All posts tagged "Hot Topics"

• Catching Up With the New and Old Seasons

  Well, whew, the December IRON MAN is at the printer at last, and it’s catch-up time. Since I did not get...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanOctober 5, 2011
• Sass vs. Crass

  I could not sleep last night. At 4 a.m. a song I haven’t thought about in a long, long time was...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanApril 30, 2010
• Fitness Olympia-"Bring Me the Head of Adela Garcia."

  If the above obscure film reference isn’t what Tracey Greenwood and the rest of the gang are chanting as they head...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 17, 2009
• Ms. Olympia—Will Kyle Stay in Style?

  Duh. Would You Bet Against Iris Kyle’s earning her fifth Ms. Olympia crown on September 25 at the Orleans Arena in...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 17, 2009
• Figure Olympia—Not So Easy to Figure

  I’m looking at a photo of the top five finishers from the ’08 Figure Olympia, thinking about predicting the winner of...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 17, 2009
• No Damper in Tampa

  Always catching up here in the IM Hollywood office. Though the Pro Bodybuilding Weekly—a.k.a. Tampa Pro—Women’s Bodybuilding Championship was the female-physique...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanAugust 19, 2009
• Itsy-Bitsy Subject

  It’s an open secret that the NPC is talking about adding a bikini division to its full range of women’s physique...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanNovember 4, 2008
• Wan Hot Babe Among Many

  For those who feel that the 35-and-over age requirement for masters in the women’s physique sports is a little low, consider...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanSeptember 21, 2008
• Europa Flexers—Sedia and Smith Do the Texas Two-Step

  For a quiet gal, Jennifer Sedia causes a lot of upset. Like her upset, they-gave-it-to-the-middleweight? overall victory at the ’07 NPC...

  Blog PostRuth SilvermanAugust 20, 2008