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Phelps Gets 8 Golds in 2008

Michael Phelps surpassed Mark Spitz as the most successful swimmer and Olympian of all time as he won an unprecedented eighth gold at the 2008 Games.

The win gave him his eighth gold at these Games, one more than Spitz in 1972, and his 14th in all, five more than anyone in the Olympics' 112-year history.

His 2008 Olympics goes down as one of the greatest athletic feats of all-time.

Phelps Wins Sixth Gold in 2008

American Michael Phelps scorched to his sixth gold and his sixth world record in the Water Cube pool, closing in on Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven golds in a Games. The 23-year-old now has 12 career Olympic golds, three more than anyone else. Like Spitz in 1972, all of his golds at these Games have come in world record times.

Nastia Liukin led an american 1-2 punch and won a gold in the women's all round gymnastics. A dazzling floor exercise by Liukin somersaulted her to victory ahead of fellow American Shawn Johnson and China's Yang Yilin. Victory was sweet after China had profited from nervous mistakes by the U.S. women to win their first team gold.

Phelps Wins First Gold in 2008

American swimmer Michael Phelps won his first gold medal of the 2008 games in the 400 meters individual medley final in Beijing's futuristic Water Cube with a time of 4.03.84, knocking more than a second of his own previous world record.

Washington Redskin HOF Weekend

The Hall of Fame induction ceremony turned Hog wild Saturday.

Former Washington Redskins Art Monk and Darrell Green were inducted into the National Football Hall of Fame.

"Standing up here on this platform is much different than I imagined," Monk said. "The reality of getting into the Pro Football Hall of Fame didn’t really hit me till a few days ago. And then to see the magnitude of all of this, and all of you, it’s been something amazing."

The largest ovation was for Monk, who retired in 1995 as the NFL’s career receptions leader with 940 catches—apparently not enough to make it into the Hall of Fame on his first seven chances.

As usual, Green, did his own thing, though. The only player in the ‘08 class selected in his first year of eligibility was also the only one to cry, and he was proud of it. "Deacon Jones said I was gonna cry. You bet I’m gonna cry," he said after his son, Jared, introduced him. ...read more here...

And the Washington Redskins won their first game under new head coach Jim Zorn, by beating the Indiaapolis Colts in the Hall of Fame game in Canton, Ohio, 30-16.

Post Log to $4.00 a Gallon Gas

Exxon Mobil just announced the biggest quarterly profit of any corporation in U.S. history, breaking its own previous record with $11.68 billion in earnings during the second quarter of 2008.

The company's revenue surged 40 percent, to $138.07 billion for the quarter. If it were a country, the company would have the 18th-largest economy in the world.