If you’re anything like us, you’ve been sitting around on the couch, watching the best athletes in the world compete for international greatness while you stuff your face with Funyuns and refill your beer helmet thinking, “Where the hell do all these amazing athletes come from?”
Well, if they’re from the United States, they probably come [...]
The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges
August 13, 2008 - 3:40 pm
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Dude, That’s Not a Hot Dog: Food of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games Revealed!
August 7, 2008 - 3:26 pm
The Chinese have been dogged for years about their strange choice in cuisine. So to prepare for the 2008 Summer Olympics, which kick-off fully Friday in Beijing, the “People” combined some of their staple ingredients with American ballpark food, in a last ditch attempt to appeal more to the rest of the world.
COED’s 2008 Chinese [...]
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The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: #1
July 13, 2008 - 4:02 am
#1 Stanford University
Number of 2008 Olympians: 31
This place is more an Olympian-making machine than a school. If you’re good enough to get into Standford, and good enough to play on their teams, chances are you have a good shot at getting to the Olympics. Topping off the list with a whopping 31 Olympians, Stanford earned [...]
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The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: (4-6)
July 13, 2008 - 4:01 am
#6 University of North Carolina
Number of 2008 Olympians: 14
Sunny North Carolina owns the U.S. women’s field hockey team, with six of their olympians in Beijing for that sport alone. In fact, every single Olympian from UNC is female. This is the first Olympics since 1996 in Atlanta that the U.S. has had a qualifying [...]
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The Top 9 US Olympic Athlete Producing Colleges: (2-3)
July 13, 2008 - 4:00 am
#3 The University of California - Los Angeles
Number of Olympians: 17
In addition to providing 17 members of Team USA, UCLA has students or alumni competing for countries across the globe, from Canada to Belize to the Bahamas. UCLA comes into Beijing with multiple gold medal winners and eight return Olympians. How do they get so [...]
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