Author Archives: Bobby Roberts

Make Your Beach Vacation Active

For some people, a beach vacation is a chance to do nothing. However, if lazing around on a sunbed isn’t your idea of fun, there are plenty of more active ways to spend a vacation by the coast. Here are just ideas of ways in which you can make your beach vacation more active.

Play beach games

Beach games can be a great way to spend a day at the beach – especially if you’ve got kids. Volleyball and soccer are great option if you’ve got a ball. Alternatively, you may be able to try some ultimate frisbee. There are also beach mini golf sets that you can buy (many beaches have their own mini golf courses too).

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4 Easy Ways To Improve Your Guitar Playing

It doesn’t matter if you’re somewhat a novice or a more experienced guitarist, the likelihood is that if you have a passion for your craft, you’ll want to better yourself. Sometimes when you get into a set routine with your playing, it can be tough to know how to shake things up. Never fear, here come a few ideas to ensure you see fast results! 

 Keep it fresh 

When you’ve got your fav tunes learnt and perfected, it’s easy to get into habits of repeating yourself each time you practice. It’s vital to learn by repetition and keep up your craft, yet if you want to advance further, make sure that you learn something new every day. It doesn’t have to be an entire song, of course; it could be one new chord, a strum pattern, a new technique or piece of advice from a trusted source. If you ensure that you are keeping it fresh with new things all the time, you’ll become quickly become more of a versatile and rounded guitarist. 

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The Real Reasons Esports Are Taking Over

As a bona fide sports fan, you love the rough and tumble of watching and playing real sports. There’s nothing like getting the guys together and shouting at the TV, or trying to put new knowledge into practice. So, the idea of esports might not strike a chord. Isn’t it a load of nerds playing video games? Although it started that way, the industry has morphed into something much bigger, something that is rivaling the world of traditional sports.

Here are the reasons behind its rise. Get ready to see a lot more of them in the future because these The Motley Fool stats don’t lie.

They’re Not Elitist

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WWE’s Cruiserweight Classic – Where Are They Now?

It’s been three years since the WWE aired its Cruiserweight Classic tournament on the WWE Network. It was meant to give fans some nostalgia of the great Cruiserweight matches on WCW. All-time greats like Rey Mysterio, Eddie Guerrero, Ultimo Dragon and others helped WCW feel different than WWF, which then almost exclusively featured large, hulking wrestlers.

The Cruiserweight Classic was critically-loved as the action was high-flying and some stuff was never seen on a WWE-branded product before this tournament. The actual streaming numbers aren’t known, but it helped launch the new cruiserweight division. 

Many of the wrestlers in this tournament have went on to have careers in WWE and a few have gained stardom elsewhere.

Where are the Cruiserweight Classic wrestlers now? 

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The Sports Betting Tips You Need In Your Life

Obviously, sports betting has its highs and lows. You can never 100% guarantee that you’ll see success, but there is a right and wrong way to go about betting. The wrong way is being completely careless and not having any strategy at all. Here, you pretty much just bet on impulse, and you’ll blow money down the drain. 

The right way involves a little bit of structure and strategy, so there’s less chance of you suffering huge losses. With that in mind, here are some of the best sports betting tips you need to know:

Always use secure payment methods

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Stop Gigging From Ruining Your Health

Going to gigs is a great hobby. Who doesn’t love seeing their idols on stage? There’s nothing quite like the thrill of live music and seeing your favorite band play, but do you ever think about your health when you’re going to gig after gig? It could have an impact on your future.

Stop gigging from ruining your health with the following tips.

Protect your ears

Hearing music live is an incredible feeling, but it’s not always great for your hearing – especially if you prefer to be at the front of the room. While it might not affect you much right now, too many nights of live music could harm your hearing in the future. 

There are different things you can do to protect your hearing at a gig, including wearing ear protection. If signs of tinnitus (ringing in your ears) start appearing, you’ll want to look at hearing aid solutions for people with tinnitus to help ease your symptoms. Try standing back from it all once in a while, and give your ears a long break between gigs.

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Sports Psychologists Show You How To Dominate In Any Sport

If you’ve ever put yourself in the shoes of a superstar sports personality, you can’t help but conclude that they are exceptionally mentally tough people. The basketball player who can shoot a flawless penalty basket; the tennis player who can hold his nerve in a tie-break, and the athletics champion who can bring their A-game to a crowd of screaming fans – it all requires psychological toughness. You could have the most skilled sportsperson on the training ground, but if they don’t have the mental fortitude to perform at their best when it counts, then they’ll forever fail.

Sports psychologists have spent decades studying the world’s top athletes to find out how they think differently from the average person. Superstars don’t arrive at the top of a sport by chance: they get in a mental place that allows them to dominate the game and come out on top as the victor. What are their secrets? And how can you apply them in your own life? 

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Hobbies to Try Out if You’re Stressed or Anxious

Every now and again you will get to a point where you have just had enough. Whether work is frustrating you or home life is hectic, you’re bound to get stressed or anxious from time to time. Luckily, there are a number of ways in which you can relieve your stresses and try out a new hobby. You could play the ukelele, head out onto the sports field or take up cooking; there are so many different activities that will relieve your stresses and bring a smile to your face. Consider some of the following hobbies and you will always have a go-to stress reliever at hand.

Golf

There is something calming about the wide, green, open space of a golf course. As long as you have the right equipment, you don’t really need anything else to take up this hobby. Check out your local country club and make sure you look into the best lightweight golf bags. Golf could be a new sport that you take up on the weekends or when you feel particularly stress.  Strike that ball from the tee and all of your worries will fly away with it!

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Mobile Phones – Changing The Face Of Gaming

The mobile phone. What once was a giant brick, with the capability to make bad phone calls, and cost a fortune, is now a handheld computer. They are, in fact, faster than the atari from back in the day. So it is little wonder that the mobile gaming market has been racing along the rainbow road of the gaming market – and leaving consoles in the dust. 

The global gaming market, as a whole, is worth more than $120 billion. Mind-boggling – but what is even more of an achievement is the mobile gaming market accounts for $55 billion. 

Big numbers.

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2019 NBA Draft – Best Undrafted Players

The 2019 NBA Draft is two rounds and consists of just 60 picks, so not every good college basketball player will hear his name called. Many NBA teams opt to select players with a higher upside and some of those picks are foreign players they wish to just stash overseas.

There are still some very good players left to either sign for an NBA team’s Summer League spot in hopes of catching on with a team. Most will probably end up in the Gatorade League or play overseas.

Guys like Fred VanVleet and Jeremy Lin won an NBA title this year and they went undrafted in their respective draft classes.

I’m sure people who love ‘their team’ always wonder why the star of their college team didn’t even play a single minute in the NBA.

This is not the end of the road for these players. There are many undrafted players in the NBA, so a few of these guys will still make their dreams come true in the future.

Here are the best undrafted players not selected in the 2019 NBA Draft.

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2019 NBA Draft – Sweetbob’s Mock Draft

We don’t usually do mock drafts on the site, but we do them when a draft class is this darn stacked.

There are players in this year’s draft class that will be taken after the Lottery and will make instant impacts for their teams. There are even guys who were Lottery pick locks just a month ago, but are now slotted to go in the 20’s. There are also some young talents who suffered injuries last season (Bol Bol) and are tumbling down draft boards.

The first three picks are almost a certainty (even though I think there’s a chance #3 could be a Wild-Card), but after that trio, it could be a wild ride. There are also some teams picking early in the draft who are shopping their picks, so that could change things even more.

Here is our 2019 NBA Mock Draft.

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Sweetbob’s Hipster Music Playlist: June 2019

It’s been quite awhile since I compiled a good ole’ music playlist. I was just hammered during the football season and I’ve been focusing on a side gig I’ve been building up since the Winter. It’s going well, but I’ve really been meaning to make an indie music playlist this month.

This playlist was super easy to make as I have a ton of new stuff sitting in a few Spotify and YouTube playlists that I throw songs onto that I want to save. The playlist is definitely a banger this month.

I always keep an ear out for new music. I love discovering new bands/songs, it’s a habit from my days as a music journalist. Even though this is mostly a sports blog, I still add quite a bit of music and pop culture content. Keep sending me tracks via email or Twitter.

If you want to listen to songs that appeared on past playlists, you can listen to our playlist on Spotify or go here to view our past hipster playlists.

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