Men's basketball preview: High expectations push China for breakthroug

Socialism Has Solved Every Traffic Jam In The World [2008 Olympics]

Steady Burn found this 30 days ago on deadspin.com

You there. Yes, you. Don't you love freedom, apple pie, and John Mellencamp-crooned commercials? Of course you do. But you also hate traffic. "Oh God, everyone else driving is such an idiot! If they watched where they were going, I wouldn't be ...

NBC to commentate on at least 10 sports from New York, not China -

Watchdog found this 7/20/2008 on www.chicagotribune.com

Many of the numbers related to NBC and its Olympics coverage are staggering: The network will employ 2,900 people, including 106 commentators, to broadcast 3,600 hours of the Summer Games in Beijing across seven channels and NBCOlympics.com. But ...

YELLOW PERIL

on 205th magazine: Stuff Guys Like. [Pop Culture ... found this 29 days ago on www.epiccarnival.com

by Tracer Bullet , Staff Writer I was lounging pool-side with a cocktail at the palatial Manse EC this morning when Editor-in-Chief and billionaire tyrant DC Scrap dumped a bottle of hideously expensive champagne over my head. "Get your lazy ass to ...

Some Olympics Announcers Might as Well be Bloggers

Major League Jerk found this 29 days ago on thebiglead.com

Interesting note in the Chicago Tribune yesterday : While NBC is sending an astonishing 2,900 people out to Beijing to cover the listless Olympics, not every sport will be called by on-scene broadcasters. Ten sports will be called by announcers who ...

Bombers Target Two China Buses Ahead of Olympics

And One posted 29 days ago from www.nysun.com

Chinese authorities are hunting bombers who killed two people in attacks on commuter buses yesterday morning, just three weeks before the Beijing Olympic Games begin. The first bomb exploded at 7:05 a.m. on a bus at a stop on People's Road West, one of the main thoroughfares of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province, which borders Vietnam, Burma, and Tibet in China's far south.