as a profitable investment and decided to form a new competitor. On February 3rd, 2000 a new football league was announced, The XFL. It’s first (and last) season was scheduled to kick off in 2001, with ten teams set to compete and a chance at a championship trophy. McMahon created a league that combined the entertainment of the gruesome WWF and the classic NFL. The league took on a…
The following is what I found. Wilt Chamberlain- In 1962 he scored 100 points in a single game. Jim Brown- Helped lead the Browns to an NFL championship in 1964. Muhammad Ali- First boxer to capture the heavyweight championship three times. Bill Russell- Won a total of eleven championship rings. Willie Mays- An incredible baseball player of the time period. Next I looked at race in sports during this time. The following is what I found. In 1968 John Carlos and…
The notorious seven time tour de France winner Lance Armstrong who doped throughout his seven wins in cycling’s most notable and prestigious event admitted that if he could start his cycling career over again he would still dope (reference 1). Possibly the biggest case of doping in not only the sport of cycling but world sport he had repeatedly said during his career that he did not take performance enhancing drugs but one of his most famous quotes that makes him look foolish now is “I have…
two full sized mats that cover the floor and go halfway up the walls along with a speaker mounted up in each corner. The parts of the walls not covered in mat, are decorated with either the names of past state-champs and placers or the team state championship banners, which serve as a constant reminder of…