sportsjabber.net

You are browsing the archives of Olympics.

U.S. Olympian Lolo Jones is one of the biggest track and field stars in the world right now. She’s also considered one of the most photogenic and sexiest people in the 2012 London Olympics.

ESPN did a great feature on her [...]

The Men’s Ice Hockey World Championships are already three days into the books, over the next nine days each country will have each played a total of seven preliminary round games to determine which team will move forward (the top four from each group.)
The Carolina Hurricanes are [....]

The United States’ soccer team will not be headed to the Olympics thanks to an epic goalkeeping gaffe. The U.S. Under-23 team tied El Salvador 3-3 on Monday night, ending its Olympic dream, but the play that cost them a trip to London will be remembered for quite some time. Young keeper Sean Johnson allowed [...]

This interview is a product of some wonderful people. Thanks to Meg (bbyao06) for the incredible graphic. Thank you to our own Brian Geraghty, writer, SJ Member who submitted some wonderful questions, without so this interview wouldn’t of happened. Thank you to Jeanne Martin who got the questions to Debi Thomas for us, for her [...]

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)—Sarah Burke was an X Games star with a grass-roots mentality—a daredevil superpipe skier who understood the risks inherent to her sport and the debt she owed to it. The pioneering Canadian freestyler, who helped get superpipe accepted into the Olympics, died Thursday after a Jan. 10 crash during a training run [...]

The banner year for the USWNT continues as the World Cup run led to their three main stars: Alex Morgan, Hope Solo, and Abby Wambach being nominated for the highest individual honor a women’s soccer player can achieve. The following ten women soccer players are up for the title of FIFA Women’s World Player of [...]

After just over five years as the manager of the United States men’s national soccer team, the United States soccer federation has announced that Bob Bradley has been fired and will no longer be the manager of the USMNT. Bradley took over the job from Bruce Arena in January of 2007 and lead the USA to [...]

How do you sum up her career?

-23 Veteran of the Women’s National Team
-2005–2007 Captain of the U.S. National Team
-Runner up World Player of the Year ’06
-U.S. Soccer Player of the Year 1993, 2005, 2006
Played in 5 World Cups– 1991,1995,1999,2003,2007
-Played in 3 Olympics– 1996, 2000, 2004…

Michael Phelps hasn’t been on the scene as of late, so it’s quite possible that some of you may have been wondering how he was doing. Well, if the above picture means anything, he is doing quite alright. And if that single picture isn’t enough of an indication on how well Phelps…

If you thought the inaugural edition (November) of SJ Magazine was spectacular, just wait till you get a load of the Holiday (December) edition!

This incredible compilation of timely & pertinent sports & fun intellectual capital will knock your stockings off the fireplace!