2010 Winter Olympics: Golden Boy Crosby Gives Canada Gold, 3-2 OT Win Over USA
It’s only fitting that Sidney Crosby, the next “great one” would score the goal to get Canada the gold medal on home soil, as Canada beat the USA 3-2 in OT.
His goal 7:40 minutes into overtime etched his name forever in Canadian hockey lore and sent the Canadian crowd into raptures, as they finally got [...]
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What a Boring Olympics
I’m going off to college in four days, so I haven’t had much time to write lately. Not like I would write, even if I did have time. The most exciting thing to happen in the Olympics was those 70-year-old women getting thrown into reeducation camp for filling out an application to protest.
I’m [...]
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The 29th Olympiad: Thanks for the Memories
The games in Beijing are over, but won’t soon be forgotten
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Why do we love the Olympics?
Because the athletes can run faster? Jump higher? Throw harder? Swim smarter?
Why do we watch?
Because no matter where you’re from, the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat tastes all the same. Because when [...]
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Redeem Achieved
The U.S. is on top of the basketball world once again after it’s 118-107 triumph over a game Spain team in the Gold Medal Game
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Jubilation. Excitement. Redemption.
No one took this for one for granted.
No one just expected it. This was a journey, a long four years coming.
“We haven’t won in [...]
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I Finally Respect Kobe Bryant…
And All it Took Was Cris Collinsworth Sounding Unpatriotic.
Cris Collinsworth asked Kobe what he thought when he first received his Olympic jersey, and Kobe said he was in awe. He said, “I had goosebumps. I just laid it across my bed and stared at it for a while. … This is the ultimate [...]
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Michael Phelps almost too good to be true
Eight medals is just the start of how amazing he is
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Michael Phelps is just one man. But one man can inspire many. And one man can overcome seemingly insurmountable odds to do the unthinkable.
Michael Phelps is that one man. The hero of these 2008 Olympic games. The “woah, did [...]
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The UN is Mad at Me for Having Freedom of Speech
UN advisor Wilfried Lemke has criticized the western media for being critical of China during and preceding the Olympics.
That’s funny, because I thought the UN was in favor of human rights. Why don’t they care about China’s egregious human right’s abuses?
The UN is just mad that the western world is taking advantage of [...]
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Juiced Links Olympic Style
8 links, 1 for each of Michael Phelp’s Beijing gold medals
1.) How easy is it to obtain steroids? ABC 15 News in Phoenix went undercover to a steroid clinic and told the doctors “I want to put on size.” They were prescribed over $2,000 in performance enhancing drugs.
More disturbing is that many of [...]
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