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John Amaechi's name bubbled up into the U.S.
sports blogscape earlier this week, after he told a
U.S. reporter that his only Olympic meeting with Kobe Bryant "didn't go well." I had actually asked Amaechi if we could chat last week, but we didn't sit ...
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Jason Kidd is recently single, so there’s plenty
of speculation abounding re: who he’s creeping on at
the Olympics. Misty May is not single. In fact, she’s married to Matt Treanor, Florida Marlins catcher, who is hanging out in ...
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Jacques Rogge head of the IOC: I disapprove
of your dancing . Usain Bolt: Jacques, baby! Get
in the line! We're doing the Nuh Linga! Jacques: I have no idea what you're doing. In Belgium, there is no dancing. Usain: ...
The Bird's Nest Stadium would have been the
last place Gary Reed would have expected to gain
a home court advantage. But when the skies opened prior to Thursday's semi-final here, the Canadian champion from Victoria, B.C. saw his stock rise considerably.
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Yes, the U.S. Rock Paper Scissors champ finds
his story as ridiculous as everybody else. Since he's
already made $50,000 grand and won a free trip to China, though, here's a video interview with him.
BEIJING (AP) -- Losing for the first time
since 2000, the U.S. softball team was denied a
chance for a fourth straight gold medal Thursday, beaten 3-1 by Japan in the sport's last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years -- and maybe for ...
Great article about how fast Usain Bolt ran
the 100 meter dash.
Disturbing. But true.
So, you wanna experience what it's like to
be a superstar athlete for a day, do ya?
Are you a male somewhere between 5'10" and 6'6", white, with a small to medium sized frame and an imperfect set of teeth? Yes? Well, then hop on a plane and ...
As far as Beach Volleyball goes, there is
no one that can trump the team of May-Treanor
and Walsh. And last night, amidst a rainstorm that rolled through Beijing, the U.S. duo continued their dominance over the world. But as exciting as the match ...
We're 13 days into the Beijing Games and
sob-story overload is starting to kick in. You wonder
why those Chinese police are carting off protesters when the real guys who should be in custody are the announcers who keep making over-wrought references to athletes overcoming career-threatening hamstring injuries or season-ending hangnails.
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Just in case this hasn’t been mentioned to
you in the news, the reason the games are
on this date is because ‘8’s’ are lucky numbers in China, so 8/8/08 is an auspicious and lucky date to start such a huge endeavour as the Olympic games. ...
In which sports-addled columnist dissects the ins, the
outs, the what-have-yous of the XXIX Olympiad.
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Old women can be so annoyingly persistent .
Take these two old Chinese broads (pictured) who had
the audacity to try and protest at the Beijing Olympics in one of the two areas officially designated for, well, protest: The women, Wu Dianyuan, 79, ...
expressed concern about Russia’s military intervention in Georgia
and Abkhazia, a short distance away from Sochi, the
host city of the 2014 Winter Olympics. “It’s not pleasant to think that about 25 kilometers from Sochi there is a potential ...
History-making Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps has told a
number of media outlets that Atlanta rapper Young Jeezy
is in heavy rotation in his iPod. In fact, in a New York Times article Monday, Jeezy is cited as one of the eight influences for his record-breaking eight gold medals Phelps won in Beijing.
The latest shots of the sadistic beach volleyball
cheerleaders have been sent in via a Flickr user
on the scene to document the latest antics of the ladies. You might remember last week the United Nations of Cheerleaders were performing ...
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Both the men's and women's 4x400-meter relay get
underway Friday morning and the Americans will be prominently
involved. Can Team USA add to their gold medal total? Or will Jamaica dominate the track yet again?
Just a few facts about the life of
swimmer Michael Phelps.
Today's Calls: Usain Bolt vs. Michael Phelps, Angels
vs. Rays, Ken Griffey vs. Ozzie Guillen, Steven Jackson
vs. Shawne Merriman and More. The Opening Pitch: The Usain Bolt Story would be compelling — but not nearly complete — with ...
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