Results tagged “goldmedal”

They've now won two gold medals, can they both make baby Olympians now? In an interview with NBC's Bob Coasts, the answer is yes. Misty May Treanor told him that "We'd like to make beach volleyball players for the future." During the first week of the games, they said they both want to be pregnant next year with cautious plans (you know, priorities change when you have a kid) to return to playing afterwards.

"No one's ever done it," exclaimed SoCal native Misty May-Treanor after becoming beach volleyball gold medal champions for the second time in a row (remember Athens?) today. Congrats, girls!

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Halberstam died yesterday in a car crash in Menlo Park, CA. He was 73. Halberstam’s work as a journalist ranges wide and delves deep. He covered the Korean War, the Vietnam War and civil rights but he was also fascinated with the humanity and spectacle of sports. He did not simply document the history he lived through – he explained complex societal constructs and cultural shifts in a way that anyone could easily understand. He was one of the only journalists who questioned the Vietnam War early on and it was this same questioning – throughout his life and his work – that allowed him to uncover facts that other journalists side-stepped.