March Madness Pool

NCAA March Madness Pool

Welcome to the Sacred Hoops NCAA March Madness Pool! We invite ALL college hoop, college basketball fans to submit their picks into our pool for a chance to win some great prizes! It’s completely free to enter this pool.

PRIZES
To be eligible to win one of the prizes below, you must do two of the following few options:

1.) Digg this article by clicking the digg button in the left of this article
2.) Stumble this article at stumbleupon.com.
3.) Sign up for RSS Feed in the upper right corner to either the posts or comments.
4.) Leave a comment in telling me which of the following that you did and how excited you are to kick some major butt in this years March Madness Pool.

All the above and enter the pool is 100% free and fun! Those who enter the pool but do nto follow the simple instructions above can still be apart of the pool, but are NOT eligible to win one of the following prizes.

1st Place - $50 Gift Certificate To Championship Productions ($50 value)
2nd Place - Free Advertising on Sacred Hoops For a month for any blog or website ($25 value)
3rd Place - Developing Basketball Skills for Youth Ebook ($17.99 value)

HOW TO REGISTER

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Group: sacredhoops
Password: sacredhoops

Also this game gives you the chance to win $10,000 by predicting the winner of the most games in the 63 game men’s college basketball tournament. A correct selection in the first round counts as 10 points, and in each successive round the point values are doubled. You can create up to ten entries, and best of all, it’s FREE to play.

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FORUMS / MESSAGE BOARDS
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OTHER RULES

Prizes are to be accepted as listed. No cash value or substitutions.
Sacred Hoops are eligible to enter the pool, but not eligible to win one of the prizes.
You are limited to ONE (1) entry per username. Multiple entries are not allowed.

DISCLAIMER
This pool is intended for entertainment purposes only.

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Popularity: 57% [?]

Tags: bracket, bracketology, college basketball, college basketball pools march madness pools, March Madness

This entry was posted on Friday, March 14th, 2008 at 1:13 pm and is filed under basketball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Get Slamming With Cyberdunk!

If you like basketball and you spend a lot of time on the Internet, there is no better way to combine the two than by playing Cyberdunk.

Cyberdunk is a Basketball MMORPG, or Massively multiplayer online role-playing game that you can join by logging on to www.cyberdunk.com. The game is primarily browser based so you can play it from virtually any computer with a reasonable fast Internet connection. The “massively multiplayer” part of the name comes from the fact that the game currently has more than 5,600,000,000 players in over 300 leagues, playing from 150 countries across the world!

The website allows you a wide variety of actions that you can perform, such as coaching your own player, or even your own team. To get started, all you have to do is signup for an account on the website. Don’t worry, it its totally free to join! After you have signed up, you can log into your own personal account, where you will be provided an account control panel. This is where you can create a new player. Once you have a new player, you can perform a whole lot of actions with him by going into your player’s “crib”. From there you can get him started on training, joining a league, or have him outfitted with sports equipment.

When you have set up your player, you can then join the games that are played every night at midnight GMT +05:00. There is a timer on the website that shows you exactly when the games start so you don’t miss out on the action.

When you have played enough games with your player, you may want to think about managing your own team. To do this you will have to earn or purchase Cyberpoints, which you can also do from the website.

To guide you through the intricacies of the game, the website has a FAQ that you can check out, and there is also a forum where you can ask and answer questions from members around the world. Any new developments in the game are also posted in the news and blog section.

Popularity: 52% [?]

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 at 2:34 am and is filed under basketball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

The Complete Guide to Foam Roller Exercises for Improved Performance

The worldwide trend in increased awareness of fitness and health has resulted in a lot of exercise related equipment being released in the market. This is by and large a good thing, and the fact that so many people are becoming aware of the need to develop healthier habits bodes well for the future.

One of the newest pieces of exercise equipment introduced to the public is the foam roller. Long used by professional trainers and athletes, it is now widely available to the general public. At its most basic form, foam rollers are an invaluable aid for both sports conditioning and rehabilitation. It is also one of the more inexpensive pieces of exercise equipment around, and it can be used for a wide variety of exercise routines and physical rehabilitation procedures. Foam rollers provide a fast, safe, and efficient way to enhance and develop athletic performance by improving muscle and joint flexibility, as well as core strength. Exercises developed specifically for foam rollers can be tremendously useful for a wide variety of athletic disciplines and they can be easily adapted for both individual and team use.

To ensure that you are able to get the maximum possible benefit from your foam roller, you may want to pick up a copy of The Complete Guide to Foam Roller Exercises for Improved Performance. This amazingly useful and informative video guide demonstrates how you can best use foam rollers in a wide variety of applications. The guide covers a broad range of exercises that help you develop core strength, flexibility, stability, balance, and many other useful athletic qualities.

To make it easier for you to go through the exercises, the video covers each routine starting from the easiest to the harder, more advanced exercises. This way beginners avoid injuries or losing interest by proceeding at a rate that is comfortable for them, and more experienced athletes can enjoy a more challenging workout without getting bored.

This foam roller video will also aid both coaches and athletes in quickly finding the proper difficulty level for each exercise depending on the particular athlete’s core strength and other physical attributes. As you may have guessed, core strength is one of the main focuses of this guide and a considerable part of the video is devoted to building core strength in the interest of improving athletic performance.

The video guide features two authorities in the fitness and medical health fields, namely Staffan Elgelid PT, Ph.D., CFT, who is an associate professor of physical therapy at the Nazareth College of Rochester, and Irene McCormick PFT; who is the director of fitness at the Des Moines Area Community College. Together the two bring their considerable knowledge to the fore in bringing you useful exercises that target specific parts of the body, as well as effective rehabilitation exercises that address certain sport-related injuries.

With this video guide, you will have in your fitness arsenal a comprehensive program that will allow you to gain maximum health and fitness benefits from your foam roller.

Popularity: 56% [?]

Tags: foam roaller exercise, foam roller, foam roller for basketball

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 7th, 2008 at 1:43 pm and is filed under basketball. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.