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Indoor Track Update 19
Feb. 27, 2021 Akron's Jacqueline Pokuaah took three wins in her first ever Mid American Conference championship meet over the weekend, hosted by Central Michigan University. The junior college transfer won the triple jump (12.42), long jump (6.08) and 60-meter hurdles (8.59). Pokuaah competed in the 60 meters as well where she placed seventh. She scored 32 points for the runner-up Akron Zips who finished second overall to the Northern Illinois Huskies.
By Winners Only5 years ago in Unbalanced
Cricket
This challenge is about common or uncommon knowledge about something you like, dislike or just random fun fact you have stuck in your head. Well I have absolutely no knowledge of Cricket at all and only a minor curiosity about the subject, so you are no doubt wondering "Why?"
By Lynn Roldan5 years ago in Unbalanced
The Playoff Pool
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES! The obnoxious notification alert awoke Sylvie with a start, but she grabbed it from the spot beside her on the bed in a hurry. Lighting the phone screen up in the dark, she had to squint into the brightness to see who the incoming text message was from. But it was just her brother and she groaned as she threw her arm down with the phone back onto the bed and rolled her eyes in frustration. Didn’t her brother know that nobody in Las Vegas got up before eleven o’clock in the morning? But she was up now, despite the time on her phone telling her it was 6:58am, so she climbed out of the queen-sized bed and flicked on the light switch beside the door before snatching up her cellphone out of the sea of purple sheets and scurrying out to her dining room table.
By Justine Klavon5 years ago in Unbalanced
Indoor Track Update 18
Feb. 26, 2021 Minnesota's Bethany Hasz wins Big Ten 3,000 title Senior Bethany Hasz won the Big Ten 3,000 meters championship. The Minnesota senior ran a time of 9:06.66, finishing nearly six seconds ahead of Michigan Sophomore Ericka VanderLende.
By Winners Only5 years ago in Unbalanced
If You Love ESPN's 30 FOR 30 Series, OVER THE LIMIT Is For You
“Mental toughness” is one of those sports cliches constantly recycled by basketball analysts, football coaches, on down to Little League parents. It is a cliché attached to Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls teams he led to six championships in the 90s. The Last Dance, without a doubt, illustrated the perseverance required by all the members of the Bulls team as they faced on and off the court challenges. Now imagine taking on that mental toughness in an individual sport without teammates backing you. The documentary Over the Limit moves beyond sports cliche territory and demonstrates that the mental toughness of the practitioners of rhythmic gymnastics — a sport that demands a high degree of physical exertion while maintaining elegant form — is unparalleled. Polish director Marta Prus (Hot and Cold) invites the viewer to be a fly on the wall as she takes us inside Russia’s national rhythmic gymnastics team. Prus’s camera follows gymnast Margarita Mamun as she runs through a gauntlet of pre-Olympic training sessions, competitions, and tongue-lashings from her coaches.
By Ray Lobo5 years ago in Unbalanced
Liverpool City Council Approve Plans For New Everton Stadium
Plans for a new 52, 888 seater stadium for Everton Football Club have been unanimously approved by Liverpool City Council's planning committee. The vision will see the stadium being built at Bramley Moore Dock and the committee has urged the government to make a positive decision on the plans and not to cause any delays to acquire more investment and employment for the region.
By Ashish Prabhu5 years ago in Cleats
Indoor Track Update 17
Pokuaah wins MAC long jump crown Jacqueline Pokuaah Akron junior Jacqueline Pokuaah won the Mid American Conference long jump with a mark of 6.07, Feb. 26, on the campus of Central Michigan. Currently in her first year of NCAA Division I competition, Pokuaah was very accomplished on the junior college level. When she competed for Cloud County, she was the national indoor runner-up in long jump last season, when she jumped 5.95. In 2019 she placed third in both the indoor and outdoor national junior college meets.
By Winners Only5 years ago in Unbalanced
