Phelps is a professional athlete, even though there isn't a professional swim organization (or maybe there is?) and he certainly has a right to support himself as an athlete.
Yeah, one of the things that really struck me this year was just a passing comment from the gymnastics commentators that the reason we're seeing all these older athletes -- especially the multiple men in their late 20s or so -- is that they can support themselves in gymnastics. It used to be that they all had to drop out after college. And that makes me think that it wasn't just the body types or the incredibly punishing nature of the sport all along, that the opportunity to do it was a bigger part of it than we ever admitted in the days of amateur-only.
I mean, not that that's a huge surprise. But I hadn't heard them acknowledge it before in quite that way.
Oh and a friend emailed me this info from CNN:
Barack Obama's campaign confirms that the Illinois senator will hold an event in his home state Saturday, kicking off the "roll into the convention" — but would not confirm or deny reports that he might be joined on stage by a running mate.
The event will be held in the Old State Capitol in Springfield — where Obama first launched his presidential bid a year and a half ago.
but would not confirm or deny reports that he might be joined on stage by a running mate.
I suppose if he was gonna pick me, he'd have asked me by now, huh?
The alligator hunter did not want his name made public, Berres said.
I bet it was Crocodile Dundee's brother, Alligator Dundee.
Maybe Alligator Dundee is his identical American cousin.
They're cousins, identical cousins and you'll find
That Amphibian Hunting is fun when you're two of a kind!
Maybe Alligator Dundee is his identical American cousin.
I suppose that when Alligator Dundee whips out an average length 15 foot Alligator, Crocodile Dundee says "That's not a prehistoric reptilian predator", then whips out an average length 19 foot Crocodile and says, "this is a prehistoric reptilian predator."
Does anybody race, um, grown-up horses?
You see a lot more mature horses in the meat and potatoes races than in higher levels, on account of the lack of a secondary breeding career value. Budroyale, Tiznow's gelded older full brother, was retired at 9. Tiznow, intact, retired at 4.
Another renegade gator in custody: [link]
The state's only gold medal winner is a 19-year-old soldier from Eatonton, Ga., who won in skeet. A possibly over-excited Eatonton resident told a reporter "This will put Eatonton on the map." Bless your heart, honey, but I think Joel Chandler Harris and Alice Walker have already done that.
