PEOPLE’s Sexiest Man Alive: Hugh Jackman

The votes are in and the verdict is…

Hugh Jackman is officially the Sexiest Man Alive.

I have to say I saw that coming. I mean, c’mon. Just look at him. He’s perfect.

Complete List of U.S.A. Medals

Click on the link below for a complete list of medal winners, their medal and the type of sport. The list is down the page so just scroll down once you get there. Congratulations to all the amazing athletes that won this year, as well as thanks to the ones that dedicate their lives to making the U.S.A. proud on the field of competition! I hope this experience has blessed them all and made them better human beings.

U.S.A. Complete List of Medal Winners, Beijing, 2008.

Go, U.S.A.!

(The list will be updated periodically so be sure and bookmark the page link and visit it again soon!)

One Blogger’s REAL Olympic Medal Count…

One blogger took into consideration some of the factors in awarding medals at this years Olympics and came up with this amusing article… accurate or not it’s a fun idea. Don’t complain, just pretend…

The REAL Olympic Medal Count

Full Medal Count – U.S.A. Surpasses All In Total Number of Medals

As of Saturday, August 16th, even with all the underage gymnasts and bronze-throwing tantrums, the U.S.A. individual athletes and teams outstrips the field in total number of medals won at this years Olympic Games. With 57 medals under our belts, I wonder about the chances of China, with 49 total medals, catching up with us anytime soon. Even if they do, it will still be difficult to outshine the huge wins for the amazing U.S. swim team, with Michael Phelps surpassing Spitz’s record gold medal wins for any one set of games. That is one of those feats that will go down in history as the new record to beat – Good luck with that.

Here is the FULL MEDAL COUNT as of latest report.

And boy, those wikipedia geeks are really on top of things…
Michael Phelps Wiki

Phelps wins 8th gold medal, breaks tie with Spitz

President George W. Bush poses for a photo with U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps during his visit Sunday, Aug. 10, 2008 to the National Aquatic Center in Beijing, where Phelps won his first Olympic gold medal in the men's 400 meter individual medley.

Michael Phelps has broken the gold medal glass ceiling set by Mark Spitz thirty-six years ago.

Michael Phelps Breaks Olympic Gold Medal Tie With Spitz

Dara Torres Wins Silver Finishing Just 0.01 Seconds Behind Steffen in the 50-meter freestyle

Dara Torres hit the wall just a split second after Britta Steffen of Germany. Not bad for a 41 year old mommy of a two year old swimming against a 24 year old AND a 16 year old.

For full story and other Olympic swimming news, go to:

Torres wins silver: Finishes second in 50 free

Phelps wins 7th gold by 0.01 seconds!!

Talk about cutting it close. Michael Phelps won his 7th gold medal of the 2008 Olympics by a mere sliver. How does he DO it?? Maybe it’s the 12,000 calories per day he consumes to keep up his energy.

Congrats Michael! I hope you win a dozen more.

Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing hours after opening ceremony

Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing
By ROHAN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer
Updated August 9, 2008

BEIJING (AP) A knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men’s volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing, killing one and injuring the other on the first day of the Olympics on Saturday, team officials and state media said.
The man then committed suicide by throwing himself from the second story of the site, the 13th century Drum Tower just five miles from the main Olympics site.
The brutal attack shortly after midday was all the more shocking because…

Read the rest of the story HERE.

Comedian Bernie Mac Dies at 50 of Pneumonia

By Kyle Peterson, Reuters
Additional reporting by Dean Goodman

CHICAGO — Comedian and actor Bernie Mac, who starred in one of U.S. TV’s few black sitcoms and appeared in the “Ocean’s 11″ movies, died in Chicago on Saturday after a bout with pneumonia. He was 50.

Publicist Danica Smith confirmed the death in a statement… Read the rest of the post here:

Bernie Mac Dies Saturday at 50 of Pneumonia