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When Rudi and Adi Dassler began hand making athletic-training shoes in 1924 in their family's laundry room in Herzogenaurach, Germany, they had no idea their efforts would someday lead to a full-fledged factory, Dassler Brothers Sports Shoe, producing more than 30 styles for 11 sports, including the first tennis sneaker. By 1936 the brothers were driving suitcases full of their coveted shoes to the Berlin Olympics, where they would persuade American Jesse Owens to sport their product. (He eventually won four gold medals wearing Dassler shoes.) Business boomed, and by the start of World...
...order for Warren’s results to qualify him for a world record, the International Sport Juggling Federation needs to make sure that he followed proper joggling protocal. Using video tapes recorded by nineteen Outdoor Life Network cameras, the federation will ensure, for example, that joggling resumed within two steps of a dropped ball’s retrieval, according to Albert Lucas, the director of Olympic development for the International Sport Juggling Federation...
...Warren and Kapral exhibit great sportsmanship and are positive role models for how this sport can be done. We estimate there are about eight hundred jogglers around the world currently,” Lucas said. “Hopefully it will become more popular...
Sometimes, Harvard varsity sports just seem like one big contradiction to me.Harvard boasts the most NCAA Division I teams of any college, and yet, because of Ivy League standards, it offers zero athletic scholarships. It has won a number of NCAA championships—just take a look at the historic run the fencing team made this year—but seems to be mired in the middle of the national pack in many of the major sports.And finally, the school recruits some of the nation’s top athletes, but until they make an impact on the field...
...been, and will always be—at least until the “Back to the Future” hover-scooters go on sale at Target. So Lupe Fiasco’s “Kick Push,” an ode to the essential motions of the sport, already has the chips stacked in its favor. Fiasco starts the video, as all must, with a shout-out to his homies, but what follows isn’t the standard booty-shaking fare. It’s pleasantly low-key; clips spliced out of skateboarding home videos, wide shots...