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In a move that will shake the foundations of political pundits more than John McCain's choice of running mate, the blog DadCentric has chosen to endorse Barack Obama for President. (full disclosure: Famecrawlerer Whit Honea writes for Dadcentric.

Olympic athlete, Michael Phelps, sat down with with Today show host, Meredith Vieira, this morning.  In case you don’t know, Phelps made headlines around the world by winning an astonishing 8 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympic Games.

Shut up! Britney Spears and Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps together? For realz? Yes!! Apparently the two are going to be presenting an award together at the MTV VMAs next week. There were rumors that the once troubled popstar was going to perform but her manager has since denied it, saying that Brit is too busy working on her new album.

Keeping an eye on China Mao Zedong died in 1976, and since then, two big things have hap­pened to China, says Giles Fraser. The first is the explosion of the economy. The other is the explosion of religion - and, sometimes, its suppression.

It was only a matter of time before a new fight surfaced between K-Fed and Britney. This time it's a battle over their kids' show business careers. What "showbiz careers," you ask? Good question. Apparently, Federline (in his infinite wisdom), is taking Sean Preson (2) and Jayden (1) to lots of movie and TV auditions.

MTV’s Stephen Totilo writes: "Viewers of CBS’ Early Show yesterday were treated to a sight arguably more extraordinary than swimmer Michael Phelps’ procurement of eight gold medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. To win eight gold medals, a man merely has to swim faster than any other man in the world.

Thousands of jubilant Afghans packed Kabul’s national stadium to welcome home Rohullah Nikpai, the nation’s first Olympic medallist. Nikpai, 21, who won a taekwondo bronze, was cheered by crowds of people as he was driven in an open-topped truck from the international airport to the arena.

This just in. NBC News just announced that Mitt Romney will not be John McCain’s VP candidate. Stay tuned as the  announcement from McCain will happen any minute.

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Wonder what it was really like to be at the 2008 Beijing Olympics? Though we weren’t in Beijing to report directly, we did pose **nine questions to a friend who was. Nguyen shares his first-hand Olympic experience — including scoring 110 tickets, the simple joy of giving some of them away, an explanation of the empty seats you saw on TV, and how the Chinese people love an underdog.