Everton Manager David Moyes’ Offer to David Beckham
Everton Manager David Moyes has offered David Beckham the opportunity of returning to the Premier League on a short-term loan deal. Beckham, 35, has spent the last two winters on loan at AC Milan from Major League Soccer side Los Angeles Galaxy. Moyes, who played with Beckham at Preston when the midfielder was 19, is hopeful he may fancy another loan move. He said: “I hope that if David wanted to come he would give me a call. He only needs to call me or Phil Neville.” Beckham and Everton captain Neville are friends from their Manchester United days where they came through the ranks as juniors.

Women’s Grand Slam                                                                                                                                                      The French Open, Australian Open, Wimbledon and the U.S. Open tournaments make up tennis’ “Grand Slam.” If a player wins all four Grand Slams, it is called a Golden Slam. Maureen Connolly in 1953, Margaret Smith Court in 1970 and Steffi Graf in 1988 are the only three women tennis players to win all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.

Khan’s Unbeatable Record                                                                                                                                                                                            Jahangir Khan was born in Karachi, Pakistan on 10 December 1963 and as a former World No. 1 professional squash player is considered by many to be the greatest player in the history of the game. During his career he won the World Open six times and the British Open a record ten times. Between 1981 and 1986, he was unbeaten in competitive play for five years. During that time he won 555 matches consecutively. This was not only the longest winning streak in squash history but also one of the longest
unbeaten runs by any athlete in top-level professional sports. He retired as a player in 1993 and served as President of the World Squash Federation from 2002 to 2008.

In 1935 Jesse Owens broke three world records and equalled one in 45 minutes                                                                     The man known to the world as Jesse Owens was given the name of James Cleveland Owens when he was born on the 12 September, 1913 the seventh of 11 children. Owens’ greatest achievement came in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935 at the Big Ten meet in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he set three world records and tied a fourth. He equalled the world record for the 100-yard (91 m) sprint in 9.4 seconds and set world records in the long jump clearing 26 feet 8¼ inches (8.13
m), a world record that would last 25 years, 220-yard (201.2 m) sprint in 20.3 seconds and 220-yard (201.2m) low hurdles in 22.6 seconds, becoming the first to break 23 seconds.

Golf Insurance                                                                                                                                                                                                                Many Japanese golfers carry “holein- one” insurance because it is traditional in Japan to share one’s good luck by sending gifts to all your friends when you get an “ace.” The price for what the Japanese term an “albatross” can often reach US$10,000.

The World’s Largest Bunker is Hell’s Half Acre                                                                                                                  Pine Valley Golf Club is in Camden County in southern New Jersey. It was ranked the number one course in Golf Magazine’s 100 Top Courses in the U.S. and the World in 2009. Among its many accolades, Pine Valley has arguably the best collection of par fives and par threes in the world. The course prides itself in being one of the toughest challenges in golf, with a slope of 155 from the championship tees. Pine Valley’s trademarks are the par three 5th hole, which requires a well-placed 220 yard slightly uphill
drive over a lake into a small and sloped green, “Hell’s half acre”, a barren wasteland on the par five 7th hole which is probably the largest non seaside bunker in the world, “The devil’s asshole”, an extremely deep bunker on the par three 10th hole,
and the famous par four 18th, which incorporates many different elements of the golf course into a spectacular finishing hole.

Cheerleading Might Become an NCAA Sport                                                                                                                        According to the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN), Cheerleading might become a National Collegiate Athletic Association sport. The proposed sport will focus on the competitive element of “stunting” and other elements similar to the tumbling skills in competitive gymnastics. However, a point was made that cheerleading will not lose its identity by blending in with the world of gymnastics. The sport will continue to be judged by cheerleading officials. Currently, Fastweb features over 300 cheerleading scholarship programmes, many of which offer multiple scholarships per institution.

Fittipaldi: Schumacher Will Return in Full Glory in 2011                                                                                                           Double world champion in Formula 1 from 1972 and 1974 Emerson Fittipaldi believes that Michael Schumacher will display his full splendor in the upcoming season in 2011. Seven-time world champion made a mediocre return to Grand Prix with the team of Mercedes GP and remained ninth in the Drivers’ standings. “I had lunch with Ross Brawn and he told me that their new car will be competitive with those of their rivals. I expect that in 2011 Michael Schumacher will show his true brilliance. The new car will fit many more of his style of flying, which won countless victories and seven world titles in Formula 1, “said Fittipaldi. “The new chassis with new tires will allow Michael to rely on typical the rear tires at the expense of understeer on the front, making it struggled this year,” concluded the Brazilian.

The Origins of Bowling                                                                                                                                                                                                       Besides being one of the fastest growing pastimes in worldwide popularity today, the sport of bowling has a rich and fascinating
history. Archaeologists have discovered bowling balls, pins and other related equipment in a child’s tomb in Egypt, dating
the game as far back as 5200 B.C. The modern sport of bowling as we know it today, probably grew out of a German religious ceremony introduced to the masses by monks during the third and fourth centuries. At that time, every German
peasant carried a wooden club similar to the Irish shillelagh, for protection. It became a customary test of faith in many churches
for the parishioner to set up his club, called a Kegel, as a target which represented the heathen. He would then roll a stone at it in an attempt to knock it down. If he succeeded he was deemed to be free from sin. Today in many parts of Europe and even in some areas of the United States, the sport of bowling is still known as Kegeling.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Holds the Points Record for a Career in Basketball Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was born Ferdinand Lewis “Lew” Alcindor, Jr. on 16 April, 1947 and is a retired American basketball player, coach, actor and author. During his career with the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar who is 2.18 metres tall, scored more points than any other player in league history at 38,387, won six NBA championships and a record six regular season MVP Awards. In college at UCLA, he played on three championship teams and his high school team won 71 consecutive games. He initially joined the Nation of Islam in 1968, before retaking the Shahada and converting to Sunni Islam that very summer.

Salaries: Julius Peppers vs. the Engineering Professor                                                                                                           A full-time engineering professor nearing retirement will make approximately US$ 117,000 annually in the US. American footballer, Julius Peppers recently signed a six-year, 91 million dollar contract with the Chicago Bears. Julius Peppers will earn 117,000 dollars in the first 7 minutes of a football game… and in those are seven minutes, he may not even touch the field if the Bears get the ball and his offence moves the chains in their first drive. If Peppers is on the field, technically when he records his
first tackle, he will have made $351,000, three times the amount of the Professor. All that knowledge that was passed onto you
by your professor means nothing when he’ll have to work 130 years in order to make Peppers $15.15 million dollar annual salary.