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Speedo’s LZR Racer On Nike Athletes

In the post, New Olympics Swimwear Breaks Records, I introduced SportsAgentBlog.com readers to the Speedo LZR racer.  Since then, the Nike company has been extremely nice to its clients, and in an unprecedented business decision, has decided to allow its sponsored racers to wear the Speedo LZR swim suit in the water in China.  After […]

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Olympics

Olympics Updates Round The Clock

I will admit it.  I’m an Olympics junkie.  I am extremely stoked for 8/8/08 to arrive and will undoubtedly be attached to the tube, cheering on the red, white, and blue to take medal after medal.  My one deviation from rooting for the U.S. is when former SportsAgentBlog.com contributor, Samyr Laine, runs the track for […]

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Olympics

Summer Olympics Quiz

The Nielsen Company invited SportsAgentBlog.com to help curate HeyNielsen.com’s Summer Olympics Trivia Challenge.  HeyNielsen.com is a new online social community for entertainment enthusiasts.  They asked me for some Olympic related questions, and I was glad to hand them over.  While only one question was selected, it was definitely a topic that was covered in this […]

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Soccer

Iraq drops soccer team

First the country started to break apart; now the soccer team has officially dissolved.  After losing 1-0 to Qatar on Sunday, the Iraqis failed to qualify for the last leg of the 2010 World Cup qualifying stages.  The Iraqi government and soccer federation canceled its soccer team and fired the coach Adnan Haman.  Iraq will […]