Pieces of 2008 Beijing Olympics on Universal Sports

Recently on Universal Sports, they've been showing the main events from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. This past week, they had the Men's and Women's Gymnastics Finals on during prime time.

In each case, it was the story of the underdog team from the USA battling for a medal against the favorites from China. In the end, the pressure seem to get to the US teams more as China took gold in both. Last night, it was a whole night on pothead Phelps.

While getting some of the 2008 Olympic action, a short ad for Universal Sports comes on. Its a ping pong table and 2 guys hit the ball back to each other. It than cuts to a montage of Table Tennis (all look Chinese). The end was that there would be more Table Tennis on Universal Sports this summer.

I get Universal Sports on 4.4 here in Los Angeles.

The website is terrible. I can't find the schedule beyond 2 days and it doesn't recap events it has broadcast.

Check out clips from their YouTube channel.

2008 Year in Review

2008 was one crazy year. I started to really blog in June of this year. I haven't had as much time these last few weeks and for good reason. I recently welcomed another addition to my family. Sleepless nights do not translate to more blog entries.

This was the year of the Olympics. The build up to it was quite something.


In May, China was the focus due to the 2008 Sichuan Earthquake.

I also got into America's Best Dance Crew (ABDC) on MTV. Kaba Modern was my favorite crew.


During the summer, a much anticipated Wuxia drama, Legend of the Condor Heroes was released.


The summer also brought the 命中註定我愛你. Which became the highest rated Taiwanese drama to date.


The best selling Taiwanese movie was also released this summer to much fanfare, 海角七號 - (Cape No. 7).


The summer movie season was kick started with my movie of the year, Iron Man.