SEC won’t be the same without Meyer
I knew this had been a trying season for Urban Meyer.
He admitted as much several times as the season wore on. You could also see it in his face and see it in how much weight he’d lost.
But I was like everybody else in college football when I heard the news Saturday evening, and it hit me like a ton of bricks.
Urban Meyer stepping down at Florida?
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World Championships Track and Field 2009
In the same way Michael Phelps has rejuvenated interest in swimming, Usain Bolt’s world record-breaking 100 and 200 meter runs at the recent Olympics gave track and field a needed shot in the arm. Since American favorite Tyson Gay was unable to compete, many have waited to see if he can hold his own against Bolt, who is currently at the top of his game. For those who follow the sport, even minimally, the 2009 IAAF World Championships are what they’ve been waiting for.
Assuming the field holds to form and body parts hold up, they should go head-to-head for the first time in more than a year at the world track and field championships, which start Saturday in Berlin and run through Aug. 23. The 100 begins with two rounds Saturday and the semifinals and final Sunday.
The Bolt-Gay showdown never materialized in Beijing last year after Gay pulled a left hamstring muscle in the U.S. Olympic trials the month before the Games. His training and acceleration compromised, he was a non-factor, faltering in the 100 semifinals. The last time the two met was May 2008 in New York, where Bolt shocked the track world with the first of his two 100 world records, 9.72 to Gay’s 9.85.
In Beijing, Bolt made a mockery of the sprints despite being a neophyte in the 100 after years as a 200 specialist. He set a world record of 9.69 in the 100 and won by 0.20 despite thumping his chest, looking around and coasting the final 20 meters. In the 200 he broke Michael Johnson’s supposedly untouchable mark of 19.32 from 1996 with a 19.30, winning by 0.66 seconds.
Just when Bolt, 22, appeared to make every other sprinter in the world irrelevant, Gay, 27, has produced a comeback season.
Gay rates himself “in the best shape of my life,” despite a nagging groin injury that could require postseason surgery.
Word is both Gay and Bolt easily won their quarterfinal races. They will race in different heats in the semis tomorrow. Granted they both advance, they will meet in the anticipated final later in the day.
Some of you may remember Usafa Powell, also from Jamaica, who was once a world record holder in the 100. The Jamaican team originally wanted to cut him because he did not attend a mandatory training camp earlier in the year. Thankfully, as those realize he is the only legitimate threat to Bolt and Gay, the IAAF insisted Powell compete. He has advanced into the semis as well.
You can catch the championships, including other track and field events, today on Versus at 7 PM ET.
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Vietnam tightens rules for blogs
Vietnam tightened restrictions on Internet blogs that the ban on bloggers, there are questions that the Government considers it inappropriate.
Blogs to Vietnamese law, and will be “clean and healthy” language, according to government documents in the view of local media.
Internet providers should be responsible for the content of blogs, as the host.
More than 20 million Vietnamese use of the Internet – a quarter of the population.
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