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Friday, August 10, 2012
Five things to watch at the Olympics on Friday
(CNN) -- The United Stateshas injury worries about the track as the basketball team worries in regards to a familiar foe.
Allow me to share five what to watch at the Olympics on Friday:
1) Men's 4x400 relay: U.S. hopes to carry on streak
The usa is lucky to be in the last, lucky, that is, that Manteo Mitchell found a method to finish his opening leg despite a broken fibula. The United States have to get a replacement for him as they challenge the Bahamas for the gold. Also be mindful of England, which will have almost all of the 80,000 fans at Olympic Stadium cheering for the children.
Final is a 9:20 p.m. London time (4:20 p.m. ET)
2) Basketball: U.S. having dreams about another last
TeamUsfaces veteran Argentina in what is seen as a tough semifinal matchup for that dominant Americans. Sure the us beat them 126-97 inside preliminary round, however it was obviously a one-point game at half and surely the Americans won't score 42 points from the third quarter again. Argentina figures to slow the sport down slightly and they are expected to have point guard Pablo Prigioni back.
London 2012: Live blog
Semifinal game begins at 9 p.m. London time (4 p.m. ET).
3) Cycling: BMX, baby
Eight riders, a great deal of jumps and bumps, some sharp turns, a lot of crashes. Because the New York Times said: "Given the carnage on display Thursday, it truly is safe to assume that whoever designed the BMX racetrack really dislikes BMX racers." Both males and females compete in cases where with semifinals and final on Friday.
Soccer: U.S. women beat Japan
The primary events begins at 3 p.m. London time (10 a.m. ET)
4) Boxing: Superheavyweight super fight
Defending superheavyweight champ Roberto Cammarelle takes on world No. 1 Magomedrasul Medzhidov. Cammarelle, from Italy, is one kind of only eight boxers to win three medals (they are already guaranteed leastways a bronze.) Like his opponent, Medzhidov is for the shorter side to the weight class, but he accocunts for for any usual reach disadvantage with a powerful punch.
Swim coach: Australia getting 'soft'
Boxing begins at 1:30 London time (8:30 a.m. ET). Superheavyweight matches can start 10:30 p.m. London time (5:30 p.m. ET)
5) Women's 4x100 meter relay: Chance at redemption
Running with two backups, the Usacame in just a hair of breaking the Olympic record. On Friday, Carmelita Jeter and Allyson Felix will be during the lineup with the Americans within their matchup against Jamaica. It really is unclear if Jeneba Tarmoh, Tianna Madison or Bianca Knight will run again. Each team is looking to get redemption as both teams botched handoffs at Beijing.
Genocide survivor leads path for Rwandan athletes
Round hands down the relays begins at 8:40 p.m. London time (3:40 p.m. ET)
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Decades after war, U.S. and Vietnam swap slain troops' papers
(CNN) -- U.S. Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty was in a tough spot and he knew it.
"If Dad calls, tell him I got close to being dead but I'm O.K.," he wrote to his mother. "I was real lucky. I'll write again soon."
Not long after that, Flaherty's luck ran out in the jungles of Vietnam. He never wrote to his mother again.
His letter to his mother, along with at least three other letters, fell into the hands of North Vietnamese soldiers when he was killed in March 1969.
Now those handwritten letters are on their way home.
China 'wary' of U.S. focus on Pacific military power
(CNN) -- The United States is "not in step with the times" in seeking to bolster its military presence in the Pacific region, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry said Monday.
Spokesman Liu Weimin's statement comes on the heels of the weekend announcement by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that 60% of the U.S. naval fleet will sail the Pacific by 2020.
The change is part of President Barack Obama's decision to reorient the United States' strategic attention to the economically vital Pacific after a decade of war in the Middle East.
The fleet is currently divided evenly between the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, Panetta said.
Liu welcomed a U.S. role in the region, so long as the country respects the interests of China and other countries there. But he said the trend in Asia today is peace and cooperation, not military buildup.
Finding Amelia Earhart: New clues revealed
A mystery that has enthralled Americans for nearly a century may be on its way to being solved.
New evidence released Friday revealed clues that may solve the mystery of what happened to aviator Amelia Earhart, Discovery News reports.
The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery announced that a new study suggests that dozens of radio signals once dismissed were actually transmissions from Earhart’s plane after she vanished during her attempted around-the-world flight in 1937.
The announcement was made at the start of a three-day conference in Washington dedicated to Earhart and the group’s search for the famous aviator’s remains and the wreckage of her plane.
Jim Duquette, former Mets GM, donates kidney to young daughter
Baseball fans who tuned into Sirius XM’s "Power Alley" on Monday didn’t hear the familiar voice of analyst Jim Duquette.
Instead, the former general manager of the New York Mets and one-time vice president of the Baltimore Orioles had more important business: trying to save his daughter’s life.
U.S. pilots find high demand, high pay overseas
The pilot of the Nigerian jetliner that crashed in Lagos, the country's largest city, on Sunday was an American, said Oscar Wason, Dana Air's director of operations, on Monday.
Wason did not identify the pilot by name or hometown, but he is among a legion of U.S. pilots now captaining jets for foreign airlines, said Kit Darby, an aviation consultant in Peachtree City, Georgia.
Space shuttle sails through New York Harbor
The space shuttle Enterprise took a journey more akin to those of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise than its orbital sister ships on Sunday.
The prototype shuttle floated on a barge through New York Harbor, from John F. Kennedy Airport en route to Bayonne, New Jersey.
Wisconsin recall campaign winds up
(CNN) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican hero for pushing austerity measures that stripped collective bargaining rights from most public unions, rallied supporters Monday night, one last push before a recall that's drawn lots of outside interest and money.
"We can't spike the ball on the 10-yard line. We've got to take it all the way into the end zone," Walker said in a Green Bay restaurant, within walking distance of the Packers' famed Lambeau Field. "Because when we do it's a win not just for us. It's a win for our kids and grandkids to make sure they have a better future than the one we inherited."
Walker faces Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett on Tuesday in a rematch of the 2010 governor's race that he won by getting more than 52% of the vote.
This time, the stakes are higher after a vitriolic campaign that epitomized the political divide across the country.
Viral Web's 'Mr. Trololo' dies at 77
(CNN) -- Eduard Khil, a Soviet-era singing star who found renewed popularity as the viral Web's "Mr. Trololo," died Monday, Russian media reported.
Khil had been in a St. Petersburg, Russia, hospital since suffering a stroke in April. He was 77.
Khil was considered one of the Soviet Union's great performers in the '60s and '70s. But his claim to fame in the rest of the world came in 2009 after a YouTube video posting of him performing the Russian pop song "I Am Glad, 'Cause I'm Finally Returning Back Home."
With a toothy grin, Khil delivers a clearly lip-synced performance minus lyrics, instead using a series of made-up syllables, including the "trololololo" that captured the hearts of millions.
According to New Music Express, the original lyrics, about a cowboy riding his horse home to meet his sweetheart Mary, were censored because they were deemed "un-Soviet." That led to his "mouth music" version, which ends up sounding like a mash-up of yodeling and jazz-era scat singing over a cheesy orchestral arrangement.
Groupon now worth less than the $6 billion Google offered
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Andrew Mason could probably use a Groupon for a massage, a beer, or some comfort food right about now.
His company's precipitous stock decline continued on Monday, sending Groupon's market cap below the $6 billion that Google offered as a buyout in late 2010.
To cut 1,700 jobs, Verizon offers buyouts
The company is looking to lower costs in certain areas of its traditional wireline division, which saw a decline in the first quarter.
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