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Dan Kendig last night brought his team and coaching staff to La Nouba in Orlando, en route to NCAA Championships in Gainesville.

Huskers Head to 2010 NCAA Championships

La Nouba Head Coach Mathew Sparks took the team on a backstage tour, the girls getting to speak with a number of the performers.

Nebraska Assistant Coach Tim Garrison told me this was the first time he had seen Cirque live. La Nouba is one of the most acrobatic of all Cirque performances.

I couldn’t resist.

… two thick and juicy boneless white meat chicken filets (Original Recipe® or Grilled), two pieces of bacon, two melted slices of Monterey Jack and pepper jack cheese and Colonel’s Sauce. …

It’s as disgustingly delicious as it looks!

… the sodium content is high — a whopping 1,380 milligrams — more than a half-teaspoon’s worth of salt. For comparison’s sake, the American Heart Association recommends people eat less than 1,500 mg of sodium in an entire day.

Considering the rising consciousness on healthy eating — from rules that will require calorie counts on menus nationwide to Jamie Oliver teaching kids in West Virginia to make better food choices — it was pretty gutsy of KFC to market a product that sandwiches bacon and mayo-based sauce between two pieces of fried chicken.

Still, KFC’s new creation might surprise you a little on the nutritional front. At 540 calories, the Double Down, though not exactly a dieting food, is 90 calories lighter than McDonald’s Premium Crispy Chicken Club Sandwich. …

NPR – The Nutritional Lowdown On KFC’s Double Down

UPDATE – Is it really 540 calories? Or more like 1190 calories? (via JAO)

This crime against humanity will not be sold in Canada. America’s rank as the most obese major nation is safe, for now.

And just in case Wendy’s wants to challenge, KFC has this “sandwich” in the lab …

(via This is why you’re Fat)

How cool is it to compete on a full podium?

Click PLAY or watch Anne’s night-before-podium-training preview on Gymnastike.

http://www.gymnastike.org/assets/portal/add_ons/mediaplayer-4.2/player.swf

Gymnastics Videos on Gymnastike

This is the SEC podium, I believe, used every year at SEC Championships.

If you have a prediction on the top teams, click through to the Gymnastike Super Six Prediction Contest!

(Most feel UCLA will win. The rest are going with either undefeated Oklahoma or host Florida.)

First The Beatles. Then Elvis. You had to guess that Cirque would get Michael Jackson.

The magic of Cirque du Soleil and the genius of the King of Pop will be combined in the creation, development, and production of Michael Jackson projects based on the music and songs of Michael Jackson.

An arena-touring show is expected to debut in late Fall 2011 and a Las Vegas permanent show is expected to open in late 2012.

Cirque

The possibilities are fantastic, of course.

Click PLAY or watch an odd preview on YouTube.

More jobs for more acrobats.

The favoured Russian women’s team will be able to get to European Championships in the U.K., but the men are not going.

by Google translation of the official notice in Russian:

Men’s Russian team, unfortunately, will not be able to participate in the European Championship, as there is the slightest opportunity to get to Birmingham because of the volcanic eruption in Iceland, which resulted in the British sky was in a fog of volcanic dust. Told head coach, a member of the Board UEG, Andrei Rodionenko: “In this situation, due to the volcanic eruption in Iceland were all deleted from the British team. At the European Championships did not go as teams of Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia and Armenia. There are reports that the Portuguese are also unable to get to the United Kingdom. It is known that Belgian national team traveled to Birmingham 11 hours, while the Spanish national team, this trip took 30 hours. Therefore, UEG and the Organizing Committee along with the national federations have done everything that the team could come to the continental championship. UEG will not apply any sanctions against those teams, who were unable to get to Birmingham. ”

As told Andrei Rodionenko, UEG collects a separate meeting on the issue of selection to the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, as the European Youth Championship is a qualifying for these games. UEG will do everything to athletes who have suffered from natural disasters, could pass a full selection at Youth Games to be held this summer. According to the Rodionenko currently FSGR and the organizing committee of women’s European Championship are doing everything that the Russian women’s team was able to easily get to England.

Thanks Kaoru-no-kimi.

Update – Portugal did find a way to get to the competition.

How many more will cancel due to travel problems?

I’d earlier predicted that Susan Jackson of LSU would, again, win Vault. She has two proven different vaults for Finals.

Several people repled with this:

If you remember, last season Vanessa made the NCAA vault event final but didn’t have a second vault so just competed a yurchenko layout. This summer, she learned a Podkapayeva Lopez (layout Podkapayeva) vault:

Click PLAY or watch Vanessa’s “second” vault on YouTube.

She’s got a sky high, clean Yurchenko 1/1 too, of course.

Anne Phillips, founder of Gymnastike, is posting a series of gymnasts to watch on each apparatus.

Click through to see her other strong College vaulters: Gymnastike – Vaults to Watch for at the 2010 NCAA Championships

… The Chris Evans Breakfast Show is the flagship show on BBC Radio 2 in the United Kingdom. …

Here Chris and … some other guy … give gymnastics a go at Heathrow Gymnastics Club.

Click PLAY or watch it on BBC.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf

(via Beth Tweddle and Full Twist)

Normally the most extreme trampoline videos feature … Jason Burnette.

But the Hinerikko team from Japan is doing some things (perhaps) that even Jason hasn’t done.

http://www.facebook.com/v/xxx

Video posted by Trampolining on Facebook. (Sorry for the crappy quality of the video. Fact is, video and photos on Facebook are crappy. Please post videos to YouTube, then link them from Facebook.)

There’s more, much better resolution, on the Hinerikko YouTube channel.

This was linked by Cirque casting scout Marceline Goldstein. She’ll be at NCAA Championships this weekend in Florida.

This Chinese acrobats show many stunts I’d never seen before. They work up to a “5 high” balance.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (A quarter million views.)

Thanks Chris, from Vegas, for sending us the link.

Update: crisis averted

The Steering Committee has been in contact with the IHSA this morning with regards to the “5 to 10%” issue.

The IHSA has assured us that they are not targeting boys gymnastics and has no plan to eliminate any sport.

The Board of Directors is well-aware of the passion that is out there for gymnastics and the storm of emails from coaches, athletes, parents, AD’s and principals over the past few days has driven that home.

At this point, we need to take a deep breath and ease up on the tension; yet remain on our guard for any future actions or decisions by the IHSA.

More details about this will follow at the meeting Wednesday.

On behalf of the Steering Committee and Executive Board, I can’t thank you enough for your rapid and wide-reaching response.

It is a testament to the tenacity and intensity of our Association.

Steve
Steve Foerch
Science Teacher, Varsity Boys Gymnastics Coach
IHSGCA President
Niles West High School

=== original post:

A vote today – Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 – may result in the elimination of the entire State program.

You might be able to help.

Here’s the appeal letter:

The IHSA — the governing body that oversees high school sports in Illinois — is considering making a rule change that would drastically impact boys (and girls) gymnastics.

Currently the sport must field boys gymnastics teams from at least 5% of the schools in the state in order for the IHSA to officially sanction our sport.

The proposal — which will be voted on this coming Tuesday, April 20th — would increase that requirement from 5% to 10%.

There is no way that boys gymnastics can reach the 10% target next year.

If this proposal passes, boys gymnastics would most likely be dropped by the IHSA and would cease to exist as a high school sport in Illinois.

Please help us convince the IHSA Board of Directors to vote down this proposal and keep the participation threshold at 5%. We need your support.

Please email each of the board members listed below and:

· Tell them what this sport has done for your son/daughter

· Urge them to continue to support boys and girls gymnastics

· Urge them to keep the sport¹s participation threshold at 5%

IHSA Board of Directors

Jim Woodward President jwoodward@ajchs.union.k12.il.us
Ron Conner Vice President rconner@cusd15.k12.il.us
Paul Whittington Secretary WhittPau@EP309.org
Gregory Bradley Treasurer (Non-Voting) bradleyg@mtzion.k12.il.us
Joyce Kenner jdkenner@cps.k12.il.us
Daniel Klett dklett@d118.org
Michael Gardner mgardner@lw210.org
Jim Boyd Jb2111@riverdale.rockis.k12.il.us
Gregory Jones gjones@sparta.k12.il.us
Jeanette Nuckolls nuckolij@unit5.org
Joseph Schmidt jschmidt@stpatrick.org

I’ll email them tonight. Please do too, if you support High School Gymnastics.

Thanks Maria Mazzocco.

Illinois High School Gymnastics Coaches Association