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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.”

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Another excuse to look at Jennie Finch

Posted April 15, 2008 at 05:00 PM by Os Davis

Section: Events, Softball, Featured Writers, Os Davis

Jennie Finch puts on a good show for FSN’s Sport Science and YouTube, if one a bit light on the actual hard science.

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YouTubing with the Dream Team

Posted April 15, 2008 at 06:00 AM by Os Davis

Section: Culture/History, Olympic History, Events, Basketball, Featured Writers, Os Davis

A handful of clips chronicling the best team that ever played the game.

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Olympic Video Games: The Lost Ring

Posted April 2, 2008 at 10:00 AM by Michael J. Sedor

Section: Beijing 2008, Beijing News, Culture/History, Design/Art/Culture, Socio-Political, Featured Writers, Michael Sedor

Crop circles, six amnesiacs, lost goggles, Esperanto tattoos, a brooding historian, complicated plots, and an ancient codex. Is it an X-Files episode, a disturbing dream of self analysis, a Thanksgiving in Iowa City, the plot for the next Bourne…

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