One athletic competition that has been suffering the consequences of capricious weather in recent years has been the relatively obscure sport of ice golf.
This year’s world ice golf championship, which was scheduled to have been played in Greenland in March, has been called off — as was the 2009 tournament – because the temperature were not, as the organizers say, “Greenlandic”. Greenland is experiencing its warmest winter in over 50 years – making a golf competition on ice too risky for those competing.
The tournament has not been played since 2006 in Uummannaq.
Though a mostly unheralded sport, ice golf does have its loyal devotees, including some top amateurs from the grassier version of the game. In the early years of the noughties, Drambuie sponsored the World Ice Golf Championship.
The tournament, the organizers say, is being postponed until temperatures return to the level Greenland is accustomed to, ie, extremely cold.
Alan Greenspan and Hank Paulson, as two of the people most responsible for bringing the world’s financial system to the brink of the disaster and creating a bailout that mostly benefited the already rich and powerful on Wall Street and that will burden future generations with untold debt and all the while an enormous percentage of the population struggles to hold on to jobs (if they have not been lost already) and homes (ditto), it would be remiss of me not to ask you whether the Colts or the Saints are going to win this year’s Super Bowl.
And the American people have such a low regard for the mainstream media because … ?
According to HedgeCo.net, a new hedge fund has opened that will spend its money only in soccer-related investments.
The London Nominees Football Fund has $40 million in its coffers that it intends to direct towards soccer-related investments: clubs, players, brands and franchises.
Soccer notables Bryan Robson and Carlos Alberto Torres are on board to lend their expertise to the fund.
The report states that: “Up until now, the football industry has been highly specialized and is difficult for the average investor to participate in.”
A Hungarian mountaineer who suffered a horrific accident in the High Tatra Mountains in Slovakia on January 2 that led to the amputation of one of his legs said he is determined to resume climbing by the end of the year.
Zsolt Eross, 41, had his right leg amputated below the knee following the accident in which he and two other climbers became trapped as a result of winter snowstorm.
“My first goal is to take small steps, then walk, then to run and after that to climb,” Eross told the Hungarian newspaper Bors.
Eross is the first Hungarian to climb Mount Everest.
Portsmouth FC, a cash-strapped club in the English Premier League, recently had to suffer the embarrassment of having the plug pulled on its website because of an unpaid bill, according to a report in The Daily Telegraph.
Anyone logging in to the site on Wednesday morning would have read the message “Website Unavailable”. Service was eventually restored later in the day.
Portsmouth is currently at the bottom of the league standings.
