Posted on February 13, 2013. Tags: Amateur Sports, Beach Volleyball, Bronco Cup, Corporatization, Denver Bronco, Golf Tournaments, Mascots, Olympic Events, Olympic Games, Olympic Movement, Olympic Wrestler, One Life To Live, Pole Vaulting, Pro Golf, Professional Players, Professionalization, Rulon Gardner, Sports Olympics, Television Coverage, Wsj
I just found this article at the WSJ by Jason Gay. It has several gems in it. First the mighty Olympic wrestler whose “miracle on the mat” win in 2000, Rulon Gardner, says this about the IOC decision to ditch wrestling from the Games: “The Olympic movement used to be about amateur sports,” Gardner told […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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Posted on August 15, 2012. Tags: Beach Volleyball, Beefcake, Dive Bars, Frat House, Good Measure, Hooliganism, Kerri Walsh, Lochte Ryan, Michael Callahan, Millionaires, Misty May Treanor, Nail Biter, Nbc Sports, Olympians, Olympic Games, Scantily Clad Women, Skeet Shooting, Sports Channel, Track And Field Events, Ugly American, Yachting
Before I leave the Olympic Games, I must give a shout out to Michael Callahan at the Philly Post who writes some awesome stuff and this is no exception! Somebody might think Callahan is anti-American but he is not: He’s just anti-ugly-American. A few highlights: But the next day, with NBC broadcasting on 50 channels, […]
Elwood "Sandy" Sanders is a Hanover attorney who is an Appellate Procedure Consultant for Lantagne Legal Printing and has written ten scholarly legal articles. Sandy was also Virginia's first Appellate Defender and also helped bring curling in VA! (None of these titles imply any endorsement of Sanders’ views)
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