With less than two weeks until the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics, Beijing’s air quality is the poorest its been in months
Even with the Chinese government’s plan to limit emissions sources, officials haven’t seen positive results. During the opening ceremony of the Athletes’ Village on Saturday, the housing com… Click to read more

It’s official, the 2008 Beijing Olympics are here!
Milk has unleashed their Olympic themed Got Milk? advertisement in this weeks Sports Illustrated to celebrate the 2008 games, which kick off on August 6th.
Ten athletes appear in the advertisement, including swimmer Ryan Lochte, softball pitcher Cat Osterman and MLS standout Sacha Kljestan.
Che… Click to read more

Luckily for you, we’ve taken out all the obnoxious actual volleyball, and distilled it down to the best bits. The WNBA should take a look at what the AVP is doing, we’re guessing it would up their viewership a point or two…… 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

Six Signs Your Summer Fling Won’t Last
Once your tan fades, so will the love. End it now if you’re the type who gets attached. There’s no way the two of you will make it past August. [CollegeOTR]

UT Student Trades Out Political Signs
A UT economics senior sparked the idea for an online program that allows Hillary Clinton supporters to trade i… Click to read more

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With colorful flags a-waving, there isn’t a more fruitful time than now to start thinking “Gay” for the 2008 Olympics.
Tyson Gay has been a middle-to-top-class sprinter in the 100m and 200m dash for the last few years – in 2005 he was the “4″ in the U.S. 200m 1-2-3-4 sweep – but the recent spring in his step has earn… Click to read more