The latest NBA 2K13 trailer takes on the debate of the summer: who would win in a match up between the Dream Team vs 2012 Team USA. From 2K Sports:
The footage features matchups between Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant, as well as highlights from other past and present stars including Scottie Pippen, Larry Bird, Magic Johnson, Kevin Durant, Kevin Love, and Carmelo Anthony
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After a pretty darn successful 2012 Olympics, gold medal gymnast Gabby Douglas announced today that she will write an “inspirational memoir” to be released for publication this December:
The book, to be titled Grace, Gold and Glory, My Leap of Faith, will chronicle the 16-year-old’s early life, how she left her family in Virginia at age 12 to train 3,000 miles away and her path to gold at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Upon the announcement, Douglas said, “Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.”
Her memoir, she adds, “will also be about how much my family and I have overcome during our journey. It hasn’t been easy.” She hopes people will read her story “and think anything is possible.”
Zondervan media company acquired the book. In a statement, HarperCollins senior vice-president Lisa Sharkey said, “Gabby Douglas shines even more brightly than her Olympic Gold Meals. The reason is her inner strength and strong faith.”
I would totally buy this book not only for myself, but I feel her words can definitely encourage and inspire other young girls. I know a couple of my students who could benefit from hearing her story and words of encouragement. I can’t wait to take a look at it!
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Check out some bloopers from Team USA while they were training for the 2012 Olympics:
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Check out KD & The Beard as they visit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to talk about their experience at the Olympics and share their gold medals:
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Now this ad spot is not new (it’s been out for a couple of months) but after an amazing showing by a record number of women in the London Olympics coupled with the 40th anniversary of Title IX, I felt it only appropriate to share this Nike spot:
Even though the London Olympics may be over, it’s not too late to bring home a piece of the excitement. Through Remains of the Games you can bid on nightstands, lamps, bean bag chairs and even umbrella stands that were in the rooms of athletes who lived in the Olympic Village. Unfortunately, you won’t know exactly who the trinket belonged to, but you can always tell visitors that it belonged to Michael Phelps or Usain Bolt…that’s what I would do.
“We thought it looked interesting,” Ben Silvey [a development manager for the Bristol YMCA in west England] says. “Everyone was really excited about getting furniture from the games — you know, the sofa that Usain Bolt or Jessica Ennis sat on in the Olympic Village.”
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#love
Phelps definitely made US swimming exciting to watch, and relevant for many Olympics to come. Congratulations Michael Phelps for an outstanding Olympic career.
Greatness isn’t reserved for the chosen few in one special city, it can also be found in London, Ohio, and London, Norway, and East London, South Africa, and Little London, Jamaica, and Small London, Nigeria and the London Hotel and London Road and anywhere else someone is trying to find it.
Ralph Lauren is responsible for dressing the US Olympic and Paraolympic teams for the opening ceremony. Those looks have been revealed today: men will wear navy blazers with the Olympic team patch, a red and navy tie and cream colored pants. Women will wear the same blazers with red, white and blue striped scarves and a knee-length cream colored skirt. All Olympians will wear a navy beret. Check out the combination below:
Very patriotic. I’m not sure how I feel about the beret. What do you guys think?
The marketing folks can only hope these berets go over as well as they did in 2002, when the U.S. team wore powder-blue berets at the Winter Olympics that became instant hits and quickly sold out at stores around Salt Lake City.
The company said in a statement the outfits aim to embody “the spirit of American athleticism and sportsmanship.”
Ralph Lauren also is dressing the Olympic and Paralympic teams for the closing ceremony and providing casual clothes to be worn around the Olympic Village. Nike has created many of the competition uniforms for the U.S. and outfits for the medal stand.
