Oprah Winfrey sits dow with the USA Olympics competitors in this September 8 video clip.

Life is sweet for other Olympians besides Michael Phelps – gymnast Nastia Liukin will grace the cover of Wheaties, as well as appear in Cover Girl ads this fall. Other gigs include her own line for Vanilla Star Jeans, called Nastia Liukin Gold jeans and tops, joining Beaconstreetgirls.com as a gymnastics role model, and an appearance on Gossip Girl. Read the rest of this entry »

Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor will stop by for a guest starring gig on Disneys Wizards of Waverly Place. The episode will air this season, although an airdate has not yet been released.

Misty May-Treanor will play herself on Wizards of Waverly Place, visiting Max (Jake T. Austin) after she hears about his “mysterious ailment.” Naturally, Max gets out of gym class by using magic. Read the rest of this entry »

When has Oprah not pulled out all of the stops? The season premiere of The Oprah Winfrey Show, airing September 8, will feature 150 U.S. Olympic athletes, including Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin.

Fans lined up on Saturday to snag tickets to Oprah’s Olympian athletes show – by noon, the line stretched almost six city blocks.

NBC just announced that Olympic gold medal swimmer Michael Phelps will be hosting Saturday Night Live’s 34th season on September 13. Musical guest for the SNL season premiere will be Lil Wayne.

Following the September 13 SNL, three more live shows in a row will follow. Additionally, SNL’s Weekend Update Thursday storms primetime with three live half-hour shows beginning October 9 at 9:30 p.m. ET.

Check out the Michael Phelps Sports Illustrated cover – all pimped out in his Olympic gold medals! The Michael Phelps Sports Illustrated cover issue hits newstands tomorrow.

Michael Phelps also plans to grace the box of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes – due to hit stores in mid-September.

Oh my. Today show’s Matt Lauer and Al Roker take on a new Olympic sport – male tandem rhythmic gymnastics in this Today show video clip.

Along with the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony fake fireworks and French swimmer Laure Manaudou’s naked picture scandal a new scandal has surfaced – lip synching during the Olympics opening ceremony by a little girl chosen to replace the singer who was deemed not cute enough.

It was discovered yesterday that the girl in the red dress singing Ode to the Motherland during the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics opening ceremony was not really singing. The lip synching fakery was performed by Lin Miaoke to the voice of seven-year-old Yang Peiyi. Read the rest of this entry »