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Multimedia -08-11-08 Lezak's Amazing Finish (NBC Olymics.com) Watch the fastest relay split in history. 08-08 News -02-25-06 Gowdy, Curt (USA Today) " 'He's certainly the greatest play-by-play person up to this point that NBC Sports has ever had,' NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol said Monday. 'He literally carried the sports division at NBC for so many years on his back. ... He was a remarkable talent, and he was an even more remarkable human being.' " 02-06 -03-27-09 Female Athletes Have More Concussions (ABC News) "In sports played by both women and men, women sustain more concussions. The girls' concussion rate in high school soccer is 68 percent higher than for boys. And it's nearly triple the boys' rate in high school basketball, according to research by scientists at Ohio State, Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, and the NCAA. Other studies reveal similar differences between softball and baseball, in college sports as well as high school. Yet researchers, including Brooks, find that female athletes get less information than males about concussions from all sources, including coaches, trainers and the media. Generally, women athletes don't consider concussions a serious phenomenon." 03-09 -06-07-08 Jim McKay, Olympics and ABC Announcer Dies (ESPN.com) "Jim McKay, the venerable and eloquent sportscaster thrust into the role of telling Americans about the tragedy at the 1972 Munich Olympics, has died. He was 86." 06-08 -06-07-08 Jim McKay, Wild World of Sports Announcer Dies (ABC News) "Jim McKay, 86, a longtime television sports journalist, has died of natural causes in Maryland, according to a statement from the McKay family." 06-08 -06-07-08 Sports Journalist Jim McKay Dies (Wikipedia.org) "James Kenneth McManus (September 24, 1921 – June 7, 2008), better known by his professional name of Jim McKay, was an American television sports journalist." "McKay is best known for hosting ABC's Wide World of Sports (1961–1998)." 06-08 -08-08-07 Bonds Hits Record Number of Home Runs (Chicago Tribune) "On a chilly Tuesday night, before a sellout crowd at AT & T Park, a very different looking Bonds, this one rippling with muscle and upper body mass, became the most prolific home run hitter of all time. He rifled a 3-2 fastball in the fifth inning from Washington Nationals left-hander Mike Bacsik into the center field bleachers for the 756th home run of his career, breaking the record Hank Aaron had claimed from Babe Ruth in 1974." 08-07 -08-13-08 Michael Phelps: Greatest Olympian (Time.com) "At the Beijing Water Cube around 10:30AM, Michael Phelps swam two races, and won more gold medals. He broke two more world records, and got himself a new title: the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time." "He now has five gold meals in these Olympics, and 11 in his career, moving past Mark Spitz, U.S. track and field legend Carl Lewis, ex-Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, and Finish distance runner Paavo Nurmi for the all-time record." 08-08 -08-13-08 Phelps Wins Most Gold in Olympic History (CBS News) Tied no more. Michael Phelps swam into history as the winningest Olympic athlete ever with his 10th and 11th career gold medals and fourth world record of the Beijing Games." 08-08 -08-15-08 Phelps Ties Spitz's Gold Record (USA Today) "Phelps won his seventh gold medal in Beijing, tying Mark Spitz's record from the 1972 Games. Eight golds would give Phelps the greatest single Olympic performance." 08-08 -08-16-08 Announcer: Phelps Is "the Greatest Olympian of All Time" (U.S. News) "Cheering from the pool deck, Michael Phelps won his record eighth gold medal of the Beijing Games on Sunday to become the grandest of Olympic champions." " 'The Beijing Olympics has witnessed the greatest Olympian of all time - Michael Phelps of the USA,' the announcer said as Phelps posed on the deck with his teammates." 08-08 -08-20-08 Bolt, One of the Greatest (NBC Olympics) "Usain Bolt of Jamaica etched his name into history Wednesday as one of the Olympic greats, indeed one of the greatest athletes of all time." "And while no evidence of any sort has surfaced to suggest he's not, it's naïve not to wonder how Bolt is able to run so fast. Because no one in the history of human beings, from the first primitive soul desperately trying to outrun a saber-toothed tiger to the sophisticated races of our times, has ever run as fast as Usain Bolt has run at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games." 08-08 Athletic Ability Tests (MSNCNET.com) "Sports Potential, in Palo Alto, Calif., has developed a series of tests and sophisticated software to calculate an individual's aptitude for a wide range of sports--from baseball to bobsledding. After a two-hour test, the company's Web-based software can illustrate a subject's physical traits, such as body composition, power, speed, agility and endurance, and compare the results with people in the same age group." 02-06 CNN International Sports (CNN and Sports Illustrated) 1-05 Fox: 10 Most Powerful Women in Sports (Fox Sports) "Here's a list of 10 of the most powerful women in sports and how they got there...." 12-05 Sports News (CNN and Sports Illustrated) 6-05 Sports News (ESPN) 1-05 Papers FoxSports: Sports Events of 2005 (FoxSports.com) Provides Peter Schrager's list of best sports stories for 2005. 12-05 Sporting Heroes Search (Sporting-Heroes.net) Search by name, country, decade, and sport. 01-06 Supervision of P.E. and Sports (SportsMedia - Van Damme) Provides tips for supervising over a dozen P.E. and sports activities. Periodicals Sports (CBS Sportsline) Sports Illustrated for Kids Provides articles and activities of interest to kids. 2-00

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