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Best Sports Gear & Games for the Holidays

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Sporting enthusiasts come in all shapes and sizes. From hockey to baseball to NASCAR to golf, merchandising companies are finding ways to give fans something they all can enjoy. Especially around Christmas time and the holidays, the stores sell variety of merchandise so their clientele can show support for their favorite teams. Other types of fan gear, accessories and apparel are available online and in stores. Choose the team and then personalize the item. The ideas are endless!

These days, the online variety of gifts and activities for sports fans, including live betting at Betsson, can actually be overwhelming if you are want to give your sports enthusiast a gift. Here’s a roundup of the best gifts for sports fans of 2013:

*Fantasy Football Apps – Fantasy Football fanatics are crazy about the new apps available for their smart phones and tablets. Apps are convenient and easy to use. Players can download the app, start building their teams and play against friends and family. These special apps allow people to play almost anywhere there is a viable internet connection.

*Jackets and Jerseys – Starter has brought back their signature satin jackets. Along with the many jerseys and other types of sporting apparel they offer, showing team spirit has never been easier or as fashionable.

*Racing Shotgun – Each year, many NASCAR drivers offer their fans a chance to ride shotgun for a few laps around the track at their hometown raceway. This is an ideal gift for the NASCAR fan who has more memorabilia than they know what to do with. A chance to circle the track with their favorite driver is a once in a lifetime experiences most individuals would love to take a shot at. Many drivers look forward to meeting their fans and sharing a portion of their world with them.

*Baseball Trading Card Fever – For decades baseball trading cards were all the rage. Children and adults collected trading cards and traded them with their friends. For small children trading cards were more valuable than money and were often used to trade for items among friends. For awhile, the popularity of baseball cards began to fall by the wayside. In recent years, trading cards have made a comeback. Vintage cards have found a resurgence in popularity among parents and grandparents who remember the fun and excitement associated with finding the one card they have been searching for.

*NBA League Pass – Basketball fans who can’t always make it to the game would enjoy an NBA League Pass. These packages allow the holder to be able to watch every game a team plays from the comfort of their own home. Similar packages are available for other sports as well, including hockey, football and NASCAR races.. League Pass packages turn the old tailgate party into an indoor party for family and friends to enjoy each others company and cheer on the home team.

Authentic signed helmets, tailgate party baskets and an unlimited number of items designed to promote team spirit offer support for the home team are available for almost every kind of sporting event, team or activity. Items that are endorsed by a team make excellent gifts that show the recipient their love of the game is truly appreciated.

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“Homeland” wraps up controversial 3rd season

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Spoiler Alert!! Don’t read on if you haven’t watched the “Homeland” Season 3 Finale!!

Season 3 of “Homeland” has wrapped up, and many critics and fans haven’t been kind to the show. That’s not suprising, as it was hard to imagine an end to the Carrie/Brody storyline that would make all fans happy. That said, the entire season was a bit of a letdown after the first two spectacular seasons. The writers in one sense should be applauded for coming up with a plot centered on Iran that mirrored some of the events we’re seeing unfold in real life. Still, the entire season seemed forced. It’s as if they faced the “what’s next?” dilemma at the end of season 2. They had to create an entirely new drama and story centered around Brody being on the run. They also tried to keep Dana Brody and the rest of his family as part of the story, but that seemed a bit forced as well.

“Homeland” may be one of those shows that needs to have a very limited run.

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Sports Betting in the Movies infographic

Movie, sports and betting fans have one thing in common – they all enjoy a good sports gambling movie. Who can forget films like “Eight Men Out” which chronicled the 1919 Black Sox Scandal and starred John Cusack and rebel-rouser Charlie Sheen or fictional films like the Al Pacino and Matthew McConaughey football thriller “Two For The Money”? Sports handicapping flicks make movie and casual sports fans wonder “can that actually happen?” while bettors believe “one day – that will be me”. The “sports betting in the movies” infographic below is for your entertainment – enjoy!

Sports Betting In The Movies

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Getting Back On The Road After A Road Accident

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After you have been injured in an accident, it can be difficult to get reengaged and back onto the road. It’s ironic, but people who are careful and considerate drivers tend to struggle the most. If they were driving at the time of the crash, they will inevitably ask themselves over and over again if there was something they could have done to prevent it, especially if others were hurt.
Then, there are the natural effects of injury. When you have been hurt in a violent accident, you become more sensitive to risk. For some, this is a much-needed reality check. For others, it can be a paralysing fear that prevents them from doing what they need to in order to navigate their lives, as they must, in a car.

Road accidents cause psychological trauma

An Australian study looked at psychological disorders related to road accidents, using data from the mid-1990s. The study found that 5.7 percent of people who had been involved in road accidents developed clinically defined Acute Anxiety Disorder, 6.6 percent acquired a specific phobia of driving and 13.1 percent were diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It seems safe to assume that untreated and sub-clinical cases are even more widespread. In fact, speaking to people who have been involved in road accidents will reveal the truth. There are almost always psychological consequences, but they are most often dealt with privately.

Give yourself time to recover

If you have been injured in a road accident, then give yourself time to heal both physically and mentally. It will be easier to get back to normal once you’ve recovered from injuries or adjusted to any permanent changes in your body. Do your physical therapy exercises. Stay as active as you can. When you do go back to work, take it easy on yourself for a while. Concentrate on getting well.

Beat the fear

When you get back behind the wheel, do whatever you need to in order to feel safer, and whatever you need to in order to understand and accept the real risk involved in driving. People often avoid thinking about the dangers they know are associated with driving, but accident victims are very aware of those risks. Accept them and do what you can to minimise them. Perhaps lessons in defensive driving would help. Many road accident victims who were previously aggressive drivers find that switching to a more conservative style makes them feel safer.

Young drivers and road accidents

There’s a reason for the high cost of young drivers insurance. Young people do not have enough driving experience to adequately gauge and mitigate the risks associated with being on the road. They have watched chase scenes and races on television, they are not used to picking up and responding to cues from other drivers, and they do not have a clear idea of how serious the consequences of their actions can be. If you’re a young driver and you have been involved in an accident, then you can find yourself moving from an overly carefree attitude to paralysing fear. You will have to find a middle road, and it may take some work, including a large dose of self-awareness.

Finally, if the trauma from a car accident is affecting your ability to drive, to focus or to live happily, then seek psychological treatment. Flashbacks, fear of driving, anxiety and even depression are common in road accident survivors, and medical professionals can help.

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How to Design the Perfect ManCave

In the modern world, manhood has largely been relegated to the outdoors and a few sports arenas. However, in a house that has been man-built and maintained, there needs to be a space for unbridled masculinity. The following is how to build the perfect manly refuge amidst the nooks, the obsessive color coordination and the bay windows of modern life.

Step 1: Understand the Area

There’s a certain amount of space you can use, and that’s what you’ve got for the time being. Trying to get a space to be something it’s not is like lying about your heritage — it’s embarrassing and it won’t help you with anything. When you reconcile with the space you’ve got, clean it out and take a good look at what you have to work with. This is your new canvas, and you are its artist.

Step 2: Decide What Your Theme is Going to Be

The great thing about a space that’s all for you is that it can be whatever you want it to be. If you love cars, it can be your personal auto shop. If you’re big into woodworking, it’s all about the saws and sanders.

The number of possible themes is as limitless as are your potential interests. No matter what your hobbies may be, these will create and populate your cave’s theme. The better defined your theme is in your mind, the better you will be able to make it work in real life.

Step 3: Color the Place, but in a Manly Way

Color coordination isn’t solely a lady’s domain. As great as it is to kick back in a testosterone-infused paradise of relaxed social etiquette, the place doesn’t have to look like a sloppy mess. Your mancave can actually look very refined and visually powerful by keeping your color scheme tight and controlled.

This tightness and control can be a relaxing element that shows off your confidence. Naturally, your color scheme doesn’t have to come from the Martha Stewart catalog. Your colors can be road-cone orange, jet black and chrome, just so long as it suits you.

Step 4: Keep the Light Reasonable

The use of light can wash out a space or make it just bright enough to be useful for what you want to do therein. To start with, keep natural light controlled. You can use Roman blinds from the TheShadeStore.com to stay in control of outdoor light interference, and from there you can choose how much artificial light you want to use. Using long fluorescent lights down the center and sides of the ceiling usually provides plenty of illumination for just about anything.

Step 5: Manage the Space

Once you have the space mapped out, properly lit and equipped with a theme, you need to make sure that everything you want to do in there is actually possible. Will a pool table, full woodshop, auto shop and Olympic gym fit into a 10-foot square space? Quite possibly not. Know your limits and make sure everything fits with room to move around.

Building your mancave is an exciting creative endeavor. Just make sure you don’t trip up on a tiny detail.

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