ESPN – Cheek wants to meet with Chinese officials after having visa revoked – Olympics
So speedskater Joey Cheek, a co-founder of Team Darfur (a collection of athletes who promote Darfur awareness and seek to end the crisis there), just got his visa to go to China revoked. He was supposed to travel to Beijing tomorrow [...]
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More on Team Darfur
Posted in Globalization, Links, Sports, tagged Darfur, Olympics on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Olympics Are Coming
Posted in Globalization, Links, Sports, tagged China, Olympics, Sports on July 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In spite of some of the ominous clouds hanging over the Olympics (not just the rain clouds!), I find myself getting somewhat excited for the Olympics. I mean, it’s a time when the world can come together and enjoy sport, right? That said, I intentionally avoided buying any Olympics-related merchandise in China as I was [...]
Learning new things
Posted in Sports, tagged march madness on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More about Joe Alexander (I’m often learning new things as a result of March Madness). The West Virginia SF/PF with nasty game and an unusual, globe-hopping background. Let’s see.
Tall, wiry-strong frame, and sick game with a solid midrange jumper (check the release point!), and jump-out-of-the-gym [...]
Madness
Posted in Sports, tagged march madness on March 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
How breathtaking, watching these young men
Playing for their colors and their blood
What bedlam – brackets formed
No sooner set than cruelly broken
Behemoths roar and beat their chests
While underdogs circle, sniffing for weakness
Here, much glory will be claimed and won
Legends written in leather and twine
But how fleeting a glory that can be
Glass hearts quickly shattered by capricious [...]
