Should US Olympic Training Be Federally Supported?
Here’s a short post about the sacrifices made to make an athlete an Olympian. Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be Olympians. It …
Here’s a short post about the sacrifices made to make an athlete an Olympian. Mama, don’t let your babies grow up to be Olympians. It …
A number of media outlets are reporting that NBC will lose about $200 million dollars on the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games broadcast. The network paid …
In Thursday’s 800m final, David Rudisha set the track on fire with a new world record — the first ever under 1:41.  He led from …
The Olympics hooked me from my earliest memories of Bill Toomey, Lee Evans, and Jim Hines in Mexico City in 1968. Â The Super Bowl, …
I have been watching quite a bit of World Cup coverage, and the announcers seem to have gone out of their way to complement the …
Rio was selected to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Despite lobbying by President Obama, First Lady Obama, and mega-star Oprah, Chicago’s bid was eliminated …
Swimming has its version of the aluminum bat, an improvement in capital design that makes “labor” very productive, at least in an absolute sense. Maybe …
There’s an article on the front page of today’s Denver Post about the effect of the stumbling economy on the Olympics: Although the Olympic flame …
The opening ceremonies of the Beijing Summer Olympic games are today. I wrote a short article for the July/August issue of Foreign Policy on some …
The Olympic Games have long been regarded as the highest standard in the sport of amateur boxing, with fighters from all over the world battling …
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