All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
The People's Republic of China has confirmed its readiness to host this year's Summer Olympics Games set for August 8-24 in Beijing.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Forty-five minutes after his milestone victory, the winningest driver in the Championship Off-Road Racing Series was still stretching posters and T-shirts across the hood of his Ford pickup and signing his name.
Chinalyst - China blogs in English (Free subscription) | 07/27/2008
Ana Ivanovic says representing Serbia at the Olympics has been a long-term dream of hers. “I grew up watching our athletes at various Olympic Games and I was especially excited when the men’s basketball team won the silver medal at the 1996 Games in Atlanta,” she was quoted as saying by the Belgrade-based Beta news agency on Saturday. Some tennis stars have previously stayed in hotels rather than at...
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
NEVER AGAIN should anyone doubt national coach Jackie Walter when it comes to swimming.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
T&T swimmers, water polo players earn kudosCHAMPIONS: The triumphant Trinidad and Tobago swim team relax at the Rex Nettleford Hall Residence, official games village of the Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships (CISC), before heading to the National Stadium Pool to pick up more medals earlier this week. The T&T swim team won the CISC swim competition for the first time in ten years, relegating hosts...
Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
First, a bit of background: So I’m stationed at field hockey for the Olympic News Service, meaning that my press accreditation for the Olympic North Green venue cluster will get me into the hockey, tennis and archery events. Anything else, it’s up to me to procure tickets. As some of you may know, I play [...]
Celebrity Babies Blog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
It’s intersting to see what celebrity babies grow up to be like. It’s even cooler to see what happened to the ones who fell of the face of the Earth. The same thing pertains to album cover babies like the one on Nirvana’s breakthrough 1991 LP. That baby’s name is actually Spencer Elden. He [...]
You Been Blinded (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Iranian authorities are considering whether or not to allow state television to broadcast women’s events at the upcoming Beijing Olympics. In question is the dress of the female competitors. Iranian women are required to wear an Islamic hijab when participating in sporting events, which must cover the head and hair and hide the female form. [...]
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
NATIONAL TECHNICAL director of swimming, Jackie Walter, credited the presence of Jamaica's Olympic
Bakersfield.com (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Cal State Bakersfield's Amanda Ortiz, Veronica Campbell and Katherine Gillett have earned 2008 Association of Collegiate Water Polo Coaches Women's All-American Academic honors.
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
RECORD BREAKER: Kimba CollymoreNational swimmer Kimba Collymore broke a Games record as the Trinidad and Tobago swimmers lifted the overall trophy for the first time in 10 years Tuesday. On the fifth and final night of the  17th biennial Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships at the National Stadium Olympic-sized pool in Kingston, Jamaica, T&T amassed 917 to overcome the challenge of hosts Jamaica...
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
SINGAPORE: It will be a mini-Olympics of sorts in Singapore ahead of the Beijing Games. That's because 32 teams from 22 countries will use the island as a training base for 10 sports in preparation for the Olympics.
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
TV viewers will see more of the 2008 Summer Games than any past Olympics.
Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Here’s my self-indulgent Summer vacation blog. John Kenneth Galbraith is rightly renowned for the contrast he drew between private affluence and public squalor in the US. Yet he also argued that public investment is needed to sustain private affluence. What the US has generally - but not always - got hugely wrong is the balance between [...]
Sports Jamaica (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago are locked in a keen battle for the overall team title
