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The Olympics: Not Coming to Ryan Field
As you mighta heard, the Olympics will be held in Rio De Janeiro in 2016, and not, uh, Chicago. Sadly, this means that the modern pentathlon will not be held at Ryan Field, Welsh-Ryan Are...
Baseball and Softball Will Not Be a Part of the 2016 Olympics
According to Jeff Latzke of Boston.com, the 2016 Olympic Games will not include either baseball or softball: In 2005, softball and baseball became the first sports in 69 years to be dropped ...
Women keep breaking barriers: International Olympic Committee to include Female Boxing in 2012
In the world of Mixed Martial Arts the first ever female title fight, and first ever female main event, will take place this Saturday as Gina Carano will fight Cris "Cyborg" Santos. Boxing will...
Golf Recommended For '16 Olympic Games
As anticipated earlier in the week due to rumors reported by the NY Times, golf and rugby have been recommended for inclusion into the 2016 Olympic Games. International Olympic leaders made the ...
Burke, Poile to helm Team USA
Anaheim Ducks Executive Vice President/General Manager Brian Burke was named the General Manager of the 2010 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team on Friday by USA Hockey.>> team releaseUSA Hockey announced today ...
Beijing
I haven't commented on the Olympics yet, but that doesn't mean I'm not tuned in. It's just that, well, this is a hockey blog, and I'm not so sure updates from the pitch are what people are clamouring ...
82-0
The women's pre-Olympic hockey qualification tournament going on in Liepaja, Latvia, and Maribor, Slovenia, this week is pretty far, far off the radar, but it's hard to miss a boxscore like this.Here'...
More on the Bulgarian beatdown
Well, yesterday's post on the 82-0 annihilation of Team Bulgaria proved to be quite popular, so I figured it was worth a run through of a few more mind-boggling numbers.In all, Bulgaria's fledgling wo...
Good, yet obvious choice
USA Hockey announced this week that it has named Wisconsin women's hockey coach Mark Johnson as the head coach of the 2010 US Women's Olympic Hockey Team.Johnson was one of three finalists for the pos...
Satoshi Ishii wants out of his UFC contract
Let's do a little role-playing. You are a twenty something Olympic athlete. You just won a gold medal in a sport that is prevalent within your nation. For Americans let's say baseball or basketball....
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