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24 October 2008
books of basketball, the Philippines is included in the very first tournament of basketball in the Olympics. The Philippines is the most dominating country in basketball in all of Southeast Asia and was once one of the basketball powerhouses in all of Asia. Filipinos love basketball more than any other sport in the world. Even soccer's not as appreciated here.
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10 October 2008
I don’t know why, but it occurred to me the other day that clothing really changed sports. In ancient Rome, sports were played in the nude. Seriously. That’s probably why there were no
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20 August 2008
As Red Sox nation already knows, shortstop Julio Lugo went down on the 15 day disabled list with a strained left quadricep. In 82 games, Lugo has struggled offensively and defensively; commiting 16 errors with 1 homerun and only 22 RBIs. However, an injury to Lugo gave rookie Jed Lowrie a chance to prove himself and he has done just that.
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3 August 2008
The Russian passport was not just a ticket to the Olympics for Hammon. Her dual-citizenship increased the value of her CSKA Moscow contract substantially; dual-citizens are highly coveted by the Russian league because its rules limit the number of foreign players they are allowed to employ, and players like Hammon can conveniently side-step this rule with a Russian passport. So, then it became a matter of straight-up probability. Does she take the sure thing: a guaranteed spot on the Russian team, or turn that down and gamble on a long-shot: making the U.S. 12-player team, for which she was only invited to try out after the invite list had been expanded beyond its original 23. She did not feel that she had a legitimate chance to make the team, and like most athletes, the idea of competing in the
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11 January 2008
y with the harmful drugs, but more prominently disgraced herself, her sport, her teammates, and the Olympics in which she competed. Her crime was largely symbolic, though I do not deny the gravity of her misdeeds. Then there’s Scooter Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff who outed Valerie Plame as a CIA operative shortly after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, published an op-ed piece questioning whether or not Iraq had actually sought uranium yellowcake from Niger. It is an indiscretion that, politically motivated or not, bears enormous consequences for Plame, personally, leaves our national security exponentially more vulnerable, and causes our intelligence infrastructure to grow mistrusting of the executive branch. Do we really hold the purity of sports to a higher standard than we do the life and death issue of war? Marion Jones doped up to get a competitive edge and did not do so as a deliberate attempt to destroy others. Libby’s indiscretion was directly infringing on somebody else’s safety, valuing his own political career above another’s life.
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