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Ed Bagley's Articles in Sports

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  • The Sagarin College Football Ratings: What They Are, How to Read Them and What to Do With Them
    While betting on sports is only legal in a few places in the United States, such as Las Vegas, millions of office workers are involved in sports pools every week now that the football season has arrived. For those who wager, it may be helpful to put some science on your side when you wager, and one of the best places to do that is with the Sagarin College Football Ratings. Here is what you need to know.
  • Nick Saban: A Great College Football Coach Who Might Bring Alabama Back to Greatness
    Nick Saban recently became the University of Alabama football coach by signing the richest contract ever awarded to a college football coach: 8 years for $32 million. Ah, it is good to be Nick Saban in Alabama today. Now he must win and win big, something he has been able to do at other college coaching positions at Toledo, Michigan State and LSU (Louisiana State).
  • Running - There is an Inescapable Correlation Between Weight and Cardiovascular Efficiency - Part 5
    Lifelong runners like myself who have been training and competing forever (47 years plus) know that there is an inescapable correlation between your weight and your cardiovascular efficiency. Essentially, when you lose 10% of your body weight, you increase your cardiovascular efficiency 10%. Learn why in this article.
  • Running - How Popular Running Magazines Are Constantly Giving Very Poor Diet Advice - Part 4
    Running magazines are great for recommending one-type-fits-all diets for runners, but they are dead wrong and their O blood type readers who follow their advice will not benefit from their recommendations. I used to swear by the advice of running magazines, and now I swear at their diet advice, especially regarding diets for runners. Learn why in this article.
  • Running: Gluten in Wheat Products Bind to the Lining of the Small Intestine and Turn to Fat - Part 3
    Gluten, the most common lectin found in wheat and other grains, binds to the lining of the small intestine, causing substantial inflammation and painful irritation in some blood types—especially Type O. This is serious business for all O positive blood types and especially runners because what is binding to the small intestines eventually turns to fat.
  • Running: How Lectins (Proteins in Foods) Are Very Negative in O Positive Blood Types - Part 2
    Dr. Peter D’Adamo’s findings are critical to understanding why Americans have become some of the most unhealthy and overweight people in the world. An inordinate amount of our children are walking about today as examples of obesity before they are even teenagers. When you know that there are more O blood types than any other type, you can then better appreciate the extent of our problem.
  • Running: How Wheat Products and Sugar Can Be the "Kiss of Death" When Trying to Lose Weight - Part 1
    As a high school, college, master’s and senior competitive runner, I used to often wonder why it was so difficult to lose extra weight as I grew older. Now I know why. That is why I feel so blessed to have read Dr. Peter J. D’Adamo’s book Eat Right for Your Type which chronicles the four basic blood types, and why each thrives on a different diet, stress/exercise profile and personality type.
  • Baseball: Craig Biggio Punches His Ticket to the Hall of Fame with His 3,000th Hit - Part 3
    Earlier this year Craig Biggio of Houston Astros became the 27th player in major league history to get 3,000 career hits. If it were easy to get 3,000 hits, many players would have done it, however, three factors stand in the way: 1) Injuries. 2) Longevity. 3) Consistency. Craig Biggio has it all and proved it by punching his ticket to the Baseball Hall of Fame when he retires.
  • Baseball - Barry Bonds Is a Whole Lot More Than Just a Home Run Hitter and Record Setter - Part 2
    When Barry Bonds broke Hank Aaron's major league career home run record with his 756th dinger, he had hit homers off of 447 different pitchers. Bonds also holds the major league career records for walks with 2,540 and intentional walks with 679. He holds the all-time single season major league records for most home runs (73), on base percentage (.609), slugging percentage (.863), and walks (232). Could he be the best ever?
  • Baseball - Tom Glavine, Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriguez and Craig Biggio All Reach Milestones - Part 1
    It has been a year of milestones for Major League Baseball. From Tom Glavine to Barry Bonds to Alex Rodriguez to Craig Biggio the records have been piling up like poker chips in a major tournament. Glavine won his 300th game, Bonds captured the career major league home run record, A-Rod (Rodriguez) hit his 500th career homer, and Biggio picked up his 3,000th hit. Check their stats. All are headed to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
  • Arthur Lydiard, the World's Greatest Middle Distance Coach, on How to Train Effectively
    As a lifelong runner, master's and senior competitor in track, I have read hundreds of stories on techniques addressing specific aspects of training. It was not until I bought and read Running, The Lydiard Way that training philosophy became more important than individual workouts to achieve specific results. Lydiard's work is a textbook not only on his philosophy of running but also on the physiology of exercise.
  • Could You Be a Fan for a Team That Loses 10,000 Baseball Games?
    Philadelphia Phillies' fans are arguably the least patient and most volatile in baseball, and I know why. A report in USA Today (7-3-07) notes that the Phillies are on the verge of becoming the first pro sports franchise to record 10,000 losses. They had 9,996 losses as of July 3, 2007. The next nearest teams in losses are the Atlanta Braves (9,675) and Chicago Cubs (9,421). I would have guessed the Cubs but not the Braves.
  • If You Think Little League Baseball Does Not Teach Important Survival Skills, Think Again
    Sometimes as parents we forget how simple and subtle the lessons in life can be. With all of the violence we are now seeing with youngsters, I am reminded that some of our children today seem less able to cope with adversity, and even less so with patience. How is it that they clearly lack coping skills and patience, two necessary traits for survival as an adult?
  • On Cars, Baseball and the Halcyon Days of Summer
    A 10-year-old boy reminisces about the summer of 1954, remembering the cars (Nash, Hudson, Studebaker and Packard) 10 year olds today never knew, and remembering how, with his best friend, they played baseball on the scorching blacktop for hours before stopping at the drugstore fountain for cherry Cokes, baseball cards and bubble gum. Those were the days.
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