You may remember the lovely Kara Goucher from the Bejing Olympics… probably not because she finished 9th in the 5000m and 10th in the 10000m , but more likely because of the attention a certain Redeem Team player was throwing her way.
Well, today the married Mrs. Goucher is making headlines again, finishing an impressive third with a time of 2 hours, 25 m… Click to read more

FOX To Stream Fall Premieres For Dorms
In a first, Fox will stream the premiere of “Fringe” and season opener of “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles” online at the same time as they bow on TV.
But there’s a catch: Only computer users on college campuses will be able to log in to watch the simul-stream.
Move helps Fox expos… Click to read more

The perfect weapon–vicious talent, inhuman flexibility, super hotness–Anastasia “Nastia” Valeryevna Liukin reigns as star of the 2008 US women’s gymnastics team at the Beijing Summer Games.
With nine World Championship medals already in the bag–and a fresh Olympic gold, which she earned Thursday night in the… Click to read more

If you’re anything like us, you’ve been sitting around on the couch, watching the best athletes in the world compete for international greatness while you stuff your face with Funyuns and refill your beer helmet thinking, “Where the hell do all these amazing athletes come from?”
Well, if they’re from the United States, th… Click to read more

No opening ceremony for any Olympics before has been so well-directed, massive, awesome…or made us wish we were on drugs so much as the incredible spectacle of Beijing’s opening ceremony last Friday night. The drums, the lights, the giant screen and 15,000 people running, fighting, flying–it was a visual orgasm.
But we’ve done… Click to read more

After shattering the world record and snagging Olympic Gold in Saturday’s 400-meter individual medley, Michael Phelps officially pwns the water.  It seems every time he takes the block, he breaks another record… and usually it’s his own.  Arguably, Phelps is super-human, but super-HERO?
Extra Mustard wondered just that, by sizing… Click to read more

Recently, we put together The Ass-Entials of Beach Volleyball, which covered the sport from a, uh, lower-angled perspective. But since then, we’ve actually watched the sport and realized it’s one of the greatest gifts to man this side of micro-brews and all-you-can eat BBQ.
So this time, we’ve gathered together all the women’s… Click to read more

#1 Stanford University
Number of 2008 Olympians: 31

This place is more an Olympian-making machine than a school. If you’re good enough to get into Standford, and good enough to play on their teams, chances are you have a good shot at getting to the Olympics. Topping off the list with a whopping 31 Olympians, Stanford earned their first medals of the 2008… Click to read more

#6 University of North Carolina
Number of 2008 Olympians: 14

Sunny North Carolina owns the U.S. women’s field hockey team, with six of their olympians in Beijing for that sport alone. In fact, every single Olympian from UNC is female. This is the first Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta that the U.S. has had a qualifying field hockey team. And they snagged t… Click to read more

#3 The University of California – Los Angeles
Number of Olympians: 17

In addition to providing 17 members of Team USA, UCLA has students or alumni competing for countries across the globe, from Canada to Belize to the Bahamas. UCLA comes into Beijing with multiple gold medal winners and eight return Olympians. How do they get so many, you ask? Well, if i… Click to read more

No, this is not a PR ploy by the WNBA to put women’s basketball back on the American tongue… but the sports world is a-buzz today with reports that American born, point guard Becky Hammon has opted to play for the Russian National Basketball team in the 2008 Olympic Games.
From Newsday:
That’s right. Becky Hammon, the WNBA point guard from A… Click to read more