professional sports

Wide World of Kitsap Sports
$0.99
Kitsap Sun staff track all those who have left West Sound and are still plugging along in their respective sports.Kindle blogs are fully downloaded onto your Kindle so you can read them even when you're not wirelessly connected. And unlike RSS readers which often only provide headlines, blogs on Kindle give you full text content and images, and are updated wirelessly throughout the day.

Camp Chef BB-90L Professional Sport Grill Box, Covers 2 Left Burners, Black
$137.50
I got this because I thought having one unit for camping would be easier. However I think that for the price, the design could be better in terms of a thicker gage steel for the bottom drip pan. First it warped. Then after 2 more uses the paint started to flake....Then it rusted a hole exactly 1 year later. That is the design flaw. Now getting it to work with a wide variety of meats is also a tough one. Meats with any kind of fat do not do well. Hamburgers, forget it....they all end up burned and crusted and you are left with a huge mess. Not to mention the rotation issue....even with cooking chicken you have to constantly rotate the meat around. But that is due to the burner design. It can't be helped. However I am used to grilling on a Weber grill and don't ever have to worry about flare-ups or uneven cooking, or rotating for that matter. This is just one of those tings that if you really need a all in one, it's available.....but don't expect high quality. The griddle top far dwarfs this thing in terms of quality and this is disappointing considering the quality of the griddle. I will just have to take my Weber Q100 for the grilling when I camp. The two are not even on the same level.

Game of Shadows: Barry Bonds, BALCO, and the Steroids Scandal that Rocked Professional Sports
$15.00
Game of Shadows, by Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, tells a factual story of of how Victor Conte, the founder of BALCO, rose from being a self-proclaimed nutritionist to being the steroid supplier of choice to a large number of world-class athletes across a multitude of sports. Along with Conte himself and the cast of characters involved with BALCO, either as users, suppliers, or competitors, the story focuses on baseball player Barry Bonds.

Mr Fainaru-Wada and Mr Williams detail how Barry Bonds was apparently jealous of the attention Mark McGuire (probably a steroid user) received when hitting a record-breaking 70 home runs during the 1998 season. Mr Bonds, per the book, successfully turned to steroids to become the greatest hitter of his generation, and perhaps even of all time, at an age when virtually all baseball players are in severe decline.

The irony here is that even if Barry Bonds had prematurely retired instead of beginning to use steroids, his performance to that point would have still been good enough to merit being voted into the baseball hall of fame, probably on the first ballot. Instead, assuming he's guilty (and the book presents reams of evidence in support of that guilt), he tarnished his reputation and legacy for all time, will not receive due credit for the bulk of his career when he was clean, and may never be voted into the hall of fame.

The book also includes interesting description of how steroids help improve performance, and what some of the side effects and health problems that are likely to result from steroid use.

This is a good book and I recommend it.

POLARLENS / SPORTSUNGLASSES / Anti-Fog / Active Sport Glasses / Professional Quality / Introductory pricing to US market / Series KP3new
$29.90
Professional sports eyewear Set *** high performance Grilamid TR90 sports frame *** Detachable padded forehead and correction *** Ironing interchangeable with adjustable sports band *** High-strength polycarbonate lenses in optical quality *** sun filter 3 *** ANTI-FOG Equipment *** REFLECTIVE FLASH MIRROR *** UV400, 100% UV protection ***CE *** Includes functional microfiber bag ***