Category: Olympics
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012
It's easy for basketball fans to lose sight of it as the NBA playoffs get underway, but the 2012 Summer Olympics are less than three months away. This year, Mike Krzyzewski and his coaching staff will have their work cut out for them. Thanks to the lockout, there'll be less ...
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
Last week Team USA announced their 20 finalists for the 2012 London Olympic roster. Team USA will be gearing up for a busy summer with one of the most talented rosters ever assembled.
Some of the big names on the roster include: Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Carmelo ...
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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Bruce Jenner doesn't exactly come straight out and talk about fending off suitors of Kim, Khloe and Kourtney Kardashian with his javelin, but he doesn't exactly deny it, either. Jenner, perhaps jokingly, says the javelin was his weapon of choice when it came to Khloe, particularly in an instance where ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011
Over the course of the past year, LeBron James made "The Decision" and left Cleveland, assembled the Big Three in Miami, held a party before they had ever even played together, went through the ups and downs of playing a long 82-game regular season where every team and opposing fanbase ...
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Monday, May 24th, 2010
To my generation, Bruce Jenner is associated with things that appear to be real: "reality television," body parts, Lamar Odom's marriage, interest in the decathlon, etc. Yet there is no denying that what Bruce Jenner did in the 1976 Olympics in Montreal was very real. Jenner captured the world's fascination ...
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
The Vancouver Olympics have come and gone. They began with tragedy and ended in triumphant celebration - particularly if you're Canadian. The men's gold medal game between the United States and Canada was the highlight of the Games. T.V. ratings were through the roof in the U.S. for the game, ...
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
The United States pulled off a huge upset on Sunday as they beat Canada 5-3 in the preliminary round of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games. The Canadians came into Vancouver as the overwhelming favorite, but after four games Canada is 3-1 and is in sixth place of the overall standings. ...
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Monday, February 15th, 2010
The 2010 Winter Olympics got off to a horrible start last Friday when Nodar Kumaritashvilii, a luger from the country of Georgia, died after he flew off the track into a steel pole at more than eighty miles per hour. When I first heard about the tragedy I wasn’t quite ...
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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
One of the sponsors for USA Olympic Speed Skating 2010 in Vancouver is the Colbert Nation. Who is the Colbert Nation you ask? It’s the fans of Comedy Central’s Colbert Report starring Stephen Colbert. No, that’s not a misprint nor a joke. Colbert and Bob Crowley, the executive director of ...
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
What do the following names have in common: five-time Olympic gold medalist Marion Jones, former NFL player Bill Romanowski, and MLB Home Run King Barry Bonds? Victor Conte. Conte is the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO). BALCO has been linked to almost every big sports name ...
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