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Team Argentina notes: All aboard the bandwagon!

Posted May 14, 2008 at 12:34 PM by Os Davis

Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis

For Team Argentina, Nocioni in, Prigioni probably, Gabini maybe. And by the way, they ain’t afraid of the big, bad USA.

Beijing 2008: Last hurrah for Pepu Hernandez

Posted May 8, 2008 at 10:34 AM by Os Davis

Section: Beijing 2008, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis

With a starting team comprised of wall-to-wall NBAers, Team Spain hardly needed psychological incentive to add to all the talent taking the floor at the Beijing Games; Los Españoles have that as well.

Said motivation takes…

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.