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What a year. The Olympics. A Presidential Election. So much noise this year – a colossal communications cacophony. What, then, stood out? The moments. With such a divisive political, economic and social landscape this year, we found that people...

Pankaration, Greece, Hellas, ancient, wrestling, boxing, martial arts, fighters, Hercules, Mythology, Olympic Games, legends, heroes, self defense, panmachia, combat, AlexanderThe influence of Greek culture on the entire human civilization is huge an...

SOMETIMES PEOPLE NEED A SWIFT KICK IN THE PANTS TO MAKE THEM PAY ATTENTION We’re not that up to speed on Hope Solo’s fan club or that she even has one. Most people dislike her for some reason. Her “dancing with the stars” debu...

Sachin Tendulkar gifts swanky BMW cars to PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar and Gopichand. All the three Rio 2016 Olympians and also the cricketing legend along with national badminton coach Pullela Gopichand came together under one crown at P.

Olympic Games History    2500 years ago a slave call girl from Sardinia named Gedophamee  (pronounced  Get-offa’-me) was attending the first athletic festival in Greece. This festival had no name.   In those days the athletes performed na...

Japanese surgeon, billionaire Katsuya Takasu gave the Nigeria Dream Team $390k after their bronze win at the Olympics. According to him, he’s yet to receive an official thank you from Dalung and sports body in Nigeria rather some of them doubt his...

I SWEAR TO GOD AND EVERYTHING YOU AND I CALL HOLY THAT THESE SOCIAL MEDIA TYPES NEED TO BE TAKEN OUT AND HUNG IN THE WIND UNTIL SENSE COMES ALONG TO HELP THEM OUT! ================================================== LinkedIn How a GIF of Aly Raisman&#...

I love the Olympics. A lot. (See Monday's post about hot to get over the Olympics.) So here's a handful of "Olympic funnies" from my tumblr page:(VIA)(VIA)(VIA)The top photo of these next 2 (Phelps beating Le Clos) was circulating with the caption...

Kenya’s runners impressed at the Rio Olympics, but to the country’s shame its officials were equally distinguished when it came to corruption. Six gold medals — including in both men’s and women’s marathons — six silvers and one bronze pu...

Kenya has disbanded its National Olympics Committee (NOC-K) because of the poor handling of the east African country’s team during the Rio Olympics, sports minister Hassan Wario said on Thursday. Wario has set up a committee to investigate the...

By Pauli Poisuo, Thousands and thousands of photographers have been shooting the Olympics for two weeks straight, and […]...

As Kenyans celebrated a historic medal haul at the just concluded Rio Olympics, the world was going wild over the country’s national anthem. The anthem, which was played at the closing ceremony as Eliud Kipchoge received his gold medal, sparked a b...

YUP YUP YUP AND MAN DOES SHE EVER DESERVE THIS! ================================================= SOURCE: THE WASHINGTON TIMES Goalkeeper Hope Solo has been suspended from the U.S. national women’s soccer team. (Associated Press) By Victor Morton &...

Like me and probably like you, my friend Clare Chate watched a lot of the Rio Olympics. Moved by the public failures some of these athletes endured, she wrote this post and prayer—which I’m sure will prove helpful for all us non-athletes too...in...

RIO'S SHINE SHADES OVER THE START OF THE FOOTBALL SEASONThe Rio Olympic Games have just finished and that two-week fiesta every four years has rightly had the lion's share of our hearts and minds again, despite the opening of the European football ca...

I rushed home from church after service yesterday to catch Claressa Shields' match at the Olympics.  To my surprise, church service ended early, so I had plenty of time to get to my computer and watch the live stream.Like one of the announcers p...

The Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro, August 6-21,2016, have come to a grand close today. We have no space here to cover all those terrific achievers from across the world. Therefore we will concentrate only on India, although it has been a disappoint...

I first posted this nearly exactly 8 years ago, after the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Some of it was specific to Beijing, but some of it still applies to today:That’s it? They just stop?!? We’re all addicted! There was no weaning period! Last...

Team USA bagged the 2016 Rio Olympics Men’s Basketball gold medal after making short work of Serbia in the Final, while Spain broke Aussie hearts in their battle for the bronze. *The following also appears on FIBA.com.USA over SRB, 96-66The USA wo...

Rio Olympics 2016’s Indian Star Players PV Sindhu, Sakshi Malik, Dipa Karmakar and Jitu Rai will get Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Awards. As we all know, Khel Ratna Awards is the highest Sporting honour in India. Since last few days Sindhu,... The post...

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