SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
We are now just 4 days away from the UConn Huskies football team opening up their 2008 campaign as they look to defend their Big East Championship (co-champs last year). I will have my preview up tomorrow since it will be a slow day here with the Boston Red Sox not playing tomorrow. This probably should [...]
LA Times (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
In her fourth Olympics and after a 19-year commitment as one of the mainstays of USA Basketball, she hopes for a fourth gold. BEIJING -- She hasn't let her mind wander. She has been resolute, not reflective.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
BEIJING (Olympics) – Australia’s Penny Taylor won’t be at full strength with a sprained ankle when she takes on the United States in the gold medal game on Saturday, and the Americans know what that means. Lauren Jackson, the player many believe to be the best in the world, will pick up the slack. Diana Taurasi, Jackson’s close ...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
BEIJING - The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold-medal game.
ScrippsNews (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
BEIJING -- United States women's basketball coach Anne Donovan has been preaching defense since the first day of practice to her group of WNBA superstars - Thursday at the Summer Olympics they found out why. read more
Indy Star (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
BEIJING -- The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold medal game.
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold medal game.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold medal game.
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold medal game.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
BEIJING -- The U.S. women's basketball team passed its first test of the Olympics, beating Russia in its closest contest in Beijing. Now it's on to a fourth straight gold medal game.
SI.com (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
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This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
posted @ Daily Kos I blasted Cokie Roberts in yesterday's weekly, "This Week With Barack Obama" because she deserved it. She put that red-herring, smoking gun word usage out that Obama is vacationing in some "exotic" place, called Hawaii and that he needs to go to Myrtle Beach, which implies "more American". I have held my tongue on the media using this word exotic, coding for "Obama is not
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 10/08/2008
BEIJING -- On a devastating day for United States volleyball, the American women's team opened the Beijing Olympics with a victory Saturday night against Japan. The four-set win came hours after Todd Bachman, father of former team member Elisabeth (Wiz) Bachman McCutcheon, was killed in a stabbing incident in an apparently random attack at a tourist site.
FIBA (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
BEIJING (Olympics) – It took a while for the United States to get going but once Diana Taurasi and Tina Thompson sparked the team into life, there was no stopping the Americans. Taurasi finished with 17 points and Thompson seven as the USA rolled to a 97-57 victory in Group B in front of United States President George W Bush who watched from the ...
SOX & Dawgs (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
Once again it’s time to go around the local media in Connecticut to see what’s being talked about in regards to the UConn Huskies sports that we cover here at SOX & Dawgs. Desmond Connor has some leftovers from Tuesday’s UConn football practice. Realfootball365.com has the UConn defensive line ranked #1 in the Big East. Walk-on Geoff Schultz [...]
