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Football – College football begins

sportsidiot — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:29:33 +0000

College football starts. More info to come, any interesting nugs I will let you know.

Olympics – Track – World’s Fastest Man

sportsidiot — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:55:16 +0000

Usain Bolt of Jamaica wins gold breaks his own world record in 100m.

He ran it in 9.69 Tyson Gay of the U.S. did not even make it to the finals.

Olympics – Highlights 08/13/08

sportsidiot — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:37:23 +0000

Its too crazy for me to write about every record broken or every notable thing that happens as it happens in the olympics. Its practically an every moment thing.

So I will tell you what I think is notable:

- Gymanstics (Mens Team Final) – U.S. gets bronze

This totally smelled because they had a chance, guy named Horton was crushing everything, just sticking every landing. Then this one guy, who only had to do one event, that all he was waiting for, he gets up and does pommel horse and messes up. Then that rattled the next guy on pommel horse and the silver and gold were out reach. They got bronze, and it was an accomplishment because the U.S. team was rittled with injuries.

- Gymnastics (Womens Team Finals)

U.S. could of had it. China leaves the door open with a mistake and Alicia Sacramone messes up on balance beam. Then she got even more rattled and messed up on floor exercise. So they got silver. China gets gold

- Swimming

There have been tons of records broken so I am not going to list them. If you want to know them, search around. But Michael Phelps is the story, winning hist 11th gold medal for himself in his olympic career, making him the athlete with the most gold medals EVER.

There is more stuff, and I will edit this post later today possibly.

Football – Brett Favre Traded to Jets

sportsidiot — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:45:06 +0000

Whoah! Brett Favre a Jet? It looks like Brett Favre was traded to the Jets last night.

If you did not read my last post, Brett Favre, long-time Quarterback for the Green Bay Packers retired last year. But then un-retired, then was unsure if going to stay at Green Bay, then there were rumors of many teams in talks with Green Bay to acquire Favre.

I will post again if this trade ends up not being final. But here is the article:

http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=nfl/news/news.aspx?id=4169903

Olympics – Air pollution

sportsidiot — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:24:01 +0000

So the athletes started to arrive. And some U.S. cyclists arrived wearing masks to shield themselves from the poor air quality in Beijing. Of course the Chinese were not pleased with it. But seriously, clean up your friggin air quality if you are going to hold the Olympics.

In the article, I agree with one of the athletes when they said that they have been training their whole life for this moment and would not take any chances. Think about that, you train hard for years, work your butt off and then you get to the Olympics and you start coughing and do poorly. Screw that, wear the masks. Sorry Chinese, I know its egg on your face but you had like 8 years to plan for this. Get over it, you are not perfect and your air quality sucks.

Get on the Green train.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/06/sports/olympics/06masks.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Football – Brett Favre Retirement Pt 1

sportsidiot — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:17:26 +0000

Sorry, it has been a few days since my last post. So I say part 1 for this posting because I dont have all the details and I am kinda confused.

But basically, Brett Favre, quarterback for the Packers retired last year. But then rumors surfaced that he was coming out of retirement. Then stories came out that the packers did not want him to un-retire. It appears now that he is coming out of retirement. I am still confused as to whether or not he is going to be playing for the packers or not.

Nick, our resident sports guru. You got any more details for us?

Olympics – Iraq banned

sportsidiot — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:08:41 +0000

Iraq is banned from the Summer Olympics. I still cant figure out why they were actually banned, you can read the article here.

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5guAoWR4d13iPmyA1Ic8qeJR2S58wD924BIH00

I think its kind of a bummer that they will not be participating. The olympics transgress politics and was hoping for one of those visa moments, where a US athlete helps up a fallen Iraqi athlete or vice versa.

Summer Olympics – Opening Ceremonies

sportsidiot — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:09:27 +0000

Remember, summer olympics start on Aug 8, well the opening ceremonies do, but they are cool too.

I may be a sports idiot, but I love the olympics.

The below link has a pretty good overview of the schedule, that does not mean everything will be televised though.

http://www.nbcolympics.com/resultsandschedules/index.html

Table tennis, I gotta see that this year on TV. And when did trampoline become an olympic sport?

Football – Jason Taylor trade

sportsidiot — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:42:26 +0000

For you sports idiots, you may Jason Taylor as the football guy from this season’s Dancing with the Stars. He made it to the finals.

Well on the sports side, Taylor pirohuetted over to another team. He was traded from the Miami Dolphins to the Washington Redskins. He only ever played for Miami.

Never know, somebody may bring it up and now you know something about it

2008 Espys

sportsidiot — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:07:21 +0000

The Espys were on last night. I dont think I have ever actually seen the Espys, but they are like the Oscars for sports.

Tiger Woods won three trophies at the ESPY Awards on Wednesday night, including his fifth male athlete of the year award, giving him a career-leading 21 wins in the show`s 16-year history.

Woods surpassed retired cyclist Lance Armstrong for most wins as male athlete.

Even after hearing that they were on I could not bring myself to watch the award show, instead I watched Ocean’s 11 on TV with commercials for the 8th time.