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POWERADE DROPS CONTROVERSIAL INGREDIENT
Coca-Cola is dropping a controversial ingredient from its Powerade sports drink, after a similar move by PepsiCo’s Gatorade last year. The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, had been the target of a petition by a Mississippi teenager, who questioned why it was being used in a drink marketed toward health-conscious athletes. The petition on Change.org noted […]
Clarifying Confusion of the Name
There have been reports on the AP wire and printed in The Democrat & Chronicle of Rochester, the Wall Street Journal, and Daily News Online, as well as coverage on several News Stations in local and regional markets, stating that the Empire State Sports Foundation has disbanded and ceased operations, while at the same time running up […]
Liberty Games 2013 Mixed Martial Arts
Our first Liberty Games Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) event for youth was a highlight for the new state games, which was produced and hosted by the Empire State Sports Council (ES Sports). Athletes from across the state, competing in 3 areas of the sport, made for quite a day! These are the elite youth of MMA, and […]
Liberty Tour Sparks Steenburn’s Athletic Career
One of the most intriguing things about achieving any amount of athletic success is that most Athletes have no problem recalling from where they started, as if it were just yesterday. Even with all of the excitement of selecting the right College, setting University Records, or winning Gold Medals, it takes only seconds to go […]
Basketball ‘Steals’ the Show
Schenectady, NY – It was one of those “Triple-H Days” (Hazy, Hot, & Humid), and no matter what the weather was like, inside or outside, it didn’t appear to have any effect on the Boys and Girls that made the Pat Riley Center the focus of the Liberty Games for the Basketball competition. “With […]
Liberty Games RaceWalking!
Valatie, NY July 19, 2013 On the penultimate day of this year’s Liberty Games, the Track and Field competition drew to a close. The 5000m Race Walk, the longest event of the meet, took place in hot (85°F), humid, and sunny conditions. With more than 10 Athletes registered for the event, a full field of eight (8) toed the starting […]
Is Cross Country Running the Purest Sport?
By Christopher Cudworth The air is more than crisp on a late October morning. A chill breeze seems to slide down out of the clear blue sky to the north. It is cross country weather. 140 athletes line up before a backdrop of team and fan busses. There may be 2000 fans in attendance to […]
MMA SHOWS ITS TRUE COLORS
(Liberty Games Is Now Family) We have been asked to cover a lot of different events since the start up of Warriors Instinct MMA. We have covered an inaugural MMA event in our home area, been thrown on the carpet by another event that soon became our family, and have even come as far […]
Kossor Kicks Off Liberty Games
2016 Olympic Hopefuls Shine Scotia, NY – It was one of those “Triple-H Days” (Hazy, Hot, & Humid), and if this event was held at the same location that it was in 2012, the weather could have been a factor. However, a decision was made back in February, when it was still cold and […]
ALERT! CHANGE IN TRACK & FIELD VENUE!
There has been a change to the Track & Field venue for the Liberty Games! The bad news is that we have to make a change, but the Good News is that it is to a much better facility. Due to unexpected challenges with the maintenance schedule for Albany High School that, it […]