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Vogue.TV – Watch
Published August 18, 2008 Uncategorized Leave a CommentTags: angelina jolie, brad pitt, fashion, model, vogue, vogue tv
Misty May-Treanor and Walsh burried Brazil in Volleyball !!
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: brazil, misty may, olympic volleyball, treanor, usa volleyball, valleyball 2008, volleyball, www.nbcolympics.com
BEIJING — Americans Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh strode closer to their goal of being the first team to defend their Olympic beach volleyball title on Tuesday, beating Brazil 21-12, 21-14 to book their berth in the finals.
American Kerri Walsh, left, celebrates with teammate Misty May-Treanor after routing Brazil in their women’s semifinal beach volleyball match.
The U.S. pair have not lost a match for a year and have never dropped a set at the Olympics. They are favorites to win the final against one of two Chinese teams playing in the other semi.
“It is so difficult to win against them like this. They are perfect. Nobody is going to beat them,” said defeated opponent Renata Ribeiro.
Ribeiro and her partner Talita Antunes stepped up the pressure in the second set but it was not enough to get past the three-time world champions who were on supercharged form, diving for digs and blocking and spiking strongly at the net.
“We’ve accomplished one goal — to get to the gold-medal match — but we’re not done yet. We want to get out there and kick butt against the Chinese on their home soil,” said Walsh.
May-Treanor and Walsh will now meet either Tian Jia and Wang Jie or Zhang Xi and Xue Chen, both in the top four of the Olympic qualification ranking.
Walsh, known as “six feet of sunshine” beamed, screamed and leapt about the sand after winning, hugging cameramen, and greeting all the volunteers working on the court.
William Sisters Does it again in Beijing!!
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: olympics tennis, tennis, usa team, venus, venus serena, women's tennis
When Ruano Pascual sent the championship point long, the sisters shrieked in unison. Then they jumped for joy and hugged.
“I’m so excited, I can’t even speak,” said the 28-year-old Venus, who has already won seven doubles Grand Slam titles and a gold medal in Sydney alongside younger sister Serena.
The pair didn’t enter the doubles competition in Athens four years ago because Serena was hurt at the time.
“To share this kind of moment with your sister,” Venus said, “it never grows old.”
It doesn’t hurt when your sister is one of the best in the world.
“I don’t know anyone out there who would get tired of playing with Venus Williams,” said the 26-year-old Serena, who as a singles player is ranked eighth in the world, three spots behind No. 5 Venus.
Sunday’s match pitted the second-seeded sisters, who also won the doubles title at Wimbledon and reached the singles final, against the seventh-seeded Spaniards, who are the reigning French Open doubles champions.
The Williamses never looked too taxed, racing through the match in 1 hour, 6 minutes.
Both sisters had pulled out of tournaments last month with knee injuries, but neither showed any sign of weakness. Together, they had six aces, including one that Serena whacked at 172 kph (107 mph) on a second serve.
The only tense moment came at 5-2 in the first set when the sisters squandered four set points before breaking Ruano Pascual’s serve to win it.
“We were really focused from the first point. We really wanted to win,” said Serena, whose trophy cabinet includes 30 singles titles, eight of them Grand Slams. “We feel like we’ve contributed to our country in a huge way. That’s really what it’s all about.”
When the red carpet was rolled out on center court, the sisters climbed the medal podium together holding hands. A beaming Venus bobbed her head to the beat as “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played.
Both Venus and Serena were beaten in the quarterfinals of the singles tournament.
The bronze went to Yan Zi and Zheng Jie of China, who delivered the host country’s only tennis medal by beating Alona and Kateryna Bondarenko of Ukraine 6-2, 6-2.
Zheng dedicated her win to the earthquake survivors to her native Sichuan province. The area was devastated by a May 12 earthquake that took nearly 70,000 lives and left more than 5 million people homeless.
“During the Olympic Games, we fought really hard and we want to show this Sichuan spirit — that we are brave,” Zheng said.
It’s the second tennis medal in Olympic history for China, which won gold in women’s doubles in 2004.
The match was the third for the eighth-seeded Yan and Zheng in barely 36 hours. They won a quarterfinal match that ended at 3:35 a.m. Saturday.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press/ Courtesy ESPN
USA Basketball Team Heading for the Gold!
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: basketball, basketball olympic, espn sports, kobe bryant, olympic sports, team usa, usa basketball
BEIJING — As I write this, there are probably only a small percentage of people in the U.S. and around the world who watched every single second of Team USA’s 106-57 pounding of Germany.
It was so noncompetitive, why bother staying focused on it, right? After all, this whole Olympic tournament is already pretty much over, eh?
Well, part of me wants to join with the masses and say, “Yes, there’s no way the Americans do not win the gold.”
But the other half is the smarter half, and it insists that I have to say “No.”
And you know what, the other half is correct.
Do I think Team USA is going to lose? No.
Do I think it’s possible it could lose? Hell, yes.
Am I the only one? Hell, no.
I’ve been at Wukesong Arena since Monday morning, when I saw Team USA’s Wednesday opponent, Australia, destroy previously unbeaten Lithuania by 31 points, and I’ve been covering international basketball tournaments long enough to know that you never declare anything over until you see who’s standing atop the medal podium at the end.
“The tournament is decided by easy baskets, and with America it’s hard to get a shot off, and it’s hard to get the ball past the half-court line, and they beat you down the floor and get layups,” Australian coach Brian Goorjian said. “But if you can get your defense set, you’ve got a chance. No one I’ve seen has been able to do that, and that’s our challenge.”
Goorjian is the only coach who has been able to keep his team close to Team USA through 10 games this summer — the five warm-ups the Americans played in Las Vegas, Macau and Shanghai, and the five they’ve played here in Beijing.
Redeeming Qualities
Here’s a comparison of how Team USA’s bronze medal team fared overall in 2004 compared with the 2008 squad’s performance in the preliminary round.
| 2004 | 2008 | |
| PPG | 88.1 | 103.0 |
| Opp PPG | 83.5 | 70.0 |
| FG pct | 45.9 | 55.3 |
| Opp FG pct | 48.2 | 36.6 |
Two weeks ago in Shanghai, the Aussies took the floor without their best player, Andrew Bogut, and were within striking distance of Team USA — just seven points down — with five minutes remaining in the fourth quarter. They spread the floor, made 3-point shots, avoided turnovers and even had a player who twice left Chris Paul in his wake on open-court penetrations all the way to the rim.
After beginning this tournament in horrible form, the Australians have been on an upward swing during the past five days, culminating in their 106-75 victory over Lithuania in which they led by as many as 38 and knocked down 16 3-point shots (7-footers Bogut and Chris Anstey were both 3-for-3) against an opponent that had been the class of Group A.
Granted, Lithuania had nothing to play for, having already clinched first place in Group A. But Australia had little to play for, either, because it knew before tip-off that it was locked into fourth place and a game two days later against the Americans.
“We’ve all seen ‘Hoosiers,’ ‘Rocky,’” Goorjian said. “We’re in a tournament, and we get a chance to step up to the plate and take a swipe at the Big Dog, that’s the way I look at it. We’re in a tournament with the best team in the world, and we get to take a swing. I’m confident we’re going to play well.”
Goorjian was then asked: Can the Aussies possibly beat the Americans?
“I don’t know if we can or can’t. I just like the way we’re playing, and I want to play that way. What I’ve seen on TV, I don’t even want to look at the tapes.”
I spoke to a bunch of the Australian players when I was in Shanghai, and I remember how one member of the Aussie federation said he believed the Americans were in “deep s—” because they hadn’t brought enough big men, weren’t shooting particularly well and seemed extremely overconfident.
The Australian players played mind games with the Americans that night in Shanghai, calling them by their numbers rather than their names when they were defending them on inbounds plays. The members of Team USA didn’t know whether to be flabbergasted or insulted because it was something so off the wall.
But it was a sign of how loose and how nondeferential the Australians were, and that combination — along with enough size, outside shooting and ballhandling ability — could be the recipe for the exact combination of things that could defeat the Americans.
Remember, the pressure on Wednesday night will not be on Australia.
The format will be one-and-done, if Australia somehow manages to play from ahead, we’ll get our first chance to see how Team USA reacts to playing from behind. And in the past six years, America’s teams have not responded well in those situations. That’s not an opinion, that’s a fact.
“I don’t think you need to take the scare factor too heavily,” said Aussie guard Patrick Mills, the speedster who twice scooted past Paul. “That’s one thing Australians have, we’re fearless and we don’t take a step back from anyone. Just got to go out there, put our best foot forward and give it a good crack.”
Said teammate David Barlow: “We’re not fearful because we have nothing to lose. We go out there, have a crack at it and do our best, that’s it. Nothing to lose.
As I look up, the scoreboard reads USA 98, Germany 53 with 3:29 left in the fourth quarter, and the PA announcer just told the crowd that the Americans have called a timeout, which made me recall how Chuck Daly never called a timeout during the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
But that was 16 years ago.
So many things that would have been unthinkable then have all taken place in the intervening years.
Nobody predicted that Puerto Rico would defeat the Americans by 19 in Athens.
Nobody predicted that the U.S. would lose three times in Indianapolis in 2002.
Few believed it possible that the Americans would lose to anyone two years ago in Japan, but then they went up against a team with nothing to lose in the medal round and Greece beat them.
So don’t count out Australia.
And don’t think this thing is over, because it isn’t.
Team USA is taking everyone seriously, and I expect the 12 players to bring their A-games against Australia.
But again, anything can happen in these tournaments, which is why, as devil’s advocate, I’d counsel against forgetting to tune in Wednesday or set your TiVo for 10:15 a.m. ET because you believe the gold medal is already a given.
It isn’t.
Courtesy ESPN
U.S. men sweep 400m hurdles; 2000 champ Taylor wins gold
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: 2000 champ, 400m hurdles, Beijing 2008, taylor, track and field, us men hurdles, us track team
BEIJING — The American track team was in bad need of a comeback, and Angelo Taylor was the perfect person to provide it.
Taylor, a once-troubled 29-year-old who was laying electrical wire 14 months ago, became the first 400-meter hurdler since Edwin Moses to win gold medals eight years apart Monday. He led the first sweep of the event since the U.S. did it in 1960 and lifted sagging American fortunes after a disappointing start to their Beijing Olympics.
“We wanted to uplift the track team,” Taylor said, “and bring home the sweep.”
Shoved to the fringes of the sport after pleading guilty in 2005 to charges of contributing to the delinquency of two underage girls, Taylor won the race in a personal-best time of 47.25 seconds to defeat teammates Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson.
“To go through what I went through and be back on top again — I’m just so blessed right now,” Taylor said.
The hurdlers were considered sweep candidates, but the U.S. had learned over the first three days of the meet that there’s a big difference between being picked to do something and doing it.
Cyphers: U.S. gets back on track
A duck-hunting discus thrower and electrical contractor-turned 400-hurdles man got America to the medals stand at the Bird’s Nest on Monday. Story
Tyson Gay didn’t reach the 100-meter finals. Reese Hoffa finished seventh in the shot put. Bernard Lagat didn’t make it out of semifinals in the 1,500. That was only part of it.
The sweep in the hurdles wasn’t as shocking as the fact that Taylor led the way.
Starting in Lane 6, he made up the lag quickly and was racing in front from about the 150-meter mark on. Clement, the 2007 world champion, and Jackson closed the gap down the stretch, but this was a pretty easy victory for Taylor.
Monday’s track & field finals
• Men’s 400 hurdles: U.S. men sweep
• Women’s discus: American Brown Trafton golden
• Women’s pole vault: Russia’s Isinbayeva repeats
• 3,000 steeplechase: Kipruto extends Kenya’s streak
• Men’s long jump: Saladino win’s Panama’s first gold
• Women’s 800: Jelimo leads 1-2 Kenyan finish
And what a guy to lead a comeback.
His gold at the Sydney Olympics was the high point in a career that got derailed, first with injuries, then when he was put on probation in a case that started when he was arrested after a police officer said he found him naked in a car with a 15-year-old girl.
“Any mistakes I made, I put the blame on me,” Taylor said earlier this month, when asked about his legal troubles. “It was up to me to do something, to change things.”
His sponsorship pulled, he took a job laying electrical cable in Atlanta — one that got him off work early enough so he could train in the afternoons.
The injuries started to heal and suddenly Taylor found himself in Olympic form. He finished third at the Olympic trials and peaked at exactly the right time.
Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press
2008 Beijing Olympics: Rebecca Romero finds cycling ideal pursuit!
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: 2008 beijing olympics, beijing sports, cycling, Rebecca Romero
Tears of joy: Rebecca Romero shows her emotions after her gold medal Photo: AFP
That is why the quivering lip and tears came so quickly for this most flinty of competitors when she crossed the line to take the women’s individual pursuit gold, beating fellow Briton Wendy Houvenaghel into second place.
In so doing she became the first British woman to win Olympic medals in two sports, and only the second Briton ever to do so – Paulo Radmilovic winning waterpolo and freestyle swimming golds in the early part of the 20th century. She has moved into elite company and somehow you know the Rebecca Romero story is far from over.
Just before she rolled out for the final, coach Dan Evans whispered news from the rowing regatta that her erstwhile colleagues from Athens in the quadruple scull had finished runners up in the most important race of their lives.
The news was “gutting” but also sharpened Romero’s competitive instincts. One of the reasons she tore herself away from rowing and put herself through the mill of learning an entirely different sport was that she wanted to be in total control of whether or not she won an Olympic gold medal.
“It’s pretty incredible. I’m so proud of myself. I wanted a gold. I wanted to be a champion. Now I’ve put my mark down.”
Romero, who struggled after the World Championships in March with a back niggle, suffered a rare crisis of confidence when she struggled to “find her legs” after flying to Beijing and “banged out” her slowest training time of the year. However, she found sound advice and back-up within the GB team, which she feels is dedicated to maximising athlete’s potential.
“Cycling’s been a vehicle to getting a gold medal,” she said. “I think the model should be replicated. I’ve been involved in two of the top sports and they’re worlds apart. British sport should look at the success [cycling] has had and model it. If other British sports don’t learn from us – because we are Team GB, not just British cycling – we’re not going to dominate at the London Games.”
Houvenaghel rode a fine race and made her fast-starting friend work hard for her place in history.
Medal Count Beijing 8/18/08
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: 2008 medals, august 18 medal count, beijing medal, country medal count
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Corrupt Gymnastic Judges!!! Change the System!!!
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: beijing gymnastic, corrupt, liukin, Nastia Liukin olympic beijing 2008 uneven bars, Nastia Robbed, natsia gymnastics, natsia uneven bars, robbed, uneven bars, yang, yang yilin, yilin
BEIJING (AP)—China’s He Kexin won a tiebreaker over all-around champion Nastia Liukin of the United States for the uneven bars gold medal Monday at the Beijing Olympics.
Both scored 16.725, but He got the nod because her execution marks were closer to a perfect 10 than Liukin’s.
Liukin would not criticize the scoring system that does not award dual gold medals.
“It’s nothing I can control, and honestly, I can say it has been very fair to me, and I got the biggest gold medal of them all,” said Liukin, winner of the women’s all-around gymnastics gold.
He, at the center of an age-eligibility controversy throughout the games, was fast and furious on the bars. Her twists and flips went by in the blink of an eye, and she won by about that short a margin.
Liukin, who sat stone-faced for much of the competition, now has four medals, two of them silver.
“I’ve tied my dad,” she said of Valeri Liukin, who also is her coach and competed for the Soviet Union. “I’m a little sad, but at the same time, it’s great to have four Olympic medals.”
Monday’s bronze went to China’s Yang Yilin, her third medal, including bronze in the all-around.
U.S. women have won six medals here; China’s women have five, including team gold.
What’s your take on this????
Jonas Brothers SOS
Published August 18, 2008 jonas brothers 3 CommentsTags: jonas, jonas bros, jonas brothers, sos, sos jonas
Gotta love them!
EXCLUSIVE: See The JONAS BROTHERS Perform ‘SOS’ In The Hannah Montana Movie!
Published August 18, 2008 jonas brothers Leave a CommentTags: jonas brothers, jonas, brothers, jonas bros, hannat montans, miley cyrus, miley, cyrus, disney, disney channel., mtv, sos, rhianna, please dont stop the music
EXCLUSIVE: See The Jonas Brothers Perform ‘SOS’ In The Hannah Montana Movie!
Published by Brian Jacks on Monday, August 18, 2008 at 10:55 am.
That’s right, you didn’t see this when “Hannah Montana/Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert Tour in 3-D” hit theaters earlier this year, but with the DVD now coming out we’ve now got the missing Jonas Brothers performance exclusively from the bonus feature. Watch the boys perform a blockbuster rendition of their hit “SOS,” and then check out the DVD in stores August 19.
On the “OMG Jonas Brothers OMG” scale, how did this clip rate? Would you have killed to be in the audience? Shout out your love for all things Jonas in the comments below!
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Ugly Betty – Best Amanda Moments!
Published August 18, 2008 Ugly Betty Leave a CommentTags: abc ugly betty, alexis meade, amanda, america, america ferrera, best amanda moments, betty, david beckham, ferrera, meade, ugly, Ugly Betty, ugly betty season 3, victoria beckham
—Amanda is my favorite character, who’s yours???
The Olympic started 08.08.08 in Beijing, China. I must say wow! Thank God for theOlympicbecause it has really taken politics off the minds of millions of Americans. Politics have been on television 24/7 the past months now it’s the Olympic’s turn. Wish the Olympic could last for months to come because it has really unite the world!!!
Chinese Gymnasts Underage…???
Published August 18, 2008 2008 Beijing Olympic Leave a CommentTags: ?, Beijing 2008, china, chinese, chinese gymnasts, Gymnastics, olympian, Olympic, underage, underage gymants china
It’s apparent that everyone is saying the Chinese gymnasts are underage. I have watched all the Chinese gymnasts so far in the Olympic game and yes, a few look younger than 16 to me. Remaining neutral in this controversy but, how many times have we seen a college student on campus who could pass for 12, an high school senior who could pass for 13, and so on and do forth… are we, us Americans, jealous of these Chinese so much that we hope these gymnasts to really be underage??? Like many say age is just a number but you be the judge. Let me hear your honest opinion in this topic.
New 90210 Cast and Trailer
Published August 18, 2008 Celebrities Leave a CommentTags: 90210, 90210 ep. 1, 90210 meet cast, 90210 promo, 90210 trailer, episode 1 90210, New 90210, new 90210 promo, promo, soap, trailer, upper class
Do you think this show will be a failure or become an American classic as the first???
Big Brother 10 Jessie Naked
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Harry Potter 6 in theatres JULY 2009!! ..Trailer..
Published August 18, 2008 harry potter Leave a CommentTags: half blodded prince, harry 6, harry potter, harry potter and the half blodded prince, harry potter trailer, potter 6, trailer
So many fans around the world are disappointed that Harry Potter 6’s release date got pushed backalmost a year later!!!
Harry Potter and the Half Blodded Prince Moved To July 17, 2009!!! ouch fans!!
Published August 18, 2008 harry potter 2 CommentsTags: delayed, half blodded prince, harry potter, harry potter 6, july 17 2009, prince
LOS ANGELES – It’s summer school for Harry Potter. “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince,” the sixth installment in the blockbuster film franchise about boy wizard Harry, is moving from its planned Nov. 21 release to July 17, 2009, distributor Warner Bros. said Thursday.
The move was made to take advantage of an open weekend in Hollywood’s busy summer season, said Alan Horn, Warner Bros. president and chief operating officer. The film had been on schedule, and the change was not due to any production snags, he said.
“The picture is completely, absolutely, 100 percent on schedule, on time. There were no delays,” Horn told The Associated Press. “I’ve seen the movie. It is fabulous. We would have been perfectly able to have it out in November.”
The switch will mean a two-year lag between the film adaptations of books five and six in J.K. Rowling’s fantasy series. But it will shorten fans’ wait between “Half-Blood Prince” and the final two installments, which are being shot simultaneously next year.
Based on book seven, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the last two movies are due out in close order, in November 2010 and summer 2011. Horn said the later release of “Half-Blood Prince” will not affect the schedule for the final two movies.
Horn said the studio has had success with past summer “Harry Potter” releases, including the fifth movie, which was released in 2007 and became the second-highest grossing in the franchise.
The recent Writers Guild of America strike also had affected Hollywood’s lineup in next summer, leaving a key date open for Warner to slot in “Half-Blood Prince,” Horn said.
The July 17 release will be over the same weekend that Warner debuted this year’s blockbuster “The Dark Knight,” which had a record-breaking opening weekend and is on its way to $500 million domestically and the No. 2 spot on the all-time box-office charts behind “Titanic.”
“Half-Blood Prince” finds Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) returning to his wizard classes with a clandestine assignment to root out dark secrets about the early years of his archenemy, the dark Lord Voldemort.
The film is directed by David Yates, who made the fifth movie and also is shooting the final two.
Last February, another big Hollywood film, Paramount’s “Star Trek,” was bumped from a December release to May 8, 2009. Paramount executives said that move also was intended to take advantage of an open weekend in the summer lineup.
By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie Writer Thu Aug 14, 6:04 PM ET
NASCAR finds cheating after Nationwide race
Published August 18, 2008 sports Leave a CommentTags: cheating, nascar, nascar cheating
BROOKLYN, Mich. (AP)—The No. 18 and No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing teams in the Nationwide Series will likely face big penalties after efforts to alter the results of a chassis dyno test.
NASCAR inspectors, preparing to do tests on horsepower numbers following Saturday’s Nationwide race at Michigan International Speedway, found magnets under the gas pedals on the two Gibbs Toyotas.
Tony Stewart, making his last Nationwide start for the Gibbs team, finished third in the No. 20, and 18-year-old rookie Joey Logano was seventh in the No. 18. The race was won by Carl Edwards in a Ford.
Toyota has won 15 of 25 races this season in Nationwide, and all but one came in a Camry fielded by Gibbs. The exception was JGR driver Kyle Busch’s victory at Charlotte in May in a car fielded by Braun Racing.
In the face of such domination, last month NASCAR ordered the Toyota Nationwide teams to use a smaller spacer to cut about 15 horsepower in their motors
The incident Saturday was apparently an effort to keep the current numbers from looking too strong in the latest test.
“In our post-race inspection—yesterday was the day we were going to chassis dyno cars—our inspectors discovered some shims that were placed on the gas pedal stop,” Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition for NASCAR, said Sunday. “It was magnets that were about a quarter-inch thick that prevented the accelerator from going 100 percent wide open.
“The intention was to manipulate the numbers that we get when we get our information and data off the dyno.”
Pemberton said NASCAR officials will meet Monday and Tuesday to determine what penalties will be handed out.
“I anticipate that we haven’t seen the end of it yet,” Pemberton said when asked if the penalties were likely to be severe. “We historically don’t make our decisions within a 24-hour period. It takes time to get everybody in a group and talk about it.”
J.D. Gibbs, son of owner Joe Gibbs and president of the team, said JGR takes full responsibility for the actions of its employees.
“Let me just say that, first and foremost, that that was a really poor, foolish decision on the part of our key guys there at JGR,” Gibbs said. “I want to apologize to NASCAR, to our partners, to Toyota guys. A couple guys chose to make a decision there that really impacts all of us.”
Gibbs said he was thankful that it was an off-track incident that did not involve racing and added that the big—and most frustrating—question is why was it done?
“I know they were probably frustrated from the standpoint that wanting to show that, ‘Hey, we have less horsepower than ever before’ and they wanted to make it look like we’re handicapped even more than we actually were,” Gibbs said. “I understand that, but that’s not an excuse.
“For us, we kind of feel like, in the engine shop that’s kind of a badge of honor. You win that engine dyno, good for you. That’s kind of how we felt in the past few years and (chief engine builder) Mark Cronquist and those guys really feel like they want to win that thing.
“The way I look at it, to come back after you’ve been chopped, to come back and win it again, that’s awesome,” Gibbs noted. “That’s a great story. That wasn’t able to be told.”
He said no matter what action NASCAR takes, the team will address the situation in-house.
“(We’ll) figure out exactly what happened and those that were responsible,” Gibbs said. “There’s going to be punishment for that. That’s just part of life. You can’t do that.”
In a statement released by the elder Gibbs, he echoed his son.
“If this alleged incident proves true, it goes against everything we stand for as an organization,” the former Washington Redskins coach said. “We will take full responsibility and accept any penalties NASCAR levies against us.”
Lee White, president of Toyota Racing Development, said the company is grateful that the team stepped up and took responsibility and made it clear Toyota was not involved.
“I found out about it halfway through the day session last night, when I went over there to see what was going on,” White said. “I was surprised to see what was happening, and astonished and frankly incredulous. I couldn’t believe it was happening because it’s clearly defined in the entry forms that you don’t do this sort of thing.
“But I’m sure Joe and J.D. will take care of that internally and, whatever fans think, they’re going to think. We’re just going to keep working on our stuff.”
Pat Suhy, GM Racing group manager for NASCAR, said the actions by the Gibbs team raise more questions.
“It’s not something that you like to hear about and you have to just question every chassis dyno that’s ever been run on every Toyota,” Suhy said. “You look at the (No.) 32 car (of Brian Vickers and Red Bull Racing), the 32 and the 18 and the 20 made about the same power the first run (on the dyno). When they took the magnet, or whatever this device was, out of the 18 and the 20, they both came up.
“What I don’t know is if it’s a Toyota problem, if it’s a Joe Gibbs thing, how widespread is it and how long has it been going on, because a lot of what’s been done (by NASCAR) has been based on the chassis dyno results. And, if they were always showing worse on the chassis dyno than actual, maybe (NASCAR) didn’t go far enough.
“It’s disappointing to hear that anybody, whether it’s a manufacturer or a team or an individual on a team would go to any length to do that,” Suhy added. “It’s bad for the entire garage, I think.”
Jack Roush, co-owner of Roush-Fenway Racing, which fields Fords in the Nationwide Series, called the Gibbs team’s actions “extremely detrimental to stock car racing.
“NASCAR will figure out what they should,” Roush said. “If they’re going to make decisions based on parity, after they’ve given (Toyota) what they’ve given them with regard to parameters on their engine, based on flawed data that a team or the manufacturer, one of the other, had kited or shaved, that certainly is detrimental to my interests.”
By MIKE HARRIS, AP Auto Racing Writer and Yahoo sports
Big Brother 10 Memphis Hot!
Published August 18, 2008 Big Brother Leave a CommentTags: bb memphis, bb10 memphis, bb10 uk, big brother 10 uk, big brother memphis, big brother uk, cute memphis, hot memphis, memphis, memphis usa, sexy memphis, uk
Memphis is the most good looking guy in the Big Brother 10 house. Jessie can not compare. All Jessie has is muscle and chicken legs lmao… Memphis is more handsome, and mentaly stable. Yes, Jessie sometimes has some sex appeal no doubt about that but, after sex it’s bye bye because his persona is that of a little 8 year old girl. GO MEMPHIS!!!
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