Lochte Makes History at Phelps’ Expense
Today at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, Ryan Lochte got his second straight victory over Michael Phelps to assert a potential changing of the guard among the American contenders […]
Today at the FINA World Championships in Shanghai, Ryan Lochte got his second straight victory over Michael Phelps to assert a potential changing of the guard among the American contenders […]
We used to take their dominance for granted. But after the events that unfolded in Shanghai on the opening day of swimming the 2011 FINA World Aquatics Championships, the four-year […]
For the second straight year, we’re left wondering what might have been as Rafael Nadal fell in the quarterfinals on a Wednesday in Melbourne. Last year it was a knee […]
Sunlight finally finds its way through the clouds here in Eugene, illuminating the penultimate moments of 2008 as the annual clock ticks toward midnight. Along the way we’ve witnessed the […]
It is amazing how short a span of time is really represented by one-hundredth of one second. For some, that hundredth signals a sigh of relief on the road to […]
So I had every intention of keeping daily posts as the Olympics go on in Eugene. The problem with life is that oftentimes our greatest intentions can be derailed by […]
Several thoughts before the Games of the XXIX Olympiad commence tomorrow in Beijing… Tyson Gay and his battle against the Jamaican tag team of Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell in […]
The alarm clock on the cellphone shot staccato bursts of angry awakening through my eardrums. The grey ball of fluff and claws curled above my head on his raised pillow […]
It seemed crazy at first. Beijing is among the worst-polluted cities in the world. The Chinese government said all would be clear by the time the Olympics began. But even […]
We’re only XII days removed from the start of the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, we’ve just finished stage XIX of Tour de France number XCV, and here I come […]