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Get Your Medals Ready: Exactly One Year to Go Until the 2012 London Olympics
At Trafalgar Square in London on Wednesday evening, the International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge will formally invite the world’s athletes to London for the 2012 Games. But there’s more going on today than just …
QUOTE: NFL Teaches Washington How It’s Done
“I hope we gave a little lesson to the people in Washington because the debt ceiling is a lot easier to fix than this was.”
— ROBERT KRAFT, New England Patriots owner, speaking about the end of the NFL lockout (via CNN)
NASCAR Pastor’s Head-Turning Prayer: ‘Thank You For My Smokin’ Hot Wife’
As a pastor, hopefully Joe Nelms doesn’t channel his inner Talladega Nights too often in his Tennessee church. But he sure did pull a Will Ferrell during the invocation at a Nashville Superspeedway NASCAR race on Saturday.
The End of the NFL Lockout: What Each Side Got
The NFL lockout came to a close on Monday afternoon, as player representatives from all 32 National Football League teams approved a new collective bargaining agreement that the owners ratified last Thursday night. “Football is …
Quote: Steve Williams on Being Fired as Tiger Woods’ Caddie
“Realistically I could look back, and I’ve wasted the last two years of my life because he’s played infrequently, he’s been injured and played poorly.”
— STEVE WILLIAMS, who served as Tiger Woods’ caddie for 12 years until …
Tiger Woods Dumps Longtime Caddie Steve Williams
A golfer-caddie relationship is a rare thing in sports.
Poll: Derek Jeter Unseats Kobe Bryant as America’s Favorite Athlete
LeBron James didn’t even make it on the list.
Tom Watson Sinks Hole-in-One at British Open
The cheers may have exceeded the decibel level of a normal golf clap – but no one seemed to mind.
The Roger Clemens Mistrial: Isn’t the Government Broke Enough?
Your government failed you today.
Women’s World Cup: Team USA Moves On to the Finals
If America wins this World Cup, can we just bronze Abby Wambach’s head?
North Korea Wants to Co-Host 2018 Winter Olympics
Put aside the fact that North Korea and South Korea struggle to even field a unified Olympic team. Let’s jump right to co-hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics, awarded last week to Pyeongchang, South Korea.