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Posts Tagged ‘The Olympic Games

Snowboarder Scotty Lago’s Olympic Picture Controversy…What’s This All About!?!

February 21, 2010

America must be starving for another non-controversy, or I must be missing something…but Olympic Bronze medalist Scotty Lago has inadvertently become the center of attention, most of it bad,just because of these innocent celebratory pictures posted above, courtesy of TMZ.com. The AP is reporting that American half-pipe bronze medalist Scotty Lago is heading home from […]

Olympic Luger From Georgia, The Former Soviet Republic,Dies In Traumatic Crash While Training(VIDEO)

February 12, 2010

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=luge+nodar&iid=7874790″ src=”6/9/4/c/Olympic_Preview_ba02.jpg?adImageId=10209056&imageId=7874790″ width=”380″ height=”235″ /] Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed in a horrific crash at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday, German IOC official Thomas Bach confirmed. The Huffington Post has pictures and a video of the terrible accident that you can see by clicking on this link-Source, and Total pro […]

The “White-Only” Basketball League Bans Blacks And Foreigners…So Who Is Going To Be On The Teams???

January 20, 2010

[picapp align=”center” wrap=”false” link=”term=redneck+games&iid=1334890″ src=”d/2/9/d/Redneck_Games_Kick_40e8.jpg?adImageId=9337904&imageId=1334890″ width=”380″ height=”230″ /] The All-White basketball league has been announced in Augusta, Georgia. The new league will have 12 teams in 12 cities made up of all-white, American-born men.The name of the league is officially the All American Basketball League, and it’s foundation is built on racism. I never knew […]

Gold Medal Twin Olympian Calvin Harrison Homeless…What Went Wrong?

December 11, 2009

Calvin Harrison (born January 20, 1974) was a former Olympic gold medalist, famously winning the 4×400 relay with his twin brother Alvin, and legendary sprinter Michael Johnson, at the 2000 Summer Olympic games that were held in Sydney,Australia.  At the 2000 Olympics, Alvin Harrison and Calvin Harrison made history by becoming the first twins ever to […]

Champion SpeedSkater Shani Davis Dominates The World Cup In Calgary

December 7, 2009

World Speedskating champion Shani Davis has done it again! http://wp.me/pEzT2-kP Shani Davis smashed the world record by running the third fastest time ever Sunday in Calgary,and fastest anywhere but Salt Lake City, the world’s fastest rink — to win the 1,000 meters at the speed skating World Cup. Davis was chasing his own world record […]