Olympic Games

So Hope Solo got suspended. Again. This time the penalty is six months off the pitch. More than that, though -- her contract has been dropped by the U.S. Women's National Team. This isn't entirely surprising given that the women's team won't face another big tournament for three ...read more

• By Chez Pazienza
  Dec 20, 2018

There's no doubt that Usain Bolt it the main man of the Olympics - he's the fasted man on the planet and probably the most recognized athlete around. Having annihilated the competition to win his event in an astonishing 9.63 seconds (only 0.05 slower than his world record of 9.58 ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Dec 20, 2018

The Daily Banter headline grab (from the Guardian): Mitt Romney handed Barack Obama a potential gift for the US presidential election campaign when the presumptive Republican nominee blundered on his first diplomatic outing by questioning whether London was capable of staging a ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

While the Romney campaign is aggressively fighting back against reports that their candidate's tenure at Bain Capital went on for longer than he once claimed, a document filed by Romney in 2000 could prove extremely detrimental to his run at the Presidency. The Jan. 3rd 2000 ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

By Ben Cohen: The world is used to watching turmoil in the Middle East. The region has suffered decades of war at the hands of multiple aggressors - some domestic and some foreign - the results always being the same: Death. And lots of it. Currently, Syrian President Bashar ...read more

• By Guest Contributor
  Nov 9, 2018

Hungarian President Pal Schmitt resigned Monday because of a plagiarism scandal regarding a doctoral dissertation he had written 20 years ago on the Olympics. Schmitt, who was elected to his largely ceremonial office in 2010 for a five-year term, told Parliament he was ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Nov 9, 2018