Thursday, May 20, 2010

A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

The beauty of digital photography is you can store pictures—lots of pictures—pretty much anywhere you want: on your computer, online, or just on the memory card physically stored away somewhere. Long gone are the days of shoeboxes stuffed with photographs and stacked in a closet somewhere.

Sporting events simply lend themselves to photographs. Event participants often like to have visual keepsakes from the experience, and you never know when you might capture that great-game moment that so often happens in sports.

And if you happen to capture one of those great sporting moments during a sports event in the Gulf Shores/Orange Beach area, you can post the pictures in the Alabama Gulf Coast Sports Commission’s website for others to see.

Click here to view our photo gallery and submit your own photos.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

May Variety

When it comes to sports, we do it all down here along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. This month is a great example, with Taekwondo, baseball/softball, tennis, and basketball all on the calendar for May.

The Eastern Shore Taekwondo Invitational is scheduled to take place May 14th to 16th at the Orange Beach Recreation Center. This event will feature senior level black belt testing and promotion, as well as Taekwondo competitions for children, teens, adults, and seniors.

Then, three softball/baseball tournaments will take place between May 15th and May 30th: the 2010 Global Sports Sandlot Shootout Baseball Tournament (May 15th and 16th at the Orange Beach Sportsplex), the St. Jude Softball Tournament (May 15th at the Gulf Shores Sportsplex), and Alabama NSA Memorial Day at the Beach (May 28th to 30th at the Gulf Shores Sportsplex and Orange Beach Sportsplex).

In between all of this activity is the Orange Beach NTRP Combo Classic, which will involve more than 80 tennis players competing for the win from May 21st to 23rd, and the 3rd Annual Youth Basketball of America Gulf Coast Challenge on May 28th to 30th, which will take place at Gulf Shores High School Gulf Shores Middle School, Bodenhamer Center and Orange Beach Recreation Center.

Click here to find out what the Alabama Gulf Coast Sports Commission can do for your event.