Tuesday Afternoon the National League Cy Young was awarded to Tim Lincecum from the San Francisco Giants. For those of you that don’t know the Cy Young Award is presented to the best pitcher in each league of Major League Baseball.
Know affectionately to his teammates as “Freak” or the “Franchise” Tim Lincecum has won this [...]
I am happy to report that the Dodgers were eliminated from the post season Wednesday night. Now I am not a Phillies fan not by any means. I am however a huge Dodger hater. In fact pretty much any team from LA is not very high on my list of likable teams. Give me teams [...]
For those of you that do not watch Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fighting or those of you that didn’t catch the the fight Saturday night let me fill you in. Kimbo Slice who rose to fame on the internet by fighting anyone anywhere got beat down. Kimbo is a street fighter and really has no [...]
You may or may not know but I am a huge baseball fan. My team is the San Francisco Giants BEAT LA. Unfortunately being in SoCal I don’t get to see quite as many games as I would like. I am lucky tonight as my boys are playing LA tonight and the game is televised [...]
I have received questions on this blog and from my Marines on how to train for the CFT. While most of my advice has been just work on overall strength and endurance I have not gotten very specific in my advice to the readers of Jarhead Online. Well I am going to change that now [...]
I am sure that anyone reading this has been told to find something you are good at and excell at it one time in their life or another. Did you ever think that finding the thing you were good at and excelling at it would lead you to be told you cannot do it anymore? [...]
Sunday marked the end of two great sporting events. Events where love of the game is greater than anything else. The first was the Summer Olympics and the other was the Little League World Series.
The Olympics
During the past two weeks the world’s best have competed against each other in all kinds of sports, competitions, and [...]
Unless you have been hiding under a rock since Friday you obviously know that Michale Phelps is outswimming the world like an F-18 outflies a hot air balloon. As I write this Michael Phelps has 5 gold medals and has won each one with a world record.
Phelps has won a record 11 gold medals so [...]
The Opening Ceremonies of the Summer Olympics kick off in a few hours. Over the next two weeks competitors from around the world, representing their countries, will compete against each other for the right to be called the best in the world.
While I have not had the opportunity to attend an Olympic Games I have had [...]
As some of you might already know I have the oppurtunity to live in a baseball fan’s heaven. Nowhere else in the US do you have the oppurtunity to see so many prefessional games so close. Soon I will have the opputunity to watch national teams compete as well.
On July 31st most of you probably missed [...]
