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After the recent MMA fight with Bones Jones and Rashad Evans You might be looking to check out some local boxing talent.
Here is the Press Release below so you can check out any details.
8-Time World Champion Roy Jones Jr. in association with TNT Promotions Presents “Live Championship Boxing from The Harv at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort” on Saturday April 28th. A Double Feature is planned for the evening’s headliners when Youngtown, OH’s Jake “The Bull” Giuriceo(15W-0L-1D, 3KO) battles former WBC Latino Super Lightweight Champion Juan “Chago” Santiago (14W-8L-1D, 8KO) and power punching sensationJoel Diaz Jr. (8W-0L, 7KO) takes on Russian native Georgi Kevlishvili (10W-3L, 3KO).
Giuriceo is looking to fight his way into the world rankings when stepping in with the rugged Santiago, a proven contender with multiple national television appearances. Diaz Jr. gained national recognition earlier this year after rising from the canvas to score a stunning TKO victory over previously undefeated Guy Robb televised on SHOWTIME. Kevlishvili is coming off of SHOWTIME appearance himself dropping a hard fought split decision to unbeaten Casey Ramos. Kevlishvili’s three losses were to opponents who had a combined record of 34W-0L at the time he fought them.
In the evening’s “Special Attraction”, former WBO World Title Challenger Brian “The Beast” Minto (35W-5L, 22KO) returns to face vs. 6’4″ BehemothMatt “Hurricane” Hicks (13W-6L, 12KO).
This blockbuster event will include a full night of exciting action and entertainment. In store are matchups involving fighters such as Super Middleweight“Big Chief” Morgan Fitch, Light Heavyweight Jaque “Lights Out” Lutz, Welterweight Billy “The Boilermaker” Hutchinson, Junior MiddleweightSammy Vasquez Jr., and the special introduction of Cruiserweight Josh “The Handsome Hitman” Himes, Beaver County, PA’s New Face of Boxing, and more.
Base ticket prices are VIP $100, Section A $50, Section B $35, and Bleachers $25. Tickets can be purchased at Mountaineer Casino’s Players Club in person or by calling the Players Club at 1-800-804-0468 Ext: 8297, online at www.MOREatMountaineer.com or www.Etix.com Exclusive Platinum VIP available by calling 724-840-0249.
1st bell is at 7:30 PM.
All Ages
Bouts subject to change.
About Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort
Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack & Resort, located in Chester, WV, is owned and operated by MTR Gaming Group. Mountaineer Casino features slot machines, table games, live poker tables, a thoroughbred racetrack, an upscale hotel with amenities, golf course, fine dining and entertainment, a theater and events center, and a convention center. Visit Mountaineer at www.MoreAtMountaineer.com or call 800-804-0468.
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According to a 2005 Gallup Pool, nearly 64 percent of Americans consider themselves to be professional football fans. As of 2010, women have been a dominant force when it comes to the NFL fan base; women make up about 44 percent of all NFL fans. If you are a diehard Steeler or any other team fan, you may be in luck. As it turns out, rooting for your favorite team can actually be good for your health. Who would have thought, spending Sundays in front of the television can actually be good for you.
You don’t have to know every single last stat or the entire history of your favorite team or even down beer as you watch your team play. Being a sports fan is more about having fun and getting together with your friends. Bonding time with your friends can be great for your health and help to great a sense of community amongst your family, friends and co-workers. Rooting for your favorite sports team creates an instant sense of community and makes it easy for you to build connections with those around you—you automatically have common ground.
Sharing a common bond as an NFL, NCAA , NHL fan, etc can be great for your relationships. As a married or even a couple that is dating, sports can be excellent quality time together. Instead of fighting over what you are going to watch on TV, couples who care a common interest in sports can have fun, build a stronger relationship and possibly even live a longer life.
Being a sports fan may also inspire you to get active. If you love the physique of your favorite athlete, you may be more inspired to get up and workout. This doesn’t mean you have to go out and try to be a professional athlete or run a marathon, but you can have fun while attempting to play a game of football with your friend or signing up for a 5k with a couple of your friends.
Watching the big game may just be a workout in itself. Researchers indicate that a 150 pound woman is likely to burn 100 calories per hour while attending a live sporting event. Think of all the stair climbing and jumping up and down cheering for your favorite team. The athletes aren’t the only ones in the stadium or arena getting a workout.
Watching sports may even make you smarter. According to a 2008 study conducted by the University of Chicago, researchers found that watching sports is a workout for the brain. Research shows that sports fans have better comprehension skills as well as better controlling, planning and performing skills than their non-sports-loving counter parts.
Next time you think spending a Sunday in front of the TV is lazy and unproductive, guess again. Watching your favorite sports team is actually good for you.
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Here is a quick video showing some of the training we do for Hockey
South Hills Amateur Hockey Association
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Pens Use What They Have:
The depleted Pittsburgh Penguins took on the Minnesota Wild Tuesday night (Oct. 18) and came up with a 4-2 victory sparked by the play of James Neal and Pascal Dupuis.
It’s only a few weeks into the regular season and the Penguins find themselves stricken with injuries and suspensions again. Pens captain, Sidney Crosby, continues his recovery from last season’s concussion, while Evgeni Malkin has been sidelined with a sore knee (the same knee that ended his season last year). Defensemen Brooks Orpik continues to recovery from an undisclosed lower-body injury while wing Dustin Jeffery is in rehabilitation for knee surgery. As if these injuries were not bad enough, Tyler Kennedy has missed his second game with concussion-like symptoms.
To add to the absent-tee list, Kris Letang received a two-game suspension from the league due to a boarding penalty against Alex Burmistrov that occurred on Monday (Oct. 17) verse the Winnipeg Jets. The Pens only learned hours before the game that Letang would not be joining them on the ice.
Defenseman, Brian Strait, from Wilkes-Barre/Scranton was recalled to take Letang’s place verse the Wild. However, Strait life the game in the second period with an injury (undisclosed upper body injury) and did not return for the remainder of the game.
Despite the long list of star, missing players, Dan Bylsma’s guys continue to fight and have made winning a true team effort. Last night, James Neal had his sixth goal of the season. Chris Kunitz and Jordan Staal also added to the score board. With Pascal Dupuis’ short-handed goal and two assists from Matt Cooke, the Penguins dominated.
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With a score of 17-13, the Jacksonville Jaguars gave the defending AFC champions a run for their money Sunday afternoon. With an outstanding first half, the Steelers came across rather sluggish in the second half – something that Tomlin is less-than-pleased about.
In his post-game press conference, Tomlin indicated that the Steelers have a tough road ahead (which features match-ups with the New England Patriots as well as division rivals, the Baltimore Ravens). It is no secret that the Steelers need to be prepared for these games. Tomlin has indicated that the past few weeks have been an opportunity for the Steelers to prepare – a situation that the Steelers did not take advantage of in the second half of Sunday’s game.
Jacksonville lost its fifth straight game to the Steelers Sunday, which matches the franchise’s longest losing streak within the past 10 years. However, the Jaguars did not go down without a fight. With a commanding lead of 17-0, Jacksonville fought until the last few seconds of the game.
The Steelers started off strong and full of energy. This energy seemed to be lacking in the second half of the game. At this point, rookie quarterback Blaine Gabbert led a near comeback and wasn’t over until the clock struck zero.
The game didn’t come without high and low points for the Steelers. On a positive note, Mendenhall, who rushed for 146 yards on 23 carries, played well after returning from a hamstring injury. Roethlisberger passed for 200 yards with one touchdown.
On a less positive note, All-pro safety Troy Polamalu sat out the second half after experiencing concussion-like symptoms.
Overall, if the Steelers play the way they did in the first half of the game in the upcoming weeks, they may be able to face some of their tougher challenges with ease. If they play the way they did in the second half, it may be a very rocky road ahead.
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Hey here is a review of Nike Sports watch with GPS
Big thanks to Best Buy for hooking us up with the watch.
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The oldest adage in boxing is “Protect yourself at all times” a lesson that Victor Ortiz learned the hard way in his recent fight against Floyd Mayweather.
For those of you who didn’t’ catch the fight, Mayweather knocked out Ortiz in the fourth round in a controversial knockout.
Here is what happened. Victor Ortiz headbutted Floyde Mayweather, then after he apologized a few times. The headbutt was clear and intentional. Ortiz hugged Mayweather a few times, and then Mayweather knocked him out
I certainly wouldn’t say that this is the cleanest knockout I have ever seen but as a professional boxer at the height of your career I do believe that Ortiz should have been ready at all times and truly protected himself.
Watching the HBO series 24/7 Ortiz sat with his family and evaluated tapes of Mayweather’s previous fights.
He and his trainer both stated that they saw Mayweather was a dirty fighter who Ortiz needed to ready for.
So what surprises me most is that he truly did let his guard down. Maybe it was that he felt badly for headbutting Floyd or maybe he simply got caught up in the bright lights of being on the main stage, but regardless he should have kept his guard up.
That being said, I would love to see a rematch. However, my personal opinion is that Mayweather probably wins the fight regardless of if he faught clean or dirty. It just so happens he had a dirty knockout.
The overall lesson in this fight, is that you have to fight your own fight. I believe that Ortiz felt very badly the headbutt and probably headbutted Mayweather after watching the tapes of how he fought.
So fight your fight, don’t let someone take you out of your game.
Cheers,
Josh Bobrowsky
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The University of Pittsburgh, along with Syracuse University, applied to and were subsequently invited to join the Atlantic Coast Conference (both teams are currently members of the Big East Conference), making Pitt the newest university to join the ever changing world of college athletics and conference jumping. The move will provide new and exciting possibilities for the revenue generating sports (basketball and football) as well as the other collegiate sports that Pitt participates in (baseball, swimming, track & field etc).
Big East Conference
As part of the rules that the Big East Conference has in place, Pitt and Syracuse will not be able to officially join and participate in ACC league games for 27 months. This time frame can and will be used to start acclimating to the new universities that Pitt will be playing on the regular basis. The schools that comprise the ACC are: Boston College, Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Miami, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Virginia Tech and Wake Forest. Boston College, Miami and Virginia Tech were previously members of the Big East but moved to the ACC conference within the past seven years.
The past few years has seen great movement among universities into different conferences and jocking for better positioning in these conferences (the conferences who are growing are now being called ‘super conferences’).
Pros vs Cons for Pitt Football
The advantages for Pitt seem to greatly outweigh any disadvantages that this move will create. For instance in football the Big East conference is one of the lesser recognized football leagues when in comes to getting representation in the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). The conference is automatically slotted to get one team into the five bowls but does not get any other at-large teams entered, whereas the other conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac 10 and SEC) who receive automatic bids regularly get more teams into the games. The Big East conference is already considered one of the best basketball conferences in sports but with Pitt and Syracuse exiting the gleam will be tarnished and the ACC who is also very highly regarded will get even more recognition. As far as some of the other sports (i.e. baseball) the Big East conference usually only had one or two representatives in the year end College World Series tournament, but the ACC gets an average of six teams per year and hosts regional and superregionals ever year.
Disadvantages For Pitt
One of the disadvantages that has been discussed is based on the recruiting base for the basketball team which has a strong recruiting presence in New York City and the surrounding boroughs. This is the case mainly because of the of the Big East tournament being played in Madison Square Garden which provides high visibility for possible recruits. The rebuttal has been made that Pitt can open up recruiting to other areas of the country that produce great athletes as well, including the state of Florida, the Baltimore-Washington DC area and the Carolinas. Another area of the concern that will need to be addressed in the coming months in the amount of travel that the student athletes will now have to endure, especially mid week games.
As the college sports landscape continues to grow and change, the University of Pittsburgh took a step forward and is being a proactive participate in this change.
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The Quest For Gold
The more things change the more they stay the same, which seems to be the case in the return of former gold medalist swimmer Janet Evans to the pool. The 40 year old married mother of two has been working out hard in the weight room and the swimming pool as she attempts to reclaim Olympic glory at the 2012 Olympics in London.
Winning Gold at Only 16
At the 1988 Olympics, Evans (16 at the time) burst onto the international scene winning gold medals in the 400m and 800m freestyle events as well as the 400m individual medley event. She followed that up by winning another gold in the 800m freestyle and silver in 400m freestyle at the 1992 Olympics and then hung up her suit and goggles after the 1996 games.
But in November of last year, after watching meet after meet, Janet knew that she still had some laps in herself and decided to begin training to qualify for the Olympics.
Janet’s training schedule may be a little different than the women she is competing against but that has not limited her in results of everyday family commitments. On a normal day, Janet is out of her house by 4:30 a.m., swimming for two hours, lifting weights for another hour then return home to see off her husband to work and her kids to school. Janet also swims at least three afternoons per week and Saturdays.
With her schedule set, what weight training is Janet doing to build her body back into ‘Olympic Medal’ shape. Her workouts are focused on her upper body and back because these are the most important muscle groups for swimmers to focus on. Janet uses machines and free weights in her workouts which consist of the following:
Cable Machine:
bent over rear lateral raises (2 sets of 10)
cable pull down (2 sets of 10)
e-z bar curl ( 1 set of 10)
Dumbbells:
dumbbell lat row (2 sets of 10)
decline dumbbell chest press (2 sets of 10)
Smith Bar/TRX strap
pull-ups supinate grip (3 sets of 10)
pull-ups pronate grip (3 sets of 10)
triceps push-up (3 sets of 10)
BOSU
push-ups (2 sets until failure)
dips (2 sets of 5 reps)
plank (3 ½ minutes)
Janet also has changed her diet from her earlier years of training. She has three square meals a day which include loading up on proteins and carbs as well as including fats (unsaturated). She also snacks before and after workouts and these snacks include fruit and nuts to keep her energy at a high level as well as keeping herself hydrated at all times. Janet also has stated that at this point in her life she knows what her body wants and needs, so if she is craving a steak or cheeseburger she will eat it because that is what her body is telling her. With her weight training, pool work, eating habits and chasing around two children, Janet is 20 pounds less than at her last Olympic appearance in 1996 and stronger.
Her training is obviously paying off because at a Masters event in mid-June, Janet set two world records (400m freestyle and the 800m freestyle) and this after a 15 year hiatus from competitive swimming.
Janet continues to have her sights set of not only qualify for the 2012 Olympics in London but being a force for American swimming team and at this rate who would bet against her.
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