Christine Has Her Baby
Christine Pomponio-Pate was busy being pregnant for most of the 2007 competitive season and was sorely missed by all her fans and friends, but it was all worthwhile this morning at 1:25 am when she and her husband Jim were blessed with the birth of their first child, Riley James.
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Happy Holidays from all of us at Bodysport
The year has flown by for many of you lost in the weeks of perpetual contest dieting and training and dreaming of the next level, getting a pro card, qualifying for the nationals, the Olympia, or maybe just getting up the courage to do that first show. There are those this holiday season that will be looking back at a year filled with unbelievable goals achieved...and others that will take those same hopes and dreams from last year into 2008.
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Arnold Selections Complete
Mr. Lorimer and his crew of hard working Elves took little time off over Christmas so that they could complete the list of invitees for the Arnold Classic Weekend.
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Arnold Classic Selections Underway
Nothing in our sport creates more suspense than the Arnold Classic competitor selection process and for some very good reasons. For the fans it's the curiosity of who we will get to see on stage but for the athletes that applied, the contest began when their letters were sent to Mr. Lorimer.
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ANOTHER Internet Scam
We recently reported on two internet scams that were targeted at athletes and models in the fitness industry. This week another email has circulated that appears to be yet another scam.
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Pro Source Looking For Athletes
It’s not often that a company makes an open casting call for talent but Kelly Conklin from www.prosource.net is looking for NPC and IFBB male bodybuilders for a National ad campaign as well as female athletes and models to work their booth at expo’s and model for their photo shoots.
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American Gladiators Coming Back
In 1989 when the original American Gladiators was filmed it was a huge mega-hit and continued to be so into the 1990's until they stopped producing it in 1996. During that time the show was made successful by such IFBB stars as Ray Hollit (character name Zap for the show) , Tonya Knight (Gold), and Erica Andersch (Diamond).
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Oxygen Publisher Launches New Magazine
On the heels of his wife’s (Tosca Reno) immensely successful book the Eat Clean Diet, publishing magnate Robert Kennedy has just rolled out his latest magazine, Clean Eating. While it’s hard to imagine a magazine build entirely around clean eating when you think about it it’s something our North American culture needs more than anything, to help people cut through the confusing maze of fad diets and get down to the basics of sound nutrition.
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The Perfect Gift
Christmas is coming very soon and if you have to find something for that special man in your life and you can’t bear to look at another Affliction tee shirt, then entrepreneur Tom Price may very well have the solution.
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Nancy Georges on Gaining the Competitive Advantage
As most competitors know all to well if you want to be the best “there is no off-season”. The best time to prepare and improve for your next assault at success is the down time when some of your competition may be resting.
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Surfer Girl ~ Sonia Adcock
If you were to bring up Sonia Adcock's name in conversation two years ago you could expect most NPC figure fans, at least the male ones, to slowly glaze over with a wandering reminiscent gaze. Then a warm sunny-day smile would slowly develop only to be abruptly interrupted with the realization that she hadn't been around for a long time. "What ever happened to her" would come next, tossing her on the growing pile of would-be figure stars that have tested the waters and moved on without ever finding out how high the mountain could be.
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