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Sumo Wrestlers and Sunflowers

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Alouettes Logo

Through the month of July the Montreal Alouettes are wearing a version of their logo from the early Seventies. (It originally had a green eye.) It is a design is very much of its time, and so removed from a football dynamic it could go on a package of Vachon cakes. Yet it's the best one they've ever worn. Source.

Centennial Swimming Pool

I have never gone inside the Centennial Swimming Pool at Gottingen and Cogswell, but this guy has.

Berwick Curling Club

The Berwick Curling Club is moving to a new building. Read about it.

Jai Alai Building

The Manila Jai Alai Building (1940-2000) was one of the grandest Art Deco structures in East Asia, and Philippine capital of the Basque sport of jai alai. Source.

Pok-ta-Pok

Watch a Mayan ballgame.

Rumour Derby

Three Thousand

Angela Chalmers ran the fastest women's 3000-metre time of 1990 at the Auckland Commonwealth Games, and finished bronze in the event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

This is the 3000th post at Plenty of Nothing.

Kelea, 15th-Century Surfer Girl

Kelea, of whom in the past the bards of Oahu and Maui loved to sing, was the beautiful but capricious sister of Kawao, king of Maui, who in about A.D. 1445, at the age of twenty-five, succeeded to the sovereignty of that island.

No sport was to her so enticing as a battle with the waves, and when her brother spoke to her of marriage she gaily answered that the surf-board was her husband, and she would never embrace any other.

King David Kalakaua, The Legends and Myths of Hawaii (Tuttle edition), pages 229 and 231.

See Surf Research for a gallery of early surfing imagery.

The Cresta Run

Hurtling to destruction.

The renowned Cresta Run in St Moritz is one of the few sledding tracks in the world devoted solely to the perilous and terrifying sport of sledding head-first, or as it's appropriately named, skeleton. Women have been banned from the track since the 1920s, though some still manage to get in a run.