News Of The Day

By: Jerry Xiao

Every other day I'm going to be writing about the most weird, akward, exciting, interesting, funny, stupid, or embarrassing news on the web on that day. Most of my titles will be coming from Yahoo! and the occasional Google. I will include a summary and a link to the original article if available. Here goes.

Olympics
1) After a huge upset by the Chinese woman's gymnastics team, USA may have a chance to get a gold in gymnastics one more time. There's been huge hype building up for Shawn Johnson, the 2007 world champion of all-around woman gymnast. Teammate Nastia Liukin also made it into the finals of the venue, and has a chance to get gold as well. China's Yang Yilin and Jiang Yuyuan will also have a chance to beat out the United States.
2) Team USA basketball beat Greece 92-69. Greece beat Team USA last games, forcing the Team USA to settle for a bronze in the games. Since then, USA has been humiliated and embarrassed by not getting the gold in a sport that they invented. This years Team USA features league high scorer Lebron James, last year's playoff MVP Dwayne Wade, this year's MVP Kobe Bryant, and a host of other NBA stars. The new Team USA, deemed the "Redeem Team", has been owning on the courts, beating it's competitors easily with 20 points or more.

Legends Made And Lost
3) News came out today featuring the legendary bigfoot. Three hunters from Georgia claim that they have evidence and DNA that shows that they captured a bigfoot. The beast was tracked down in the northern Georgian woods, and the hunters claim that there were more than one around. A picture of the alledged beast can be found at http://www.searchingforbigfoot.com/ and a press conference is being held on August 15th in Palo Alto, where the evidence will be shown to the world. A recent video on the web sports a chupacabra in texas, where a deputy claims to have videotaped the famed creature. However, many people claim that the alledged animal is merely a disfigured dog.
4) Legend Isaac Hayes died at the age of 65. Officials say the reason of death was a stroke relataed to high blood pressure. He was found dead in his home. Also, Comedian Bernie Mac died due to complications from pneumonia and lung disease. He died at the age of 50.
http://www.timesonline.com/articles/2008/08/14/news/doc489e532bda9e9595698752.txt

Can't We All Just Get Along?
5) On the day of one of the most celebrated sports events of the world, Russia and U.S. Ally Georgia broke out into all out war. Russia agreed to a truce after Georgia was half decimated. However, Georgian officials are saying that Russia is still advancing even after the truce was called. The U.S. has sent aid to the country. The United States has been finding a way to punish Russia for it's actions but there is no clear advantage for the United States. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili claims that Russia already controls one-third of Georgia and are advancing on the nations second largest city.