Kevin Angus Sinex appears to have died on the job as a part of the crew of PPV pro wrestling show. What a pity when I life is cut short: especially when it happens to such a respected and experienced backstage technician as Kevin Angus Sinex who had even worked on the Atlanta Olympic Games opening ceremony. RIP Kevin and cond

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Alicia Sacramone is a up and coming star and a current champion in the U.S national team for gymnastics. However, she has come to a point where she has to choose to concentrate on her studies in college or should she pursue her dreams of becoming an Olympics medalist ? If it was you, would you pursue your dreams and break the s

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The Beijing Olympics are getting closer and closer, and more people are considering going to the most populated country in the world to watch. I don’t really condone China and their policies, but for those who want to make the trip, here are a few important reminders. China has only one time zone. All places in China use Beijin

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The English version of the song, "Light the Passion Share the Dream", composed by a renowned musican Chris Babida, will follow the same style as the Chinese version, which debuted on April 26 at the unveiling of the planned Olympic Torch Relay route, to provide warm feeling and light the passion for the audience.

The beauties were divide

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Did you enjoy watching the Olympics? Did your countries athletes do as expected - were the billions well spent. This post looks at some of the highs and lows, but focuses on the British Cycling Team - who won seven of the ten track gold medals, plus one road race gold. The Team, particularly psychiatrist Dr Steve Peters worked

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The Olympic Torch Relay has been marred by violence, protests, and idiocy around the globe. So it’s no surprise that Beijing is telling their critics around the world to avoid mixing politics with the Olympics, but it’s just so hard when they do the very same. However, how guilty would we all be if we were to accept an Olympic

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With all the news and outrage over the nation’s history of human rights offenses and oppressive maneuvering, China’s leaders issued a plea asking the world to stop mixing sports and politics. This comes as the possibility of a general boycott of the opening ceremonies by various governments gains momentum, which threatens to se

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Celebrating her 24th birthday, the reigning Miss World from China Zi Lin Zhang shot a music video for "The World Follows Me", the torch relay song sung by Zhang and other four models for the Beijing Olympics.

"This had been the most special birthday celebration for me. While I was fulfilling my duty as Miss World, I felt

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Yang Peiyi is the name of the girl that sang for the opening ceremony in the Olympics in China but never actually made an appearance. Her singing was recorder and a different girl appeared in the ceremony. The second girl Lin Miaoke, appeared to sing but she didn't. The truth came out when the press went crazy over the lip sin

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When Michael Phelps trains for a competition like the Olympics, he really trains. Most days he swims four miles in preparation. Others he works outside of the pool on building muscle mass and endurance. The man is a machine and its no wonder that he’s on pace to set an Olympic record of 10 Olympic Golds in his career. Everyone

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Les James takes a satirical stab at certain blocs of people that are obsessed with "fairness" and equality of outcome over achievement, and uses the stunning achievement of Michael Phelps to illustrate his point with humor and absurdity. This is a great example of just what I would expect from a rising new star of humor. I ho

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Amidst the heavy security, speed skating Olympic champion Yang Yang was the first to carry the torch on the southern tropical island of Hainan, with basketball star Yi Jianlian together with the reigning Miss World frm China Zi Lin Zhang (in photo) also made an appearance. The torch will travel through more than 100 cities and

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Willy Wang won the gold medal in the combined events of men’s nanquan and nangun (bare fists) held at the Olympic Sports Center. Wang scored 9.74 points during his performance and lead a close point against Brazil who was second with 9.72, followed by Macau at third with 9.71 and Taipeh in fourth with 9.70.

"We have a stron

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The clock is ticking on both presidential candidates to select running mates and there is even less for them than you might think. Sure the Democratic convention kicks off one month from today, leaving the candidates just over four weeks to make a selection. However, sixteen of those days will be devoted to the Olympic games an

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When it was revealed that NBC payed a record $900 million to televise the 2008 Summer Olympics, many felt that the price was too high. But in this case, it seems like NBC knew what it was doing as the ratings have been much better than expected. Yes, you could say that they got a little lucky with some intriguing story lines an

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Cash jackpot incentives worth up to 237,000 US dollars await the first athlete to win an Olympic gold medal for the Philippines, according to sports authorities. It is set to grow as the country's 15 Olympic athletes begin their quest in Beijing on August 8.

"My fearless forecast is that they will be successful," Philippi

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