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The Beijing Civilized Workers Cheering Squad commands you
to cheer respectfully for China.
August 22, 2008 -- Michael Phelps doesn't have
a girlfriend, but he celebrated his record-breaking eight gold
medals in Beijing by sneaking off for a sizzling game of tonsil hockey with one of Australia's hottest Olympians. Phelps, fresh from ...
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Does Gasnier have a future in international rugby?
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(from Universal Sports) Here are the closing moments
of Tuesday night's Gold Medal Game in Wheelchair Rugby
at the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games; USA v AUSTRALIA. --- ENJOY =)
I was interested to read this entry on
You Been Blinded, which quotes Glen Saville, Australian Boomer,
as saying that all of Team USA, except for Kobe Bryant, "carried on like pork chops." To translate that from the Aussie vernacular, what 'Sav' is trying to say is, that Kobe was the only ...
October 21 --- OC Register's Beach Blog: The
U.S.A. Surf Team beat their own expectations and used
strong surfing to a silver medal finish Sunday at the 2008 ISA World Surfing Games in Portugal. --- It was the highest finish of a U.S. team in the games since 1996...
He plays a running back/fullback, but he's a
freak for hockey. Even pals around with Derek Armstrong
and Rob Blake. He also chats a little bit about the show. (And yeah, I used his fictional girlfriend for an image instead.)
Drawing of lots for the Beijing 2008 Olympic football competitions - The Official Website of the ...
Men's Football Cote D'Ivoire (A1) Argentina (A2) Australia
(A3) Serbia (A4) Netherlands (B1) Nigeria (B2) Japan (B3)
USA (B4) China (C1) New Zealand (C2) Brazil (C3) Belgium (C4) Republic of Korea (D1) Cameroon (D2) Honduras (D3) ...
Canada and Australia will go for gold in
the men’s wheelchair basketball event at the Paralympics after
each won semi-finals on Sunday. The Canadians needed double overtime but finally overcame the United States while Australia hammered Great Britain to reach the title game.
great take on a remarkable run, a remarkable
day !
Jill Greenberg for TIME Summer Olympic Preview From
Australia to Zimbabwe, China to the U.S., TIME takes
you on a world tour to introduce you to the most compelling athletes you'll be seeing in the Beijing Games Enter >>
The Daily Show with John Stewart. --- John
Oliver's report: "Achieving Our Goooal" --- Skewering the improbable
but real facts; the juxtaposition of WAR and an underdog team, whose 'head of operations' used to be the now-dead son of the now-dead Saddam Hussein, who scraped together a squad good enough to qualify for - then actually WIN the 2007 FIFA Asia Cup ! Watch it, Share It. =)
March 26 --- FIFA.com: The FIFA World Cup
qualifying competition in Asia seems to be getting more
and more difficult as the continent's top teams stumbled on Wednesday's second matchday in the run-up to South Africa 2010. --- In the first game, group favorites Australia were fortunate to salvage a point from a goalless draw with hosts China. --- The visitors had Mark Schwarzer to thank...
A bad pass leads to a horrible-looking accident
during the halftime show of the Australia vs. Croatia
Olympic Basketball Preliminary match in Beijing.
David Beckham arrives in Australia for the Sydney
FC friendly on Tuesday.
by Travis Clark --- For the last four
months I have been living in Australia. I brought
little else than my passion for soccer with me. --- That addiction found an interesting twist this past week as the LA Galaxy Beckham world tour landed here on November 27. --- Soccer plays second fiddle to other sports in this sun-baked country. --- Rugby, Cricket, and Aussie Rules Football reign...
With the team's 3-0 victory over Thailand, Japan
advanced into the 4th round of the Asian Football
Confederation's qualifying stage for the 2010 World Cup. Only 4 or 5 nations from Asia will qualify for the next World Cup that will be held in South Africa. Joining Japan in the 4th round so far are the nations: Australia, Bahrain, both Koreas, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. Two spots...
The "Redeem Team" was taking on Germany this
morning in a game that didn't really matter in
the standings, but that didn't seem to let slow them down in the least. USA seemed to want to make a statement before elimination play gets underway on ...
(from the official event site) The United States
of America outscored Australia 53-44 in the gold medal
match to go back to the top of the podium, and Canada defeated Great Britain to win the bronze, in the last day of Wheelchair Rugby played at the USTB Gymnasium...
The Manchester United has signed its newest star,
Rhain Davis of Australia. In case you haven't heard.
Rhain is 9 years old. It is believed there is no truth to the rumor that the United has also signed their first fetus to play in their upcoming preemie league. If you haven't seen Rhain's video, you have to check it out.
Celebrating a loss by wearing a Hitler outfit,
putting on blackface, and just for fun, also having
a goalie suspended for 9 months for hitting a ref.
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- Video: Paralympics Men's Wheelchair Basketball --- Gold Medal Game --- CANADA v AUSTRALIA
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- Rice Queen
- Great Britain Continues Their Grand Tradition of Olympic Success, Wankery
- Video: USA v AUSTRALIA - Paralympics Men's Wheelchair Basketball
- Fired up Azzurri ready for Wallabies
- Jorvan Vieira on Iraq's Asian Cup victory | News | Guardian Unlimited Football
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