Is it possible to win an Olympic gold medal and still have no one know your name? If we had a chance to pose that question to Dawn Harper I think she would respond with a resounding yes. In 2008 Dawn took home the gold for Team USA in the 100 meter hurdles. This alone should have made Dawn a household name, however Dawn happened to be in the event with one Lolo Jones. See…
For our third and final post focusing on the people rumored to be lighting the flame at the 2012 London Olympics, we move on to Daley Thompson. Full disclosure, I don’t like Daley Thompson and I really hope that he isn’t chosen to light the 2012 Olympic Flame tonight in London. I didn’t know much about Daley Thompson before we began researching the people who might potentially be asked to light the Olympic Flame –…
The bookmaker’s favorite before the recent surge by Sir Roger Bannister, we present to you another potential to light the London 2012 Olympic flame, former Olympic rower Sir Steve Redgrave and his wife Lady Ann Redgrave. For his part, Sir Redgrave believes himself unlikely to be chosen to light the Olympic flame – though the bookies clearly disagree. For our part, we understand the allure. Claiming a rowing Gold medal in five straight Olympics, over…
In the first post on our series of potential people to light the Olympic flame and be the final torchbearer, we present the odds on favorite Sir Roger Bannister and his wife Moyra Jacobsson Bannister. When we say odds on favorite, we’re serious: British bookmaker William Hill has upped Bannister to even money after a surge in recent bets on the first four minute miler to be the final torch bearer. We have to admit…
We’ll be upfront on this one – Yohan Blake does not appear to have a girlfriend currently. And who could blame him? After besting the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, not once but twice in the Jamaican Olympic trials, he has a lot to focus on next month. He will be a frontrunner to win medals in the 100m and 200m sprints. But all that’s not to say he isn’t interested in women……
Everyone loves a good story of redemption. With all the buzz in sports related to performance enhancing drugs (aka PEDs), we figured what better story to tell than that of Jessica Hardy’s. Just prior to competing in the 2008 Olympics, Hardy tested positive for a banned substance. All the while pleading her innocence, her suspension was eventually reduced from 2 years down to 1 when it was determined her positive test was due to a…
If the Colts are looking for help next year on the O-Line to protect Andrew Luck I think we have found the answer. (and we’re not being insulting… the star high school football player once told the New York Times very plainly, “I like to hit people.”) Many of you know Nick Mangold, star center of the NY Jets. Very soon Nick will be taking a backseat to his sister Holley. Holley is a 22-year-old…