The most dramatic affront to the Olympic ideal has to be the Redeem Team, the latest incarnation of the Dream Team.
NY Times | Posted 08.27.2008 | Business
BEIJING -- At times during the Olympics, athletes like Dwyane Wade and Serena Williams seemed to be working as hard off the court as on they were on t...
AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 08.24.2008 | Home
BEIJING — Order is restored in international basketball. The United States is back on top, but not by that much anymore. Culminating a three-yea...
Bill Katovsky | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics
Political and Athletic Predictions for the 2012 London Olympics Soon, many of us will be experiencing post-Olympics withdrawal once the Birds Nest...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.18.2008 | Entertainment
"Redeem Team" captain Kobe Bryant and LeBron James took a break from basketball over the weekend to watch Michael Phelps swim towards his historic 8th...
Huffington Post | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home
***Check Back For Updates*** For the latest Olympics news, check out HuffPost's Olympics Big News Page Update 8/12 LeBron James dominated a game agai...
AP | BRIAN MAHONEY | Posted 08.03.2008 | Entertainment
SHANGHAI, China — Russia contained the speedsters. Controlled the backboards. Everything a team needs to do to beat the United States. Except st...
Hongmei Li | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment
Only the lucky few Chinese can get tickets to watch Olympics games on site. The majority will have to stay at home to watch TV like people in other parts of the world.
Paige Donner | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green
Limos provided by the ESPYs for the honored guests were all bio-diesel powered. The Awards' Red Carpet Event, Pre-Party and Press Tents' electricity were powered by solar energy.
AP | ANDREW SELIGMAN | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment
CHICAGO — MVP Kobe Bryant has a shot at another big prize after falling short of the NBA championship, and he'll have plenty of help along the w...
AP | Posted 06.23.2008 | Entertainment
Just in case anybody had forgotten that Kobe Bryant has never won an NBA title without Shaquille O'Neal, the big man sent out a reminder. The Phoenix...
Doon Baqi | Posted 06.19.2008 | Entertainment
As far apart as they seem, Kobe Bryant and M. Night Shyamalan have something very big in common: mediocrity, on average.
Miles Mogulescu | Posted 06.18.2008 | Entertainment
I'm not sure I'll enjoy anything as much as watching the Celtics crush the Lakers in Game 6 until I get to watch Barack Obama take the oath of office next January.
AP | JOHN NADEL | Posted 05.06.2008 | Home
LOS ANGELES — Finally, an MVP award for Kobe Bryant. Regarded as the NBA's best player for several years but never its most valuable, Bryant ea...
Giles Slade | Posted 05.06.2008 | Business
Notice that Blu-Ray DVD has won the video format war, but that nobody really gives a damn? At $400 a whack, people are going to stay with their old ...
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head...
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At a rally in Bethlehem, Pa. last week, Cindy...
When Colin Powell turns off his TV after the final presidential debate, he will...
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Matthew Dowd, a prominent political consultant and chief strategist for...
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An out-of-work money manager in California loses a fortune and wipes out his family...
ITHACA, N.Y. — The thought of a driverless, computer-guided...
Sarah Palin may be the most famous hockey mom with a gun, but the debate about mothers who pack...
Andrew Brandt | Posted 08.28.2008 | Entertainment