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CalTV Sports Highlight: October 27, 2008 @ CalTV: UC Berkeley's Online TV Station

Dan Fiedler covers an aquatic showdown for the ages! Watch as the #3 Cal men’s waterpolo team takes on the #4 UCLA Bruins!

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Backyard Wrestling Diva

While WWE's Diva's are heating up the pages of Playboy, Ms. Chivus, a 21 year old Latina backyard wrestler, is rising... more

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Back and Forth: October 8 2008 @ CalTV: UC Berkeley's Online TV Station

Check out Kevin Cohen and Paige Keffer as they talk sports! Topics include Cal football’s performance, the men’s... more

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Tour des Trees

The TREE Fund Tour des Trees has become known for its fun-loving, supportive group of men and women of all ages and professions... more

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Designing the $100 000 Super baby-

THIS IS AN AMAZING ARTICLE ON designing babies with genetic manipulation- Basically it talks about pushing science to achieve a... more

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Photos of the beautiful Christina Vukicevic

The norwegian girl (of Serbian descent) Christina Vukicevic is a hurdle sprinter and athlete.

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Armstrong set to join Astana team

Lance Armstrong will join the Astana team when he makes his much-anticipated return to cycling, according to a Kazakh cycling... more

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Armstrong coming out of retirement for Tour

AUSTIN, Texas (AP)—Lance Armstrong is getting back on his bike, determined to win an eighth Tour de France. ... more

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Report that Armstrong to ride for Astana team refuted

As speculation swirled that seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will return to competitive racing in the 2009 season, the champion himself remained mum, as did his closest advisers.

Quoting anonymous sources, VeloNews.com reported Monday that Armstrong, who turns 37 on Sept. 18, would return for several high-profile races next year, taking no salary and posting the results of blood tests on the Internet in order to prove that he is riding clean.

Armstrong, who recovered from life-threatening testicular cancer to rewrite the Tour record books, was dogged through much of his career by unproven allegations and circumstantial evidence that he took performance-enhancing drugs, charges he vehemently denies to this day. He never tested positive.

The report further said that Armstrong would ride for the Kazakhstan-financed, Belgium-based Astana team, managed by his close friend and former director Johan Bruyneel, who guided the U.S. Postal Service and Discovery Channel teams during Armstrong's reign at the top. Several of Armstrong's former teammates still ride for the team, along with 2007 Tour de France champion Alberto Contador of Spain.

Messages left for Bruyneel, Armstrong and his agent and business partner Bill Stapleton went unanswered Monday. A spokesman for Astana said the team had "no plans" with Armstrong.

"The Lance rumors exist already a few weeks," team press officer Philippe Maertens wrote in an e-mail from Spain, where Astana is competing in the Tour of Spain. "We know that he continued training hard after that mountain bike race. He will do some cyclocross races as well in the USA. I cannot tell you more. You better ask him. Lance Armstrong is no part of our team. Team Astana has no plans with him."

Armstrong is said to be interested in competing in five road races, including the Tour of California and the Tour de France. Astana controversially was not invited to cycling's biggest event this year because race organizers said they felt burned by the team's past doping offenses. Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said in recent months that race officials would reconsider that stance depending on the team's results and whether it steered clear of doping scandals. Contador won the Tour of Italy and his teammate, American Levi Leipheimer, is currently a close second in the ongoing Tour of Spain.

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Gold Feet

Jamaica's Usain Bolt set a new world record in the 100 meters. The secret to his success? Possibly something to do with food... more

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Best of Beijing Olympics - Day 16 (photos)

A photo gallery featuring the best of competition from August 24, 2008.

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Best of Beijing Olympics - Day 14 (photos)

A photo gallery of the best of August 22, 2008.

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Best of Beijing Olympics - Day 13 (photos)

The best of August 21, 2008.

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What's the secret of Jamaicans ?

They win the most speedy competitions ( 100-200 metres, etc.) at olympic games, without problems, beating United states athletes.... more

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Best of Olympics Day 12 - Photos

The best of Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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Best of Beijing Olympics - Day 11

The best of Tuesday, August 19, 2008.

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Team GB win first ever gold for women's 400m

Go team GB! Truly putting the Great back in Great Britain! Christine Ohuruogu has just smashed the women's 400m event in... more

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Beijing Olympics - Day 10

Photos of the best of Monday, August 18, 2008.

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Beijing Olympics - Day 9

The best of Sunday, August 17, 2008.

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Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

A provocative article by "The Contrarian" Jon Entine, an "internationally renowned journalist, TV commentator, executive consultant and public speaker, on the DNA of human behavior."
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"[Keyna's] national sport, the hero worship, the adoring fans, the social channeling -- that all speaks to Kenya's enduring love affair with, not running, but soccer. Despite the enormous success of Kenyan runners, running remains a relative afterthought in this soccer-crazed nation. Unfortunately, Kenyans are among the world's worst soccer players...

No amount of political correctness can obscure the reality that the Kenyans' mediocre success in soccer (and sprinting) comes down to genetics. They are ectomorphs, short and slender, with huge natural lung capacity and a preponderance of slow twitch muscles, the energy system for endurance sports. It's a perfect biomechanical package for distance running, but a disaster for sports that require anaerobic bursts of speed...

Of course, neither culture nor genes alone determines who will become great athletes. It's biocultural. "Taboo" [Entine's novel] documents the wholly uncontroversial fact that different body types have evolved in differing environments over thousands of years: Inuit Indians (Eskimos), biologically programmed to be short to conserve body heat, do not produce NBA centers after relocating to southern Florida. Genetically linked, highly heritable characteristics, such as skeletal structure, muscle fiber types, reflex capabilities, metabolic efficiency, and lung capacity, are not evenly distributed among populations and cannot be explained by known environmental factors...

Why do we so readily accept that evolution has turned out blacks with a genetic proclivity to contract sickle cell, Jews of European heritage who are one hundred times more likely than other groups to fall victim to the degenerative mental disease, Tay-Sachs, and whites who are most vulnerable to cystic fibrosis, yet find it racist to acknowledge that blacks of West African ancestry have evolved into the world's best sprinters and East Asians, the best divers?...

[I]f we do not welcome the impending genetic revolution with open minds, if we are scared to ask and to answer difficult questions, if we lose faith in science, then there is no winner. We all lose. The question is no longer whether genetic research will continue but to what end. 'If decent people don't discuss human biodiversity,' writes George Mason professor Walter Williams, who is black, 'we concede the turf to black and white racists.' "A provocative article by "The Contrarian" Jon Entine, an "internationally renowned journalist, TV commentator,... more