(via AbsoluteFencingGear.com)   Olympic medalist, author, event promoter and world’s most tireless man, Tim Morehouse, has entered the rarified territory usually reserved only for pro ball players: Shoe endorsement. Absolute Fencing just announced the “2013 Morehouse USA Elite Fencing Shoe” available for pre-order now. Morehouse is the first ever American fencer to have a shoe named after him. Morehouse has… [read article]

  Let’s put first things first.  Of course Michael Phelps will not be stripped of any medals for a supposed “Rule 40″ violation.  A few days ago several websites started to report on the ‘leaked’ Louis Vuitton ads of 22-time Olympic medalist Michael Phelps that appeared on websites before the end of the 2012 Olympic Games. What those sites so breathlessly… [read article]

(Tarmoh and Felix, Photo by Michael Heiman/Getty Images)   Happy Independence Day, America! Although it is unrelated to our annual July 4th celebrations, I’ve been thinking a lot in the last few days about track athlete Jeneba Tarmoh and the recent fracas that ensued at the 2012 USA Track and Field Olympic Trials.  By way of quick recap, Tarmoh, 22,… [read article]

  Sooooo cooool!!!! We’ve loved the potential and the awesome media incursion occurring because of the proliferation of ‘wearable action cams’ made ubiquitous by GoPro.  Now that company has launched a product that could be absolutely revolutionary to the content production business. The Cali-based cam co that has made so many wingsuiting videos possible just announced its new ‘GoPro Wifi BacPac… [read article]

  Amanda Beard has had a busy year.  In addition to releasing her best-selling biography and rearing her two-year-old son, the Olympic gold medalist has been competing and training to try and qualify for the upcoming 2012 Olympic Games in London.  If she makes the team it will be her 5th Olympic Games. People often wonder what the life of an Olympic… [read article]

 (Photo by Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Refuel America)   If there is a harder working person in Olympic sports than Apolo Ohno, we don’t know ‘em.  Over the course of three Olympics, Ohno won eight medals – over the last year the speedskating superstar has done countless appearances, several commercials, showed up on TV shows, shot a movie, AND ran… [read article]

(Photo by Jan Kruger/Getty Images)   After a stinging written criticism by this very website (kidding, it was the internet -ed.) it appears that individuals WILL be allowed once again to tweet and post pictures from inside the Olympic venues at the 2012 London Olympics.  Whew.  PaidContent.org just posted these tweets from the official Olympic twitter feed: Nice! Except that… [read article]

(Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)   As we head into the 2012 Olympic Games this summer, there is likely no greater recognized Olympic star in the world than Jamaica’s Usain Bolt (ok, maybe Phelps, MAYBE) and with the outsized incomes and salaries that the pros earn, you’d think Bolt is also one of the richest athletes in the world.  Not… [read article]

(Photo By Grant Halverson/Getty Images for NASCAR)   USA Track and Field is one of the largest Olympic sports and for the last 16 months has been running without a CEO.  That changed yesterday when USATF announced that it had hired former board member Max Siegel for a reported $500,000 per year plus bonuses, reports the AP. Siegel has been… [read article]

  There’s no doubt that we are big fans of ‘wearable cam’ sports videos made famous by manufacturer GoPro. DailyHouse has even speculated that these ‘point of view’ shots will be incorporated into all kinds of new sports broadcasting.  However, it turns out we do have a limit. In this video, created for sports manufacturer Easton, there is a GoPro… [read article]