Soccer on Saturday was interesting. We've had the last several weeks off due to the snow on the field and finally they deemed it okay to play again. But now we're way behind the schedule so they scheduled a bunch of doubleheaders. We had to play two games back to back--this would normally not be too terrible except that 1) I haven't done any ( Read more... )

Some filmmaker has done a documentary about the Harding/Kerrigan saga 20 years ago. I'd really like to watch this but it's airing on ESPN (which I don't get) so I'll have to go to their site or something like that to view it. Accompanying the release of the doc have been a lot of articles looking back at that whole debacle and surprisingly a lot ( Read more... )

...Former 3-time Olympian, Motivational Speaker and Generally Incredibly Successful Person Outed as a Vegas Escort.

As in...recently!  She was doing this this past year! "Beginning last December..."

My mind is whirring--this reads like an Onion article.  A three-time U.S. Olympian whose illustrious running career has included a Nike TV commercial ( Read more... )

I'm so excited!


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Senate passes resolution, Obama supports it, to have moment of silence for murdered Israeli athletes.

Yes! It's an absolute disgrace it's taken this long. Just unbelievable. The IOC failed miserably back in '72 and Avery Brundage was a wretched example of Olympic ideals. (God, he sucked. From refusing to support a boycott against the Nazi Olympics ( Read more... )

THIS is pretty incredible. A few months ago, FIG (the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique, the governing body of international elite gymnastics) ruled that the 2000 Olympic women's team bronze medalists had falsified the age of one of their gymnasts and recommended to the IOC that they strip this team of the bronze and award it to the 4th- ( Read more... )

Here 'tis!

As more evidence has come out, but the IOC has turned a blind eye, I haven't wanted to blog about this because frankly, I found the story alternately maddening and depressing. Everyone could see there was evidence (and China has done this before--one of their medalists in Sydney admitted to being underage. Admitted it on state TV) but the IOC ( Read more... )

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...someone had a birthday today and when I came upstairs there was a piece of soft, cheesecake-y goodness waiting for me. YUM ( Read more... )