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2008 Spring fighting in Iraq

These are the full results of the 2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics which took place between September 5 and September 7, 2008, at (VIDENA) in Lima, Peru.

2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics - Results

2008 Speedway World Cup Final

2008 Slamdance Film Festival

The 2008 Skåne County earthquake occurred at 06.20am CET (05.20 UTC) on 16 December and affected the southern part of Sweden and eastern parts of Denmark. The epicenter was 5 km southwest of Sjöbo and 60 km east of Malmö. The earthquake was considered "moderately strong" with a moment magnitude calculated at 4.2–4.3 . Strong shaking was reported widely in Sweden from Skåne to Östergötland, in Denmark, and in northern Poland. The Skåne region is known for extremely low seismic activity, with only three small earthquakes (each less than 2.8) detected between 1970 and 2008, and only 14 earthquakes since 1375. Roadways in Sweden and Denmark were reported with cracks but investigations did not determine if any were caused by the earthquake.

In 2008 the Southern 100 motorcycle races on the Isle of Man featured a Solo Championship race, won by the Welsh rider Ian Lougher on a 1000cc Yamaha.

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa called an emergency meeting of SADC leaders for 12 April during the 2008 Zimbabwe presidential election to discuss the post-election impasse. According to Mwanawasa, Zimbabwe's "deepening problems" meant that the issue needed to be "dealt with at presidential level". Jacob Zuma, meanwhile, said that he thought results should have already been announced, and he described the failure to release them as "unprecedented".

2008 Sligo Senior Football Championship

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy was the tenth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 27 in the in Lonigo, Italy. Italian SGP was won by Hans N. Andersen from Denmark. It was his first GP Won in this season.

2008 South Ossetian war

The 2008 South African Figure Skating Championships are a figure skating national championship held annually to determine the national champions of South Africa. Skaters compete in the disciplines of men's singles and ladies singles. Skaters competed at the Senior, Novice, and Pre-Novice levels. There was also a Junior and Juvenile ladies' competition. The 2008 championships were held in the in Kempton Park, South Africa from 30 September through 3 October 2007.

2008 Sprint Cup

The 2008 Acura Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg was the second round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series season. It took place on the streets of St. Petersburg, Florida on April 5, 2008.

2008 Soul Train Music Awards

2008 South China floods

The 2008 Speedway Ekstraliga season is the 9th since its establishment. The first fixtures of the season are scheduled for April 6, 2008, and the season will end on October 19, 2008. Unia Leszno are the defending Polish champions. The Speedway Ekstraliga (pl. Ekstraliga żużlowa) is the top division of speedway in the Poland. The 2008 Juniors League (pl. Liga Juniorów) season is the first its establishment. Every Ekstraliga team must send a Team U-21 to youth league. Eight events will be on July and August.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden

2008 Sioux Falls Cougars football

Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur were the defending champions, but Stosur chose not to participate, and only Raymond competed that year.Raymond partnered with Elena Likhovtseva, but lost in the quarterfinals to Květa Peschke and Rennae Stubbs. Katarina Srebotnik and Ai Sugiyama won in the final 7–5, 4–6, [10–3] against Cara Black and Liezel Huber.

The 2008 Singapore League Cup marks the second occasion on which the Singapore League Cup competition has been staged. (The event was launched in 2007). Its official sponsored name for 2008 is the Avaya- League Cup. In 2007, the event was held before the start of the S.League season (and serving as a pre-season warm-up tournament), and was won by Woodlands Wellington FC. However, in 2008, the event is being held during the S.League season. All 12 S.League teams have entered the 2008 competition. The cup is being played over four rounds. The top four teams in the S.League in 2007 were given a bye to the Quarter-Final stage. The final will be played on 16 June at Jalan Besar Stadium.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic

Fernandão

This is a round-up of the 2008 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship. St. Molaise Gaels were crowned champions for the fourth time, the first under the new name, after a replayed final victory over 2005 champions Coolaney/Mullinabreena.

The 2008 Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm football team (variously "So-Naz", "SNU", or the "Crimson Storm") represents Southern Nazarene University in the college football season of 2008-2009. The team is led by head coach Mike Cochran, who has coached at SNU since 2006. They play their home games at in Bethany, Oklahoma. It was the first time in the history of the program, the Crimson Storm have opened the season 2-0. This will be SNU's longest season by 1 game, for the past 7 seasons the Crimson Storm have only played 10.

2008 Spanish National Badminton Championships

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland

2008 Sligo Intermediate Football Championship

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark

The 2008 Speedway World Cup Race-off was the third race of the 2008 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on July 17, 2008 in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark.

Ricardo

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe was the second race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on May 10 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland. The main sponsor was the commercial bank Bank Zachodni WBK. The Grand Prind was won by Leigh Adams from Australia. It was the 7th Grand Prix win of his career. In the final, Adams beat American Greg Hancock and defending World Champion Danish Nicki Pedersen.

The 2008 Slamdance Film Festival took place in Park City, Utah from January 17 to January 25, 2008. It was the 14th iteration of the Slamdance Film Festival, an alternative to the more mainstream Sundance Film Festival. The Festival received over 3,500 submissions from 25 countries for less than 100 slots.

2008 Six Nations Championship Squads

2008 South Korean beef protest

The 2008 South American Aquatics Championships, or Campeonato Sudamericano de Primera Fuerza de Deportes Acuáticos (as they were called in Spanish), were held March 12–16, 2008, in São Paulo, Brazil. The Championships were an event of CONSANAT, the South American Swimming Confederation, and featured competitions in diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo. The swimming competition at the Championships served as a qualifying event for the 2008 Olympics.

The 2008 Speedway World Cup Qualification (SWC) was a two events of motorcycle speedway meetings used to determine the two national teams who qualify for the 2008 Speedway World Cup. According to the FIM rules the top six nations (Poland, Denmark, Australia, Great Britain, Sweden and Russia) from the 2007 Speedway World Cup were automatically qualified. Qualification was won by Hungary and Czech Republic teams.

The 2008 Skyrunner World Series was the 7th edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002. From this year and up to 2011 (4 editions) was introduced Skyrunner World Series Trials.

The 2008 Spanish National Badminton Championships was the 27th edition of the Spanish National Badminton Championships. It was held in Ibiza Town, from May 9 to May 11, 2008.

The 2008 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe was a series of matches played in November 2008 in Great Britain by South Africa national rugby union team.

2008 Societe Generale trading loss

Adriano Gabiru

The 2008 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 13–16, 2008 at Merrell Center in Katy, Texas.

The 2008 South American Cross Country Championships took place on March 2, 2008. The races were held at the in Asunción, Paraguay. A detailed report of the event was given for the IAAF. Complete results and results for junior and youth competitions were published.

2008 Speedway GP

The 2008 Skycity Triple Crown was the sixth round of the 2008 V8 Supercar season. It was held on the weekend of July 4 to 6 at Hidden Valley Raceway in Darwin, Northern Territory.

2008 South Carolina Gamecocks football season

The 2008 Speedway World Cup Event 2 was the second race of the 2008 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on 14 July 2008 in the Brandon stadium in Coventry, Great Britain.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia

This is a round-up of the 2008 Sligo Senior Football Championship. Eastern Harps were crowned champions for the sixth time in their history, after a convincing defeat of Tubbercurry in the decider. The reigning champions, Tourlestrane, surrendered the title after failing to emerge from their group, and the once-dominant town outfit, St. Mary's, were forced to survive a playoff to retain their senior status. The 2000 champions Bunninadden were not so fortunate however, and were relegated to Intermediate level, just two years after last contesting the final.

2008 South Carolina Gamecocks football team

Cristian Borja

The 2008 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix was the second round of the 2008 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 28–30 March 2008 at the Circuito de Jerez located in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. The MotoGP race was won by Dani Pedrosa, who finished ahead of Jorge Lorenzo who started on pole position. Mika Kallio won the 250cc race, after Álvaro Bautista and Marco Simoncelli, the two leaders collided on the last lap. The 125cc race was won by Simone Corsi, ahead of Nicolás Terol and Bradley Smith, who started the race in pole position.

2008 Sri Lanka bus bombings

2008 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season

Singapore League Cup

The 2008 Slovak Cup Final was the final match of the 2007–08 Slovak Cup, the 39th season of the top cup competition in Slovakian football. The match was played at the Štadión pod Dubňom in Žilina on 1 May 2008 between FC Artmedia Petržalka and FC Spartak Trnava. Artmedia defeated Spartak Trnava 1-0.

2008 South Ossetian Conflict

The 2008 Spengler Cup was held in Davos, Switzerland between December 26, 2008 and December 31, 2008. All matches were played at host HC Davos's home Vaillant Arena. The final was won 5-3 by HC Dynamo Moscow over Team Canada.

The 2008 Miami Masters (also known as the Sony Ericsson Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 24th edition of the Miami Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, United States, from March 26 through April 6, 2008. The men's field was headlined by World No. 1 and Masters Cup champion Roger Federer,Chennai finalist Andy Roddick, and Australian Open champion, Indian Wells Masters winner and defending champion Novak Djokovic. Other top players in the field were 2007 Moscow titlist Nikolay Davydenko, Masters Cup runner-up David Ferrer, Andy Roddick, David Nalbandian and Richard Gasquet. The women's field was led by World No. 1 and Tour Championships winner Justine Henin, Australian Open runner-up and Indian Wells champion Ana Ivanovic, and Indian Wells finalist Svetlana Kuznetsova. Among other players competing were Australian Open semifinalist and Indian Wells semifinalist Jelena Janković, Paris titlist Anna Chakvetadze, Venus Williams, Daniela Hantuchová and Serena Williams.

2008 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Spanish Formula Three Championship

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Cleiton Xavier

2008 South Florida Bulls football

2008 South American Championship

Speedway Ekstraliga

2008 Sri Lanka national football team results

The 2008 South China floods began on 26 May 2008. Four rounds of torrential rains with landslides and flooding lasted for 20 days and affected fifteen provinces in Eastern and Southern China. The first round of floods affected twelve provinces in South China and killed 93 people as of 30 May. A new round of floods began on 6 June and swept nine provinces in southern China killing 55 people with 7 missing and forcing 1.3 million to evacuate as of 14 June. China's National Meteorological Centre has said that heavy rain would continue and that precipitation in the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan would be 30 to 70% greater than in the same period last year.

The 2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 20 through May 24. Top seeded Elon won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Elon's first SoCon tournament win. Elon joined the conference beginning with the 2004 baseball season.

Douglão

The 2008 season is the 98th season in Sport Club Corinthians Paulista's existence, and their first in Brazil's second division.

2008 Six-red Snooker International

2008 Skagit County shooting spree

The 2008 South American Rugby Championship was the 30th edition of the now multi-divisional rugby competition involving the top rugby nations from South America. Division A consisted of three teams and was played on a home and away basis. Two points are awarded for a win and one for a draw. Argentina won the tournament, playing with the "A" team.

The 2008 South Carolina Gamecocks football team represented the University of South Carolina in the college football season of 2008–2009. The team's head football coach was Steve Spurrier, who served his fourth season at USC. The Gamecocks played their home games at Williams-Brice Stadium in Columbia, South Carolina.

2008 Southwestern Athletic Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2008 South Ossetia war

2008 South Africa rugby union tour of Europe

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Poland was the ninth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on September 13 in the Polonia Stadium in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The Grand Prix was won by Greg Hancock from United States, it was his first GP win of the 2008 season.

The 2008 Speedway World Cup Final was the fourth and last race of the 2008 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on July 19, 2008 in the Speedway Center in Vojens, Denmark.

The 2008 Skorpion Zinc strike was a worker's strike against the ownership of the Skorpion Zinc mine near the southern Namibian town of Rosh Pinah in ǁKaras Region. Skorpion Zinc is the largest zinc mine in Africa and the eighth largest in the world. Lasting 19 days (from May 10, 2008, to May 29, 2008), the workers ended their strike when management agreed to a 12% raise in wages plus overtime and travel expenses. The workers had originally demanded a 14% raise in wages. The strike was supported by the Namibia's Mineworkers Union of Namibia, who accused Skorpion Zinc of practising racial discrimination and of negotiating in bad faith.

2008 Skyrunner World Series

The 2008 South American Race Walking Championships were held in Cuenca, Ecuador, on March 15-16, 2008. The track of the championship runs in the Avenida España. A detailed report on the event and an appraisal of the results was given. Complete results were published. The junior events are documented on the World Junior Athletics History webpages.

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2008 Skyrunning European Championships

2008 Skycity Triple Crown

2008 South American Rugby Championship

The 2008 Singapore League Cup marks the second occasion on which the Singapore League Cup competition has been staged. (The event was launched in 2007). Its official sponsored name for 2008 is the Avaya- League Cup. In 2007, the event was held before the start of the S.League season (and serving as a pre-season warm-up tournament), and was won by Woodlands Wellington FC. However, in 2008, the event is being held during the S.League season. All 12 S.League teams have entered the 2008 competition. The final will be played on 16 June at Jalan Besar Stadium.

The 2008 Singapore Super Series was the fifth tournament of 2008 BWF Super Series badminton tournament. It was held from June 10 to June 15, 2008 in Singapore.

2008 South Carolina Learjet 60 crash

The 2008 Speed World Challenge season was the nineteenth Speed World Challenge season. It began March 14, 2008, and finished on October 4, 2008, after 13 rounds. The defending champions were Jeff Altenburg in Touring Car and Randy Pobst in Grand Touring competition.

Speedway World Cup

2008 Southern Oregon Raiders football team

On the night of September 19, 2008, a Learjet 60 business jet (registration N999LJ) crashed during take-off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. The aircraft overran the runway end, crashed through the airport boundary fence, crossed South Carolina Highway 302 and came to rest onto an embankment, bursting into flames.

2008 Speedcar Series season

2008 South American Basketball Championship

The 2008 South Florida Bulls football team represented the University of South Florida (USF) in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Their head coach was Jim Leavitt, and the USF Bulls played all of their home games at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL. The 2008 college football season was the 12th season overall for the Bulls and their fourth season in the Big East Conference. The 2008 season was the first in which the team was ranked in the preseason rankings.

2008 South African riots

The 2008 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament was held from May 21–24. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's twelve teams met in the double-elimination tournament held at Don Sanders Stadium in Huntsville, Texas. The winner of the tournament, Sam Houston State, earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

2008 Sony Ericsson Open - Women's Doubles

2008 Speedway World Cup

2008 Sony Ericsson Open - Men's Singles

2008 South African Figure Skating Championships

2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics

2008 Sprint All-Star Challenge

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia

Luciano Henrique

2008 Six Days Track Cycling Events

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Europe

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden is the third race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 24 May in the Ullevi Stadium in Göteborg, Sweden It is the fourth time that the Ullevi Stadium has staged a GP, the last time being the 2004 Grand Prix of Scandinavia. At 416 metres, the semi-permanent track is the largest track on the 2008 Grand Prix calendar, and the longest ever used for a Grand Prix event.

2008 Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio

2008 South Ossetian War

2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football season

2008 South Florida Bulls football team

2008 Slovak Figure Skating Championships

2008 Speedway Grand Prix

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia

2008 South Florida Bulls football season

2008 South Africa Riots

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season was the 14th season in the Speedway Grand Prix era used to determine the Speedway World Champion. It was the second under the promotion of IMG.

The 2008 Speedcar Series was the inaugural Speedcar Series championship. It consisted of four points-scoring race meetings, with a further non-championship round beforehand. The Drivers' Championship was won by Johnny Herbert.

The 2008 Slovenian Supercup was a football match that saw the 2007–08 PrvaLiga champions Domžale face off against the Slovenian Cup winners Interblock. The match was held on 9 July 2008 at the Sports Park in Domžale. After 120 minutes of no goals, Interblock won their first Slovenian Supercup title by defeating Domžale 7–6 on penalties.

2008 Spa 24 Hours

2008 Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix

2008 South Africa Sevens

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The 2008 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 99th in the club's history. Coached by Jason Taylor and captained by David Kidwell & Roy Asotasi, the team competed in the National Rugby League's 2008 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 14th place out of 16 teams and so failing to reach the finals. The club also competed in the 2008 Under-20s competition. South Sydney equalled the second-biggest comeback in premiership history in Round 16 against the North Queensland Cowboys. After trailing 28–4 after fifty minutes, the Rabbitohs won the match 29–28.

Squad announced on 9 January 2008, accessed from BBC. Caps updated 10 January 2008 from RFU. On 19 January 2008, Peter Richards was injured playing in a match for London Irish and ruled out of the Six Nations. Due to more injuries in the squad London Irish scrum-half Paul Hodgson, Bath flanker Michael Lipman and Gloucester number eight Luke Narraway were all called up to the squad. On 2 February 2008, in England's opening match, Mike Tindall and Tom Rees were injured and ruled out of the rest of the tournament, while David Strettle is out for four to eight weeks. Because of this Newcastle scrum-half Lee Dickson, London Irish fly-half Shane Geraghty and Sale flanker Magnus Lund were added to the squad. Andrew Sheridan and Phil Vickery were forced to withdraw from England's game against Italy, Bristol's Jason Hobson was called up to the bench as a reserve. Head Coach: Brian Ashton Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.

2008 Sony Ericsson Open – Men's Singles

2008 Sony Ericsson Open - Women's Singles

Christian

2008 Slammy Awards

2008 Sport Club Internacional season

Léo

On September 2, 2008, 28-year-old Isaac Zamora killed six people (including one sheriff's deputy) and wounded two more on a shooting rampage in Skagit County, Washington. The incident began when Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy Anne Jackson responded to a call at Zamora's home in Alger, Washington. Zamora shot Jackson and then left the residence. He shot seven additional people and led authorities on a high-speed chase along Interstate 5 before surrendering at the Skagit County Sheriff's Office in Mount Vernon, Washington. At his 2009 trial, Zamora pled guilty to several felony charges, including four counts of aggravated murder, in the shootings, and not guilty by reason of insanity to two additional counts of aggravated murder. Zamora received four life sentences and was subsequently committed to Western State Hospital. In 2012, Zamora was moved to the Monroe Correctional Complex due to concerns that his presence posed a threat to hospital staff and other patients.
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2008 Slovak Cup Final

2008 Six Nations Under 20s Championship

The 2008 South American Aquatics Championships, or Campeonato Sudamericano de Primera Fuerza de Deportes Acuáticos (as they were called in Spanish), were held March 12–16, 2008, in São Paulo, Brazil. The Championships were an event of CONSANAT, the South American Swimming Confederation, and featured competitions in diving, swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming and water polo. The swimming competition at the Championships served as a qualifying event for the 2008 Olympics. The water polo competition served as the South American qualifier for the UANA Cup: the Americas qualifier for the 2009 World Championships.

2008 Skorpion Zinc strike

Gustavo Nery

2008Slovenian Supercup

The 2008 FIM Nordicbet Speedway World Cup (SWC) is the 8th FIM Speedway World Cup season. The Final took place on July 19 2008 in Vojens, Denmark. The tournament was won by host team Denmark (49 pts) and they beat defending champion Poland (46 pts), Sweden (39 pts) and Australia (21 pts) in the Final.

Élder Granja

2008 Sony Ericsson Open – Women's Doubles

The 2008 Sony Ericsson Open – Men's Singles was the men's singles event of the 2008 Sony Ericsson Open, an ATP Masters Series tennis tournament held in late March and early April. Novak Djokovic was the defending champion, but lost in the second round to Kevin Anderson. Nikolay Davydenko defeated Rafael Nadal, 6–4, 6–2 in the final to win his second Masters Series title.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany

Eduardo

2008 Spengler Cup

On September 2, 2008, 28-year-old Isaac Zamora killed six people (including one sheriff's deputy) and wounded two more on a shooting rampage in Skagit County, Washington. The incident began when Skagit County Sheriff's Deputy Anne Jackson responded to a call at Zamora's home in Alger, Washington. Zamora shot Jackson and then left the residence. He shot seven additional people and led authorities on a high-speed chase along Interstate 5 before surrendering at the Skagit County Sheriff's Office in Mount Vernon, Washington.

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain, known as the 2008 FIM Meridian Lifts British Speedway Grand Prix for sponsorship reasons, was the fifth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 28 June, in the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom. The British Grand Prix is one of the four Super Prix events held in 2008. The winner in Cardiff will progress to the Super Prix final, taking gate 3 and the white helmet colour.

2008 Speedway World Cup Event 1

The 2008 Six days track cycling events are multi-race competitions, each taking place over six days at various locations in mainland Europe. The riders challenge each other in track cycling disciplines including the madison, track time trials, sprints, and Derny motor-paced races.

Rubens Cardoso

2008 South Carolina football team

2008 South American Race Walking Championships

2008 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship

The Emirates Airlines South Africa Sevens is played annually as part of the IRB Sevens World Series for international rugby sevens (seven-a-side version of rugby union). The 2008 competition, took place on 5 December and 6 December at Outeniqua Park in George, Western Cape, it was the second Cup trophy in the 2008-09 IRB Sevens World Series.

2008 South Sydney Rabbitohs season

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Germany was the eleventh and closing race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It was scheduled to take place on 11 October 2008, in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. However, the meeting was cancelled because the track (temporary) was deemed unsafe by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM) jury due to adverse weather conditions. The event was re-staged at the Polonia Stadium, Bydgoszcz, Poland, on the 18 October and was renamed the 2008 FIM Final Speedway Grand Prix. The Grand Prix was won by Polish rider Tomasz Gollob, who also won the 2008 Super Prix.

2008 Speedway Elite League

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Czech Republic was the sixth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on August 2 in the in Prague, Czech Republic. Czech Republic SGP was won by current World Champion Nicki Pedersen from Denmark. It was his first GP Won in this season.

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On the night of September 19, 2008, a Learjet 60 business jet (registration N999LJ) crashed during take-off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in South Carolina. The aircraft overran the runway end, crashed through the airport boundary fence, crossed South Carolina Highway 302 and came to rest onto an embankment, bursting into flames. Four of the six people on board died in the crash. The survivors, musician Travis Barker and disc jockey Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, were critically injured. The jet had been due to fly Barker, Goldstein and their entourage to Van Nuys, California, after their TRV$DJAM band's performance at a concert in Five Points.

The 2008 season is the 99th season in Sport Club Internacional's existence, and their 38th in the Campeonato Brasileiro, having never been relegated from the top division.

2008 South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics – Results

The 2008 Six-red Snooker International (also known as the 2008 SangSom 6-red Snooker International for promotional and marketing purposes) was a six-red snooker tournament that took place between 8 and 13 July 2008 at the Montien Riverside Hotel in Bangkok, Thailand. Twenty-one of the tournament's 48 competitors were currently on the 2008/09 main tour of the more established 15-reds game, including former world champions Peter Ebdon and Ken Doherty, 2007 finalist Mark Selby and the hugely successful Jimmy White. A relatively high proportion of competitors were from Asia.

The 2008 Skate Canada International was the second event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Scotiabank Place in Ottawa, Ontario on October 30 – November 2. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2008–09 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Paso Doble.

2008 Six Nations

Wellington

The 3rd South American Under-23 Championships in Athletics were heldin Lima, Peru, at the on September 5–7, 2008.

2008 Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm football

The 2008 Individual Speedway World Championship Grand Prix Qualification Meetings Top three riders qualified to 2008 Speedway Grand Prix: 1.
* Niels Kristian Iversen 2.
* Lukáš Dryml 3.
* Bjarne Pedersen

The 2008 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship was the third edition of South American under-20 women's football championship. It was held from 7 to 23 March 2008 in Porto Alegre and Bagé, Brazil. Team Brazil won this championship for the third time in a row.

The 2008 Acura Sports Car Challenge of Mid-Ohio was the sixth round of the 2008 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Ohio on July 19, 2008.

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The 2008 Skyrunning European Championships was the 2nd edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunning European Championships, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation and was held in Zegama (Spain), took place on 25 May 2008, coinciding with the Zegama-Aizkorri Maratoia.

Gustavo

2008 Speedway World Cup Qualification

2008 South Ossetia War

The 2008 Sobeys Slam was held November 27–30 at the John Brother MacDonald Stadium in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. It was the fourth of five women's Grand Slam events during the 2008-09 curling season. It was the last Sobeys Slam before a one-year hiatus. It was also the second season where the event was a Slam. The total purse was $C 60,000 with $16,000 going to the champion Marie-France Larouche rink

2008 Sony Ericsson Open

2008 Speed World Challenge season

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Sweden is the third race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on 24 May in the Ullevi Stadium in Göteborg, Sweden It is the fourth time that the Ullevi Stadium has staged a GP, the last time being the 2004 Grand Prix of Scandinavia. At 416 metres, the semi-permanent track is the largest track on the 2008 Grand Prix calendar, and the longest ever used for a Grand Prix event. Sweden is also the first of four rounds of the 2008 Super Prix. The meeting winner will be given the red helmet in the SuperPrix final at Gelsenkirchen in October with a chance of winning a share of an extra $200,000 prize fund.

2008 Speedcar Series

2008 Southern African Development Community emergency meeting

2008 South American Rugby Championship "A"

2008 South Ossetia Conflict

Mineiro

2008 South American Swimming Championships

2008 South Africa rugby union tour

The 2008 South American Rugby Championship "B" will double as world cup qualifiers. It was the ninth edition of this competition(See also: 2011 Rugby World Cup - Americas qualification)

The 2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team represented the University of Southern Mississippi in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Golden Eagles were led by first-year head coach Larry Fedora and played their home games at M. M. Roberts Stadium. They are a member of the East Division of Conference USA. They finished the season 7–6, 4–4 in C-USA play. They were invited to the New Orleans Bowl where they defeated Troy, 30–27.

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Scandinavia was the seventh race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on August 16, in the in Målilla, Sweden. The Grand Prix was won by Leigh Adams from Australia. It was his second GP Won in this season.

2008 Skate Canada

2008 Spanish General Election

2008 Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm football team

2008 Southern Nazarene Crimson Storm football season

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Slovenia was the first race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on April 26 at the Matija Gubec Stadium in Krško, Slovenia. Slovenian SGP was won by Tomasz Gollob from Poland. It was the 12th SGP win of his career. In the final, Gollob beat Danes Nicki Pedersen and Hans N. Andersen.

The 2008 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2008–09 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Comcast Arena at Everett in Everett, Washington on October 23–26. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2008–09 Grand Prix Final. The compulsory dance was the Viennese Waltz.

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2008 South Carolina Gamecocks football

2008 South American U23 Athletics Championships

The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONMEBOL qualifier, also later and commonly known as the 2008 South American Beach Soccer Championship, was the second Beach Soccer World Cup qualification championship for South America, held from April 23–27 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The qualifiers were not coordinated by CONMEBOL at the time. The event was organised by Beach Soccer Worldwide (BSWW), under the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualifier title. CONMEBOL began recognising the tournaments in 2013, under the title South American Beach Soccer Championship, also acknowledging the 2006–11 events as historic editions of the championship. CONMEBOL eventually began organising the qualifiers in 2017, under a new title. Brazil won the championship for a second consecutive time, with Argentina finishing second and Uruguay winning the third place play of to finish third. The three nations moved on to play in the 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Marseille, France from July 17–27.

2008 Skane County earthquake

Bolívar

2008 Six Nations Championship squads

2008 Spanish Formula Three season

The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Latvia was the eighth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It was held on August 30, 2008, in the in Daugavpils, Latvia. The Grand Prix was won by Jason Crump from Australia, it was his second GP win of the season.

2008 Sony Ericsson International

2008 Société Générale trading loss

2008 South Africa pogroms

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The 2008 Southeastern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Regions Park in Hoover, AL from May 21st through May 25th. LSU won the tournament and earned the Southeastern Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2008 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place between Friday, March 7 and Monday, March 10 in North Charleston, South Carolina at the North Charleston Coliseum. All rounds were available on ESPN 910. The semifinals were televised by SportSouth, and the Southern Conference Championship Game was televised by ESPN2.

2008 South American Championships

2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament

2008 Speed World Challenge

The 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup CONMEBOL qualifier, also later and commonly known as the 2008 South American Beach Soccer Championship, was the second Beach Soccer World Cup qualification championship for South America, held from April 23–27 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brazil won the championship for a second consecutive time, with Argentina finishing second and Uruguay winning the third place play of to finish third. The three nations moved on to play in the 2008 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Marseille, France from July 17–27.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain

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2008 South American Beach Soccer Championship

In January 2008, the bank Société Générale lost approximately €4.9 billion closing out positions over three days of trading beginning January 21, 2008, a period in which the market was experiencing a . The bank states these positions were fraudulent transactions created by Jérôme Kerviel, a trader with the company. The police stated they lacked evidence to charge him with fraud and charged him with breach of trust and illegally accessing computers. Kerviel states his actions were known to his superiors and that the losses were caused by panic selling by the bank.

2008 Singapore League Cup

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2008 Southwestern China earthquake

The 2008 Six Nations Under 20s Championship was a rugby union competition held between February and March 2008. This is the first competition of the tournament of less than 20 years , born from the merger of tournament U19 tournament and U21. The England team won this first edition of the tournament by making a Grand Slam. England won the first tournament along with the Grand Slam and Triple Crown.

2008 Southern 100 Races

2008 Sobeys Slam

The 2008 season is the 94th season in Palmeiras's existence, and their 93rd in Brazil's first division. They spent 1 season in Campeonato Brasileiro Série B in 2003

2008 South American Rugby Championship "B"

2008 Singapore Super Series

2008 Sport Club Corinthians Paulista season

This article details the fixtures and results of the Sri Lanka national football team in 2008.

2008 South American Cross Country Championships

Squad announced on 9 January 2008, accessed from BBC. Caps updated 10 January 2008 from RFU. On 19 January 2008, Peter Richards was injured playing in a match for London Irish and ruled out of the Six Nations. Due to more injuries in the squad London Irish scrum-half Paul Hodgson, Bath flanker Michael Lipman and Gloucester number eight Luke Narraway were all called up to the squad. On 2 February 2008, in England's opening match, Mike Tindall and Tom Rees were injured and ruled out of the rest of the tournament, while David Strettle is out for four to eight weeks. Because of this Newcastle scrum-half Lee Dickson, London Irish fly-half Shane Geraghty and Sale flanker Magnus Lund were added to the squad. Andrew Sheridan and Phil Vickery were forced to withdraw from England's game against Ital

2008 Speedway Premier League

2008 Sprint Cup Series

The 2008 Speedway World Cup Event 1 was the first race of the 2008 Speedway World Cup season. It took place on July 12, 2008 in the Alfred Smoczyk Stadium in Leszno, Poland.

2008 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2008 Skåne County earthquake

2008 Sony Ericsson Open - Men's Doubles

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The 2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Denmark will be the fourth race of the 2008 Speedway Grand Prix season. It took place on June 14 in the Parken Stadium in Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen is also the second of four rounds of the 2008 Super Prix. The meeting winner will be given the blue helmet in the Super Prix Final at Gelsenkirchen in October with a chance of winning a share of an extra $200,000 prize fund.

2008 Speedway Grand Prix of Italy

2008 Sioux Falls Cougars football season

The 2008 Spanish Formula Three Championship was the eighth Spanish Formula Three Championship season. It commenced on May 3, 2008 and ended on November 2. The Spanish driver Germán Sánchez was crowned champion, two points ahead of runner-up Nelson Panciatici, who was driving an older 'B-class' car. The titles was decided in favour of Sánchez and Natacha Gachnang after the resolution of various claims. Panciatici was desqualified for using duct tape on the wings of the car, a commun technique in this championship, and does not influence the behavior of the vehicle or guarantee any improvemt, as stated by a press release from Hache Team.

2008 Skate America

The 2008 Miami Masters (also known as the Sony Ericsson Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 24th edition of the Miami Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier I Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Tennis Center at Crandon Park in Key Biscayne, Florida, United States, from March 26 through April 6, 2008.

The 2008 Southern Conference Baseball Tournament was held at Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Park in Charleston, SC from May 20 through May 24. Top seeded Elon won the tournament and earned the Southern Conference's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. It was Elon's first SoCon tournament win. Elon joined the conference beginning with the 2004 baseball season. All ten baseball programs in the conference participated in the tournament, with the seventh through tenth place teams playing a single-elimination opening day prior to an 8-team, two bracket, double-elimination tournament.

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2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football

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2008 Speedway World Cup Race-off
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2008 Speedway Grand Prix Qualification

2008 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship

Daniel Carvalho

2008 Sprint for the Cup

2008 South American Under-17 Women's Championship

2008 Speedway Ekstraliga

Rodrigo Possebon

2008 Skate Canada International

2008 Speedway World Cup Event 2

2008 Spike Video Game Awards

2008 Southland Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

2008 Southwest China earthquake

2008 South Africa riots

2008 South American U-20 Women's Championship

2008 Slovenian Supercup

2008 Skorpion Zinc Strike

2008 South China Floods

2008 South Korean candlelight vigil

2008 Sprint All-Star Race

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The 2008 FIM Nordicbet Speedway World Cup (SWC) is the 8th FIM Speedway World Cup season. The Final took place on July 19 2008 in Vojens, Denmark. The tournament was won by host team Denmark (49 pts) and they beat defending champion Poland (46 pts), Sweden (39 pts) and Australia (21 pts) in the Final. It was the second time the Speedway World Cup was won by Denmark and their thirteenth Team World Champion title overall. It was the second time Hans Andersen, Niels Kristian Iversen, Bjarne Pedersen and Nicki Pedersen had been members of a World Cup winning team (Champions in 2006, but it was the first time for Kenneth Bjerre.

2008 South Australian Super League

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The 2008 South Sydney Rabbitohs season was the 99th in the club's history. Coached by Jason Taylor and captained by David Kidwell & Roy Asotasi, the team competed in the National Rugby League's 2008 Telstra Premiership, finishing the regular season in 14th place out of 16 teams and so failing to reach the finals. The club also competed in the 2008 Under-20s competition. On 26 January 2008, the Rabbitohs played the Leeds Rhinos at the Hodges Stadium at University of North Florida in Jacksonville, Florida, the first time first-grade professional rugby league teams from Australia and England played each other in the United States. A crowd of about 12,000 attended with Russell Crowe, Greg Norman, and the stars of television show American Chopper among the audience. Leeds Rhinos won the game 26-24(after having been behind 26-0 at half-time South Sydney staged an unlikely comeback that fell agonisingly short). South Sydney equalled the second-biggest comeback in premiership history in Round 16 against the North Queensland Cowboys. After trailing 28–4 after fifty minutes, the Rabbitohs won the match 29–28. No Rabbitohs players were selected for the 2008 State of Origin series, however at the end of season 2008 Rugby League World Cup tournament four were selected to play for Tonga (Manase Manuokafoa, Eddie Paea, Fetuli Talanoa and Joel Taufa'ao); three for the successful New Zealand squad (David Fa'alogo, David Kidwell and Issac Luke) and one captained Samoa (Nigel Vagana).

2008 Sports Car Challenge of St. Petersburg

2008 Southern Miss Golden Eagles football team

2008 Singer Sri Lankan Airlines Rugby 7's

2008 Six Nations B

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2008 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament