If You Want To See A Guy Give His All To Get A Spot On The Olympics

Then this guy should be your hero.
Quoth FanIQ:

Third place was where the drama was at. Make sure to pay attention to the right side of the video as the runners come home down the final stretch. Christian Smith, a member of the Oregon Track Club and 29th qualifier out of 30, dives ahead of defending national champion Khadevis Robinson to earn a trip to Beijing.

If You Want To Know What Sean Avery Is Doing

The NHL player is interning with a fashion magazine and wooing models.

He even has dealt in some romantic prose to a female fashionista:

“I’m going home to jerk off to you now.”

And how did that go?

“the session is going well.”

If You Want An Awesome Motivator For Your Rugby Team

Try beer.

“If, say, there are more than 20 players at training for a specific period then we could reward those players with beer vouchers.

“We are trying to encourage the guys to have a more professional outlook because it is difficult for small clubs to attract players when there are around seven clubs in the area. In the past our team has often picked itself; we want to encourage more competition for places.

“Giving tokens or vouchers as a form of win bonus would hopefully create an extra edge because we believe a good chance exists to win our league and move up.”

Key to Broughton’s aspirations, says Brown, is the retention of Graham Bonner as club coach while developing a director of rugby role to build on work done in conjunction with neighbours Edinburgh Accies and Trinity Accies who also contribution to a youth team called the BATS.

Captain Dan Arrandale addressed a recent meeting and, along with vice captain, Johnny Beaton, urged the 25 players present to sign up to a Code of Conduct.

Meanwhile, Broughton’s pre-season training officially gets underway on Tuesday at Raeburn Place in conjunction with Edinburgh Accies. The early rounds of the cup are likely to be staged on August 16 depending on the outcome of a Championship Committee meeting at Murrayfield tonight aimed at implementing the wishes of last week’s SRU annual meeting.

Whether Border clubs, some of whom were in the vanguard so far as moves to re-model the cup on regional lines, compete is still open to question, according to Terence Froud, the Hawick president.

Speaking to Scottish Rugby Radio, Froud said: “There is still to be another meeting in the Borders to decide whether we will take part in the cup.

“There is a huge body of opinion that says we’re not.

“We have to look at the fixtures and see what congestion is going to be impounded on the clubs if they have to take part in a Border League, cup fixtures and an extended league without playing on international days.

“I feel there is room for everything if we use the eight international weekends.

If You Are Worried About Terrorism At The Beijing Olympics

Never fear. The Chinese Police are on the case.

Officials have bought 100 Segways and painted some in military camouflage to patrol airports and sporting venues during the Games.

In one drill, police posing as terrorists held ten badminton audience members hostage, ’shooting dead’ four ‘hijackers’, capturing two and defusing a mock car bomb.

The exercise was to test the province’s emergency response and involved 1,500 people.

The Segway was the brainchild of American Dean Kamen, who claimed at its 2001 launch that it would make the car obsolete in congested cities. It has since been the object of some derision, however.

If You Want To Know Where Your Stimulus Checks Went

Just guess.

An independent market-research firm, AIMRCo (Adult Internet Market Research Company), has discovered that many websites focused on adult or erotic material have experienced an upswing in sales in the recent weeks since checks have appeared in millions of Americans’ mailboxes across the country.

According to Kirk Mishkin, Head Research Consultant for AIMRCo, “Many of the sites we surveyed have reported 20-30% growth in membership rates since mid-May when the checks were first sent out, and typically the summer is a slow period for this market.”

Jillian Fox, spokeswoman for LSGmodels.com, one of the sites reporting figures to AIMRCo, added, “In a June 15, 2008 survey to our members, thirty two percent of respondents referenced the recent stimulus package as part of their decision to either become a new member, or renew an existing membership.”