DOG ASIDE: This video gives the viewer an inside look at American athletes training for the Olympic Modern Pentathlon at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio, TX…..for it was decided in 1955….by the Department of Defense….that the Army Base at Ft. Sam (that’s what we Texans call it) would become the national training center for…
DOG ASIDE: On April 12, 1980….President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. The Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to…
DOG ASIDE: The USA Pentathlon trains at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonion, TX…..as this is the location of the US National Training Center for the modern pentathlon. Ft. Sam as we Texans who live within range of its presence like to call it…..was chosen by the Dept. of Defense to be the Army’s training…
DOG ASIDE: Bart Conner (born March 28, 1958, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former gymnast who, as a member of the gold medal-winning men’s gymnastics team at the 1984 Summer Olympic Games…..won an individual gold on the parallel bars. Conner was also the 1979 World Champion on that apparatus….and robbed of his opportunity to…
DOG ASIDE: Host Zero Mostel does a delightful job of introducing the various acts on this television special of The Chipperfield’s Circus…..the most popular touring circus in Europe and especially Endland for year……and in this video segment we get to see one of the fabulous high wire acts that the circus was known for……Man, don’t…
DOG ASIDE: The famous English Chipperfield’s Circus has entertained crowds all over Great Britain and Europe for years and years…..and they are known for their acrobatic acts, clown acts and animal acts…..whereas this video provides evidence at to the level of animal acts that they presented….and the Lion Tamer is without question at the top…
DOG ASIDE: Chipperfield’s Circus is a long-running English family show based on the 300-year-old Chipperfield dynasty. It can be traced back to a James Chipperfield who exhibited performing animals at the Thames Frost Fair of 1684. Through the 19th century, the circus toured the whole of England….with its growing menagerie and teams of acrobats and clowns.…
DOG ASIDE: Only HUMANS could find joy in an ugly dog contest…..as if the ugly ones already don’t have it bad enough….I mean…it’s tough to never get chosen….especially you are on death row at the dog pound….and no HUMAN chooses you cuz you are ugly…..I know, cuz I have heard the comments of the folks…
DOG COMMENTARY: There have definitely been characters in Major League Baseball…..Pitcher Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd of the Red Sox…..who had more in your face antics on the mound than you could shake a stick at….then there was Detroit Tiger Pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych…who talked to his balls before he threw a pitch….and if one…