The Yankees and Rockies have been discussing Ubaldo Jimenez, but Colorado is asking for a ton.
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07/19/2011
Rockies Talking With Yankees and Others Regarding Ubaldo Jimenez
The Yankees and Rockies have been discussing Ubaldo Jimenez, but Colorado is asking for a ton.
Sherwood Chronicles: Community Member Jon Barba
Today, Pat Sherwood is in Golden, Colo., to meet members of the CrossFit community. Sherwood turns the mic over to Nicole Christensen from CrossFit Roots, who is interviewing Jon Barba at a Level 1 Trainer Course hosted by the Colorado State Patrol Academy.
In Part 1, Barba discusses the academy’s long history of hosting Level 1s.
“When people leave here, they truly have an understanding of what CrossFit is and are really at least given the opportunity to be much better at those nine basic movements that seem to be the cornerstone of all of these great things that you see on the main site,” he says.
CrossFit is so important to the academy because it is its principle strength-and-conditioning program for cadets. Barba shares how he found CrossFit and how he brought it to the academy. The benefits were obvious.
“Not only were (the cadets) able to fight longer and harder, but they recovered faster,” he says.
In Part 2, Barba shares how CrossFit has made him better at other sports like mixed martial arts and football. He stresses how important nutrition is to his fitness and wishes he had cleaned up his diet earlier.
“It’s been all the difference for me,” he says.
Now recovering from an ACL injury, Barba says CrossFit “saved my life.” CrossFit provided the tools to help him face surgery and recovery and provided him with goals to work his weaknesses.
Part 1:
15min 03sec
Part 2:
6min 44sec
Additional reading: Working Wounded by Greg Glassman, published May 1, 2005.
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Ex-UNLV and NBA star Armen Gilliam died doing what he loved
When former UNLV star and NBA veteran Armen Gilliam came out of retirement in 2005 to become player-coach of the ABA's now-defunct Pittsburgh Xplosion at age 41, he certainly didn't do it for the lucrative paycheck.
"If I wanted to make money, I'd go overseas," Gilliam told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette at the time. "I do this for the love of the game."
It's tragic but fitting then that Gilliam died Tuesday night doing what he enjoyed most. The 47-year-old Pennsylvania resident was playing in a pickup basketball game at the LA Fitness in Bridgeville when he collapsed on the court as a result of an apparent heart attack. He was rushed to nearby St. Clair Hospital, where he was pronounced dead shortly afterward.
Gilliam's death shocked his former UNLV teammates and coaches, especially since he was seldom hurt throughout his 13-year pro career and he kept himself in excellent shape afterward by playing basketball and tennis almost daily. In fact, the 6-foot-9 big man routinely beat men younger than him down the floor during UNLV's annual legends game and unleashed a memorable dunk during last season's event.
"Everybody loved Armen and he loved everybody," former UNLV coach Jerry Tarkanian said through a UNLV spokesman. "I think the world of him. I am just shocked."
A football player and a wrestler throughout much of his high school career in Bethel Park, Pa., Gilliam only began dabbling in basketball during his junior year of high school. He played two seasons in high school and another year at Independence Junior College in Kansas before blossoming into an All-American at UNLV.
Even though he spent his college years in Sin City, Gilliam earned a reputation as UNLV's most straight-laced player of his era. He devoted so much energy into sculpting his chiseled 250-pound body that he neither smoked nor drank, and he'd carry a pull-up bar with him on road trips so he could work out in his hotel room.
Former UNLV big man Leon Symanski describes Gilliam as "a real sweet guy" off the court, but he acknowledges his ex-Rebels teammate lived up to his nickname of "The Hammer" during practices.
"He beat the hell out of me every day," Symanksi said. "You couldn't move him even if you tried. He'd get down in the low post and it was like trying to move a 1,000-pound steel weight. He was that strong."
In 1987, Gilliam parlayed his strength and physicality into a brilliant senior season, scoring 23.8 points per game and leading the Runnin' Rebels to an NCAA record 37 wins and a berth in the Final Four. The Phoenix Suns rewarded Gilliam for his brilliant senior season, making him the No. 2 overall pick in the 1987 draft, ahead of future stars Scottie Pippen (No. 5), Kevin Johnson (No. 7) and Reggie Miller (No. 11).
Gilliam never achieved the level of stardom those three did, but he was a consistently productive player until he retired from the NBA in 2000. He scored more than 12,000 points and grabbed more than 6,000 rebounds in his NBA career.
Upon his retirement, Gilliam still couldn't stay away from the game so he endured an unsuccessful stint coaching Penn State-Altoona before his season in the fledgling ABA.
Pittsburgh Xplosion general manager Freddie Lewis didn't know Gilliam very well when he became player-coach in 2005, but Lewis quickly became impressed with how Gilliam carried himself. It would have been for an ex-NBA veteran to act as though he were too good for a soon-to-be-defunct team, but Gilliam attended autograph signings and community service events and served as a mentor to the younger players.
"If you were to rate his personality on a scale from 1 to 10, he'd be a 12," Lewis said by phone. "He always wanted to do something to help people."
Late in his life, Gilliam changed the spelling of his first name from Armon to Armen because he was tired of it being mispronounced. Regardless of the spelling, his name will always be synonymous with one of the great eras in UNLV basketball history.
It's difficult for Symanski to cope with losing Gilliam, but he takes some solace in the fact his friend died doing something he cherished.
"If he has to die under tragic circumstances, then, yeah, it's a little more comforting if you want to put it that way," Symanski said. "He was where he loved doing what he loved to do."
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07/18/2011
Daily WOD
Find:
Fastest 40 yard Sprint
*Warm Up as needed
*You get 4-6 tries to run your fastest 40 yard sprint
then...
Complete 7 rounds:
1 20 yard Pro Short Shuttle
10 One Arm KB Power Snatches - 2 pood (5 RT/ 5 LT)
10 Nine Foot Wall Touches
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*Demo of the 20 yard Pro Short Shuttle click here.
*For wall touches, pick a point on a wall or structure that is at least 9 feet high, then jump up and touch the point.
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Syracuse?s schedules are apparently tougher than we thought
In Joe Lunardi's recent ESPN.com piece examining teams who assembled the strongest and weakest non-league schedules the past four years, one of the teams listed definitely stood out as a surprise.
That would be Syracuse, which checked in tied for sixth with Connecticut among schools from BCS conferences in non-conference schedule strength.
Considering the flack Jim Boeheim takes for his unwillingness to play early-season games outside the greater New York-area, it's definitely unexpected to see Syracuse listed among the likes of Michigan State, Tennessee or Arizona. The Orange have played only five non-conference games the past four years anywhere besides the Carrier Dome, Madison Square Garden or Atlantic City, N.J.
Why then is Syracuse's schedule strength so much greater than its critics claim?
Well, first of all, data used to measure strength of schedule treats preseason tournament games in Manhattan or Atlantic City as neutral court contests even though the Orange typically have a huge home-court advantage. But secondly, Syracuse does a better job than it's given credit for of scheduling a few marquee games each year and of making sure that the mid-major and low-major teams it plays at home aren't RPI killers.
Syracuse still hasn't released its full 2011-12 schedule, but the highlights are similar to previous years. The Orange will host Florida on Dec. 2 in a matchup of potential top 10 teams and they'll headline the Preseason NIT along with Stanford, Virginia Tech and Oklahoma State.
Not an especially daunting list on paper. But perhaps by season's end it will once again be better than we think.
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Talk Is Cheap
Mike Warkentin asks what happens when hard-charging CrossFitters run into gym socialites looking for a conversation.
CrossFit is changing gym culture—that’s obvious.
With new affiliates springing up everywhere, entire islands of CrossFit exist where people can fling chalk around like it’s flour on the set of Jackass and hear not one trainer complain. These boxes are loud, rugged and Spartan—the antithesis of the modern fitness facility.
As garage beautiful as a fully outfitted box can be, many CrossFitters don’t have access to one and are forced to pursue their version of fitness in traditional gyms where most of the equipment has a built-in chair. These athletes are a lot like covert operatives doing devious shit deep behind enemy lines, and the possibility of capture and punishment or expulsion is often very real.
Nevertheless, as people discover our program, fewer power cages are used for biceps curls and more and more facilities are filled with loud crashes instead of the sounds of plate stacks sliding on oiled rails.
And there’s less talking—thankfully.
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Former Mountaineer back in jail after second robbery arrest
Former West Virginia linebacker Branko Busick is back in jail -- again -- after a second arrest for armed robbery in a little under 96 hours.
Busick was arrested earlier this week for armed robbery, which ultimately led to his dismissal from the West Virginia football team. Apparently that arrest led to another victim coming forward and accusing Busick of a second crime stemming from a June 23 incident.
The victim in the second case told police he was hit in the face and knocked down as he walked home from work June 23. This week, he identified Busick as the man who stole his iPhone and a wallet containing about $70.
Gilmore said that victim was treated for his injuries at Ruby Memorial Hospital.
Busick was first arrested Monday after another victim told police a man had pointed a gun at him and two others, demanding money. When the victim said he had none, the man began hitting him with the weapon.
Busick's father, a former WWF wrestler named Big Bully Busick, posted the first $25,000 bond, but now Busick is being held on a $250,000 bond in Northern Central Regional Jail.
If Busick is convicted, he faces up to 10 years in jail for each count.
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Coaches Prep Course: Group Programming
“We want to program for work capacity,” says HQ trainer Chris Spealler. “And that’s going to happen through this form of general physical preparedness.”
Spealler, who’s also an elite CrossFit athlete, shares his programming secrets with the group at a recent Coaches Prep Course.
“The more variance you have, the better off you are,” Spealler says.
But that doesn’t mean that we should follow the “hopper model” for programming. Random programming has its pitfalls.
“The reality is there’s probably going to be more similarities between those things than if we really had a well-thought-out plan of variance,” he says.
Spealler also cautions the trainers about programming for the Reebok CrossFit Games. While he says it’s important to fill holes in your fitness, you shouldn’t base all your programming on the events of the CrossFit Games.
Spealler says that his programming for his gym and for himself is more organic and never planned far in advance.
“What haven’t I done? What do I feel like I need to do? That’s where I go,” he says.
6min 50sec
Additional reading: Theoretical Template for CrossFit’s Programming by Greg Glassman, published Feb. 1, 2003.
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