Homegrown gold: The Colony’s Williams shines on ‘Redeem Team’ (The Colony Courier-Leader)

27 August 2008, 10:26 pm

Hours after Deron Williams helped lead the USA men’s basketball team to a gold medal Sunday at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, Tommy Thomas sat with his former all-state standout in a hotel room discussing items on the player’s to-do list.... read more

24 NBA professional players won medals (People's Daily)

27 August 2008, 7:18 pm

A total of 24 current and previous basketball players of the U.S. professional league of the National Basketball Association (NBA) received medal during the Olympic Games of Beijing 2008, NBA said on Wednesday. These professional basketball players played of the national teams of U.S. (gold), Spain ... read more

Williams Joins Kentucky (WTVQ Lexington)

27 August 2008, 6:51 pm

Billy Gillispie has added another player to the UK Basketball team for the upcoming season. According to the cats pause that player is Donald Williams, a 6'5" 200 pound shooting guard from Progressive Christian Academy in Temple Hills Maryland.... read more

A special boy called Barry (Denver Post via Yahoo! News)

27 August 2008, 6:03 pm

Punahou School teacher Mabel Hefty stood before her fifth-grade students — a Hawaiian rainbow of 10-year-old boys and girls with Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, African, Korean, Tongan, American and multiracial parentage — in the fall of 1971 and insisted that any one of them could grow up to be ... read more

Indie Round-Up: Mojomatics, Duane Andrews, Brandie Frampton, Alex Statan (Blogcritics.org)

27 August 2008, 5:20 pm

Canadian guitarist Duane Andrews grafts strains of the traditional music of Newfoundland onto Django Reinhardt-inspired "gypsy jazz." The Mojomatics, Don't Pretend That You Know MeThe Mojomatics make a lot of noise for two guys, and a joyful noise it is. Their hype makes much of the country and blu... read more

Marty Burns: Redeem Team and free agency mailbag (Sports Illustrated)

27 August 2008, 2:26 pm

It has been a mostly quiet offseason for the Celtics. Other than the loss of reserve forward James Posey to free agency (Hornets), the defending champs have pretty much stood pat. But Boston did make one move recently that has the rest of the NBA taking notice.... read more

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