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  • Shaun White on Jimmy Fallon

    6 Nov 2009 | 12:03 am
    Shaun White tells Jimmy Fallon about his Halloween and the voiceover sessions for his new video game during an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Nov. 4.

  • Team XC trains hard in Bend

    5 Nov 2009 | 12:28 am
    Team XC trains hard in Bend, Oregon, with several Olympic hopefuls preparing for the upcoming cross-country ski trial. NewsChannel 21's Jim Murray reports.

  • Lindsey Vonn on the Tonight Show, part 2

    4 Nov 2009 | 4:10 am
    Part 2 of Lindsey Vonn's guest appearance on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on October 28, 2009. Also appearing as a guest: actor Chris O'Donnell.

  • "One Day" Promo: Power of the Games

    3 Nov 2009 | 7:49 am
    Lindsey Vonn, Apolo Ohno and other top U.S. athletes reflect on the resilience and significance of the Olympic Games.

  • White's Olympic perspective

    2 Nov 2009 | 11:39 pm
    Shaun White realizes what his win in Torino meant. Now the halfpipe king shifts his focus to Vancouver, where he could become the first athlete ever to repeat as Olympic halfpipe champ.
 
 
 
 
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  • Glory of the Grind

    Leadership Dynamics
    6 Nov 2009 | 6:24 am
    “Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.” Samuel Johnson “How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.” Lou Holtz _________________________________________ Someone recently described his job description as being written in “…two parts caffeine, one part adrenaline and four parts blood.” Now, I’m not sure if that describes your personal experience or philosophy of ministry, but it certainly is descriptive of at least some weeks! Life and leadership is full of…

  • Pictograms: 2012 London Olympics

    wiedemar
    19 Oct 2009 | 9:51 am
    The pictograms for the 2012 Olympics – those tiny stick figures swimming and shooting guns – have been unveiled: The modern pentathlon is pretty cool. There’s also what they’re calling the “dynamic” version: Some vintage editions: Tokyo 1964. Mexico 1968. Munich 1980. Barcelona 1992. Sydney 2000. Beijing 2008. (Via CR Blog)

  • 125 days to go - Photo contest winners and new Summer Olympic sports!

    2010vanfan
    10 Oct 2009 | 7:58 am
    Yay!!  I now have winners for all five of the Air Canada pins!!  Thanks to Robyn, Carol and Stephanie!! Robyn - an Olympic Torchbearer and a fantastic person to work with - with the Mascots!! Carol with her Olympic Hockey jersey and pompom toque!! Stephanie with Sumi!! And her Vancouver 2010 shirt! Thanks Stephanie for sending 3 photos!! Thanks again to Tony, Jo-Anne, Robyn, Carol and Stephanie!  It’s so great to have 5 contest winners that all sent photos of themselves (no cactus in sight!).  I will be doing another photo contest soon as I have a few Royal Bank pins now to give…

  • 2012 London Olympic Stadium

    london2012online
    7 Oct 2009 | 3:17 am
    With the 2012 summer Olympics fast approaching, if you didn’t already know the venue is the UK capital, London. With England buzzing with excitement for this great tournament theres one  good reason for that, the new Olympic stadium, with a capacity of  80,000 its bound to be a great atmosphere! Its expected completion is sometime in 2011 with work ongoing from 2007 in the stratford area of London. At a whopping cost of £469 million ($808 million) its bound to be one of the, if not the best sport stadiums in the world. Heres a picture of how the olympic Stadium is coming along. The…

  • It's Rio Or Bust Baby .............

    tophatal
    5 Oct 2009 | 7:30 am
    So a decision has been made by the IOC (Int’l Olympic Committee) and the 2016 Olympic Summer Games has been awarded to the city of Rio De Janeiro , Brazil. And for all of ballyhooing , with regard to both the attendance of President Obama and that of the First Lady in Copenhagen, Denmark for the formal announcement. No amount of persuasion could be made in order for the games to be awarded to the city of Chicago, and the state of Illinois. When it was all said and done , the choice was made and the South American country was awarded the games. This will be the first games held in the…
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  • The Beijing Kung Fu Show

    4 Nov 2009 | 5:08 pm
    Discount Kung Fu Show Tickets - Red TheaterAt Diana’s Ticket Agency – The cheapest tickets in BeijingPhone number: (+86) 13671369234E-mail: bookingticket@hotmail.comThe Beijing Kung Fu Show The Legend of Kung Fu The Legend of Kung Fu follows the story of a young boy found wandering outside an ancient temple. Like every boy in China, he dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master. On the road to enlightenment the young monk encounters many difficulties and temptations.The show has English subtitles shown above the stage to keep you informed of the story line. The actors do not speak, the show is…

  • Discount Acrobats Show Tickets – Chao Yang Theater

    2 Nov 2009 | 9:46 pm
    Discount Acrobats Show Tickets – Chao Yang TheaterAt Diana’s Ticket Agency – The cheapest discount tickets in BeijingPhone number: (+86) 13671369234E-mail: bookingticket@hotmail.comThe Chao Yang Theater is the best place in Beijing to see the extraordinary feats of Chinese acrobats. The highly skilled and highly trained acrobats here will astound you as they leap through hoops, twirl through the air suspended on ribbons of silk, spin plates and cups on rods suspended from their foreheads, and perform other amazing tests of physical skill.Our Service: We can book the best seats for you,…

  • Direct Flights From Beijing To Tokyo Haneda

    26 Oct 2009 | 9:49 pm
    Sunday 25 October saw the first Haneda (Tokyo)- Beijing flights linking the Japanese and Chinese capitals.Previousy all direct flights were between Narita and Beijing Capital International Airport.There are around 1300 flights annually between the two cities. Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airlines and Air China will operate daily services from Haneda which is nearer to downtown Tokyo than Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture.Hotels in BeijingBooks on China and BeijingBeijing PersonalsTagsBeijing Flights China Flights

  • Dalian Port

    20 Oct 2009 | 10:32 pm
    大連Dalian is a major port on China's east coat for both freight and passenger traffic.There are ferry services to Tianjin and Yantai and to Incheon in South Korea.Located on the Yellow Sea, Dalian is the most northern ice-free port in China. The port has been occupied in its history by Britain, Russia and Japan.Hotels in DalianBooks on China and BeijingBeijing PersonalsTagsDalian

  • Seresin Wine Dinner

    19 Oct 2009 | 3:39 am
    MJ Loza, Roombmk and Wine Republic invite you to an evening on Friday 23 October featuring the wines of Marlborough, New Zealand at Ullens Center For Contemporary Art (UCCA).UCCA is a non profit, comprehensive art center founded in Beijing by collectors Guy and Myriam Ullens in November 2007.For more details telephone 010-58699038-115Hotels in BeijingBooks on China and BeijingBeijing PersonalsTagsBeijing Wine China Wine
 
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  • Flaws of the anti-call center speech by Rep.Raymond Palatino [Digg]

    6 Nov 2009 | 9:46 am
    Today we shall scrutinize the anti-call center speech delivered by Kabataan Partylist rep. Raymond Palatino as it gives exaggerated reports and points depicting our call center industry as a ghastly modern-day "slave ship" for us employees. I shall also point out the flaws specific errors in transcript delivered before Congress August 17, 2009...

  • House Bill No. 6921 For Call Center Agents: A Redundancy [Digg]

    3 Nov 2009 | 8:40 pm
    This new proposed bill in Congress for call center agents revitalized my fervor in blogging today as I can't help but be amused as how its details are so similar to existing labor laws already. I was planning to blog about a different story today but I felt discussing this bill's flaws presents more urgency.

  • Motorola Droid Hands-on Review [Digg]

    29 Oct 2009 | 10:53 am
    This is the one a lot of people have been waiting to get their hands on, and rightfully so! Verizon is out to get the AT&T & their iPhone, and they just may succeed with the Droid.

  • Why Can't We All Just Get Along?! [Digg]

    28 Oct 2009 | 11:35 pm
    A blog post about the current Modern Warefare 2 Controversies, the No Dedicated server issue, and the new leaked Airport Massacre footage and of course the controversy spawned from that as well.

  • The Boob Shirt [Digg]

    28 Oct 2009 | 11:01 pm
    Boobs. If you want brentalflosses mug on yours you can pick it up here. It's actually a bad ass shirt.
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  • British sport can have its own Berlin Wall moment

    Adrian Warner (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 3:45 am
    I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn, when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story that flashed around the world in seconds had a simple message - East German citizens could now leave the country without a visa. But what it really meant was that the Berlin Wall had just crashed down before our…

  • Winter Olympians back in action

    Ollie Williams (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:41 am
    We're now less than 100 days away from the 2010 Winter Olympics, which begin in the Canadian city of Vancouver on 12 February. As a member of our Olympics reporting team and an ice hockey commentator, I'll be in Vancouver (and Whistler) alongside Rob Hodgetts and Anna Thompson, covering the Games for the BBC Sport website. But the Games won't just emerge out of nothing. The world's top winter sports athletes are already getting stuck into the winter season - there is action all over the place as they cram in training sessions and try to get the kind of results, and confidence, that will see…

  • Vancouver lights the way for London

    Roger Mosey (BBC Sport)
    6 Nov 2009 | 2:12 am
    Another big milestone has been passed. The population's getting excited, and a key symbol of the Olympic movement is on its way to the site of the next Games. Yep, things are moving in Canada. It's now fewer than 100 days to the start of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the journey of the Olympic torch has begun. I should say I love Canada. How can you not be won over by a country with places called Moose Jaw and Medicine Hat? I've had a number of holidays over there and I'm particularly fond of British Columbia, the province that will be hosting the games in Vancouver and up in the…

  • Cycling's problematic pursuit of equality

    Matt Slater (BBC Sport)
    30 Oct 2009 | 6:59 am
    There are times when I think a seat on the sports administration gravy train might just be the very best place in the world: great food, first-class travel, the best seats for the big matches, fancy handbags and so on. And then I remember they sometimes have to make tough decisions - 50/50 calls that will leave lots of people annoyed no matter which way you call it - and wonder if I really would like that responsibility. World cycling's bosses are facing one of those lunch-spoiling dilemmas right now and the decision they appear to have made has certainly annoyed a lot of people, many of them…

  • The man behind the medals

    Tom Fordyce (BBC Sport)
    30 Oct 2009 | 3:52 am
    When Chris Hoy climbs onto his bike in Manchester for this weekend's World Cup, he'll have a weapon on his side that is the envy of all his rivals. It's not his carbon fibre bike, or something he's eaten, or some new trick in training that has somehow produced even more power in those famous quads. The weapon is a mild-mannered 56-year-old chap from the north-east of England who, by his own admission, knows "next to nothing" about professional cycling and has never once cycled round a velodrome. Steve Peters is the British team's psychiatrist, the Oliver Sacks of cycling. He has variously…
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  • U.S. women's hockey team to play Canada for Four Nations Cup

    Debbie Goffa
    6 Nov 2009 | 1:03 pm
    The U.S. women's hockey team will play Canada on Saturday for the 2009 Women's Four Nations Cup. The tournament, which began on Wednesday and is taking place in Finland, brought together the top four women's hockey teams in the world -- the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden -- and is the last international women's hockey tournament before the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in February. In today's match, the final one in the preliminary round, the U.S. beat Canada 3-2 behind Natalie Darwitz, who had a goal, Hilary Knight, who tallied a goal and an assist, and…

  • A hundred days until the Vancouver Games is just another day to Evan Lysacek

    Helene Elliott
    4 Nov 2009 | 2:33 pm
    While Olympic organizers marked the 100-days-out point before the Vancouver Games, world figure skating champion Evan Lysacek on Wednesday did what he’ll do with 99 days left, 98 days, and just about every other day before the Olympics. He trained long and hard, skating powerfully through a morning practice session at the Toyota Sports Center. Although a surprise blizzard delayed his return from last week’s Cup of China competition in Beijing, he was on the ice Wednesday as usual, sharing the surface with Italy’s Carolina Kostner, 2008 U.S. champion Mirai Nagasu, Bebe Liang and others.

  • San Jose to host 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships

    Austin Knoblauch
    4 Nov 2009 | 12:44 pm
    The 2012 U.S. Figure Skating Championships will take place in San Jose, the U.S. Figure Skating Assn. announced today. The nationals will be held at the HP Pavilion on Jan. 22-29, 2012. San Jose also hosted the nationals in 1996 when Michelle Kwan won the first of her nine championships. The 2010 nationals and Olympic trials will be held in Spokane, Wash., in January. -- Austin Knoblauch

  • Dates set for announcements of men's Olympic hockey rosters

    Helene Elliott
    4 Nov 2009 | 9:13 am
    Circle the dates on your calendars.  The International Ice Hockey Federation today announced the dates that teams participating in the Vancouver Olympics will announce their 23-man rosters. In alphabetical order, the list is: Belarus: Dec. 23Canada: Dec. 31Czech Republic: Dec. 30Finland: Dec. 30Germany: Dec. 30Latvia: Dec. 29Norway: Dec. 29Russia: Dec. 25Switzerland: Dec. 30Slovakia: Dec. 29Sweden: Dec. 27U.S.: Jan. 1 (during NHL Winter Classic)Each team can name 20 skaters plus three goaltenders. There will be no taxi squads. The last day to change the roster will be Feb. 15, when members…

  • U.S. men's Olympic hockey team to be announced Jan. 1; U.S. women win Four Nations Cup opener

    Helene Elliott
    3 Nov 2009 | 12:49 pm
    The 23-man roster for the U.S. men's Olympic hockey team will be announced Jan. 1 during the NHL's Winter Classic game at Fenway Park. The announcement of the team that will compete at the Vancouver Games in Canada will be made during NBC's national telecast of the Philadelphia Flyers playing the Boston Bruins on a temporary rink set up in the middle of Fenway Park. "It’s terrific to have partners like NBC and the NHL,” said Dave Ogrean, executive director of USA Hockey, in a news release. "I think by announcing our men’s Olympic team as part of the broadcast…
 
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