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Media Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CNN : (CNN) -- Stephen Colbert may have lost his bid as an underdog presidential candidate last year, but he still wants to represent America any way he can. The "Colbert Report" host said that his viewers. the "Colbert Nation," will now be the primary sponsor for the U.S. Olympic speed skating team when the squad goes to the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver,...
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Lausanne (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein must wait to discover if she has won her appeal against a two-year ban for blood ...
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No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Greetings, Zoners! Wasn’t last week kind of a wild ride for the Colbert Nation? Not only did we get two personal appearances from Stephen, but holy ice skates, Batman, the Colbert Nation is now sponsoring the U.S. Speedskating team! Stephen come up with a great way to help out some of our talented and deserving [...]
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Lausanne (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
(AP) — LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein must wait to learn if she has won her appeal against a two-year ban ...
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No Fact Zone.Net (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Oooh! This is excellent. When Stephen announced that the Colbert Nation was going to sponsor US Speedskating, one of my first reactions was, “I really hope they bring Joey Cheek back to the show.” And tonight, I see this: Yay! That guy is a real class act. An Olympic gold medalist [...]
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Tuned In (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Elsewhere on time.com Sean Gregory has a story about Stephen Colbert's quest to get the Colbert Nation to fund U.S. Olympic speedskating. Turns out it's not just a publicity ploy—well, maybe it is that too—but a serious shot in the arm that could save a prominent U.S. Olympic sport. Given the awesomeness of the sport [...]
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Full Comment (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Despite all the complicated stuff, Canadians are actually pretty simple folk. We like our brief summers and our coffee hot, and our ice hockey and our beer cold. Canadians drank 68.3 litres of beer per capita in 2004, good for 19th best on the planet. A nd if you’ll notice , almost all of the countries who beat Canada in that consumption are going to be showing up in Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic...
