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Natasha Kai Should Join the Wizards
Natasha Kai Should Join the Wizards
Natasha Kai Should Join the Wizards This is going to be my standard when deciding which athletes to follow during the Olympics this summer in Beijing: would they be able to fit in with the Wizards? Like, I went to the U.S. Women's National Team ...
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Judge worried juiced Tim Montgomery would run away, denied bail appeal
Judge worried juiced Tim Montgomery would run away, denied bail appeal
Former Olympic gold medalist/world 100m record holder Tim Montgomery went to court today, and left still in custody.  A Virgina Federal judge denied the sprinter bond on heroin charges. Looks like his BALCO past was benign compared to this ...

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German hockey player finds doping test interupts 'private moment'
Germany continued to use hockey player Florian Busch, even though he refused a doping test, apparetnly at a delicate moment.  The Winnipeg Sun gets into the coverage: In an era of sports doping stories galore, this was a new one. Busch, a ...

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Virginia Tech beats Team USA.
Behind a no-hitter by the starting pitcher, Virginia Tech defeats a team that has arrguably the best hitting core in the history of organized softball. Read Story .

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iPRIME Sportsplay is a next generation sports-oriented online community social network for sports team players, fans, coaches and managers.

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Attractive Olympian: Gymnast Alicia Sacramone - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog
Attractive Olympian: Gymnast Alicia Sacramone - FanHouse - AOL Sports Blog
Olympic athletes often don't get paid to do anything other than look good. In that vein, Attractive Olympians handicaps which athletes may rake in endorsement deals after the Olympics. With her powerful, energetic style, Alicia Sacramone is one of ...

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Beijing Olympic Torch Reaches Mount Everest Summit
Beijing Olympic Torch Reaches Mount Everest Summit
The Olympic Torch has made history today by reaching the summit of Mount Everest! Read more and see photos below. Olympic Torch In spite of the controversy that has surrounded the Olympic Torch relay, especially while it was traveling through western countries, it has reached the top of the world on May 8, 2008, exactly three months [...]

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ESPN.com - Blogs - OLYMPICS BLOG
ESPN.com - Blogs - OLYMPICS BLOG
Julie Foudy's first ESPN blog entry touches on the idea of an Olympic boycott and those ultra-fast swimsuits.

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*Insert Inappropriate Joke Here*
AP: New study: 58 percent of black children can't swim What do you want from me?

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Kareem On The Beijing Olympics : Compomise, Not Boycott
Kareem On The Beijing Olympics : Compomise, Not Boycott
Some four decades after Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their fists on the podium in Mexico City, the LA Times’ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (above, far left) writes “we are once again about to send our young athletes overseas to compete in ...

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Michael Phelps is a Beautiful Merman
Michael Phelps is a Beautiful Merman
Posing for Annie Leibovitz as part of the "Disney Dream Portrait Series, " drinking and driving enthusiast and Olympic hero, Michael Phelps, must be punch drunk mad in posing as a beautiful mermaid and becoming a "modern dancer."

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Olympians Worth Watching: Our Hottest Hopefuls
Olympians Worth Watching: Our Hottest Hopefuls
With all the protests going on surrounding the Olympics, including issues of civil rights, labor and the environment, we thought it was time for us all to take a collective chill. And what better way to do that than with what always strangely seems to appeal to the typical reader of this and other sports blogs - hot chicks. As we "prepare" for the August Olympic games, we thought it our...

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World record holder Tim Montgomery arrested for heroin possession
World record holder Tim Montgomery arrested for heroin possession
Once the world's fastest man, sprinter Tim Montgomery might just be the world's sorriest man tonight.  NBC-7 in Virginia reports Tiny Tim's arrest on heroin charges ysterday.  Not a timely arrest (as if any heroin arrest is timely) as ...

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Some Athletes’ Genes Built to Beat Doping Test
Some Athletes’ Genes Built to Beat Doping Test
The NEW YORK TIMES takes note of a study completed in Sweden that puts the lie to Dick Pound yet again: large swaths of people in the world have a genetic disposition that allows them to beat the urine test for testosterone . So much for declaring ...

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Trevor Graham's trial to be 'explosive'; called 'biggest liar there is in track and field'
Trevor Graham's trial to be 'explosive'; called 'biggest liar there is in track and field'
Both the Washington Post and the New York Times carry featured on the upcoming trial of elite track coach revor Graham.  Graham goes on trial in San Francisco for perjury.  Graham coached Olympic track notables including Marion Jones and ...

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