javelin - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

One, two, three … balks, you’re out?Is Marlins’ reliever Richard Bleier the first Jewish pitcher to be called for a balk on Rosh Hashanah? I don’t know. What is a stone-cold fact is coming into Tuesday’s game against the Mets, Bleier had made 572 professional baseball appearances over the course of 15 years — never in his seven big le...

Funny how the little white girl who skates got treated differently than the fast Black girl who sprintsUnsurprisingly, Emmanuel Acho doesn’t have anything to say. ...

Emmanuel Acho: Dope gets lit upEmmanuel Acho’s reputation as a thoughtful voice on social issues has gone up in smoke....

The 21 best multi-sport athletes of the 21st century (yes, there are that many!)

Tim Tebow is attempting a return to football, attending minicamp with the Jacksonville Jaguars, this time as a tight end after he ran out of chances as a quarterback in 2015 when the Philadelphia Eagles cut him. In the interim, Tebow pursued a baseball career, making it as far as Triple-A in the Met...

Georgia Sprinter Miraculously Survives After A Javelin Goes Through His Back

Here’s a horrifying story with a relatively happy ending: Georgia sprinter Elija Godwin, one of the fastest freshmen in the country, accidentally impaled himself on a javelin while running a backwards sprint drill on Tuesday afternoon. Incredibly, Godwin survived....

Javelin Throw Does Not Go As Expected

The U.S. Olympic track & field trials continue to pace the sports periphery, and here’s a clip from today’s javelin event for the heptathlon qualifying. This is Utah State’s Chari Hawkins—a former MWC champion in the event—struggling mightily. Given that it’s javelin, it could have gone worse....

Javelin Thrower Impales 75-Meter Sign; Judges Struggle To Remove It

This throw at the European Athletics Championships by Sweden's Kim Amb would be impressive if the point of javelin throwing was accuracy instead of distance. (Also, if Amb had intentionally aimed at the marker.) Amb didn't, though, so no points for him....

German Track And Field Official Dies After Being Struck In The Throat With A Javelin

That's according to the BBC, which said the official was a 74-year-old man who died after being rushed to the hospital Sunday:...

latest

What The Discus Can Teach You About Life: Lessons From One Of America's Greatest Throwers

Tell Me When It's Over is an interview series in which we ask former athletes about the moment they knew their playing days were over. Today: Mac Wilkins, one of the United States' greatest all-around throwers. ...

by Rob Trucks|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Tortillas Banned From Texas School Celebrations

Tonight, Texas A&M-Kingsville kicks off the season at Northwest Missouri State, in a continuance of the epic D-II rivalry. (Maybe. I don't know.) One mainstay that will be absent: the traditional Tossing Of The Tortillas after Kingsville touchdowns....

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

Fire! Fire! Fire!

If you've got a javelin lodged in your leg, what do you do? If you're the Chinese, you burn it! [Daily Star]...

by Barry Petchesky|

|Mon Jun 17 2013

You already saw this yesterday because you read everything I write — c'mon, humor me — but just in case ... BULL'S HORN TO THE SHIN! Oompf! [Brahsome]...

by skeets|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

This Should Really Happen More Often ...

Javelin Horror Overshadows Meeting [Sporting Life]...

by skeets|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

You Know What's Funny? She's Actually The Swimming Judge

Life as a judge in the javelin toss ain't so easy ... there is, for example, the whole issue of being hit with a javelin....

by Leitch|

|Tue Jun 18 2013

home › tag › javelin