Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Columnist Jean-Jacques Taylor is wondering: Who has been the biggest star of these Olympics? Is it sprinter Usain Bolt or swimmer Michael Phelps? No matter the pick, both athletes have been electric. Read more on .
Epic Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
by DMtShooter , Five Tool Tool 10. A dramatic amount of poon, followed by a long slow slide into significantly less poon 9. Crank calling Mark Spitz in the middle of the night while giggling 8. Dramatically ineffective ads for sponsors that don't call back 7. Hundreds, if not thousands of casual acquaintances flocking to be his wingmen 6. Voting for himself in a lot of polls as to whether he's the...
WhyFame (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Jennifer Lopez, new mom to twins, is training for a triathlon, which is a pretty big feat. Another big feat is that a guy from Baltimore has won eight Olympic gold medals and he's only 23. However, JLo doesn't think that's anything to talk about - the popdiva dissed champion swimmer, Michael Phelps. Someone... [ More on WhyFame.com ]
Epic Carnival (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
By T, The Angry T Thank god for CNN. I have no clue what I would do with out your hard-hitting brand of in your face journalism. Thank you, from the bottom of my taint, for throwing these three idiots on the television to unilaterally defend Michael Phelps. Listen to that first douche gush over Phelps, "He is a 10 across the board." You sir are a 10 on the scale of one to irrelevant, and I would know,...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
How weird is the Olympics? Six months ago, most of the country had only a vague idea who Michael Phelps is. And this morning, when I turned on National Public Radio, they were talking about whether Phelps is the best athlete ever.
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
The thought of Bolt > Phelps had begun to cross our mind after watching this domination, and then this email cemented the post: Interesting… Usain Bolt has now done something that NO ONE has ever done, broke the World Records in both the 100 and 200 at the Olympics. Carl Lewis and Jesse Owens, two of [...]
With Leather (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
GET YOUR MICHAEL PHELPS TEE-SHIRTS -- The Hotness Factory is quickly selling out of tee-shirts that will be relevant for another week or so. Get yours now! It will go so well with your "I got bombed at the Olympics" from the Atlanta Games. SLATE HATES AMERICA -- In a move surprising no one, the people at Slate have taken an idiotic contrarian position, then dressed it up in big words. Troy Patterson...
Miami Herlad (Free subscription) | 48 minutes ago
That Michael Phelps thing went swimmingly for NBC, didn't it? Still, after a week, it was over.
The Ghosts of Wayne Fontes (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Look, I don't mean any disrespect to Phelps. He's obviously an amazing swimmer. The best ever. He's a bona fide freak of nature, and hey, good for him. And I'm certainly not one of those idiots that thinks swimming isn't a sport. (Yes, they do exist.) But the greatest olympian ever? A swimmer? Really? I'm sorry, but Phelps and his 8 gold medals aren't even the most amazing story of these Olympics,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Beijing - Michael Phelps may have won eight gold medals in the pool but that would mean nothing if he ever thought about taking up open water swimming. Even if you are a superstar you might not qualify for open water, said women's 10-kilometres gol...
Chris Baldwin (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
Sure, Michael Phelps won the most gold medals, set all the records and turned an already bitter Mark Spitz into a near Bobby Fisher-like figure. But Usain Bolt is the most exciting athlete at the Olympics . Watching the Jamaican Bolt completely blow away the field in the 100 meters, so much so that he could slow down to celebrate in race that takes little more than nine seconds, blew away anything...
Celebrity Gossip Oops (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
He’s the stud of the 2008 Olympic Summer Games, and Michael Phelps is on top of the world. But that doesn’t mean he wants the media prying into his personal life. The 8-Gold-Medal-winning swimmer (who will grace the next cover of Sports Illustrated) has been linked to both Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard and model Lily Donaldson, but he’s not talking about which lady has his heart.
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
"I'm ready for my Sports Illustrated cover!" Photo: Getty Images The title pretty much says it all. Mama Lopez, who gave birth to twins Emme and Max in March , is already training for the 22nd Annual Malibu Triathlon. She went on Good Morning America yesterday to share exercise tips, but she had a couple of complaints. From Courtney Hazlett's MSNBC "Scoop" column: Lopez … was overheard saying after...
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Literally. Watch him. Dude's right there on screen talking in a SportsCenter interview. Praise gets tossed about for his teammates (in particular, CP3 and Deron Williams), Michael Phelps and the overall Olympic experience. Some interesting stuff at the start about how differently this team and the less successful 2004 squad were formed, citing the three year commitment, doing away with the "grab the...
SportsAgentBlog (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Whilst Michael Phelps was undoubtedly the King of the pool, the choice of the Queen is just as easy to clarify. Stephanie Rice won every event she competed in the games, adding 3 Golds to Australia’s tally. Stephanie won the 200m and 400m Individual Medley and helped the Aussies win the 4 x 200m freestyle relay. This [...]
