. Varied volume control makes for great symphonic music that balances emotional percussion with the timing and skillful execution and concert of the string, wind and brass sections. A team that understands how to consistently execute a beautifully run flex offense that results in an open, soft, and perfect 12ft jump shot, and then quickly gets into an aggressive full court run and jump defense that consistently results in opponent turnovers, understands how to make this music.

Athletes and coaches should know their own optimal arousal levels and stay at the level that brings out their very best performance. This means that pre-game speeches should sometimes focus almost entirely on game strategy, while emotionally laden messages should be delivered on an as needed and more individual basis. Most athletes know how to get themselves ‘up’ for a game. Take some time to sit back and watch your players at work during your next pre-game. Some players will sit silently, some will talk, some will find distraction and deflect their nervousness with humor, while others love to let their mp3 players shape their game face. A fiery pre-game speech is just what some of your players want and need, while that same speech will just as effectively pull some of your other players right out of their game and into a poor performance (though of course most would never dare admit that to you!).

The truly great coaches and athletes understand that the purpose of a great pre-game session is to bring an optimal level of composure, concentration, confidence and commitment for each individual onto the game floor. These mental skills & toughness traits are called the 4 C’s of Peak Performance, and each athlete will need to arrive at this optimal state of mind through a slightly different route during the pre-game. The coaches that use the pre-game session and speech to accomplish this will start the game with a distinct advantage over their opponent.

UzumakiNessita asked:

Pobre Aiba.. I wonder if it hurt… D: