Top 10 Reasons this Fall Sports Season ROCKS!

The leaves are turning. A chill is in the air. Halloween is here. Our favorite sports time of the year may be March, but this fall has been particularly interesting. The staff at SweatBeads has complied the following list of sports stories. What’s on yours?

10. High School Football – the youngsters move from regular season to their typical class state playoff formats, with perennial favorites like De La Salle High School (Concord, California) chasing a title. Who will win in your backyard?

9. College Football – the early season cup cakes are behind us, and we now approach the conference races and classic rival match ups. Forget the BCS and the endless Bowl Season. Why can’t College Football take a clue from the NCAA Basketball committee? Same reason Health Care Reform won’t happen – corporate sponsorship and lobbyists.

8. World Cup Soccer – the US Men are currently ranked #11 in the world and recently pulled off upsets over #1 Spain, Italy, and led Brazil 2-0 before falling 3-2. Big expectations for 2010 in South Africa.

7. World Gymnastics – Bridget Sloan of tiny Pittsboro, IN wins the 2009 World Gymnastics Championships and becomes 1 of 5 American women in history to be crowned World Champion!

6. NASCAR Chase Cup – Brian France at NASCAR understands the appeal of a playoff system (and big name sponsorships). Can anyone catch Jimmie Johnson?

5. Tiger – Presidents Cup, 5-0. FedEx Cup, 17 events. 14 top 10′s. $10M Bonus for winning the playoff. PGA Tour, $10.5M winnings in 18 events. What I love about this guy? Yeah, he made $20M in winnings. But he WON – week in and week out. No guaranteed contracts for dismal performance and whining. He’s simply the best.

4. NFL mid Season – the waste of a preseason is behind us and the conference races are taking shape. Favre finally succumbed this week. Congrats to the Bronchos and Kyle Orton – sometimes we all need a fresh start. Does it look like Indianapolis and New Orleans this year?

3. College Basketball Opens – Midnight Madness was on a Friday night 2 weeks ago around college campuses. 13,000+ kids show up to kickoff the hoops season at schools like IU, North Carolina, Duke, Kansas, etc. We’re looking forward to March Madness and the Final Four in Indianapolis in 2010. Will the Boilers make the short drive to Indy?

2. Ski Season Anticipation – People head to the gym (yoga, cycling, stairs) Warren Miller’s latest Masterpiece – Dynasty – and the latest ski technology advancements – all pique our collective anxiety for the first big snowfall of the year. El Nino? Bring it on!

1. MLB World Series – Philly vs. The Yanks. Baseball’s season is long but the playoffs are short and spirited. Steroids nearly wrecked A-Rod’s season, now he’s unstoppable. Anyone gotta clean pee cup? Yanks in 6.

We at SweatySports hope you and yours are enjoying the fall sports season.

The SweatBeads Staff.

SweatySports Top 10 Women’s Fall Sportswear Must Haves

Ladies, lets first talk about the Do’s & Don’ts.

Do:

• Spend wisely – choose hot gym outfits that you can also wear on a dinner date. Always look like a diva, so wear your hot gym outfit while you do laundry and run errands. Buy timeless quality classics than can be worn year after year.
• Be technologically advanced. Technically advanced products wick away sweat and odor.
• Be value conscious. Use your saved dollars for a gym membership, and
• Donate money to charity.

Don’t:

• Wear non breathable fabrics – they stink when you sweat!
• Wear orange pants.
• Wear crusty sweats. Never wear Crusty Sweats!

SweatySports Top 10 Women Fall Sportswear Must Haves reflect today’s values. Our garments reflect quality, versatility, timeless classics, technology driven, simple pleasures, green & organic, and 5% of October proceeds go to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure® Foundation. We don’t sell crusty sweats.

Must Haves:

10. Mission Playground Birds Tee, $18.00 (save $14.00)

We all need a new long sleeve tee for fall. The Birds Tee is comfy, great on the skin and is made with 100% Organic Cotton. Did you know that organic cotton is good for sensitive skin? Organic cotton is grown without chemicals, pesticides, and herbicides. Graphics are designed to promote thought about the environment. This tee can be worn with jeans or athletic pants.

9 Mission Playground Orchid Hat – $16.00 (save $8.00)

A hat is a must have for fall and Mission Playground’s Orchid Hat is irresistible and a simple pleasure! Fashionable, Organic, and designed to last. Look and feel great while running, hiking, skiing, or running errands on a cold day.

8 EKHO WM-25 Heart Rate Monitor - $79.95

Use technology to always know where you stand! EKHO Heart Rate Monitors, have designed this advanced model to allow you to enter in how many calories you want to burn during the day and as you work, walk, exercise; you can see how many calories you have left to meet your goal. The EKHO WM-25 is designed to interface with heart rate interactive exercise equipment in health clubs, and its battery is replaceable for the transmitter unit.

7. Tank – Zorrel Racer Dri-Balance Ribbed Racerback 11.50 (save$3.45)

Every woman must have an assortment of colored basic tanks. Choose tanks that are sexy buy made to sweat in. These tanks are great for high performance athletic activities, a pair of jeans, or layer under any top.

6. Anatomie Long Sleeve iPod Pocket Tee in black – $70 (save $15.00)

This tee is an investment. You will reap many rewards over & over. Every closet should have a quality made, comfortable, easy to care for long sleeve black tee. Make it sexy, performance driven, and versatile – you can carry your iPod in the convenient pocket. This tee can be worn with high heels, jeans or yoga pants!

5. One Step Ahead Hooded Zipper Jacket – $64.00

Buy a quality hoody. Timeless basic to wear to the gym, perform your sweaty outdoor sport or with jeans. Incredibly soft, 100% Coolmax lining, breathable, machine washable, and made in the USA.

4. Zorrel Striker Long Sleeve Compression Tee – $25.00 (save $.7.95)

This long sleeve tee is great as a top layer, base layer on a cold day, or under a top on a cold fall day. For the price this tee is a steal! Popularized by international sporting brands, these athletic tees, have become the norm for professional athletes, college and high school athletes, workout warriors and yoga aficionado’s.

3 One Step Ahead V-Front Bootpant – $52.00

A basic black yoga pant is essential! It is not only worn in yoga class but as streetwear.

Our customers swear by this pant. They swear that this is the easiest, most flattering pant to wear. Pant is clean-cut, simple, breathable and comfortable. Highly recommend!

2. Marika Footless Tights – $22.00

Leggings, leggings, and more leggings! They are fashionable for everyone! Not only for the teens & 20’s! Reminder of the 1980’s? Well ladies there was a reason why we could not part with them. They are comfortable! Make it technical with Coolmax gusset inserts for comfort and ease of movement. Wear it with a baggy top, dresses to cardigans or lounging around the house. Recommended for yoga, Pilates, spin, dance, step aerobics class and your casual lifestyle. For $22 you get a lot of fashion!

1. Anatomie Woven Space Jacket – $156.00 (save $33.00)

Invest in a good coat that you will look good in. This coat will last you a minimum of 3 years. Buy a coat that you can go for a sweaty run and look good on a dinner date! Remember you will be seen wearing it most of the time! Don’t go cheap. Go practical.

Ladies we hope you enjoy our Top 10 Women Fall Fashion Must Haves. Tell us what you’re wearing….

The Gals at SweatBeads

Top 10 Sports Movies of All Time

Some sports movies inspire. Others stir the emotions. Some are just funny as hell.  Here’s SweatBeads Top 10 Sports Movies of All Time:

10. Miracle (2004) – the underdog 1980 US Olympic Hockey team rises up to beat the dominant Soviets in dramatic fashion. Coach Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell) is a masterful coach and motivator. He’s despised but respected by his players. I remember watching the actual game – we ran into the streets celebrating.

9. Seabiscuit (2003) – “the long shot becomes a legend”, the undersized depression era horse shocks the establishment and becomes a rally cry for a troubled nation. Tobey Maguire, Jeff Bridges and Chris Cooper do an admirable job of portraying jockey, trainer, and owner mending their own life’s challenges through a relationship with a horse.

8. Jerry McGuire (1996) – “show me the money!!!” Tom Cruise as a sports agent with a moral compass, and his relationship with his lone client Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding, Jr.). Rene Zellweger’s great line “you had me at hello..” Even the women like this one.

7. Rudy (1993) – true life story of Daniel “Rudy” Reuttiger, a blue collar kid with dreams to play football for Notre Dame. He’s small, slow, and his grades aren’t great. This story is of how Rudy beats the odds and gets in the last game of his final season, and sacks the opposing quarterback to cheers from the stadium fans!

6. Breaking Away (1979) – True life story of Indiana University’s famed annual Little 500 cycling race and how the Cutters, a team of locals, beat the favored fraternities. Factoid: in 2004, the 25th anniversary of the film, the Cutters again won, beating out ATO. The film won an Oscar for Best Screenplay and featured Dennis Quaid.

5. Brian’s Song (1971) – all Chicago Bears fans shed a tear when watching the true life story of Brian Piccolo’s (James Caan) fight with cancer and the inter racial friendship he formed with Gale Sayers (Billie Dee Williams). Great line by Sayers while accepting the NFL’s Most Courageous Player award “I love Brian Piccolo, and I’d like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, please ask God to love him, too.” Grown men do cry.

4. Field of Dreams (1989) – “If you build it, he will come” Kevin Costner plays an Iowa farmer who hears whispers of how he can reconnect with his deceased father. Surprise! The 1919 Chicago White Sox, maligned for throwing the World Series, show up and teach Costner a few lessons.

3. Caddyshack (1980) – A cult classic before Tiger made golf mainstream. Great quotes – Chevy Chase informing Bill Murray there’s a “pool in the front, and a pond in the back”, Rodney Dangerfield telling Ted Knight’s wife “…she must’ve been something before electricity” or Chevy Chase asking Danny the Caddie “do you do drugs Danny?” Danny replies, “everyday.” Chase asks, “then what’s the problem?” Oh yeah, there’s a little golf grudge match that goes the way of the underdogs.

2. Bull Durham (1988) – Costner and baseball movies. Great dialogue and sexual tension between Costner, playing Crash Davis – an aging career-minor-leaguer, and Susan Sarandon – as Annie Savoy – a slightly askew baseball groupie. Tim Robbins plays a spirited, naive Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh – headed to “the show”. Sarandon “hooks up” with Robbins for the season and instructs him “breathe through your eye-lids”. A solid romantic, sentimental ending.

1. Hoosiers (1986) – a true life story of how tiny Milan (enrollment 161) beats larger Muncie Central for the Boys State Basketball title. True Hoosiers know the story – Indiana held a single-class tournament where all schools competed for the same championship in one of America’s largest and most popular high school tournaments until the controversial separation into enrollment classes in 1997. Gene Hackman and Dennis Hopper give memorable performances with many scenes being shot in rural gymnasiums still found throughout Indiana.

The Staff at SweatBeads wants to know what’s on your list…?

Looking Good While Sweating

At SweatySports.com we take care in offering brands from suppliers which meet our standards of technically advanced materials, fit, and function, and socially conscious materials and labor practices. As of our launch, we’re offering apparel from the following vendors:

• ANATOMIE - fashion forward and versatile active lifestyle collection. Whether for work-out or work day, ANATOMIE offers style and sophistication for today’s active trendsetter. Katalin Posztos and her team of international designers draw inspiration from the most highly regarded European fashion houses, to bring up-scale clientele an active lifestyle collection, designed to fit and flatter the female form. The key is in the European craftsmanship and the premiere French and Italian fabrics. ANATOMIE uses high performance, ultra lightweight fabrics that will not shrink or fade – with the latest in UV protection and moisture wicking and anti bacterial technology. They use 4 way stretch wovens for extra comfort and versatility, for some of the most dynamic bottoms in the industry.

• Marika – Marika, a brand offered by Rock Fit, a privately held global apparel manufacturer specializing in women’s fashionable and functional active wear.  Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Commerce, California, Rock Fit proudly remains family owned and operated. Their products range from from cutting edge fashion to value essentials, all featuring the highest in quality and dependability.  They established their legacy and distinguished themselves from the competition by designing fitness and active clothing with a feminine sensibility for fit, style, and fashion.
• Mission Playground – Mission Playground is a conscious, eco-friendly lifestyle clothing company for men, women and children with an objective to raise awareness for the environment. Their motto, ” The earth is our playground; our mission is to preserve it.”  This philosophy underlies their operations, from design to production to distribution. Through progressive design, globally mindful art and production practices, they are constantly mindful of the impact they have and want to share that with you. This means using sustainable materials whenever and wherever possible.
• One Step Ahead – One Step Ahead has grown from a small family-owned design house to a leading manufacturer of high quality life style apparel for women. Using the finest quality fabrics available, they develop functional yet stylish garments that address the many needs of today’s active woman. They offer a wide selection of active sportswear, perfect for everything from attending a YOGA or PILATE class, working out at the gym, biking or mountain climbing. They also feature casual and street-inspired outerwear for everyday activities, such as shopping and lounging with friends. Each season, One Step Ahead offers high quality, easy care clothing you will love to live in! All garments are manufactured at their factory in San Francisco, CA.
• Zorrel – Apparel from Zorrel is designed to look and feel great, whether it’s worn biking down a mountain trail, rafting through whitewater, playing a round of golf or simply shopping for groceries. Their garments are stylish enough to wear to a business meeting or an evening out on the town. You will always look your best. That’s why they call it “performance wear for anywhere.”

Whether you’re trying to look good while you sweat at the gym or catch a look while running errands, we hope you’ll enjoy the brands we’ve selected.

As always, if you have any feedback or suggestions for additional brands we should consider, drop us a note.

Good Luck in all you do!

The Team at SweatySports.com

SweatySports.com launches!

SweatySports.com has launched a new online site offering technically advanced products for the sports enthusiast. The site offers Men’s and Women’s sportswear,  footwear, athletic gear, and fitness information for runners, cyclists, yogis, gym rats, team sports participants, and spectators alike.

SweatBeads will be discussing topics related to sports, products, fitness and wellness trends, and issues our followers consider of interest.

Good luck in all you do!

The SweatBeads Staff