Pan 2007

  Teddy ~~~ Rest In Peace ~~~ Sadly, Teddy, the little horse with the big heart that inspired and amazed us all was euthanized as a result of an injury in an accident at Karen and David O’Connor’s barn at The Plains, Virginia. The O’Connors, in a brief statement, said: “Teddy got frightened and bolted. He slipped running back to the barn and suffered a severe laceration to his hind leg, severing the tendons and ligaments. “Doctor A Kent Allen was on the scene immediately and it was det

Sheila Taormina is going to miss this week’s world championship in Budapest, Hungary, but her coach believes she has done enough to earn a spot on the Olympic team. She is hoping to earn a spot in the modern pentathlon. It is her third Olympic sport. She won a gold in swimming in 1996 and competed in the triathlon in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. “No one has ever gotten to the top of the world in three different sports,” her coach Lew Kidder said. “No one’s really even tried to do it.” T

It was announced a couple of weeks ago that Shooto had added a womens match between Yasuko Tamada & Kayo Nagayasu to their June 26 Kitazawa Town Hall show. They have now added a Womens Flyweight match between Yasuko Mogi (pictured) & Ayumi Takeuchi. Mogi’s MMA record is 3-3. She is a former Pan American Games Jiu Jitsu champ. Her most recent MMA fight was a loss to Akiko Naito on the March 11, 2007 Smackgirl show. She did win a Smackgirl Grappling Tournament on Apr. 28, 2007 but those b

Sheila Taormina is going to miss this week’s world championship in Budapest, Hungary, but her coach believes she has done enough to earn a spot on the Olympic team. She is hoping to earn a spot in the modern pentathlon. It is her third Olympic sport. She won a gold in swimming in 1996 and competed in the triathlon in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games. “No one has ever gotten to the top of the world in three different sports,” her coach Lew Kidder said. “No one’s really even tried to do it.” T

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There’s a hush this afternoon. A hush throughout the horse world. It’s an emptier, less interesting horse world from this moment. I have just received word from Joanie Morris at the US Equestrian Federation that Karen O’Connor’s darling of a sport pony, Theodore O’Connor, died today as a result of an accident at home in The Plains, Virginia. “Teddy” was the USA’s top hopeful for a gold medal in Hong Kong at this summer’s Olympics. But more than that, he was a crowd favorite and brought in