Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Sep 6th, 2008
Disgraced sprinter Marion Jones was released Friday from federal prison after completing most of her six-month sentence for lying about her steroid use.
Jones left a halfway house in San Antonio around 8 a.m., said LaTanya Robinson, a community corrections manager for the federal Bureau of Prisons. Jones, who has a house in Austin, will remain [...]
Posted in Olympics on Aug 30th, 2008
Lisa Leslie wasn’t the only basketball player to play in their last Olympics. This week, Jason Kidd also announced that this was the last time he would play. Kidd earned his second gold medal last week and extended his record to 56-0 in Olympics, Olympic qualifying and exhibition games.
“I’m undefeated,” Kidd told the Dallas Morning [...]
Posted in Olympics on Aug 24th, 2008
Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore.
Culminating a three-year mission to end years of embarrassment, the U.S. Olympic team survived a huge challenge from Spain, winning 118-107 Sunday in the gold-medal game.
After overwhelming everyone for seven games, the Americans led by only four [...]
Posted in Music Video, Obama, Olympics, Politics, Rap on Aug 23rd, 2008
Democrats coalesced around Barack Obama’s selection of Joe Biden as his running mate on Saturday while Republicans quickly seized on the Delaware senator’s past criticism of the presidential candidate’s inexperience.
As the newly minted ticket readied for its first joint appearance, in Springfield, Ill., former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton called Biden “an exceptionally strong, experienced [...]
Posted in Olympics on Aug 23rd, 2008
Lisa Leslie and the U.S. women’s basketball team were once again too good for Australia at the Olympics.
Leslie capped off her illustrious Olympic career with a fourth straight gold medal scoring 14 points in a 92-65 victory against Australia on Saturday night. She joined former teammate Teresa Edwards as the only basketball players ever to [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 22nd, 2008
The climb back to the top is nearly complete. One more win and U.S. basketball is golden again.
The Americans ended their streak of final four flops and Argentina’s hopes of an Olympic gold-medal repeat, starting fast and finishing strong in a 101-81 semifinal victory Friday.
All that’s left is what the U.S. players came for: a [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 21st, 2008
Usain Bolt could have hotdogged his way into history with the cha-cha, a double-front handspring or even the limbo across the finish line, but he had something better in mind this time.
Keep running.
When Bolt crossed the line, stretching his arms out in triumph, one word flashed across the scoreboard high above the Bird’s Nest.
AMAZING.
Bolt obliterated [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 20th, 2008
The United States’ vanquishing of Australia had been over for 45 minutes, the reporters’ questions were done, and still there were four Americans mesmerized in a silent corner of Wukesong Indoor Basketball Stadium.
Chris Paul slouched on the floor, flip-flops on his feet. LeBron James sipped a bottle of Coke. Carmelo Anthony peeled back the earphones [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 20th, 2008
Usain Bolt spotted the TV cameraman, darted over and raised his index finger for millions of viewers to see.
“I am No. 1,” he said. “I am No. 1.”
His boast qualifies as an understatement.
.Wednesday night, when Bolt cemented his status as the world’s No. 1 sprinter, he also emerged as track’s Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky and [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 17th, 2008
The American sisters cruised to a 6-2 6-0 win over Spanish duo Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual.
Victory secured their second Olympic gold, as they also won the doubles in 2000 but did not defend their title in Athens because Serena was injured.
They become only the second pair to win the title twice after [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 17th, 2008
He arrived here at this massive blue cube in the Far East with the goals that couldn’t have been bigger and margins for error that couldn’t have been smaller.
It was eight events, eight golds – all or nothing for Michael Phelps. In a perfect storm of athletic brilliance, otherworldly hype and a 17-swim, nine-day marathon [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 17th, 2008
Like the best of showmen, Jamaica’s Usain Bolt left us wanting more.
Twenty meters from the finish line, his celebration began. He relaxed his arms, looked toward the crowd and slapped his chest. And despite those theatrics, he still covered 100 meters faster than any man ever has.
He did it in 9.69 seconds, and immediately one [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 16th, 2008
His Olympics looking lost, Michael Phelps decided to flap those gangly arms one more time. Milorad Cavic, inches from spoiling it all, glided along just under the surface, convinced he had won gold. But it didn’t matter who was fastest. Just first.
Phelps swam into history with a magnificent finish Saturday, tying Mark Spitz with his [...]
Female French Swimmer Laure Manaudou has had a hard go of it of late. Just on top of the swimming World two years ago and in love with Italian Swimmer Male Luca Martin, Laure Manaudou saw her life change rapidly.
After breaking up with Luca Martin, tossing the ring he gave her into the pool, nude [...]
Posted in Olympics, Sports News on Aug 15th, 2008
Michael Phelps collected the sixth gold medal and stuffed it in his warmup jacket. No time to even savor
that one as he rushed off to swim again.
It was just No. 6, after all, equaling his haul from Athens in 2004.
The most important ones are still to come.
Phelps made it 6-for-6 at the Beijing Games with [...]
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