Tag: Olympics
Hey, nice Sweet Cheeks!
U.S. Olympic Snowboarder Hannah Teter is all about giving back. Having already pledged to give her recent winnings to support Haitian relief efforts, she has now taken her giving one step further. Although her feet aren’t the body part that is taking relief efforts to the next level. Teter this past weekend launched “Sweet Cheeks,” [...]
At the Olympics? Don’t forget to say “Thanks, Mom”
(Thanks to Christian Matthews of Taylor PR) If you’re the parent of an Olympian, you’ve undoubtedly put up with a lot over the years. Early morning practices, shelling out money to buy equipment, dealing with the highs of your child’s successes and the lows of their defeats…The Olympians realize what their parents did to put [...]
NBC’s Olympic coverage…or lack thereof.
How can you have 1 million hours of Olympic coverage, and still manage to piss people off? NBC shows us how. As some of you may have heard, there is this thing called the 2008 Olympics going on over in Beijing right now. As some of you may have also heard, there is this Jamaican [...]
The Cultural Significance of Michael Phelps
Lets get one thing straight…Michael Phelps is unstoppable. And, as it stands right now, he’s on top of the world, he is clearly the biggest story of the 2008 Olympics (even with Usain Bolt breaking world records with his shoe untied and his arms outstretched). But will Phelps’ dominance translate into endorsement dollars and have [...]
Giving Them The Business!
“Giving Them The Business” is the daily link dump for Sports Business Digest. Read and Enjoy. Don’t you just love it when these things write themselves? Roy Williams Loves Hooters! Maybe you don’t know who Josh Lewis is yet, but you will soon. This really speaks to the fact that athletes tend to think they’re [...]
