Tuesday, 25 February 2014
just crazy things
base ball player tim raines used to always slide head first-and the reason why is shocking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tim Raines is regarded as one of the best leadoff hitters and baserunners in baseball history, having played for 6 major league teams between 1979 and 2002.
He is best known for his achievements while playing the 13 seasons for the Montreal Expos, where he holds a number of records for stealing bases. He could often be seen diving head first for a base during a game, a practice seen as particularly brave since most would slide feet first in case they connected with the opposing player.
Raines, however, had an entirely different reason for his head first dive. Raines at the time was a severe cocaine addict often resorting to taking “hits” before, during and after a game. To enable him to feed his habit he carried small vials of cocaine around with him during the game.
Raines kept these vials in his hip pocket, and to avoid breaking the vials he would have to slide head first on his stomach instead of the more traditional feet first.
Thankfully, Raines was admitted to an addiction program early on in his career and went on to become one of the greatest players in the games history—but he never stopped sliding head first!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monday, 24 February 2014
a third of all divorced filings contained the word "facebook"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
nformation on Facebook is becoming a major factor in marriage conflicts and is increasingly being used as a source of evidence in divorce cases. In 2011, Facebook was cited as a reason for a third of divorces (Divorce-Online).
The most common reasons Divorce-Online found cited as evidence were; inappropriate messages to members of the opposite sex, separated spouses posting nasty comments about each other, and facebook friends reporting spouse’s behavior.
The greater availability of information online through social media has created a variety of problems for relationships at every level. Conflict caused by embarrassment, jealousy, false assumptions, and stalker-like behavior, are some of the social disasters that can result from the misuse of social media. Check out this article for more information and how to avoid the major issues social media causes relationships.
Read more at http://www.omg-facts.com/lists/324/13-Shocking-Facts-About-Facebook/1#WoJavumFK67ZBVH5.99
world cup was discovered by a dog in 1996!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Jules Rimet trophy, which is made of solid gold and valued at 30,000 euro, was swiped while on display at Central Hall in Westminster, London. The trophy is named after a French lawyer who began the World Cup soccer tournament in 1929. The thieves also left behind postage stamps worth 3 million euro!
Several days after the thievery, a dog named Pickles found the cup in south London while on a walk with his owner! England ended up winning the tournament and the recovered trophy, but in 1970 Brazil was permitted to keep the trophy forever after winning their third title. Thirteen years later, the cup was stolen again in Rio de Janeiro - it has never been recovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Several days after the thievery, a dog named Pickles found the cup in south London while on a walk with his owner! England ended up winning the tournament and the recovered trophy, but in 1970 Brazil was permitted to keep the trophy forever after winning their third title. Thirteen years later, the cup was stolen again in Rio de Janeiro - it has never been recovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
friend's dead body coffin to a soccer match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Christopher Jacome, a 17-year-old Colombian soccer fan, was tragically gunned down while playing his beloved sport. After his funeral wake, a group of friends carried him and his coffin to the local soccer stadium to catch one final match! Cucuta Deportivo, Christopher’s favorite team, was playing on that day. Hundreds of people stormed the gates and overwhelmed stadium officials, who apparently let the coffin through with little resistance. Though Jacome’s death did not directly was not directly related to soccer, it’s pretty cool that his buddies decided to honor his memory in this way...though I wouldn’t recommend repeating this stunt to anyone.
a soccer player can run 10 km during a match.!!!that's more than 6 miles!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
In 2007, AC Milan's Gennaro Gattuso ran an estimated 10 km in one game against Manchester United. The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) had been working on a system for calculating things like how far individual players run, and how far and fast the ball gets kicked by tracking them with multiple cameras. The system is accurate within a 3% margin of error.
To get an idea of how much running that is, 10 km is the equivalent of running across 350 basketball courts. Gattuso's numbers aren't all that unusual either. 10 km is actually pretty average.
Remarkably, most of that running is done WITHOUT THE BALL. The average player controls the ball for only 200 meters about 2% of the total distance they run. In addition, soccer players are sprinting for 800-1200 metres (roughly 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile). They also have to accelerate 40 to 60 different times in a game, and change direction every 5 seconds.
In a little more than 4 games, a soccer player will have completed the equivalent of a marathon. Keep this in mind when you watch the World Cup this summer!
To get an idea of how much running that is, 10 km is the equivalent of running across 350 basketball courts. Gattuso's numbers aren't all that unusual either. 10 km is actually pretty average.
Remarkably, most of that running is done WITHOUT THE BALL. The average player controls the ball for only 200 meters about 2% of the total distance they run. In addition, soccer players are sprinting for 800-1200 metres (roughly 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile). They also have to accelerate 40 to 60 different times in a game, and change direction every 5 seconds.
In a little more than 4 games, a soccer player will have completed the equivalent of a marathon. Keep this in mind when you watch the World Cup this summer!
a bolt of lightning killed an entire soccer team during a match in 1998!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
n October of 1998 a bolt of lightning killed an entire 11-man soccer team from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The opposing team was completely unharmed. Thirty more people had burn injuries.
Some people thought the team had been cursed and that was what caused the lightning to strike them. The game was a draw at 1-1 when the lightning struck the visiting team in the province of Kasai in the eastern region of the DRC.
Incidentally, a similar situation happened the following weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa. A Premier League soccer match was suddenly stopped when lightning struck the field.
Half of the players from both teams, the Jomo Cosmos and the Moroka Swallows, fell to the ground. Several of the players writhed on the ground holding their ears and eyes in pain. Luckily, no one was killed in that incident..............................
ronaldinho gained media attention after he scored every goal in a 23-0 match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, or Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian football (soccer) star who has twice won FIFA World Player of the Year. Ronaldinho was born in Porto Alegre as the son of a salesperson and shipyard worker.
His father had also played football, but had died of a heart attack when Ronaldinho was eight. When Ronaldinho’s older brother signed with a football team, the family moved to a more wealthy area. It was short lived, though, as his brother ended his career after an injury.
When Ronaldinho was only 8, he also began to show skills in football. When he was 13, and scored 23 goals in a 23-0 victory against a local team. He was identified as a rising star at the 1997 U-17 World Championship, where he scored two goals from penalty kicks.
From there, his fame rose to where he is today. If you remember when YouTube was brand new, you might recall that a 2005 Nike advertisement featuring Ronaldinho performing impressive feats with a soccer ball was the first YouTube video to break 1 million views.
didier drogba credited for ending 5 year war in his home country @ ivory coast
For five years in the Ivory Coast the north was held by the rebels and the south held by the government loyals. Didier Drogba plays for Chelsea in England and is the team captain and star striker for the Ivory Coast Elephants.
Drogba pleased the warring factions to have a cease-fire. Surprisingly, they heard him and a cease-fire was enacted. Drogba suggested in an interview that the game against Madagascar be played in Bouake, the rebel-north’s capital city. The game brought the whole country together for the first time in five years.
Government military were invited to the game to help maintain control during and after the soccer match. It was the first time in five years that they’d been in the north without any violence and fighting involved. After the game, the rebellion army and the government military worked together to control the crowd. The Ivorian Elephants beat Madagascar 5-0.
Drogba brought the country together again through soccer. Men began dressing like Drogba and women fell head over heels for him. Drogba became an icon.
china once banned a soccer simulation game.
The game was called Football Manager 2005, and was released on November 5, 2004 by Sports Interactive and Sega. The game’s focus is management of a soccer team. Seems harmless enough, right?
Shortly after its release, it was found that regions like Tibet and Taiwan were included as separate countries. Tibet has had a long history as a territory of the People’s Republic of China, and because the game treated Tibet as a sovereign nation, China wasn’t happy.
Officially, it was banned because the game “threatened its content harmful to China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity... [that] seriously violates Chinese law and has been strongly protested by our nation’s gamers.”
Sports Interactive responded by saying that a fixed Chinese version of the game would be released, and clarified that the offending version wasn’t intended to be released in China in the first place. That version wasn’t available in Chinese, but had been imported, downloaded, or sold in illegal software shops.
the highest scoring soccer game was 149-0 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You’re probably wondering how a soccer team could be so bad that they let 149 goals be scored, but the truth is it was a form of protest. The event occurred in 2002 after a 2-2 draw between rival teams Stade Olympique de L’emyrne, or SOE, and AS Adema of Madagascar, which resulted in the referees awarding a penalty causing SOE to lose the game.
As a form of protest for being robbed of the title because of a penalty, the players purposefully scored 149 goals into their own net at the next game as spectators stormed the ticket booths demanding refunds. Besides being very confused at first, the opposing team eventually stood around in good humor at the planned stunt.
The result? Besides losing 149-0 and breaking the previous record from 1885 of 36-0, the SOE coach was suspended along with several of his players and captain.
soccer is in blood
DIEGO FAGUNDEZ’S BASEMENT bedroom looks just like what you’d expect from a soccer-crazy 19-year-old. Along the staircase, framed team and player photos line the walls, and a New England Revolution jersey hangs in a corner. In the room itself, soccer balls litter the carpet, sneakers and cleats sit in rows, and there are even more photos, from both on the field and off. Facing Fagundez’s neatly made bed, there’s a flat-screen TV hooked up to an Xbox that he and his buddies use to play FIFA soccer video games. The only difference between this room and that of your average teenager is that almost all of Fagundez’s stuff — the photos, the news clippings, even one of the video games — features him.
Fagundez lives a kind of double life. At work, he is a star midfielder for the New England Revolution, the team that put him in his first pro game at just 16 (he promptly scored). His 13 goals last season weren’t just the most of anyone on the Revs, they were the most by a teenager in a single season in the history of Major League Soccer. The slim kid with the mohawk and an easy smile has quickly become a fan favorite and the face of a resurgent team.
But at home in Leominister, where he’s lived for more than a decade, Fagundez is pretty much like any other teenager. He hangs out with the same friends he met when he was 5 and has been dating the same girl, now a high school senior, for years. Although he recently earned his diploma from Goodrich Academy in Fitchburg, which let him study around his playing schedule, he still helped his girlfriend with her science fair project. He loves fishing on nearby Shirley Pond and eating bowls of Cinnamon Toast Crunch soaked in chocolate milk. Although he reportedly made around $127,000 last season, he has very little interest in moving out of his parents’ basement.
Saturday, 22 February 2014
This happened on June 1996 and it was during a Penarol-Danubio game. Penarol fans were upset at the fact that their team was down 1-0 and with few minutes remaining the fans began throwing all sorts of objects into the pitch (rocks,bottles) but what finally caused the ref to suspend the game was the sight of the linesman down, a motorcycle helmet next to him: it had just hit him.
Saturday, 15 February 2014
Everythings changing going by But memories never die Time flows like a river running wild My mind's swimming, Swimming like a child I watch the yesterdays go by.......... Like moving patterns in the sky Memories never die. Time flows like a river, running wild My mind's swimming, swimming like a child I take a train into the past I get off somewhere, but I'm lost Memories never die. Time flows like a river running wild, My mind swimming Swimming like a child, Time flows like a river running wild, My mind swimming Swimming like a child, I'm asking myself why oh why? Everything passes, by and by But memories never die Time flows like a river running wild, My mind swimming Swimming like a child, Trapped in the desert of my mind I'll seek and seek but will I find? Memories never die Cause memories never die...
WHAT A MIND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The 34-year-old woman identified as Keri Gonzalez broke her ankle when she landed and limped down the street away from the home but she was identified a half an hour later, after she limped back to the home to say she had injured herself in the fall.
According to report, Keri Gonzalez snuck into the boy's home with alcohol for them to share and then had sex twice with the teenager. At about 2.a.m, the boy's mother heard knocking sounds by the stairs and on the wall and went to check her son's room which she found locked. When her son finally opened the door, she saw a naked female crouching down on the floor between the bed and wall.
The mother yelled at the female to get out of her house at which point Keri quickly grabbed her clothes and jumped out of the two-story bedroom window to the ground below so the mother would not recognize her. It was when she came back 30 minutes later to complain about her broken ankle that the boy's mother recognized her as a 'family acquaintance', whom she had previously witnessed 'flirting' with her son.
The mother called the police two days later to report the incident and she was arrested and charged for sexual misconduct with a minor and providing false information to police.
THE MAN WHO WANTS TO BECOME FREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Some people have spent thousands to look like Barbie and Ken, others hanker after Cheryl Cole's dimples. But this man, 43-year-old Diablo Delenfer – real name Gavin Paslowone from Kent has spent thousands of dollars, £10,000 specifically, to transform himself into a living, breathing devil from hell.
The divorced father-of-two says his difficult, really expensive transformation began in 2007 and so far, he has had his tongue forked, his teeth turned into razor-sharp fangs and horns that poke from his forehead,
Now, he wants to have screws implanted into his skull in a bid to create a devilish metal Mohawk!
Delenfer has since had his ears made pointy and endured a series of painful tattoos that now cover his face and arms. However, looking like Lucifer has made his quest to find a girlfriend – somewhat difficult.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
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