Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Home And Family Submitted: 2007-10-24 | Word Count: 742 | Views: 145 A lot of us remember our mother, and for good reason. I would never hesitate to talk about the most important person in my life, my mother. She was the biggest backer that I ever had. She was not a movie star, she was not famous, and she was not rich. She simply had the most important job in the world, she was a mother. There will be no greater calling, and there will be no greater reward.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Movie Reviews Submitted: 2007-10-23 | Word Count: 647 | Views: 108 It took an inordinately long time for movie land to bring us a modern day treasure hunt worth watching, but Director Jon Turteltaub delivered big time in National Treasure, the story of a secret treasure that crosses the centuries. National Treasure is full of obscure clues. National Treasure stays focused on the clues with the actors not upstaging the treasure hunt story line.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Movie Reviews Submitted: 2007-10-22 | Word Count: 904 | Views: 14 How can a film produce an Oscar winning Best Actress performance and a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination and still be a terrible movie? Easy, just fail to deliver an important message involving understanding and knowledge when you have millions of moviegoers who are glued to your presentation.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Football Soccer Submitted: 2007-10-21 | Word Count: 787 | Views: 2 Michigan State University has a football history of folding when it counts. By unloading John L. Smith and hiring Mark Dantonio as their new head football coach, the Spartans have put themselves in a position to perform better than any time since the legendary Duffy Daugherty coached Michigan State to a combined 19-1-1 record in 1965 and 1966, winning back-to-back Big Ten and National Championships.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Football Soccer Submitted: 2007-10-20 | Word Count: 998 | Views: 5 Nick Saban recently became the University of Alabama football coach by signing the richest contract ever awarded to a college football coach: 8 years for $32 million. Ah, it is good to be Nick Saban in Alabama today. Now he must win and win big, something he has been able to do at other college coaching positions at Toledo, Michigan State and LSU (Louisiana State).
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Running Submitted: 2007-09-03 | Word Count: 995 | Views: 48 Lifelong runners like myself who have been training and competing forever (47 years plus) know that there is an inescapable correlation between your weight and your cardiovascular efficiency. Essentially, when you lose 10 per cent of your body weight, you increase your cardiovascular efficiency 10 per cent. Learn why in this article.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Running Submitted: 2007-09-03 | Word Count: 653 | Views: 43 Running magazines are great for recommending one-type-fits-all diets for runners, but they are dead wrong and their O blood type readers who follow their advice will not benefit from their recommendations. I used to swear by the advice of running magazines, and now I swear at their diet advice, especially regarding diets for runners. Learn why in this article.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Running Submitted: 2007-09-01 | Word Count: 730 | Views: 52 Gluten, the most common lectin found in wheat and other grains, binds to the lining of the small intestine, causing substantial inflammation and painful irritation in some blood types-especially Type O. This is serious business for all O positive blood types and especially runners because what is binding to the small intestines eventually turns to fat.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Running Submitted: 2007-08-31 | Word Count: 553 | Views: 26 Dr. Peter D'Adamo's findings are critical to understanding why Americans have become some of the most unhealthy and overweight people in the world. An inordinate amount of our children are walking about today as examples of obesity before they are even teenagers. When you know that there are more O blood types than any other type, you can then better appreciate the extent of our problem.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Running Submitted: 2007-08-30 | Word Count: 680 | Views: 39 As a high school, college, master's and senior competitive runner, I used to often wonder why it was so difficult to lose extra weight as I grew older. Now I know why. That is why I feel so blessed to have read Dr. Peter J. D'Adamo's book Eat Right for Your Type which chronicles the four basic blood types, and why each thrives on a different diet, stress/exercise profile and personality type.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Baseball Softball Submitted: 2007-08-28 | Word Count: 547 | Views: 11 Earlier this year Craig Biggio of Houston Astros became the 27th player in major league history to get 3,000 career hits. If it were easy to get 3,000 hits, many players would have done it, however, three factors stand in the way: 1) Injuries. 2) Longevity. 3) Consistency. Craig Biggio has it all and proved it by punching his ticket to the Baseball Hall of Fame when he retires.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Baseball Softball Submitted: 2007-08-28 | Word Count: 769 | Views: 128 When Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's major league career home run record with his 756th dinger, he had hit homers off of 447 different pitchers. Bonds also holds the major league career records for walks with 2,540 and intentional walks with 679. He holds the all-time single season major league records for most home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (.863), and walks (232). Could he be the best ever?
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Baseball Softball Submitted: 2007-08-27 | Word Count: 520 | Views: 134 It has been a year of milestones for Major League Baseball. From Tom Glavine to Barry Bonds to Alex Rodriguez to Craig Biggio the records have been piling up like poker chips in a major tournament. Glavine won his 300th game, Bonds captured the career major league home run record, A-Rod (Rodriguez) hit his 500th career homer, and Biggio picked up his 3,000th hit. Check their stats. All are headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Athletics Submitted: 2007-07-22 | Word Count: 730 | Views: 54 As a lifelong runner, master's and senior competitor in track, I have read hundreds of stories on techniques addressing specific aspects of training. It was not until I bought and read Running, The Lydiard Way that training philosophy became more important than individual workouts to achieve specific results. Lydiard's work is a textbook not only on his philosophy of running but also on the physiology of exercise.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Movie Reviews Submitted: 2007-07-21 | Word Count: 517 | Views: 135 Let me get to the most important thing first: Director Martin Scorsese won an Oscar for "The Departed". Scorsese, one of the most accomplished directors of our era, has been nominated for 7 Oscars-5 for Best Director and 2 for Best Screenplay-before winning with The Departed. The Departed is simply the best mob film since Mario Puzo's original Godfather in 1972.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Economics Submitted: 2007-07-13 | Word Count: 936 | Views: 49 Like a 4-year-old child at the checkout counter in a supermarket, American consumers want just one more impulse buy to make their buying day complete, and apparently the more expensive it is, the better. All of this impulse buying is detailed in a recent USA Today article with this headline: "Spending is hotter than the 4th of July". And indeed it apparently is, but is this good cash management?
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Alzheimer Disease Submitted: 2007-07-11 | Word Count: 453 | Views: 87 Imagine my recoil when I read the above Associated Press headline recently: The story went on to detail the first study that linked loss of smell to Alzheimer's. Difficulty identifying odors was associated with a higher risk of progressing from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's. As someone with very little sense of smell and taste, perhaps I should be worried.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Baseball Softball Submitted: 2007-07-08 | Word Count: 657 | Views: 64 Philadelphia Phillies' fans are arguably the least patient and most volatile in baseball, and I know why. A report in USA Today (7-3-07) notes that the Phillies are on the verge of becoming the first pro sports franchise to record 10,000 losses. They had 9,996 losses as of July 3, 2007. The next nearest teams in losses are the Atlanta Braves (9,675) and Chicago Cubs (9,421). I would have guessed the Cubs but not the Braves.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Arts And Entertainment Submitted: 2007-07-07 | Word Count: 1471 | Views: 68 News of the apparent murder-suicide of well-known and well-liked WWE wrestler Chris Benoit left me with mixed emotions: sadness and dismay. I do not believe that Vince McMahon, the World Wrestling Entertainment owner and arguably the most gifted of sports entertainment promoters ever, could really tolerate a person so quiet and respected as Christ Benoit. There are no words to describe my anguish over Chris Benoit.
Expert Author: Ed Bagley | Category: Movie Reviews Submitted: 2007-07-06 | Word Count: 1219 | Views: 98 Mel Gibson's "Apocalypto" shows the raw, violent face of the advanced Mayan civilization in its decline, with its rulers insisting that the key to continued prosperity is to build more temples and offer more human sacrifices to their Gods. The result is innocent Mayans being viciously attacked and their communal way of life being destroyed to meet an insane desire. Will they be able to survive the onslaught?
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