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As a woman who loves sports, I've always found the concept of breasts bothersome. If all goes according to plan, they will fulfill their intended function for about three of the 70 years that I have them. The rest of the time, they alternate between getting in my way and embarrassing me. They are a favorite target of Frisbees and soccer balls. Finding sports bras is a chore. {snip} The idea of an energy-generating bra isn't as crazy as it might sound. A company called Triumph International Japan recently unveiled a solar-powered bra that supposedly will generate enough energy to...

Citing extensive United Nations research as well as personal observations, former Mets manager Willie Randolph has concluded that last year's historic late-season collapse of the New York Mets was caused by anthopogenic global warming. "This is a settled issued," declared Randolph. "The Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change has investigated every possible explanation for our cataclysmic stretch run choke. The only logical conclusion is that global warming caused severe imbalances in the microclimates in and around Shea Stadium." Pressed for details Mr. Randolph explained that temperature readings in left field were .0002 of a degree (Celsius) higher than readings in right...

As a canine, there’s something satisfying about watching this video. I have to say, these are folks that see the water bowl as half full instead of half empty. Maybe there’s hope for humanity after all. Let the games begin…Click more to watch the video....http://boknowsonline.com/2008/02/29/doody-olympians/

Exclusive: The International Olympic Committee, or, the Five Rings of Hades Satire by Shawn Goodwin The International Olympic Committee - you remember them after their brilliant decisions to hold the Olympics in Soviet-era Moscow, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, and Beijing, China - has decided upon their final four contestants to host the 2016 Summer Games.For some reason, this story has usurped the Brangelina Twins debacle from the headlines, and pushed that idiotic movie starring The Horse-Faced Woman - Sarah Jessica Parker - to the Classifieds section. No one is exactly sure why being awarded the Olympic Games is such an honor, since...

From: MidwayUSA Web Management Team Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 11:45 AM To: Everyone; Battenfeld Everyone Subject: Scholastic Shooting Trust May 5, 2008 Dear MidwayUSA and Battenfeld Employees: Today I’m pleased to announce the official launch of the Scholastic Shooting Trust Fund, a mission of the newly-created MidwayUSA Foundation. The Scholastic Shooting Trust (SST) Fund is a web-based fundraising program designed to help support shooting education at every high school, college and university in America. Alumni who would like to see shooting programs offered at the school or schools they attended can help make that a reality by contributing to...

SANYA, China (AP) -- After a much-protested journey, the Olympic torch reached this southern Chinese seaside resort Saturday night, beginning what organizers and Chinese citizens promised would be a trouble-free national tour.

The Kent Gardens Elementary School in McLean, Virginia has placed a ban on the school yard game of tag—alleging that it “sends the wrong message.” “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to comfort a weeping child who didn’t want to be ‘it,’” said Vice-Principal Pat Keister. “The game is too stressful and competitive. This contradicts the message of love and affection we are trying to convey through the free condom distribution program for our fifth-graders.”

Danica Patrick became the first female winner in IndyCar history recently, winning the Indy Japan 300 by 6 seconds. Some women's advocates and Patrick herself are complaining about a new rule which feminists claim is "aimed at the women in Indy." The rule says that lighter drivers have to carry ten more pounds on them. Race car driver Robby Gordon has a different perspective, saying that Patrick is at an unfair advantage over the rest of the competitors because she only weighs 100 pounds. Because all the cars weigh the same, Patrick’s is lighter on the race track. He says:...

UConn grad and diehard Husky fan in Japan asking a favor . I would of course pay you for the disc and postage . Also , IF , the Huskies should win tonight's game , I'd also like that on DVD . I'd be eternally grateful ! Somebody on FR helped me out 4 years ago when UConn won the championship but I forget who it was . Game starts in an hour - yikes !

I have Miami Heat season tickets for the remainder of this year and all of next year. I can't make it to many of the games so I wanted to donate most of them to military veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. I would love some recommendations on good charities. Thanx FReepers. :-p

  Please Support the Homeschool Football League in Greensboro this Weekend!!!Items are listed on eBay for Auction!!! Type in the words "HFL auction" in the title on eBay.   By typing these words in the search, you can access the items on-line and start bidding!

Texas Hold'em is a great game of skill and widely popular for good reason. It's easy to learn, you don't have to remember any cards (the downfall of 7-Stud) and since there's rarely a split pot situation dealing the game is relatively undemanding. But there is a price for poker's newly found fame. Texas Hold'em has managed to destroy every single other form of poker played in American card rooms. It seems that Hold'em's popularity has come at the cost of nearly every other single form of poker in America. Omaha, Low-Ball, 5-Card Dutch, 5-Card Draw, Chicago, 7-Stud, Pineapple --...

Those planning on attending the Olympics have been warned that the Chinese government will be keeping close tabs on them while they’re in the country. The U.S. State Department advised that “All visitors should be aware that they have no reasonable expectation of privacy in public or private locations. Visitors should anticipate that they will be watched, taped and recorded wherever they go.” “We must guard against slander and immorality,” said Chinese Minister of Morality, Lo Wang. “Those who would speak ill of the Chinese government or attempt a ‘Spitzer’ in one of our hotels will be dealt with harshly.”...

We've boycotted Olympic games before-usually for human rights abuses. Considering what's happening in Tibet-AND-the levels of pollution in Beijing- it's time to do it again!!

Well, the votes are finally tallied, the lawsuits settled, and the Highest Court has finally ruled on what to with the uncounted ballots. Finally, three months later, we have a clear winner. Before we get to the story, we would like to pass on that we were very discerning in our choice of Best Article. We looked for a story with significant social impact, as well as "newsworthiness". We felt that our choice not only met those benchmarks, but far exceeded them. There were many stories to choose from, over 500, and certainly some deserve more than honorable mention. But...

For a time in 2007, the New England Patriots appeared to be the very definition of a superpower. After achieving an undefeated regular season and arriving at the Super Bowl 18-0, the Patriots seemed poised to make history and become the first team in the history of the NFL to have a perfect 19-0 season. On the eve of Super Bowl XLII, few predicted anything but a Patriot victory. Pre-game analysis didn't focus on the question of whether the Patriots would win the Super Bowl, but rather on whether the Patriots were in fact the greatest football team ever to...

All these year's Muslim females have faced the problem of finding an appropriate swimwear which adheres to the Koran, which requires a woman to cover everything except her face, hands and feet. The swimwears available in the market were either not targeted for the Muslim women as they led to show of skin or were unpractical for swimming. To aptly describe how uncomfortable the swimwear designed for Muslimahs was I shall quote Aheda Zanetti who wrote to the National Geographic News stating "As an active Muslim girl, I found it difficult to participate in most sports, because of all the...

The fourth/fifth (at least) version of this freep leauge needs two more teams. Our beloved commish is in love (great for him) but not taking care of business. I have become the dominant creature of this league the last few years. There are some real players. Freepmail LonePalm on freereublic or email me at jjchierich1@aol.com. If you ain't a playa, don't email me (Lone may let you in)

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Sir Charles has been catching some serious flak from the conservative blogosphere for his comments about conservatives being "fake Christians." Frankly, conservatives should cut him some slack for saying he's voting Democrat because he doesn't like the direction Republicans are taking the country. Especially since many conservatives, and registered Republicans, feel the same way and are doing the same thing this next election to "prove a point", and that is exactly what they did the last congressional election. Conservatives were fed up with Republicans abandoning their principals, and they didn't like the direction Republicans were taking the country. If you...

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Freeper fantasy nascar league on nascar.com needs two more participants. this will be a LIVE DRIVER DRAFT scheduled for 2/10/08 at 1 p.m. eastern time. pick your own drivers. You have to open an account on nascar.com (free) and join the private league (free).. if interested, please freepmail me; I'll give you instructions on how to join. it's time to GO RACIN...

It is reported that Sir Isaac Newton (who pioneered in gravity, optics, and other matters scientific and mathematical) once said: "If I have seen farther than others, it was because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." After the Super Bowl, Tom Brady said, "If I have not thrown as well as others, it was because the Giants were standing on my shoulders."

This was presented just before the beginning of the Super Bowl yesterday, a Fox Sports Super Bowl tradition. Speakers include: Jim Brown, Don Shula, Roger Staubach, Marie Tillman (widow of Pat), Ronnie Lott, Ozzie Newsome, Teddy Bruschi, Paul Tagliabue, Lovie Smith, Steve Largent, Peyton Manning, Tony Dungy and more. Well done and moving.

This summer, a lot of the NBA's best players will jet to China determined to re-establish American dominance in international basketball. As they land in Beijing, however, unless things improve mightily in the intervening months, the view out the plane window might not be so great. It's no secret that there is some very polluted air in parts of China. The New York Times today talks about how Olympic teams gearing up for the 2008 Olympics in Beijing are preparing elaborate measures to give athletes the best chance to compete at a high level, despite environmental conditions that have shown...

So! What does Roger Clements, Sandy Berger & Bill Clinton all have in common? Who better to represent the Finger Wagging Clements than this guy. Lanny Breuer was Special Counsel to Bill Clinton from 1977 to 1999.

Check out this incredible VIDEO of boxer Edison Miranda knocking David Banks halfway out of the ring.

It always seems like it’s one step forward and two steps back for the Washington Redskins. With the departure of Joe Gibbs today, there is only one thing left to say: "Dan Snyder, please sell this team!" If you are the loyal Redskins fan that you profess to be, Mr. Snyder, you must know that all the attributes that make you a brilliant businessman are the same qualities that are driving this football team down. If you truly love this team and you are a true fan, sell it so there is at least a chance that the Redskins will...

I recently was looking for an old quote and ended up assembling a list of FreeRepublic threads as the Duke lacrosse case broke. We had the whole thing nailed pretty quickly while the MSM floundered in their biases and preconceptions. Let's hear it for the decline of the dino media and hats off to all you Freepers.

Die-hard football fans will tell you that one thing is missing when you watch a game in person: the unending stream of TV replays that you've grown accustomed to from the couch. EDUARDO CONTRERAS / Union-Tribune Some Charger fans will view replays and live video on Lvis from San Diego-based WiseDV. But tomorrow, 100 Chargers fans get the best of both worlds. They will try out new video gadgets that will show replays not available to the rest of the Qualcomm Stadium faithful. And, unlike home viewers, they will be able to pick and choose camera angles. The Chargers fans...

This is for sure a vanity, so if you don't like it please move on. I want to sell a shotgun I've had for a few years but have no idea how much to sell it for. It's a Remington 870 Express Magnum 12 gauge pump. I bought it new in 1999. It's only been fired once and been stored in a case since then so it's in great shape. I don't remember exactly how much I paid for it. But I do want to sell it. I know that there are far more knowledgeable freepers than I...so how much...

I know about losing teams. I root for a lot of them. In 49 years, I have seen the San Francisco Giants in the World Series twice (that I remember). The first was 1989, when they were swept by the Oakland A’s in the earthquake series. I watched every out. They never led. And 2002, in Game 6, up by five and needing six outs and couldn’t do it. Don’t even get me started on 1993, when they won 103 games and didn’t make the playoffs. I was born in Massachusetts, so it all starts there with the Red Sox....

Who’s going to duck and cover on the Second Amendment debate that’s really getting wound up since the Supreme Court of the United States decided to rule on District of Columbia vs. Heller, or more commonly known as the D.C. Gun Ban? It seems that the republican candidates are getting involved and are at least letting voters know how they interpret the Second Amendment. The democrats seems mum on the issue, maybe because they know that gun rights can be politically deadly. The debate hitting all the media outlets still seems to be on the interpretation of “A well-regulated militia...

In what may turn out to be the most important Second Amendment ruling since 1939’s hideously misinterpreted Miller - and maybe the most important ruling on the Amendment in American history, the Supreme Court has granted cert to Parker v. D.C. and will be taking up the case in this session. Natch, Glenn Reynolds has tonsalinks. My first take (I have to admit I’m shaking in my boots at the negative possibilities here, given that I thought the SCOTUS would dodge this one) is that the Court will find an individual right, but do so in such a way that...

Washington 5-4 at Dallas 8-1 - 4:15 pm (Sheridan's Line: Cowboys by 10½) The Redskins lost at home to the Eagles last week, 33-25. In the five games they've played since crushing the Detroit Lions back in Week Five, they have lost three games, barely beaten the 4-5 Cardinals at home, and barely beaten the 1-8 Jets in overtime. Now WR James Thrash is out with a high ankle sprain, and safety Sean Taylor is out for at least two weeks with a knee sprain. Dallas beat the Giants last week, 31-20. They've won three in a row, and have...

Oakland 2-7 at Minnesota 3-6 - 1:00 pm Oakland lost at home to the Bears last week, for their fifth loss in a row. I have nothing else worthwhile to say about the team. The Vikings were crushed by Green Bay last week. Worse than the loss, though, was the knee injury suffered by rookie superstar running back Adrian Peterson. His lateral collateral ligament is torn in his right knee, so he is expected to never walk again^^^ miss a few games. And even worse than that for Vikings fans, Tarvaris Jackson is expected to start under center this week....

RJ'S GAME OF THE WEEK YEAR EON: New England 8-0 at Indianapolis 7-0 - 4:15 pm (Sheridan's line: New England by 4½) New England demolished Washington last week to stay undefeated. They have scored at least 34 points in every game, and they have won every game by at least 17 points. To put this in perspective, only two other teams have scored more than 200 points this season, Dallas with 227 and Indianapolis with 224. New England has put 331 points on the board. The difference between the number of points the Patriots have scored and the number of...

Esoteric Republican presidential hopeful Tom Tancredo made an offer to a fellow Republican (and it wasn’t newly minted Sox fan Rudy Giuliani): [Tancredo’s] campaign called ABC News to issue this challenge: The Colorado congressman will drop out of the race if the Rockies lose the World Series — if rival Mitt Romney agrees to pack it in if the Red Sox lose. It is so on. Surely Mitt took the bet. The score was 13-1. They’re gonna win it all, governor! . . . [Romney] spokesman Kevin Madden issued a terse statement this morning: “The governor is in the race...

Governor Bill Ritter (D-Colo) boasted that the success of the Colorado Rockies baseball team shows that the Democrats’ more liberal approach to government is superior to that of the “penny-pinching misers who would deny the people’s right to enjoy sports.” “There are those who say that the government has no business getting involved in professional sports, that it is unfair to tax the general population in order to subsidize millionaire players and multimillionaire team owners, they call these ‘bread-and-circuses’ outlays and say they are outside the scope of legitimate government, but now that the Rockies have won their way to...

Via the magic of Ms Rabbit,we get to look at a case involving Americans United for Separation of Church and State v Marcus Borden : a football coach who won the right to bow his head or kneel respectfully when his team prays.

FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Al Oerter, the discus great who won gold medals in four straight Olympics to become one of track and fields biggest stars in the 1950s and '60s, died Monday. He was 71. Oerter died at a hospital near his Fort Myers Beach home, his wife Cathy Oerter said. He had dealt with high blood pressure since he was young and has struggled with heart problems, she said. "He was a gentle giant," she said. "He was bigger than life." Oerter won gold medals in 1956, 1960, 1964 and 1968. Oerter and Carl Lewis are the only...

I’ve been a big supporter of the New England Patriots since they began playing in the old Schaeffer Stadium in the nineteen-seventies. I used to ride with one of my sons to the games on a motorcycle so we could weave through the horrendous traffic and chain the bike to the stadium fence. Until recently, Tom Brady, their brilliant quarterback, was one of my heroes; but, no more. He’s not a hero any more; he’s just a high-priced bum who just fathered another bastard into a society that is crumbling from the overwhelming number of fatherless children in our midst.

Businessman Jones | by Pete The Demetrius Jones transfer has all the makings of a top-notch football soap opera: a program performing at historically low levels, an “arrogant” head coach finally getting his just desserts (insert fat joke here, naysayers), a quarterback scorned and cast aside for a hot-shot whiz kid everybody loves to hate, and finally, as the cherry on top of the Schadenfreude Sundae, a double-secret, eleventh-hour defection. And yet, timing notwithstanding, this transfer is not all that different from the ones that occur in competitive programs every year. As Weis started bringing in higher levels of talent...

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RFFM.org Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza As former New York Yankee Hall of Famer Yogi Berra might say, it sounds like deja vu all over again. Of course, Yogi would be talking about O.J. Simpson, once again, being charged with a violent crime while he sits in the Las Vegas County Jail. Well, Yogi didn't say it, but I did and, to tell the truth, this latest Simpson escapade has not caused me to shed any tears. Most certainly I do not find glee in the fact another human being is deeply troubled, but I have to confess there is...

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Now that Michael Vick is going to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge related to the dog fighting allegations against him, he is likely to be suspended from the National Football League, possibly for life. He and his co-defendants (who have already pleaded guilty) should rest assured, however, that a multitude of job opportunities await them that will make extensive use of their unique talents. As reported by the Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/24/AR2007082402081.html?hpid=topnews), In or about April 2007, PEACE, PHILLIPS, VICK, and two others “rolled” or “tested” additional “Bad Newz Kennels” dogs by putting the dogs through fighting sessions at 1915...

I've often criticized what one might call the "paternal abandonment script"--the standard assumption that if a father doesn't remain in his children's lives after a divorce or separation, it's because he "abandoned the family" and/or chose to remove himself from his children's lives. One example is my blog entry Dick Allen & the Misleading 'Paternal Abandonment Script' [http://glennsacks.com/blog/?p=323]. Recently I've been watching and following the ESPN mini-series The Bronx Is Burning [http://www.bronxisburning.com/]. The series discusses the year 1977 in New York--the famous power outage and subsequent riots and looting, the "Son of Sam" killings, the upset in the mayoral election,...

National Exercise Your Rights Day is just 10 days away! Buy a Gun or Ammo on August 28! Are you ready? Have you saved up some money? Have you notified your clubs and friends? Have you made sure your local gun stores know about National Exercise Your Rights Day so they can promote it and offer special discounts? Have you made plans to join friends at the range? Have you begun drafting your message to your legislators? The Reverend Jesse Jackson is joining in the celebration of National Exercise Your Rights Day though the good Reverend is only planning to...

RFFM.org Commentary by Daniel T. Zanoza, National Director On Wednesday, August 15th, former NBA referee Tim Donaghy turned himself in to federal authorities related to charges he wagered on more than 20 NBA games. Donaghy first came under scrutiny when it was revealed he allegedly bet on games he officiated, including a 2006 play-off game. Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick is also facing charges that he led a dog fighting ring where thousands of dollars were wagered. To date, those indicted with Vick have agreed to plea bargains with the federal government and Vick has until Friday, August 17th to...