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Sports Central August 14, 2004 Greg Wyshynski |
We're No. 3! What does the bronze medal mean to you? Runner-up to the runner-up? Close, but no cigar? How about ... LOSER? |
Sports Central September 1, 2004 Diane M. Grassi |
Olympics Coverage Fails U.S. Women's Teams Now that the 2004 Summer Olympic Games have come to a close, it might be the right time to evaluate the television coverage and the accessibility to view the sports U.S. fans most coveted during the Games. |
Sports Central August 14, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Thumbs Down For Olympic Coverage I mentioned last week that I didn't get into the Summer Olympics as much as usual this year. Much of the reason, I'm afraid, was NBC's television coverage of the London Games. |
Sports Illustrated August 16, 2000 Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
Sports Illustrated September 23, 2000 Grant Wahl |
Coming of age U.S. men's soccer joins ranks of the world's best... |
Sports Central August 7, 2012 Brad Oremland |
Olympics: Gymnastics is Not a Sport I still believe what I wrote almost a decade ago: "If you need judges from seven countries to vote on who won, your activity is not a sport." |
Salon.com November 7, 2000 Jake Tapper |
Winners & losers While we're waiting to find out who will be the next president of the United States, and the returns on other races are still coming in, it seems like a decent moment to target other -- more conceptual -- winners and losers from Tuesday night... |
Sports Illustrated September 20, 2000 Steve Rushin |
Swimming's hidden secret In a 20-Meter Hotel Pool Freestyle Free-For-All, I promise I could beat the Thorpedo. |
Sports Illustrated October 2, 2000 |
Thanks for the memories SI writers weigh in with their favorite Sydney moments... |
Science News February 25, 2006 |
A Lunar Ski Jump This link leads you to audio and video of Olympic aerialist and gold medal winner Eric Bergoust discussing the amazing possibilities of ski jumping on the moon. |
The Motley Fool August 13, 2004 Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Olympic Malaise With the Olympics kicking off two weeks of heated global competition, I'm left asking some obvious questions. Will General Electric achieve a decent return on the $793 million it is paying for exclusive stateside broadcasting rights? |
Salon.com September 21, 2000 Gary Kamiya |
The morning after Australia comes to terms with the fact that reports of Ian Thorpe's divinity were slightly exaggerated. |
Sports Illustrated October 2, 2000 |
Top moments 'Best ever' Games churned out memorable moments... |
The Motley Fool August 30, 2004 Phil Wohl |
Olympics: No Ad Bonanza The showcase for the world's athletes doesn't produce marquee names for advertisers. |
Sports Illustrated September 26, 2000 |
Sydney Pen Pals Thanks to the Sydney Olympics' internal computers, I can reach all the athletes via e-mail. So I e-mail 3,000 of them, 60 at a time, and ask them: What single thing has happened to you at these Olympics that you will never forget?... |
Sports Illustrated April 5, 2000 |
What's in and what's out Q&A on the Olympics: Anything like Triplecast in the future?... Handball... Surfing... Mary Slaney and Amy Van Dyken... Why no golf?... Michael Bennett... Will Bahamas team win the 4x100-meter relay?... |
AskMen.com Leandre Low |
Sage Kotsenburg Interview We spoke to gold medal winner Sage Kotsenburg about what he goes through right before a competition. |
Sports Illustrated October 2, 2000 Jack McCallum |
The Dream is over Do we understand this now? Is it clear? Could it be any more obvious? This Dream Team idea is finished. Time to stop sending pro hoopsters to the Games... |
Sports Central August 25, 2008 Brian Cox |
Running With Heavy Burdens in Dark Shadows For the USA track and field athletes, these Olympics have been about missed opportunities and devastating losses. |
Sports Illustrated March 3, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Defining the Olympic Spirit Welcome to the first Sydney 2000 Mailbag, where we'll discuss anything and everything relating to the Summer Games.... |
Sports Illustrated May 5, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Olympic burnout factor Q&A on the Olympics: increasing surge of interest rising in the 2000 Games in the U.S. public and media?... How does the United States' shot put, discus and hammer throwers look this year?... Has the IOC ever considered offering "at large" berths to athletes... etc. |
Salon.com September 18, 2000 Gary Kamiya |
Lanes of glory A flying Dutchwoman, an underdog Italian and the irrepressible Americans make swimming history at Sunday night's showdown in the water. |
Sports Illustrated September 17, 2000 Kelli Anderson |
Clock's ticking Jenny Thompson's chance at individual gold grows shorter |
Sports Illustrated December 5, 2000 Rick Reilly |
Paralympic Paradox You thought there was a boatload of cheaters at the Sydney Olympics? You should've seen what happened when the Games were over. That's when the worst cheaters of all arrived -- the paralympians... |
Sports Illustrated October 12, 2000 Tim Layden |
Missing the action NBC's tedious telecast was caught in a time warp. Not only were the features overtly sappy and obvious, but the pacing of the telecasts was glacial... |
Sports Central August 8, 2012 Diane M. Grassi |
Shocker: Unsportsmanslike Conduct at Olympics The entire world is watching, and given the attention that the global media has recently dedicated to unethical behavior of certain Olympic athletes, sports fans could mistake it for a newly introduced Olympic sport of its own during these 2012 London Summer Games. |
Sports Illustrated September 12, 2000 Jack McCallum |
Scorecard What's worse -- suing to go to the Games, or just not caring? |
Sports Illustrated September 26, 2000 John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
Sports Illustrated September 11, 2000 |
A new sport: Olympic Web surfing Greetings from the Surf Shack at the athletes' village here in Sydney. The Shack is the computer haven athletes drop by to build their own Web pages and design personalized T-shirts. For the next two days, we'll be sampling some of the highlights from Web pages created at the Shack... |
Sports Illustrated February 1, 2002 Tim Layden |
Good news, bad news U.S. Olympians will get intense scrutiny, support... |
BusinessWeek August 9, 2004 Katie DeWitt |
NBC's Marathon Of Coverage Spread over seven channels, the network will offer more programming than the past five summer Olympics combined. And for the first time, all 28 Olympic sports will air on TV. Will viewers have the stamina to stay tuned for more than 1,200 hours of Games? |
Sports Central April 7, 2010 Jean Neuberger |
NCAA Tournament Winners and Losers From the first day until the last heave by Gordon Heyward that just missed, March Madness outdid itself this year. |
Sports Central June 29, 2010 Brad Oremland |
Why I Don't Love Soccer Why has the beautiful game of soccer, something easy both to play and to understand, failed to make headway against baseball and basketball and American football? |
Sports Illustrated March 28, 2000 |
Jaws IV: Snack Time in Sydney Triathletes at the Sydney Olympics this summer might be swimming with the sharks? |
Search Engine Watch August 21, 2008 Erik Qualman |
NBC's Olympic Fool's Gold; Google Comes Home Empty-Handed It's understandable that an older-school company like NBC may get some things wrong, and rely on old metrics to judge success. But Google didn't exactly turn in a world-record performance for the Olympics either. |
AskMen.com Mark Simmons |
soccer betting What do we think about when high-budget sporting franchises come to mind? Baseball? Basketball? Hockey? Although all of these might be valid answers to the question, soccer should also be added to the list. |
Sports Central August 13, 2012 Angus Saul |
What London 2012 Was Really About London 2012 was all about passing on the baton. We can only hope that the baton is passed with good grace, and that sport will benefit from such a marvelous event. |
Sports Illustrated April 28, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Cuban diver sees stars and stripes Will Ramirez make it to the Olympics?... Some thoughts about the difficulties Athens is having as it prepares for the 2004 Olympics... The Sydney organizers are planning to send an Olympic torch into orbit on the shuttle Atlantis... |
Sports Illustrated September 25, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Out of the shadows Despite controversy, track athletes excel |
The Motley Fool February 28, 2006 Seth Jayson |
Gold-Medal Upsets Some of the Olympic games' most interesting upsets have interesting lessons to teach growth-oriented investors. |
AskMen.com December 8, 2000 |
Movie Reviews: Vertical Limit, Proof of Life, Dungeons & Dragons Vertical Limit's trailer showed the best clips of the film... Russell Crowe can't top Gladiator performance in Proof of Life... D&D is a big loser... |
Sports Illustrated August 8, 2000 Brian Cazeneuve |
Inside Olympics Competition will be fierce when America's best dive into the Olympic trials |
AskMen.com May 22, 2013 |
Greatest Soccer Matches In the spirit of personal fandom, here is Simon Kuper's list of the moments in soccer he'll never forget. |
Sports Illustrated February 20, 2002 Rick Reilly |
Go Fourth ... and Disappear Win a medal in Salt Lake City, and you're treated like a returning astronaut. The rest of your life is just walking past smiling bouncers into the coolest parties and having the words "Olympic medalist" follow your name. Fourth place? Never heard of you... |