Posted on July 14, 2012. Tags: Ancient Sports, Athletic Career, Competition Soccer, Different Cultures, Household Names, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, London 2012, Lucrative Event, Modicum, Olympic Basketball, Olympic Soccer, Professional Athletes, Quality Team, Serious Sports, Soccer Tournament, Soviet Bloc, Sports Competition, Sports Event
Yesterday, I blogged on someone who DOES GET IT: Michael Callahan at the Philly Post! Today, Theodore Furchtgott, at Real Clear Sports takes the opposite position: Olympic Soccer should be more like basketball! Yes, really: And though the Olympic basketball cannot match the NBA in terms of general quality, Team USA will include such household […]
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 April 23, 2012. Tags: 1972 Olympics, Aafes, Allegiance, Brave Americans, College Basketball, Communist Bloc, Empty Space, Forty Years, Gold Medal, Heirs, Hillary Clinton, Ioc President, Medal Ceremony, Medal Of Freedom, Personal Story, Podium, Presidential Citizens Medal, Presidential Medal Of Freedom, Secretary Of State, Silver Medal, Silver Medals, Soviet Bloc, Tangible Symbol, Team Medals, Team Play, Ticket Stub, United States Team, Us Allies, Usa Basketball Team, Ussr
I was pondering this issue that ought to be finally dealt with. It has been forty years since the USA basketball team was robbed of their gold medal due to politics and enormously bad calls. Try this conclusion: The US immediately protested against the result, with their appeal being heard by a five-man panel. The […]
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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