Your friends are starting to talk excitedly about the baseball post-season, and you’re still bemused that these otherwise intelligent people find fascination in a game with such a high standing around to action ratio. Nevertheless, you know that very soon their major focus, and that of millions of Americans like them, will be on something pretentiously called the World Series. […]

In the National Hockey League (NHL) as well as other professional hockey leagues, a typical hockey game lasts for three periods of 20 minutes each. The clock is stopped during every stoppage in play resulting in a total of 60 minutes of regulation playing time. However, if the score is tied at the end of this regulation time, overtime may […]

Ankles are one of the weaker joints in the human body and they are very easy to damage. As anyone who has experienced an ankle sprain or an ankle injury can attest, damaging your ankle is not a very pleasant experience at all. However, there are some basic steps that you can follow to protect your ankles when you are […]

Energy For Everything You Do You’ve probably heard of aerobic and anaerobic respiration, which essentially refer to energy with oxygen (aerobic) and without (anaerobic). Aerobic respiration is the basic, constant type of energy that you’re supplied with. You breathe, flooding your arteries with oxygen-rich blood, which takes care of your body’s basic functions When you aren’t spending a lot of […]

Curling is a game of precision. The two teams involved in a game are vying to have the stone(s) closest to the center of the rings at the conclusion of each “end” (a portion of the game consisting of each team throwing eight stones). Whichever team succeeds is the team that gets the points for that end. Much of this […]