Paralympics 2012 – weird and wonderful titles

Aug 302012
 

Today is the start of competition in the London 2012 Paralympics. To mark this occasion here are some weird and wonderful titles covering the various Paralympics sports, as well a couple of titles on this year’s Paralympics Games. Can you guess which sports the titles refer to? All answers can be found in SUNCAT. We wish Team GB the very best of luck during the next 11 days.

  • The egg chaser.
  • Wooden Spoon Society rugby world.
  • Nock-nock.
  • The Athlete : he who strives / edited by Capt. F. A. M. Webster.
  • Autumn tints newsletter.
  • Bike to the future newsletter.
  • Alotta balls.
  • The May bee.
  • Hello Sea Lions!! The official organ of the first and only international league of young swimmers (Young Swimmers’ League). no. 1-4, 6. Feb., April-June, Aug., 1937.
  • The Tadpole.
  • Touché!
  • Musketeers news.
  • Tennis & fashion.
  • Topspin.
  • Muzzle blasts.
  • S.O. alive!
  • Sports ’n spokes.
  • Matside.
  • Relax, etc.
  • Maple Street Press Wildcat tip-off.
  • XXL basketball.
  • The Spiker.
  • London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games annual report.
  • Olympic and Paralympic Games 2012 related Internet sites.

For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT football fanzines blog posts.

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Olympic Games – Other weird and wonderful sporting titles

Aug 122012
 

This is the fourteenth and last in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful titles from a variety of sports not already covered in our series, as well as some more general sporting titles. London 2012 has been a wonderful event and the most successful ever for Team GB. Roll on the Paralympics, which starts on the 29th August! 

  • The Annals of sporting and fancy gazette a magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects
  • Bicycle Journal, Swimming and General Athletic & Pedestrian Recorder.
  • The Annals of sporting and fancy gazette: a magazine, entirely appropriated to sporting subjects and fancy pursuits; containing everything worthy of remark on hunting, shooting, coursing, racing, fishing, cocking, pugilism, wrestling, singlestick, pedestrianism, cricket, billiards, rowing, sailing, etc., accompanied with striking representations of the various subjects.
  • The Scottish umpire : a journal devoted to out-door sports : football, cricket, cycling, lawn tennis, swimming & rowing.
  • Ixion, a journal of velocipeding, athletics and aerostatics.
  • The Wide Awake : A journal of athletics, football and cycling and competition index.
  • The Sporting Globe : A weekly journal dealing with the turf, finance, theatre, athletics, etc.
  • 3Touch volleyball.
  • Britvic national volleyball league / English Volleyball Association.
  • Jersey Shore volleyball : JSVB.
  • On the line: Welsh Volleyball Association newsletter.
  • Performance conditioning for volleyball : a newsletter dedicated to improving the volleyball player.
  • Thumper / Alberta Volleyball Association.
  • Dig : beach volleyball life.
  • BMX snap.
  • Dig BMX.
  • Invert : street, vert and dirt
  • Terps today : water polo [program].
  • Water polo scoreboard.  
  • International journal of table tennis sciences.
  • Spin : official magazine of the U.S. Table Tennis Association / United States Table Tennis Association.
  • Topping : national team bulletin of the Canadian Table Tennis Association = bulletin de l’équipe nationale de l’Association canadienne de tennis de table.
  • TopAce : Irish handball annual.
  • Killshot.
  • Back flip gymnastics magazine
  • Flying squirrels: all-American gymnastics newsletter.
  • Science of Gymnastics Journal
  • Sport rhythmika : the official publication of the Alberta Rhythmic Sportive Gymnastics Federation.
  • Grasp : the technical journal of the British Amateur Gymnastics Association.
  • Official AAU trampoline and tumbling handbook.
  • Mademoiselle gymnast.
  • Zot van gym!
  • 2006 2011 World Outlook for Horizontal and Parallel Bars Balance Beams Trampolines Wrestling and Other Gymnasium Mats and Gymnasium
  • 3 go triathlon.
  • The series : the official pre-season program of The … Bud Light U.S. Triathlon Series.
  • Transition : the official magazine of The London Triathlon Ltd.
  • The loon : lovely old OUMPA newsletter.
  • The Bazaar Book of Hockey … By A Past International. Illustrated.
  • Oldtimers hockey news.
  • Roseberry Ladies Hockey Club Sunday Invitation League match reports and results.
  • Sticks : the monthly magazine for Kent Hockey.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Also watch out for a post on how SUNCAT was searched to find all these great Olympic Games titles.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful athletics titles

Aug 112012
 

This is the thirteenth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful athletics titles. There have been some wonderful performances by athletes at the Olympic Stadium. Olympic history has been made, with Kenya’s David Rudisha who broke his own world record to claim Olympic gold in the 800m, and Usain Bolt who is the first man ever to win the Olympic Games sprint double twice in succession. And who can forget the night when three British athletes – Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Mo Farrah – won gold?  Good luck to the British athletes for today and tomorrow.

  • The ’Athletics arena’ athletics cartoon book.
  • Athletics employment weekly.
  • The Athlete : he who strives / edited by Capt. F. A. M. Webster.
  • The ’Athletics weekly’ file on Sebastian Coe & Steve Ovett / compiled and edited by Mel Watman.
  • Backtrack : newsletter of the British Athletics Supporters Club.
  • Florida running : official publication of the Florida Athletics [Congress].
  • Jayhawks, inside Kansas athletics.
  • Library of ancient athletics.
  • Pirates’ chest : a publication devoted exclusively to East Carolina athletics.
  • The R.A.P. : (Recreation,athletics,pleasure.).
  • The … crimson review : the annual photographic review of Indiana University athletics.
  • Tibet Athletics
  • Computerized world ranking list of best athletes and absolut [sic] world ranking list.
  • Faster, higher, stronger : FHS
  • Fire sport : the magazine of the Fire Services Sport and Athletics Association.
  • The Georgia bulldog.
  • How to organise and conduct a Sports Meeting. (How to organise and control an athletics meetings.).
  • Inside the Auburn Tigers.
  • Longhorn scoreboard.
  • The Scots Athlete : to stimulate interest, to develop enthusiasm and to encourage sportsmanship in Scotland / edited by Walter J. Ross.
  • Spikes.
  • Webfoot line : the magazine of Oregon sports.
  • The Winged foot.
  • Women’s Athletics : the magazine for the outdoor girl.
  • The Spearhead : newsletter of the Javelin Class Association, Inc.
  • Chaseform annual : jumping season complete record of all steeplechasing and hurdling in Great Britain.
  • Asian runner, incorporating On & on : fitness, nutrition, health.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful sailing titles

Aug 102012
 

This is the twelfth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful sailing titles. The men and women are in action in the 470 medal race. Good luck to Hannah Mills, Sasha Clark, Luke Patience and Stuart Bithell. Let’s hope that the conditions in Weymouth Bay and Portland Harbour are excellent! Also congratulations to Ben Ainslie for winning Gold and being the most successful sailor in Olympic Games history.

  • Afloat : sailing, motorboating, watersports.
  • All at sea : Britain’s waterfront newspaper.
  • Admiralty sailing directions.
  • Blue water sailing.
  • Cork Dry Gin sailing annual.
  • Gam on lake sailing.
  • Good old boat.
  • Journal of the Little Ship Club.
  • The News from the Port Hole.
  • Folkboat …
  • Ireland afloat.
  • Making waves : the newsletter of the Jubilee Sailing Trust.
  • Sailing and where to anchor.
  • Sailing directions (enroute) for the English Channel
  • Texas sailing.
  • Getting afloat / compiled in conjunction with the Ship and Boat Builders’ National Federation.
  • No quarter given.
  • Sailing with spirit.
  • The Shallow water sailor.
  • Spyglass.
  • Sailing cruisers under £4,500
  • Scots n’ water.
  • Multihulls.
  • The Nelson touch
  • Build the Endeavour : the voyage of Captain Cook : construct your scale-model of Captain Cook’s ship and follow his journey of exploration.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful basketball titles

Aug 092012
 
This is the eleventh in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful basketball titles, of which there are many! There is no longer any British representation, but both the men’s and women’s matches taking place over the next few days will nevertheless be thrilling.
  • The Basketball clinic.
  • Basketball crosswords.
  • The Basketball minder.
  • Basketball sense.
  • Big 12 basketball handbook.
  • Clarks Mens Shoes National Basketball League : [rules and fixtures].
  • Cyclone basketball / Iowa State.
  • Dick Vitale’s basketball.
  • Drew’s news in college basketball.
  • Fantasy basketball digest.
  • HoopScoop : NCAA Division III men’s basketball.
  • hangTIME : the official newsletter of the Basketball Association of Wales.
  • Hoosier tip-off : an annual guide to Indiana basketball.
  • Knicks fans’ ultimate factbook.
  • Martin Manley’s basketball heaven.
  • Musselman’s original pro basketball scouting handbook.
  • Oscar Combs’ big blue basketball.
  • Orange tip-off : an annual guide to Syracuse basketball.
  • Rick Barry’s pro basketball bible.
  • XXL basketball.
  • Blue Devil tip-off.
  • Hanna-Barbera Harlem Globetrotters.
  • In the paint : the official magazine of the Basketball Hall of Fame.
  • Info basket.
  • Rip City magazine.
  • Rotisserie league basketball.
  • Blue Devil weekly.
  • Fadeaway.
  • Train your game
  • X’s & o’s
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful canoeing & kayaking titles

Aug 082012
 

This is the tenth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful canoeing and kayaking titles. There are a number of finals taking place today, including those of the men’s K1 1,000m canoe sprint and the women’s kayak four 500m. SUNCAT wishes the British competitors, including Tim Brabants, Richard Jefferies and Rachel Cawthorn, the best of luck.

  • Adventures in canoeing, kayaking, whitewater rafting.
  • Algonquin Provincial Park canoe routes.
  • Che-Mun : the newsletter of Canadian wilderness canoeing.
  • CRACK : the newsletter of the Campaign for River Access for Canoes and Kayaks
  • The ripple : newsletter for the MRCA.
  • The American Canoeist and Single-hand Cruiser. vol. 7. no. 1. June 1888.
  • Beaver dam : the newsletter of the Wilderness Canoe Association.
  • Canoe and Small Boat Recreation.
  • The canoeist, or, Chronicles of the Canoe Club.
  • Paddles up / Canadian Canoe Association = Association canadienne de canotage.Wooden canoe.
  • Canoeing, rowing and rapids-shooting in Finland.
  • The journal of the Kanawa International Museum of Canoes, Kayaks and Rowing Craft.
  • The … complete guide to kayak touring.
  • Newsletter [of the Wild Water Kayak Club]. no. 1 (June 1964)-11 (22 Feb. 1969).
  • Paddles past : journal of the Historic Canoe and Kayak Association.
  • Playboating.
  • Sea kayaker.
  • Splashout : O.U. Canoe and Kayak Club newsletter.
  • Folding kayaker.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful weightlifting, wrestling & boxing titles

Aug 072012
 

This is the ninth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful weightlifting, wrestling and boxing titles. All these sports are taking place today at the ExCel venue in London. Good luck to all the British competitors!

  • Vigour. Incorporating The World of Weights and The London and District Weight-Lifting League Bulletin. Official organ of The British Amateur Weight-Lifters’ Association. Vol. 1. no. 1-Vol. 11. no. 12. 1946-Dec. 1955.
  • Muscle Culture. Body-building, weightlifting, gymnastics. no. 1. 1951-no. 6. 1952.
  • New series. (Incorporating Mr. Universe.) no. 2-13.
  • The World of Weights. The official gazette of the B.A.W.L.A., etc. vol. 1. no. 1-vol. 2. no. 7.
  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Belts, Benches, Weights & Other Free Weight Lifting Equipment
  • The Boxing & Wrestling Mirror.
  • High school wrestling rules.
  • Capt. Lou Albano’s wrestling classics.
  • International journal of wrestling science
  • The journal of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame & Museum.
  • Krozor the world wrestling federation in cosmic conflict.
  • Merlin’s WWF superstars.
  • Music, music and dancing, cinematograph, stage plays, boxing and wrestling licenses and Sunday cinematograph licences and permissions and Sunday musical entertainment licences granted by the Council.
  • Toxxxic wrestling.
  • Vito Brancato’s midwest wrestling bulletin.
  • World Wrestling Federation battlemania.
  • Wrestling all stars, heroes & villains.
  • Wrestling Mat Review.
  • Wrestling fury.
  • Wrestling eye.
  • Boxing bonanza.
  • Boxing superstars and superfights.
  • Boxing World and Mirror of Life.
  • Boxing Yarns.
  • Brit power.
  • Fighting fit.
  • Hugman’s international boxing annual.
  • “Sport Pictures” Boxing Handbook. A record of boxing from the earliest times.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful shooting titles

Aug 062012
 
This is the eighth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful shooting titles. Today is the last day of competition in this discipline. Congratulations to Peter Wilson who won a gold medal last week in the men’s double trap, and good luck to the British competitors for today.
  • Cape Colony Shooting Gazette and Colonial Forces’ Record Vol. 1. no. 1 March 1906.
  • CLASS / Canadian Ladies Association of Shooting Sports.
  • The cowboy chronicle : the monthly journal of the Single Action Shooting Society.
  • Engage : local news for the London 2012 shooting and Paralympic archery venue / Olympic Delivery
  • Forest and Stream: A Journal of Outdoor Life, Travel, Nature Study, Shooting, Fishing, Yachting
  • Insight : the shooting quarterly.
  • Musketry and shooting calendar for 1901.
  • Irish rod & gun / sail’n power
  • The target : the official publication of the North Dakota Shooting Sports Association.
  • Trap & field.
  • Powder & brass : the journal for the Welsh shooter.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful badminton and tennis titles

Aug 052012
 

This is the seventh in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful badminton and tennis titles. Today is the last day of competition for both disciplines. Come on Andy Murray (twice!) and Laura Robson.

  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Badminton, Paint Ball, Racquetball, Squash & Table Tennis Equipment & Traditional & Clamp-On Roller Skates..
  • First seed.
  • The Encyclopaedia of badminton skills
  • The shuttler.
  • Entrefilet.
  • Shuttle talk : newsletter.
  • Smash : newsletter of the N.B.B.A.
  • 2006-2011 World Outlook for Tennis Equipment Excluding Apparel, Nets & Shoes
  • Addvantage.
  • Friend at court : United States Tennis Association officials handbook.
  • The racquet.
  • Tennis talk.
  • Tennishead.
  • University of Florida … gator tennis.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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Olympic Games – Weird and wonderful judo and taekwondo titles

Aug 042012
 

This is the sixth in the series of blog posts dedicated to London 2012 Olympic Games events. Today it is the turn of weird and wonderful judo and taekwondo titles, with a few more general martial arts titles thrown in! Congratulations to Gemma Gibbons for winning a silver medal and Karina Bryant for winning bronze. Good luck to the GB taekwondo competitors, who will start their campaign on Wednesday.

  • Famous judo throws
  • Judo Joe.
  • Ontario judoka : the official publication of the Ontario Judo Black Belt Association.
  • Judo Ron
  • Black belt international.
  • Fighting fit.
  • Masters of combat.
  • Train hard fight easy.
  • Way of the warrior : philosophy, traditions & practices of the world’s fighting arts.
  • Sobre taekwondo
  • The Way of taekwondo.
  • Martial arts. Best of grappling.
  • Martial arts illustrated : today’s magazine for the serious martial artist.
For more sporting serials and other weird and wonderful titles take a look in SUNCAT. Watch out for the next instalment of the SUNCAT Olympics blog posts.
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