Olympics

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 20:24:23

I'm sad the Olympics are over. I sort of burned out on them in the first week, and then I had a bunch of stuff to do so I couldn't watch as much the second week.

I really hope Dara Torres competes in 2012.

by **smitty** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 22:32:51

pacino wrote:
smitty wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:Gold for America in Men's Indoor Volleyball!!!!

Hell of a $#@! story.

I was able to see the whole thing live on Canadian TV. Fantastic match as all of the volleyball games were.

It's interesting that I I had this image of hat volleyball players look like -- you know, California beach type guys. Well the US men didn't look like volleyball players. They looked like a gang of demented paratroopers.

But they played great. There were alot of GREAT long rallies and gobs of fantastic plays by both teams. But no one was going to deny the Americans in this Olympics. A heckuva story and a great team.

There was a guy from my high school who graduated a couple years before me who was a pro volleyball player in Europe. I'm from PA. I would think Cali has a high percentage of the elite vbers, but not all

A lot of the men's team is indeed form the midwest originally and they even have a guy from Hawaii. I think most of them went to college in California from my quick look at the bios. The do, however, look like demented paratroopers.

by **lethal** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 23:03:46

smitty wrote:
pacino wrote:
smitty wrote:
jerseyhoya wrote:Gold for America in Men's Indoor Volleyball!!!!

Hell of a $#@! story.

I was able to see the whole thing live on Canadian TV. Fantastic match as all of the volleyball games were.

It's interesting that I I had this image of hat volleyball players look like -- you know, California beach type guys. Well the US men didn't look like volleyball players. They looked like a gang of demented paratroopers.

But they played great. There were alot of GREAT long rallies and gobs of fantastic plays by both teams. But no one was going to deny the Americans in this Olympics. A heckuva story and a great team.

There was a guy from my high school who graduated a couple years before me who was a pro volleyball player in Europe. I'm from PA. I would think Cali has a high percentage of the elite vbers, but not all

A lot of the men's team is indeed form the midwest originally and they even have a guy from Hawaii. I think most of them went to college in California from my quick look at the bios. The do, however, look like demented paratroopers.

Penn State has a great men's volleyball team, so does Hawaii. Some Big XII schools are pretty good too. All the rest of the top college programs are in the Pac-10.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 23:05:07

Back in the old cold war days, E. Germany and W. Germany would rack up tons of medals.

Website · by **mark2st** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 00:48:27

lethal wrote:Penn State has a great men's volleyball team, so does Hawaii. Some Big XII schools are pretty good too. All the rest of the top college programs are in the Pac-10.

Men's volleyball at the collegiate level only has three conferences (MIVA, EIVA, MPSF). It's basically PSU and four or five teams from the MPSF (west coast schools) that compete for the national title. I think the reason for the lack of traditional conferences has to do with Title IX.

EDIT: There are no Big XII school that I know of, but it's a pretty good women's volleyball conference.

by 1 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 00:52:23

TenuredVulture wrote:Back in the old cold war days, E. Germany and W. Germany would rack up tons of medals.

what was the weather like in arkansas back then?

by **BigEd76** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 00:59:16

Borat's home country had 13 medals and 9 of them were from wrestling or weightlifting. And check out these names

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev
Yerkebulan Shynaliyev
Nurbakyt Tengizbayev
Askhat Zhitkeyev
Asset Mambetov
Taimuraz Tigiyev
Marid Mutalimov
Alla Vazhenina

and I like the name of this gold medal winner in weightlifting from Thailand:

Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon

by 1 » Mon Aug 25, 2008 01:02:18

too bad jon miller only does baseball

by **BigEd76** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 01:03:55

ha

"Prap...uh..wuh..joe...How bout we call him 'P.J.'? HAAAAFE!"

by **lethal** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 01:13:24

mark2st wrote:
lethal wrote:Penn State has a great men's volleyball team, so does Hawaii. Some Big XII schools are pretty good too. All the rest of the top college programs are in the Pac-10.

Men's volleyball at the collegiate level only has three conferences (MIVA, EIVA, MPSF). It's basically PSU and four or five teams from the MPSF (west coast schools) that compete for the national title. I think the reason for the lack of traditional conferences has to do with Title IX.

EDIT: There are no Big XII school that I know of, but it's a pretty good women's volleyball conference.

Yeah, I was thinking of the women's teams for the Big XII. I know Virginia just hired a coach for the women's team that was an assistant at Nebraska. And I guess the Pac-10 schools that I was thinking of are part of the MPSF.

by **jerseyhoya** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 15:10:22

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/more/09/02/jamaican.track/index.html

Jamaicans all hopped up on Mountain Dew or some such drugs.

by **stevemc** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 16:32:12

by **WilliamC** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 18:45:47

Haha... Shawn Johnson

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ms5d9RN0WzY[/youtube]

by **TenuredVulture** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 19:56:26

Shawn Johnson should fire her agent. Why should she be in a commercial with two guys who weren't even in the olympics?

by **stevelxa476** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 20:32:38

TenuredVulture wrote:Shawn Johnson should fire her agent. Why should she be in a commercial with two guys who weren't even in the olympics?

And whose voices are higher than hers.

by **pacino** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 01:18:26

Phelps smokes pot.

My world is turned upside down at the evils this man has wrought.

by **TenuredVulture** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 01:20:56

BigEd76 wrote:Borat's home country had 13 medals and 9 of them were from wrestling or weightlifting. And check out these names

Bakhyt Sarsekbayev
Yerkebulan Shynaliyev
Nurbakyt Tengizbayev
Askhat Zhitkeyev
Asset Mambetov
Taimuraz Tigiyev
Marid Mutalimov
Alla Vazhenina

and I like the name of this gold medal winner in weightlifting from Thailand:

Prapawadee Jaroenrattanatarakoon

Borat's from Britain.

by **kruker** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 01:34:32

pacino wrote:Phelps smokes pot.

My world is turned upside down at the evils this man has wrought.

Heaven save the children.

The ganja was a performance enhancing drug that increased his appetite so that he could consume all those extra calories. Take the medals back.

by **VFB** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 13:03:36

this is what jesus died for?

http://www.celebuzz.com/british-paper-b ... 31/photos/

by **kruker** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 14:23:20

He acknowledged the photo today and confirmed that it was him.

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