The Players Championship 2008 met May 5 through May 11, 2008 at TPC Sawgrass in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.
The event kicked off with practice rounds on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday; players teed off for the first round of competition on Thursday, May 8 at 7:30 a.m.
The winner of the Players Championship in 2008 was Geoff […]
Fourteen young women vied for the title Britain’s Next Top Model in the reality series that ran on the Living Channel every Monday at 9:00 p.m. beginning April 21, 2008.
The show’s host, supermodel Lisa Snowdon, was joined in judging the competitors by the show’s creative director Gerry DeVeaux and former Icelandic supermodel, now fashion photographer, […]
The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator located just outside Geneva, Switzerland, commenced operation in early July 2008; in September, scientists and engineers began nudging the collider’s two hadron beams to crash into each other.
The work of an international team of scientists and engineers, CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) crosses the border between France and […]
Professional basketball’s NBA West Conference finals began Wednesday, May 21, 2008 in Los Angeles and ended Monday, June 2, 2008 with a seventh, and decisive, game.
After defeating the Denver Nuggets in the first round playoffs, the Lakers met the Utah Jazz in the West Conference semifinals. Their victory in that match-up set them up to […]
Voters in the state of North Carolina went to the polls on Tuesday, May 6, 2008 to mark their preference in the race to name the Democratic party’s candidate for November’s Presidential election.
Pre-election polls showed Senator Barack Obama of Illinois leading Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton by a wide margin among Democratic voters. Future prediction for […]
The Conference Finals in basketball’s NBA East started Tuesday, May 20, 2008 in Boston; the sixth and final game was played Friday, May 30, 2008.
The Boston Celtics met the Detroit Pistons in the NBA East Conference finals. The Celtics defeated the Pistons four games to two to advance to the NBA Finals. Basketball NBA prediction: […]
On Thursday, 1 May 2008, local council elections were held throughout England in 137 English Local Authorities.
In each of England’s 36 metropolitan boroughs, one-third of the council was up for election. Eighty-one district authority councils were up for election in whole or in part; most councils saw one-third of the council seats open. Future prediction […]
The State of Indiana held its Democratic primary election on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Registered Democratic voters throughout the state turned out in record numbers to indicate their preference in selecting the Democratic party’s candidate for November’s Presidential election.
Pre-election poll results were mixed, and showed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Senator Barack […]
The 2008 FedEx Kinkos Classic, a popular stop on the golf Champions Tour, ran Monday, April 28 through Sunday, May 4, 2008 at The Hills Country Club in Austin, Texas.
The total purse was $1,600,000; the winner took home $240,000.
Brad Bryant, the golf player who had accumulated four top-10 finishes in his last eight starts, was […]
The Castello di Tolcinasco Golf and Country Club hosted the Methorios Capital Italian Open May 8 through May 11, 2008 in Milan, Italy. The 27 championship holes at Castello di Tolcinasco, designed by Arnold Palmer, surround a 16th century Italian castle.
South African golfer Retief Goosen was the champion of the 2008 Italian Open golf tournament, […]