hoity-toity_Apollonian

After 58 years no more new VW Beetle (The orginal one of course) will be produced. The final number of Beetle's produced 21,529,464. A very interesting article about the same on NYTimes.

Yesterday was listening to an interview with Tyler Hamilton, another American riding in the tour-de-france. Everybody knows that he finished most of the tour with a double fractured collar bone (OucH!!!!) He was talking about how hard it was in the beginning, then he made a very interesting statement. He said that he just accepted pain and he got used to it. One can accept pain but what do you mean by getting used to pain??? After 10 days his body got so exhausted with pain that he could not even stand up :-O. After this he had a rest day so he slept for the whole day and next day he won the stage. That was just an amazing feat!!!
BBC was running a poll about the craziest sportsmen and their crazy feats of all time. The most painful sport I thoght was Rugby. Here's an excerpt about the blood and gore from this gladiatorian sport from BBC:
New Zealand second row Colin Meads could almost warrant a section on his own. His most famous exploit was refusing to come off against Eastern Transvaal in 1970 despite breaking an arm - his own, for once.
But pride of place in the red badge of courage stakes must go to fellow All Black Wayne Shelford. In 1986, a French pack gave the number eight a most fearsome shoeing that left him with a concussion, a few less teeth and, wait for it, a ripped scrotum.
Unperturbed by the sight of one of his testicles hanging out, Shelford instructed the physio to stitch him up on the side of the pitch so he could play on.

Anywho, one more trivia Bob Hope the most rich, acclaimed comedian was using 13 writers to write jokes and one liners for him for a 30 min show waste of human capital or what??:-)

Starting from scratch, making a new beginning, Shri Ganesha et all. The first blog that I created sucked big time real big time!!! Tried making some customizations and just screwed it up to the extent that it became easier to kill it and start anew.
The tennis tourny that I was blabbering about started y'day and guess what the very first day was ruined by thunderstorms, real big one. Rained hard real hard. So no tennis was possible, its going to rain for this whole week so I guess no tennis is possible at all:) Tht's not such a good start is it?
Highlite of last week: Lance Armstrong won Tour-de-France, again!!! That guy is just amazing. Any person in field, sports can be inspired by him and his story. Way to go Lance!!!
Joined Fantasy football season at my workplace. The draft is going to be in August, here are my picks:
Offense:
QB: Brett Favre, Drew bledsoe, Mark Bulger
WR: Donald Driver, Peerless Price, Isaac Bruce, Charles Rogers
RB: Travis Henry, Ricky Williams
FB: Cecil Martin
TE: Shannon Sharpe, Bubba Franks
LT: Kyle Turley, Orlando Pace
LG: Tom Nutten
C: Frank Winters
RG: Jermane Mayberry
RT: John St. Clair
Defense
DLE: Vonnie Holliday, Julius Peppers
DRE: Hugh Douglas, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila
LCB: Charles Woodson, Dre' Bly
RCB: Aeneas Williams,
SS: Mike Green, Lawyer Milloy
FS: Darren Sharper, Rod Woodson
DLT: Gilbert Brown, Corey Simon
DRT: Darwin Walker, Jeff Zgonina
SLB: Bill Romanowski, Mo Lewis
MLB: Brian Urlacher, Ray Lewis
WLB: Junior Seau, Shawn Barber
Specialists:
K: David Akers
P: Josh Bidwell
KR: Michael Lewis
PR: Michael Lewis
LS: Frank Winters
H: QB
MISC.: ???
Please let me know what do you think about this. Any suggestions more than welcome!!!