When Pia Sundhage became head coach of the U.S. women's soccer team late last year, she serenaded her discouraged players by singing "The Times They Are A Changin'." ...more

August 7, 2008

Tasty Morsels On TV This Week "Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares," 6 p.m. today, BBC America ...more

August 6, 2008

His company's gadgets are barely known abroad. But Aigo Chief Executive Feng Jun, a boyishly exuberant walking advertisement for the fast-growing Chinese electronics maker, is out to change that. ...more

August 5, 2008

Michael Phelps sneaked into Beijing almost unnoticed. He's unlikely to go out that way. ...more

August 5, 2008

Tick, tick, tick. The official countdown clock in Tiananmen Square hits "4 Days To Go" today. More than 40 million potted flowers are in bloom everywhere, even along the center medians of gritty highways. And for several days now, blue skies have taken the place of the usual gray smog. ...more

August 4, 2008

As the U.S. struggles with immigration policy, Americans will get a chance to see their melting-pot nation through the prism of foreign-born athletes competing in USA uniforms at the Beijing Olympics. ...more

August 3, 2008

Any team with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James in the lineup is going to score. ...more

August 1, 2008

Fans of Dirk Nowitzki have mounted an Internet campaign they hope will lead to his selection as Germany's flag bearer at the Beijing Olympics. ...more

July 31, 2008

Consumers trying to buy tickets to the Beijing Olympics in August have been duped by at least two Web sites that charged their credit cards but never mailed the tickets, according to lawsuits filed Tuesday by the U.S. Olympic Committee. ...more

July 27, 2008

President Bush gave U.S. Olympians a rousing White House send-off to next month's games in Beijing, urging them Monday to "compete swifter, higher and stronger" but also be mindful they will be "ambassadors of liberty" to the people of China and elsewhere. ...more

July 22, 2008