Georgia has a true freshman track and field athlete that is likely to make headlines in International competition: Kendell Williams. Williams, a true freshman from Marietta, recently completed the indoor/outdoor sweep after being namedU.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) indoor and outdoor National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year. In her freshman season, she won the NCAA indoor pentathalon crown, as well as the outdoor heptathlon crown. She is the only Freshman on the Bowerman Trophy watch list, which honors the NCAA's best track and field athlete. The semi-finalists will be announced tomorrow. Great season by a DGD. TD
I'm pretty sure the Brazilian Olympic Bid Committee did this to each of the Selection Committee members.
This is hilarity. Confession: I have an unnatural fear of elevators, especially elevators when the lights go off. If Linda Blair were to show up in the elevator when the lights go out, I'm pretty sure the elevator would have to be closed for serious bio-hazard detox. There is nothing about my pride or need for safety that would overcome my urge to ball up in the fetal position and crap myself if this happened. I'm guessing everyone short of Herschel and Chuck Norris would do the same.
I'm guessing the Spanish athletes will not be pulling their normal amounts of sex while wearing this. Maybe that is the motivation behind it? Now I am really worried about the European debt crisis, since it appears Spain bought their Olympic uniforms from the trunk of a car parked over an underpass.
I predict the hat will become the ultimate in ironic hip things from these Olympics, no?
One of the biggest stars on the US Olympic team is former Georgia Bulldog and current shot put monster Reese Hoffa. (Image: SI.com) On top of being what seems like a hell of a nice guy, he's the kind of person you pull for in life.
When he was four years old, his mother put him and his brother in an orphanage after they accidentally burned the house down while playing with matches. Let that one sink in for a minute the next time you think you had a tough day. Here's an excerpt from ESPN the Magazine:
When Hoffa was 4, his birth mother, Diana Chism, put him and 6-year-old brother, Lamont, in an orphanage after the siblings burned down their house in Louisville playing with a lighter. Reese was soon adopted by Cathy and Steve Hoffa, who lived with their four kids on a farm in Bardstown, Ky., but Lamont stayed behind.
The younger boy missed his brother but was afraid he'd be sent back if he complained. He was also the only black kid around, one so introverted and unsure of himself that after a year, Cathy asked if he'd like to change his name as a way to shake things up. And so Maurice Antawn Chism became Michael Reese Hoffa, beginning a process of reinvention that leaped ahead after the Hoffas moved to Georgia and Reese fell in love with sports. "It was the only thing that was genuinely mine," he says.
The story of his rise from such a tragic situation to emerge as a dominating world class athlete is incredible. He is one of the most amazing stories in the games. By the way...he can throw a 16 pound ball 73 feet. Wow.
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