The Pendleton Panther

For the 32nd straight year, there will not be a Triple Crown winner. Super Saver was defeated by Lookin at Lucky in the Preakness Stakes. Super Saver, whom jockey Calvin Borel had predicted to win the Triple Crown, finished eighth in the 12-horse race. Trainer Todd Pletcher attributed the poor performance to the short rest [...]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. remains undefeated. Last night, Mayweather was able to win an unanimous decision over Shane Mosley in a welterweight fight. Mayweather got off to a rocky start, nearly being knocked down in the second round. However, he quickly recovered and dominated the remaining 10 rounds to secure an easy victory over the 38-year [...]

Super Saver has won the 2010 Kentucky Derby. Jockeyed by Calvin Borel, Super Saver was able to conquer the sloppy 1 1/4 mile track at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. Given 15-1 odds at the beginning of the race, Borel sat back and waited for the final turn. He was able to slip in between [...]

Last week I was lucky to be in one of the prettiest places in Central America. I played a tournament in a Mexican city called Guadalajara and then traveled south to Acapulco, also in Mexico. There was a big professional tennis tournament going on there when I went, and I spent most of the time [...]

Nodar Kumaritashvili was getting ready to compete in the Vancouver ’10 Winter Olympics. He traveled to the site almost one week before competition to get used to the design and conditions of the track, but something terrible happened to him when he was training in the extremely fast track of Whistler. He was going at a speed of [...]

The All Star Weekend that is being celebrated these days in Dallas has served as the meeting point for Jose Luis Saez and Jerry Colangelo in order to officially close the last details for one of the best basketball games that can be seen these days. The game, which will confront the national teams of Spain and the United States, will [...]

According to AOL, in New York the city created a dwarf basketball league.  People might think this league is ridiculous but the dwarfs are shorter than everyone els.  The league is the same as any other league, they play on the same size court as you and me.  One of the top teams in the [...]

Just last weekend, the Saint and the Vikings were battling it  out in New Orleans. Saints winning bring them to play the Colts in the SuperBowl in Miami. South Florida is getting ready for the BIG game. This is their Tenth Time holding the SuperBowl and the reason for that is because it is always [...]

Brock Lesner, who has a current mixed martial arts record of 4-1 with notable victories over Frank Mir and UFC legend Randy Couture may have seen his last days as a mixed martial arts fighter. Brock Lesner, who became the UFC heavyweight champion 1 year ago, was hospitalized last week with a life threatening bacterial infection in his intestinal [...]

Denis kang is a French Korean. He’s born in September 17, 1977. Denis kang’s father is Korean and mother is French. He is a pentlingual that can speak Spanish, Portuguese, French fluently and can speak partial Korean. Denis kang joined MMA fight in 1998. His first fight was very successful and won the game. After winning a lot of tournaments and [...]

Usain Bolt welcomed a new baby cheetah into his life. Bolt bought a three month old male cheetah, as part of an effort to boost Kenyan conservation efforts of its famous wildlife. These animals are threatened by hunting. Bolt paid $13,700 to adopt the cheetah. He will also pay another $3,000 a year to care [...]

On Friday, October 9th, the International Olympic Committee voted for which sports should be added to the 2016 and 2020 Olympics.  Rugby was one of the two sports that was chosen, the other was golf.  Both sports have been played in the Olympics once before.  Rugby was last played in the 1924 Olympic games, and [...]

I’m going to write about Muhammad  Ali. He is an American, retired boxer, and three time World Heavyweight Champion. Muhammad Ali is one of the best boxers in history. He has been married four times, has seven daughters, and two sons.  Which is quite a lot. Ali is 6 foot 1 and weighs around 250 pounds. He was one of [...]

Fishing is a fun thing to do, because there are many types of fishing that you can do. In the water there are a lot of different types of fish, and they can range in size anywhere from a couple of inches to 5 or 6 feet long. First is deep sea fishing. Where you go deep [...]

I’m going to write about the UFC best fighters. UFC stands for Ultimate Fighting Championship. There are five different divisions: Light weight, Welter weight, Middle weight, Light heavy and Heavy weight. The light weight champion is BJ Penn, Welter weight is George, Middle weight is Anderson Silva, Light heavy is Lyoto, and heavy weight champion is Brock Lesnar. There is [...]

27-year-old Olympic winner Darren Sutherland killed himself on Monday, 14 September, 2009. He was found by his assistant at home three hours after his death.  “At this sad time my thoughts are with Darren’s family and I hope their privacy at this very difficult time will be respected by the media.” said by a boxing [...]

                                      The fastest growing sport in America today is mixed martial arts.  Although it is often considered to be gruesome by many critics, mixed martial arts (MMA) is being advertised as a athletic competition rather than a blood fest.  When [...]

Field hockey is actually quite a violent sport. If someone takes a shot and you’re in the way, the consequences can be pretty unpleasant. You can suffer injuries to your head or face – including lacerations, bruises, concussions and broken facial bones. Many people end up losing teeth. Also trapped fingers and bashed knees and [...]

Shawn Johnson was born on January 19th, 1992 in Des Moines, Iowa.  She began doing gymnastics when she was only six years old and shortly after, began attending a gymnastics school in West Des Moines.  Currently she attends Valley High School and trains 20-25 hours a week.  Johnson moved to Los Angeles, California for the [...]

Seven time tour de France champion, Lance Armstrong, has broken his collar bone at a race in Spain. He is currently attempting to return to the sport of cycling. After this incident, however, his comeback may not be very certain. He was involved in a crash on the first stage of the five day event [...]

Lance Armstrong, after coming out of his 3 year retirement last year to prepare to compete in the 2009 Tour de France, may now be unable to participate after all. During Spain’s Vuelta Castilla y Leon Armstrong fractured his collarbone and is now flying back to America to have it looked at by medical professionals [...]