Jennie Finch here is my favourite Olympic athlete ever. When she showed up to the ESPYs that year in that black dress and went about her business of being all hot and stuff, I was intrigued. When she struck out Mike Cameron on a softball field, I decided that she would forever be the unobtainable [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘It’s not called gym-nice-tics’
August 30, 2008
MOAR PLZ!!!!
So with the Olympics over and the softballers all sad that their sport is done, it brings up the question of why? Why is the IOC removing softball (or, more specifically, baseball—I kind of get softball) from the Olympic games? I don’t get why they remove sports at all unless those sports are no [...]
August 14, 2008
My love for Nastia Liukin knows no bounds
My introduction to Nastia Liukin came a couple of years ago when she had a rather large cameo in the gymnastics move Stick it (tagline: It’s not called gym-nice-stics). I remember realizing then that she was clearly the best gymnast in the movie, as well as significantly taller than the rest of them (even though [...]