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Superfan Daily: Olympic Sprint Brouhaha
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted February 15, 2011 at 2:34pm

The big overnight news is in relation to just-released London Olympic scheduling and ticket prices. In the track and field world, it's not the prices (up to $1168 for prime seats for the sessions which includes the men's 100 meters final). Rather, it...more

Boxing after 2700 years
by Inspiring Sports Women
posted January 21, 2011 at 1:09am

Two months to go before the tickets for the London Olympics 2012 go on sale. No prizes for guessing that the boxing is high on my list of things to see, it is very exciting that women are finally being allow to compete.Anyone watching the amateur world ch...more

Alicia Sacramone has something to prove
by Pretty Tough
posted January 18, 2011 at 7:40pm

Everyone loves a good comeback story. Gymnast Alicia Sacramone is living one. As a young stand-out, Sacramone anticipated making her Olympic debut at the 2004 Athens games. However she performed poorly at Nationals that year and nearly quit the sport. ...more

Softballers defect
by After Atalanta
posted January 13, 2011 at 3:12pm

Word came out yesterday that the biggest names in women's softball will not be playing for the US National Team this year. They have all decided to play full time for the National Pro Fastpitch, which is the professional league in the US. Jessica Mendoza'...more

Superfan Daily: Exhibit on '36 Olympics and Jesse Owens
by The Track & Field Superblog
posted January 5, 2011 at 8:49pm

It recently came to my attention that the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage now has a special program titled “The Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936”, a traveling exhibit of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. It seeks to explain how the Olympic Games ...more

Canada's Second Favourite Hockey : Field Hockey
by alilee05
posted January 3, 2011 at 9:54am

With the title "the first field hockey sports blogger for WTS," I feel the necessity to update everyone on field hockey. Since the sport is not as well-known in Canada, I can only assume it is also not as popular in the USA. So, we're going to touch basis...more

The Life of an Olympian: Not as Glamorous as You'd Think
by Loree: A Skirt, A Hammer, A Life, and A Dream
posted December 17, 2010 at 2:04am

Training is as training is. It’s nice to be back on routine again and training full time, but I had a great trip at the convention. It’s always motivating for us top athletes to get together and talk and train. I think if USATF development asked...more

Bringing Changes to the 2022 Winter Olympic Games
by nerdbarry
posted November 30, 2010 at 12:38pm

The United States Olympic Committee USOC is not only looking to further the athletic accomplishments but make sustainable environmental changes to the Winter Games. And with the bid for the 2022 games being award in 2015, they must move fast with their ef...more

Navy SEAL tough
by Dr. Borlabi
posted November 16, 2010 at 2:04pm

Women may not be allowed to join the Navy SEALs but they can experience a day in training…and ROCK it!...more

Rest and Relaxation is coming to an end...
by Britney Henry - Olympian in Progress
posted October 28, 2010 at 7:18pm

Rest and Relaxation~ “Rest and Relaxation” has been my daily motto for the past 7 weeks! I have had no plans, came and went as I pleased and enjoyed spending some quality time with friends and family. Next week, I will be back to the daily grind of ma...more

Team Arizona has a new coach!
by Pretty Strong
posted October 27, 2010 at 5:25pm

We are proud to announce that Performance One (Team Arizona Weightlifting) has hired 1999 World Champion and 2x Olympian Shahin Nasirinia to Coach our Olympic Weightlifting Team and work with our Strength and Conditioning Athletes. Coach Nasirinia wil...more

Tuff-n-uff MMA Weigh-in Photo Plus 145 Tournament Preview
by MarQFPR
posted October 22, 2010 at 3:08am

Tuff-n-uff amateur MMA hits Vegas tonight at the Orleans Arena, which will be streamed for $10 on GoFightLive.tv.   Nikki Rae Lowe (Left) & Latasha Marzolla (Right) The popular 125 pounder LaTasha Marzolla (2-0) makes her way back ...more

Olympic pricing: Equality? Economics? Gender?
by After Atalanta
posted October 19, 2010 at 9:11pm

What equality is remains contextual and questionable. I don't know much about economics. And gender continues to present so many interesting issues with which to contend.Hence all the questions in the title of this post.But what I really want to talk abou...more

SportsGeeks™ Featuring Olympic Silver Medalist Sara McMann - Oct 13,2010
by SportsGeeks™ Womens MMA Womens Tackle Football
posted October 13, 2010 at 6:51pm

Join Rammy and MarQ as we interview Olympic Silver Medalist (in wrestling) Sara McMann on her upcoming MMA fight and how her transition from wrestling to mma went...Sara McMann Listen to internet radio with SportsGeeks on Blog Talk Radio ...more

Opals Coach Graf already pushing for Taylor, LJ to take next WNBA season off
by Swish Appeal
posted October 5, 2010 at 3:07pm

Opals Coach Graf Already Pushing for Taylor, LJ to Take Next WNBA Season Off Coming off their disappointing finish in the World Championships, it's not surprising that Coach Carrie Graf is already blaming the WNBA season for her team's lack of success. ...more

Review: Dara Torres ‘Age is Just a Number’
by Byline to Finish Line
posted August 18, 2010 at 12:48pm

She became an American icon in the 2008 Olympics — well after she already was one of the best swimmers in U.S. history. But there is something we love about a comeback story, about people doing things which our collective conventional wisdom tells us i...more

Pictures of Chinese gymnasts tells story
by One Sport Voice
posted August 15, 2010 at 5:06pm

A colleague of mine sent a link to the msnbc.com photoblog which included the picture you young Chinese gymnasts in training you see here. If you remember China was under storm after the 2008 Beijing Olympics when the age of some of their female gymnast...more

Dodging Blocks
by sfoxmaple
posted August 10, 2010 at 10:10pm

If you ever want to get anywhere on the football field, you’d better learn to follow your blockers. Defensively, if you want to make the stop, you have to shed that same wall of weight. Evade with speed or bulldoze with power; the goal is to avoid th...more

Amanda Beard in the news
by Athletic Women Blog
posted August 4, 2010 at 5:41pm

Seven-time Olympic medalist Amanda Beard returns to competitive swimming this week, and along with that naturally comes a return to celebrity life, in not entirely predictable ways, as it turns out. For instance, the New York Times recently ran a profile...more

Amanda Beard's new life
by After Atalanta
posted August 2, 2010 at 2:15pm

The New York Times published an article this weekend about American swimmer Amanda Beard and the new stage of her life. She became a mother about a year ago and is working on a comeback in competitive swimming (she'll be competing in nationals this week; ...more

Women's MMA - August - a Month of Champions
by MarQFPR
posted August 2, 2010 at 3:13am

Welcome to the Fightergirls column on Women Talk Sports brought to you by your source for women’s mma gear and clothing Fightergirls.com. Here is the news for this week.   Top 125 pounder Carina Damm  In breaking news, #2 ranked 125 p...more

Women's MMA - August - a Month of Champions
by MarQFPR
posted August 2, 2010 at 3:11am

Welcome to the Fightergirls column on Women Talk Sports brought to you by your source for women’s mma gear and clothing Fightergirls.com. Here is the news for this week.   Top 125 pounder Carina Damm  In breaking news, #2 ranked 125 p...more

London, Here I Come - for Summer Olympics 2012!
by Karen Kefauver: Travel Journal
posted July 29, 2010 at 6:40pm

The Olympics would not usually be on my radar now, but I have joined a group, Journey to the Games, to go to London for the 2012 Summer Games, so the countdown is ON! Just 700+ more days... Background - Going to the Olympics is on my Bucket List I have b...more

British women training for Olympic boxing ring
by The Glowing Edge
posted July 16, 2010 at 6:48pm

One of the things I love about this Wall Street Journal video is not just that the WSJ is spotlighting a few of the thousands of young women whose dreams of boxing in the Olympics are now a real possiblity, but also that they show a more balanced view o...more

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