Haha. We like it when our favorite athletes get surly like our favorite cantankerous aunt. Sharapova, the most popular tennis star (yeah she’s more popular than Roger Federer), is criticizing the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) for forcing her to do a four hour commercial shoot a day before a tennis tournament. She’s also asking her [...]
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Russian Official Predicts: We’ll Get 30-40 Golds in Beijing
Like the Olympic predictions we’ve been featuring here, we will soon find out in August whether Boris Gryzlov is correct or not. Xinhua: Russian athletes may win 30 to 40 gold medals at the Beijing Olympic Games, Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the State Duma, lower house of the parliament, said on Wednesday. Olympic games has [...]
Pasha Grishuk: Drugged
Whoo. This is juicy news. But disturbing too. Who would think of drugging Olympic gold medalist Pasha Gishuk with GHB, “a predatory drug that can be mixed with alcohol to reduce resistance from a victim before a sexual assault?” Could it be the butler? The waiter? The candlestick maker? Whoever s/he was, we hope that [...]
Vladimir and Alina Sitting in a Tree
Ahh, our first Olympic-related love story. We don’t blame Russian President Vladimir Putin for shopping in the young girls section, but Alina Kabaeva what are you thinking? According to reports (a.k.a. rumors), which the Russian President pooh-poohed, the two are planning to tie the knot sometime in June after the lovestruck Vlad (he looks smitten [...]
