Posts belonging to Category 'In Other News'
January 4, 2011 | Posted by Sporty K
This is why I do not easily fall for advertising easily or anything that just about anyone has. Sometimes we do not know if the claims are for real. Somehow, I expected that something like this is bound to happen.
PowerBalance, the manufacturer of plastic wristbands with holograms, just admitted that their product is [...]
Categories: In Other News, Sports Merchandise |
Tags: advertising, PowerBalance, recall, refund |
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November 27, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
While doing research on skin problems and treatment for adult acne, I was listening to music. The iPod was playing random songs and I could not help but tap to the beat with Black Eyed Peas songs.
Don’t you just love hearing this upbeat songs? Then I remembered, I read somewhere that BEP will [...]
Categories: In Other News, Shows |
Tags: Black Eyed Peas, halftime, Super Bowl |
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November 25, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
The last couple of days were spent being offline most of the day. Yesterday was more fun than Tuesday because we bought some Christmas decorations to brighten up the house. Well, we only bought the tree and the decorations. We have yet to buy a few pieces christmas garland to complete the look. We ran [...]
Categories: In Other News, K-Speak |
Tags: Christmas |
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November 15, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
This is how out of the loop I have been. It was only yesterday that I realized that the Asian Games are ongoing! Anyway I saw in one tweet that the Philippines is ranked nine in medal tally as of today, so is searched and here’s the tally board:
Of course China is leading but [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Asian Games, medal, tally |
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September 18, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
Let me just go a little astray with this post because I just realized something See, I own five sites and four of which were launched just this year. The other one was live since 2007 but I never really concentrated on it until last year. If you know me ten years ago, [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Shroggle, website builders |
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September 16, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
On Sunday, British boxer Ricky Hatton was in the news when a video of him allegedly snorting cocaine was made public. The boxer called ‘The Hitman” was obviously distraught when these came out. I was not really listening to the news but I heard the term “hoodia" which sounded wrong. I checked online and I [...]
Categories: Boxing, In Other News |
Tags: cocaine, drugs, hoodia, Ricky Hatton |
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September 6, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
The other day, I posted that Top Rank boxing Promoter Bob Arum’s son was reported missing after he went hiking alone in Seattle. A few hours after Bob Arum left the promotional tour for the Pacquiao-Margarito fight in November, John’s body was discovered by a helicopter about 300 feet from where his bag was found. [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Bob Arum, found, missing |
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September 3, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
Bob Arum, the famed Boxing promoter, had to leave the three-city promotional tour in haste after he and his wife received some bad news. Their son John Arum, 49, went hiking in the mountains near Seattle and was reported missing. The older Arum was in Los Angeles for the first stop of the promotional tour [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Bob Arum, missing, promotional tour |
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August 9, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
This year, the Ironman 70.3 in Camarines Sur will be held on August 22. Triathletes are currently undergoing training for this endurance sport. One of them is businessman Andy Leuterio. He is the husband of my HS classmate.
I learned of his participation in this marathon via FB. He is doing this not only [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Andy Leuterio, charity, Ironman 70.3 CamSur, Miles for Smiles |
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July 29, 2010 | Posted by Sporty K
This article proves that being an athlete pays well – only if you’re good The figures not only covers the winnings in matches and tournaments but also for endorsement deals. For the first time, the $30 million barrier is broken with the number one athlete raking almost $62 million USD. I’m talking about [...]
Categories: In Other News |
Tags: Athletes |
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