Team USA slayer Schmidt gets Ordem de Rio Branco
Posted May 5, 2008 at 10:17 AM by Os Davis
Section: Culture/History, Olympic History, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Oscar Schmidt, all-time Olympic Games scoring leader and b-ball star in five Olympiads, was this week given Brazil’s top honor to private citizens, the “Ordem de Rio Branco.”
Injury buzzsaw trims Olympic squads
Posted May 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Spain, Australia rosters face injury problems; Cape Verde has hard economic issues to worry about
Briefs: Taekwondo, Baseball, Archery, Yoga, Sailing
Posted May 4, 2008 at 03:30 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Baseball, Other, Featured Writers, Os Davis
News briefs: Iran and China look good in taekwondo; death of Olympic baseball bad for Cuba; US Olympic Archery Trials continue; one man’s bid for yoga as Olympic sport; North Ireland names sailing team.
The Purple Rose of Darfur
Posted May 2, 2008 at 01:00 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Culture/History, Socio-Political, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Mia Farrow, of all people, becomes a key player in the Olympic protest movement with the delivery of a speech scheduled for Friday at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club. The subject of the talk is to be Sino-Sudanese relations and…
How China saved Olympic women’s basketball, 84-81
Posted May 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Os Davis
Section: Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
In upsetting Team USA in the finals of the 2008 Good Luck Beijing women’s basketball tournament, the Chinese ladies’ team may have put a little suspense back into the Olympic women’s hoops.
How far will hooligans go? Beijing unafraid
Posted May 1, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Soccer, Featured Writers, Os Davis
While Beijing security specialists fear no problems with international hooliganism connected with Olympic soccer, the gangs are more organized than ever. And Beijing itself does have a history of sport-related rioting.
Now entering Beijing: Please extinguish all cigarettes
Posted April 28, 2008 at 12:28 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Culture/History, Socio-Political, Featured Writers, Os Davis
To paraphrase the ad, “We’ve come a long way, baby.”
A long way, that is, from the days when the likes of Ted Williams lent likenesses to tobacco companies to push more cigarettes. For not only have most athletes…
Draw held for Olympic basketball tournaments
Posted April 27, 2008 at 03:12 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Between games on the final day of the Good Luck Beijing 2008 women’s basketball tournament, Lisa Leslie and Wang Zhi Zhi ceremonially assisted Olympic officials in putting together the pools for Olympic play.
Men’s b-ball power rankings; foreigners dominate NBA playoffs
Posted April 24, 2008 at 02:41 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Duncan, Gasol, Ginobili already smokin’ in the playoffs ... no wonder foreigners have won the last three NBA MVPs…
Good Luck tourney: Table set for back-to-back USA v. China
Posted April 24, 2008 at 08:08 AM by Os Davis
Section: Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
With four of each team’s five round-robin games in the books, the final day’s USA-China matchup will result in a final of ... USA vs. China.
Ouch! Oz loses game, Batkovic; Sterling digs Beijing
Posted April 23, 2008 at 03:40 AM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Australia loses both battle and war in falling to Cuba, 60-52; coach Stirling does her part in talking up Beijing Olympic organization.
Good Luck tourney day 2: China stuns Oz
Posted April 21, 2008 at 12:32 AM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
The Good Luck Beijing 2008 tournament continues…
Upsets rule Good Luck Beijing 2008 tourney early
Posted April 19, 2008 at 09:05 AM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Tipping off Friday at Beijing Olympic Basketball Stadium was the Good Luck Beijing 2008 Tournament featuring a six-pack of the world’s superpowers in women’s basketball.
Competitors at the event include Team USA, prohibitive favorite to take…
Iakovou resigns; Greek weightlifters unlikely to compete in Beijing
Posted April 18, 2008 at 02:00 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Doping, Events, Other, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Perhaps the sole positive to come out of the Olympic torch relay flap is its function as a distraction from a truly international sporting issue: performance enhancers.
The latest casualty of the war on doping is Greek…
Boycott scorecard update: Canadians “No” on boycott, two individuals hold out
Posted April 18, 2008 at 12:00 PM by Os Davis
Section: Beijing 2008, Culture/History, Socio-Political, Events, Other, Featured Writers, Os Davis
Ottawa-based public opinion research firm Phoenix SPI, upon releasing its most recent numbers, announced that “most Canadians would like to keep politics out of the Olympic Games, and do not want Canada to boycott the Beijing…
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