Sammy Sosa Softball Slam
The Final Score (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Two sports are going to be added to the 2016 Summer Games from a list that includes softball, roller sports, rugby, golf, squash and karate. My vote goes to roller sports and squash. Why should baseball be an Olympic...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
International softball and baseball officials argued for reinstatement to the Olympic program for 2016, telling a group from the I.O.C. on Friday that their sports have a worldwide appeal.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Baseball made its pitch for reinstatement in the Olympics on Friday, one the seven sports fighting for two spots on the program for the 2016 Summer Games.
CBS SportsLine.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Baseball made its pitch for reinstatement in the Olympics on Friday, one the seven sports fighting for two spots on the program for the 2016 Summer Games. Softball, golf, karate, rugby, roller sports and squash also made presentations.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/14/2008
Baseball made its pitch for reinstatement in the Olympics on Friday, one the seven sports fighting for two spots on the program for the 2016 Summer Games.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
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Keo.co.za (Free subscription) | 10/16/2008
Stirling Mortlock hopes the IRB’s push to include rugby at the 2012 Olympic Games proves successful. Rugby will compete against baseball, golf, karate, roller sports, squash, and softball when the International Olympic Committee votes in October 2009 on whether to add up to two sports to the schedule. Rugby in it’s Sevens format will be considered, [...]
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
BEIJING – Losing for the first time since 2000, the United States did not earn a fourth straight softball gold medal, falling 3-1 to Japan in softball's last appearance in the Olympics for at least eight years.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The swan song for softball in the Olympics was more of a swan dive for the U.S. softball team which tasted defeat for the first time since 2000. It left the American players only hoping that somehow their loss would do more for the sport than a U.S. victory...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The United States had dominated softball throughout four Olympics, all the way to the last game. The team had rolled through 22 consecutive...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
BEIJING | All day Thursday, 36 men from around the world competed in modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games. This was the 22nd consecutive Olympics where men have competed for a modern pentathlon gold medal, if you’re scoring at home, but that doesn’t make the thing any less bizarre.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
The swan song for softball in the Olympics was more of a swan dive for the U.S. softball team which tasted defeat for the first time since 2000. It left the American players only hoping that somehow their loss would do more for the sport than a U.S. victory...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Japan shocks U.S. for gold in sport's last Olympic game — for now Afterward, as his players sat grim-faced and stricken, their silver medal a shiny symbol of rare failure, U.S. softball coach Mike Candrea would tell them he was proud of them. And he would tell them something else.
The Random Yak (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Not Olympics, to boot, as in extra for free (lagniappe, as they say in New Orleans, and about nowhere else). No, Olympics to boot, as in events to kick out of the next Olympic games. Suggestions? Gone already are men’s baseball and women’s softball. Why? Not a wide enough variety of nations play these games. Europe [...]
