I don’t get it. In my house, I can’t even display a single Pablo Sandoval bobblehead doll without being severely rebuked; and just forget about that Corona Extra neon sign. But the boyfriend of Florida gymnast Melanie Sinclair wants to turn her apartment into a giant weapons cache, and that’s perfectly fine. Life stinks and […]

When we last saw Nastia Liukin, the Olympic gymnast was hitting the beach with fellow Olympian Alicia Sacramone & other bikini-clad gals. And now that a full year has gone by since her balancing acts in Beijing, we wonder what Nastia’s been up to.

Fortunately, Liukin - like all tech-savvy athletes these days - has a […]

We already mentioned it as a throwaway link in yesterday’s Speed Read, because it was a funny parody of the strange treatment of thoroughbreds in the horse racing industry but nothing meriting more than one line in a morning post, but in case you missed it THE ONION put together an obviously, ludicrously fake piece […]

My first reaction on hearing that a Cincinnati man was arrested for having sex on a jungle gym (”Please be Cedric Benson, please be Cedrick Benson, please be Cedric Benson …”) was uncalled for, and I apologize. It was actually a man named Douglas Cooper, who will surely now have his own chapter in the […]

Saw Chandler’s post Monday on the Georgia women’s gymnastics team and it brought back memories. My first foray into sports media was actually covering the team as a student for UGA’s daily RED AND BLACK.

(I also needed chalk - hours later in my locked dorm room)
I remember pining for the gymnastics beat at a […]

I’m all for positive reinforcement, but this is taking it a bit too far: NEWSDAY reports that a gymnastics coach in Port Jefferson Station, NY, has been fired and arrested after allegedly rewarding one of his students for nailing a difficult maneuver. Which sounds like a good idea, until you release that the “reward” was […]

Picture this week of one of my favorite athletes.

Click the pic for the owner of the *strong* stomach.

After the Beijing Olympics, 17-year-old Shawn Johnson suddenly has one of the world’s most recognizable faces. She’s young, she’s an Olympic gold medalist (she would have won more than one of those, if not for Alicia Sacramone), and she’s had her own official fan club since before her 15th birthday. In fact, that’s part of […]

Brown football players don’t exactly get a lot of press. Then again, most of them aren’t dating two-time Olympian and general machine of gymnastic voluptuousness Alicia Sacramone. But there’s always the exception to the rule, and ladies and gentlemen, we now know who the exception to that rule is: defensive back Eric Hunt!

(Yup. She has […]

The global financial crisis is threatening to tone down spending for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.  Existing venues may be used for some events in lieu of constructing new ones.  The event, which was already slated to be smaller in cost and physical size than the 2008 Beijing Games, is having trouble securing loans […]