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Olympian Eric Shanteau Gets Back In The Pool... Cancer-Free This Time

Olympian Eric Shanteau Gets Back In The Pool... Cancer-Free This Time

When you think Beijing Olympics and swimming, you probably think of Ryan Lochte or What’s-his-name Phelps. But Eric Shanteau was there and he was swimming with testicular cancer.
 

The 25-year-old Auburn grad had his day in the national news, but unfortunately it wasn’t for his medal count. Instead, it was because he was diagnosed with testicula...

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How to Seduce an Olympic Swimmer? Don't Be a College Girl

How to Seduce an Olympic Swimmer? Don't Be a College Girl

Matt Grevers sure was a busy guy this weekend. The Olympic swimmer and NU grad who took gold and silver medals in Beijing this summer was the Grand Marshall of the homecoming parade on Friday night.


But, of course, it's what he did afterwards that has got us all in an OTR-tizzy. According to a tipster, three sexy junior girls snuck into the You...

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Propagandists Accuse CNN of Propaganda

Propagandists Accuse CNN of Propaganda

Chinese pop music ranges from not-so-good to horrifically awful, which is why a recent Chinese attempt at propaganda makes you scratch your head more than that time you got lice in the second grade.


A ballad called “Don’t Be Too CNN” accusing the western press of propagandizing the political crisis in Tibet, during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Game...

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Columbia Student Wins Silver Medal In Beijing

Columbia Student Wins Silver Medal In Beijing

I may be a Dartmouth student, but I have to give it up to fellow Ivy Leaguer James L. Williams, a Columbia ’07 alumnus, for winning a silver medal in fencing at the Beijing Olympics.

 

 

 Fenciing.net reports,

 

Fencing in his first Olympic bout, James Williams went right after the more experienced French fencers. "Surpisingly, I didn't feel ver...

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Co-ed Magazine compiled a list of the “top 9 U.S. Olympic Athlete-Producing College.” Naturally, an Ivy League university took the top spot.

 

Over at College Candy, Northeastern blogger, Melanie, wrote an interesting op-ed about the growing number of Adderal users on college campuses.

 

Uncoached laughed at a man who tried to pass as a “porn in...

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Top 5 Most Agonizing Olympic Defeats

Top 5 Most Agonizing Olympic Defeats

Yesterday, Alicia Sacramone fumbled terribly, costing the American team 1.70 points in deductions. The Olympics are possibly the greatest test of mental preparation for any high level athlete. With the weight of one’s entire country to carry and the knowledge that the Olympics come only every four years, it is undoubtedly unlike any other event....

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Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Fresh Cream: All the News We Missed

Co-ed Magazine’s Seton Hall blogger, Steve Gebhardt, reported that the most difficult item to find on the Internet is the customized #4 Brett Favre Jets jersey.
 

If hot female Olympians don’t tickle your fancy, College Candy has a list of the hottest U.S. hunks competing in the Beijing games.
 

Uncoached proved that they have exquisite taste i...

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The Olympics' Best Opening Ceremonies

The Olympics' Best Opening Ceremonies

While the world watches the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games in Beijing, audiences are looking to be dazzled by an elaborate culturally-inclined opening show. The Chinese are spending close to $100 million on the costs of the ceremony alone.

 

The Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics typically showcase the country's history and cultural be...

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A Guide To Getting Lucky on 8-8-8

A Guide To Getting Lucky on 8-8-8

As superstitious brides and grooms inch closer to walking down the aisle tomorrow, the Olympic Games in Beijing prepare to kick off - both on the luckiest day of the year – 8-8-8.

 

The Chinese believe that 8 is a number that brings both wealth and good fortune, even the pronunciation of the number 8 in Cantonese and Mandarin is similar to that ...

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Ivy Leaguers Represent In Beijing

Ivy Leaguers Represent In Beijing

The Ivy League is known as the national elite union of brains and brawns. Made up of eight schools, the Ivy League has continually cranked out the nation’s best and brightest and this is just another example of how truly awesome we are.


The Ivy League has broken yet another Olympic/Ivy record and will be represented in four categories across th...

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