I am not a big olympics guy but, I saw this story on CNN this morning while I was watching the news and I had to post this story here. Here is the original link but the whole story is below as well just to make it easier for everyone. THIS IS NOT MY WORK! JUST A STORY WORTH A READ- I'll comment more about this later. Once I get a little more information about it.
Iraq has been banned from
participating in next month's Beijing Olympics because of the Iraqi
government's decision to disband the country's national Olympic
committee, a senior official said today.
"This morning we were
informed of the final decision of the International Olympic Committee
to suspend the membership of the Iraqi Olympic Committee," Hussein
al-Amidi, the general secretary of the Iraqi committee, told Reuters.
Last
month, the IOC provisionally suspended the Iraqi Olympic Committee "as
a consequence of the ongoing political interference by the government
within the sports movement in Iraq".
At the time of the
suspension, the IOC said it would work to "find appropriate solutions"
for the Iraqi Olympic movement, but added that "the situation created
by the Iraqi government authorities makes the task very difficult".
Sport has not escaped the violence that has blighted the country since the 2003 US-led invasion.
In
May 2006, the national tennis coach was murdered. Two months later,
Olympic officials were kidnapped. Then a member of the Olympic football
team was seized outside his home, never to be seen again; and the
country's cycling coach was killed.
But the country participated
at the last Olympics, less than 18 months after the invasion. And in
2007, Iraq's football team scored an unlikely victory in the Asia cup,
prompting joyous scenes across the country, as thousands spilled onto
the streets despite a government ban.
Other websites calling what the Packers are doing to Farve by not giving him his release the OCHO CINCO TREATMENT
I'm not a huge Farve fan, mainly because I don't understand why he wants to continue to play... he's been jerking around the packers enough. The organization needs to do what is best for the organization. Farve could be on the roster this year and be affective but, at what point do they put Rogers in and give him an honest chance with the first team offense?
I know that in the HEART of Bengal Country, there aren't that many people interested in this but, I wonder if this isn't just a little too rediculas for Farve to not just be able to 'hang them up'. I'm sure after 17 seasons in the nfl he is just scared of life after football but, I am sure that some network would be glad to add him to their booth.
I've never been in his situation- so I don't know what it's like to be Brett Farve but, it seems to me that he should just be able to sit back, relax and retire while he can still get out of bed in the morning. I'm not sure what kind of lifestyle he's been living or how he's been with his money but it seems that 95% of the time he's got his head on straight.... I wonder if he needs the $ or just loves the game.
Something was wrong with the original post... I hope you enjoy this one...
This is my Son, prior to the second game of the American Conference Finals-
GO CYCLONES!!!
I'm working on my podcast, which I will officially post weekly. If any of you have any ideas on what the show should be about, please send me your topics. I'm NOT A PROFESSIONAL but, I really think this could be a good start towards what I want to do with my life... journalism...broadcasting... I'm considering it- seriously at this point.
I believe it was last week, I compared Aarron Harang's numbers to that of NOLAN RYAN, today- I do the same with Edinson Volquez.
NOLAN RYAN's best season (cy young award 2nd place) Year Ag Tm Lg W L G GS CG SHOGF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBB BK ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP 1973 26 CALAL 21 16 41 39 26 4 2 1 326.0 238 113 104 18 162 383 7 15 1355 2 0 2.87 3.52 122 1.227 MVP-17,CYA-2,AS
Edinson Volquez Year Ag Tm Lg W L G GS CGSHOGF SV IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WP BFP IBBBK ERA *lgERA *ERA+ WHIP 2008 24 CINNL 5 1 7 7 0 0 0 0 42.3 28 6 5 1 24 52 1 2 174 0 0 1.06 4.40 414 1.228
Strikeout's per inning NOLAN RYAN- 1.17 strikeouts per inning EDINSON VOLQUEZ- 1.22 strikeouts per inning Hits per inning NOLAN RYAN- .73 hits per inning EDINSON VOLQUEZ- .66 hits per inning
ERA- NOLAN RYAN- 2.87 EDINSON VOLQUEZ- 1.06
NOTE:
Nolan Ryan started 39 games in 1973 and had 26 COMPLETE GAMES!!! That's 2 complete games out of every 3 starts! Volquez to date has 7 STARTS and 0 Complete Games. In order to catch that number of complete games, Volquez would have to start 32 more games, and all but 6 of them would have to be complete games.ONE OF RYAN'S OUTINGS WAS ALSO A 12 INNING COMPLETE GAME- AGAINST DETROIT, ON MAY 2ND, 1973.The Angels won the game 4-1, Ryan faced 54 batters! Volquez has gone a max of 7 innings, he threw 118 pitches in his last victory facing 30 batters.
