Johan Cruijff-schaal XIII

2008 K3 League

2008 K League Championship is postseason championship playoff of 2008 K League. The championship are a series of playoff matches contested by the teams 1st to 6th in the 2008 K League table. All matches are played one leg, except final is played two legs. With 6th playing 3rd and 5th playing 4th, winner of each matches play one match in higher team's homeground. This match's winner gain the next 2009 AFC Champions League spot by the secured 3rd position. The winner of second round playing regular season's 2nd position team in the 2nd team's homeground. The final is played home and away format.

The 2008 Irish Classic (often known as the 2008 Lucan Racing Irish Classic for sponsorship and promotion purposes) was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place on 2 and 3 August 2008 at the Celbridge Snooker Club in Kildare, Ireland. Ken Doherty won in the final 5–2 against Fergal O'Brien.

The 2008 Iranian Futsal 2nd Division will be divided into two phases. The league will also be composed of 20 teams divided into two divisions of 10 teams each, whose teams will be divided geographically. Teams will play only other teams in their own division, once at home and once away for a total of 18 matches each.

2008 Jerusalem bulldozer rampage

2008 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship

2008 Iraq Shi'a Unrest

Sixth-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues was the defending champion, and won in the final 4–6, 7–6sup>(7–4), 6–0, against Katarina Srebotnik.

Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur were the defending champions, but lost in the quarterfinals to Květa Peschke and Rennae Stubbs. Cara Black and Liezel Huber won in the final 2–6, 6–0, 10–8, against Květa Peschke and Rennae Stubbs.

2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Doubles

The Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus occurred on January 3, 2008, and was the state caucuses of the Iowa Democratic Party. It was the first election for the Democrats of the 2008 presidential election. Also referred to as "the First in the Nation Caucus," it was the first election of the primary season on both the Democratic and Republican sides. Of the eight major Democratic presidential candidates, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois received the most votes and was ultimately declared the winner of the Iowa Democratic Caucus of 2008, making him the first African American to win the caucus. Former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina came in second place and then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York finished third, though Clinton received more delegates than Edwards.

A snap general election was held in Italy on 13–14 April 2008. The election came after President Giorgio Napolitano dissolved Parliament on 6 February 2008, following the defeat of the government of Prime Minister Romano Prodi in a January 2008 Senate vote of confidence and the unsuccessful tentative appointment of Franco Marini with the aim to change the current electoral law. Under Italian law, elections must be held within 70 days of the dissolution. The voting determined the leader of Italy's 62nd government since the end of World War II. The coalition led by ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi from The People of Freedom party defeated that of former Mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni of the Democratic Party.

Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship

The 2008 Ireland rugby union tour of New Zealand and Australia was a series of matches played in June 2008 in New Zealand and Australia by Ireland national rugby union team.

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia – Women's Doubles

2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football

On 22 September 2008, a Palestinian drove a BMW saloon car into a group of civilians and off-duty soldiers in a terrorist ramming attack in Jerusalem, Israel, injuring 19. According to Stratfor Global Intelligence analysts, this attack represents a new militant tactic which is less lethal but could prove more difficult to prevent than suicide bombings.

Three serious incidents of unrest in the New Forces, a former rebel group in Côte d'Ivoire, occurred in mid-2008. These incidents occurred in the midst of a disarmament process, according to which a portion of the New Forces fighters were to be integrated into the army, while the majority were to be given work on projects. The disarmament process was to be followed by a presidential election and a parliamentary election.

2008 Junior League World Series

The 2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 21st edition of the Internazionali Femminili di Palermo, and was part of the Tier IV Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. It took place in Palermo, Italy, from July 7 through July 13, 2008.

The 2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250 was the eighth round of the 2008 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on June 22, 2008 at the 0.894-mile (1.439 km) Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. At the green flag, Hélio Castroneves took the lead in turn 1 from polesitter Scott Dixon. Tony Kanaan quickly moved up to second position. Over the next 10-15 laps, Castroneves and Kanaan battled back-and-forth for the lead, side-by-side on many laps. Kanaan finally muscled the lead away on lap 16, and gained a lead of roughly one second. On lap 39, Ed Carpenter brushed the outside wall in turn 2. The leaders pit, and Kanaan exited the pits as the leader. On lap 51, the green came back out, and a lap later, Castroneves got by Kanaan for the lead. Jaime Camara brought out the yellow on lap 106 when his car lost power and stopped on the course. After another sequence of pit stops, Kanaan led Dan Wheldon and Marco Andretti. On the restart, Wheldon lost control and slid up the track, falling to 8th place. On lap 157 Mario Moraes spun into the pit apron, bringing out a caution, and the leaders pitted. John Andretti's pitcrew had trouble engaging the fuel hose, and he dropped back the end of the running order. Prior to this he had been running in 7th place, one of the highest positions ever for a Roth Racing car. Castroneves regained the lead on lap 170, and held it until another yellow came out on lap 188 for a spin by Enrique Bernoldi. Most of the leaders pitted, but Wheldon, Hideki Mutoh, and Danica Patrick stayed out to lead the field. On the restart Moraes spun for the second time of the day, and prolonged the yellow until lap 202. On lap 212, Kanaan (running third) suddenly lost control and crashed in turn 1. On the lap 227 restart, Marco Andretti and Dixon passed Patrick to take third and fourth place respectively. Over the final 15 laps, Mutoh and Marco Andretti battled for second, with Mutoh holding off Andretti's challenge. Wheldon went on to win, and Chip Ganassi Racing donated their race winnings from both cars to Iowa flood relief. After getting by Patrick late in the race, A. J. Foyt IV finished in the top 5, while John Andretti just missed the top 10, working his way back to 11th.

2008 Indonesia Independence Cup

The 2008 Jerez Superleague Formula round was the sixth and final round of the inaugural Superleague Formula championship, with the races taking place on November 23, 2008. Eighteen football teams were represented on the grid, the same number of teams as there was at the previous four rounds. There were two driver changes before this round of the championship: James Walker replaced Enrico Toccacelo in the Borussia Dortmund car and Bertrand Baguette returned to the Al Ain cockpit replacing Dominick Muermans. Paul Meijer had been expected to return, however his injury from the previous round at Vallelunga kept him out. The meeting saw a second win for A.C. Milan and a first win for Borussia Dortmund. With a ninth in the first race coupled with other low placings for Liverpool F.C. and PSV Eindhoven, Beijing Guoan clinched the first Superleague Formula title. With a third in the final race, Beijing won the title with 413 points, some 66 points clear of PSV, and two points further back were Milan.

2008 International Pokka 1000km

2008 JEF United Ichihara Chiba season

2008 Japanese Regional Football League Competition

2008 Interwetten Austrian Open Kitzbühel

2008 James Madison Dukes football team

2008 Japan Super Series

2008 J.League Cup Final

The 2008 Italian Figure Skating Championships (Italian: Campionati Italiani Assoluti 2008 Pattinaggio Di Figura Su Ghiaccio) were the Italian Figure Skating Championships of the 2007-2008 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the levels of Senior and Junior, and Novice syncro for the title of national champion of Italy. The results of this competition were used to choose the teams to the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships.

The 2008 James Madison Dukes football team represented James Madison University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FCS football season. JMU finished the season 12–2 with an undefeated record of 8–0 in the Colonial Athletic Association.

The 2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange took place on 16 July 2008 when Hezbollah transferred the coffins of two Israeli soldiers in exchange for 5 Lebanese militants held by Israel as well as the bodies of 199 militants captured in Lebanon or Israel.

2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo – Singles

2008 KBS Drama Awards

2008 Istanbul bombing

2008 Jade Solid Gold Top 10 Awards

The Second League consisted of 12 participants.

2008 Ivy League Men's Basketball Season

The 2008 Indianapolis Colts season was the 56th season for the team in the National Football League and the 25th in Indianapolis. It was the first season since 2002 that the Colts did not win the AFC South title. However, after a 3–4 start on the season Peyton Manning led the Colts to a nine-game winning streak, a 12–4 record, and a wild card berth in the playoffs. The Colts' season came to an end in San Diego when they were upset in their wild-card round playoff game against the Chargers. The 2008 season was the Colts' inaugural season playing at Lucas Oil Stadium after playing at the RCA Dome for 24 seasons. This marks Tony Dungy's 7th and last season as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, and Peyton Manning's 11th season as the starting quarterback. As a result of his play over the final two months of the regular season, Manning was awarded his third MVP award. When the Colts won their seventh straight game in Week 15, they became the only team in the history of the NFL to have seven consecutive wins in five consecutive seasons. With their regular season record of 12–4, they became the first franchise in NFL history to have twelve wins in six consecutive seasons (New England Patriots holds the record with 8 seasons, 2010-2017).

2008 Ireland pork contamination

2008 International Challenge Cup

The Championship consisted of 12 participants.

The 2008 Istanbul bombings occurred on July 27, 2008 when two explosions hit a busy shopping street in the Güngören district of Istanbul, killing seventeen people, five of them children, and injuring 154. The attacks occurred at 9:45 p.m. local time, 18:45 UTC, on a pedestrian street closed to traffic. The bombings were the deadliest civilian attacks in Turkey since the 2003 Istanbul bombings, five years earlier.

The 32nd annual Japanese Regional Football League Competition took place from 22 November 2008 to 30 November 2008. It took place across the prefectures of Fukuoka, Kōchi, Tottori and Okinawa. It is the tournament which decided promotion to the Japan Football League for the 2009 season. As three teams were promoted from the Japan Football League to J. League Division 2, the top three teams in this competition were promoted: Machida Zelvia, V-Varen Nagasaki and Honda Lock.

2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner swap

2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg - Singles

2008 Irish pig meat crisis

The 2008 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships in speed skating were held at the ice stadium in Groningen, Netherlands on 27 and 28 December 2007. Although the event took place in December 2007 this was the 2008 edition as it is part of the 2007-08 speed skating season. Sven Kramer defended his 2007 title by winning all four distances. In the women's tournament Ireen Wüst won the tournament with only winning the opening 500 m, young gun Marrit Leenstra won the 1500 m and veteran Renate Groenewold the 3000 m and 5000 m.

2008 Indonesian Women Football Tournament

On June 14, the 2008 Iwate earthquake struck the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshū in Japan. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the Iwate–Miyagi Nairiku earthquake in 2008 (平成20年（2008年）岩手・宮城内陸地震). This earthquake occurred in the south of the inland of Iwate Prefecture at 8:43 JST on June 14 (23:43 UTC on June 13). The JMA magnitude was estimated at Mj 7.2, and the moment magnitude by USGS was at Mw 6.9. The epicenter was located at 39°01.7′N 140°52.8′E﻿ / ﻿39.0283°N 140.8800°E, about 85 kilometres (55 mi) north of Sendai and about 385 kilometres (240 mi) north-northeast of Tokyo. The strongest shaking was measured in the cities of Ōshū (Iwate) and Kurihara (Miyagi), both of which were measured as "strong 6" on the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale, shindo (震度 shindo). Peak ground acceleration readings were high, with a maximum vector sum (3 component) value of 4,278 cm/s2 (4.36g).

2008 International Rules Series

2008 Italian Super Cup

2008 Japanese television dramas

2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie

2008 Jr Worlds

2008 Istanbul Fireworks Explosion

2008 J. League Division 1

The 2008 Jelajah Malaysia, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It was held from 7 to 13 January 2008. There were seven stages with a total of 1,352.2 kilometres. In fact, the race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.2 category race and was part of the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour calendar. A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2008 Jelajah Malaysia. Out of 120 riders, a total of 91 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.

2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner exchange

2008 Italian Senate election, North and Central American division

2008 International Women's Open – Singles

2008 Irish flash floods

2008 India–Pakistan standoff

2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo - Doubles

The 2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie was a professional tennis tournament played on hard courts. It was the fifth edition of the tournament which was part of the 2008 ATP Challenger Series. It took place in Nouméa, New Caledonia between 1–6 January 2008.

The 2008 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation (Chinese: 2008年度十大勁歌金曲頒獎典禮) was held on January 3, 2009 at the Kowloon Hong Kong International Trade and Exhibition Centre. It is part of the Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation series.

A human stampede occurred on 30 September 2008, at the Chamunda Devi temple in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, in which 224 people were killed and more than 425 injured. The 15th-century temple is dedicated to the goddess Chamunda Devi and is located within the premises of Mehrangarh Fort. About 25,000 Hindu pilgrims were visiting the temple to mark the first day of the nine-day-long Navratri, a major festival in Hinduism dedicated to the worship of Goddess Durga.

The 2008 JB Group Classic is a women's exhibition (no points for the world ranking can be earned) tennis tournament organized at the beginning of each season.

The 2008 Indonesian Women's Football Tournament was the second edition of the Indonesian Women's Football Tournament (IWFT), a fully professional football competition for women in the country.

2008 J.League Cup Final was the 16th final of the J.League Cup competition. The final was played at National Stadium in Tokyo on November 1, 2008. Oita Trinita won the championship.

The 2008 International Pokka 1000km was the 6th round of the 2008 Super GT season and the 37th running of the 1000 km Suzuka. It took place on August 24, 2008.

2008 JEF United Chiba season

2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg

The 2008 Guolian Securities Jiangsu Classic was a professional non-ranking snooker tournament that took place between 4 and 8 June 2008 in two cities in the Jiangsu Province, China. The round-robin stage consisted of two groups of six players, eight top 16 players and four Chinese wild cards. The final was staged at the in Wuxi, while the rest of the tournament had been held at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Nanjing. Ding Junhui, the only player to have won all his matches, delighted his home crowd by taking the title with a tense final frame decider defeat of Mark Selby.

2008 Intense Football League season

2008 Jacksonville Jaguars

2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie - Doubles

The 2008 International Rally of Canberra was the second Round on the Australian Rally Championship calendar. The 2008 version of the Rally once again saw competitors from the Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, the Australian Rally Championship and the local Rally Championship in the Australian Capital Territory (PCD Engineering ACT Regional Rally Series). A total of 62 competitors started the Rally.

The 2008 Israeli Basketball League Cup, for sponsorship reasons Winner Cup 2008 (Hebrew: גביע ווינר, Gevi'a Winner), was the 3rd edition of the Israeli Basketball League Cup pre-season tournament. It was played between 12 October and 16 October at Malha Arena in Jerusalem and at in Gan Ner. Hapoel Jerusalem has won the cup after beating Ironi Nahariya 84-69 in the final.MVP was Timmy Bowers (Hapoel Jerusalem).

2008 KB Prvni Liga season

2008 Intertoto Cup

2008 J&S Cup

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia

The 2008 KNVB Cup Final was a football match between Feyenoord and Roda JC on 27 April 2008 at De Kuip, Rotterdam. It was the final match of the 2007–08 KNVB Cup competition. Feyenoord beat Roda JC 2–0 after goals from Denny Landzaat and Jonathan de Guzmán. It was their eleventh KNVB Cup triumph.

The 2008 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix was the fifteenth round of the 2008 MotoGP Championship. It took place on the weekend of 26–28 September 2008 at the Twin Ring Motegi, located in Motegi, Japan.

2008 Jacksonville Jaguars football team

The 2008 Japan Super Series is the seventh tournament of the 2008 BWF Super Series in badminton. It was held in Tokyo, Japan, from September 16 to September 21, 2008.

Alex Kuznetsov and Phillip Simmonds were the defending champions but chose not to defend their title. Flavio Cipolla and Simone Vagnozzi won the title after defeating Jan Mertl and Martin Slanar 6–4, 6–4 in the final.

2008 International GT Open

2008 Jerez Superleague GP

2008 Iowa State Cyclones football

2008 Joe Turner Classic

2008 Isle of Man TT Festival was held between Saturday 24 May and Saturday 7 June on the 37.733-mile Snaefell Mountain Course and was the 89th Isle of Man TT Race. After the 2007 Centenary TT Races, the 2008 event included a second 600cc Supersport Junior TT race and the re-introduction of two-stroke motor-cycle racing with a Lightweight TT and Ultra-Lightweight TT race on the (4.25 mile) Billown Circuit in the Isle of Man.

The tournament was held between January 2 and January 12, 2008. Eight teams competed for two Copa Libertadores 2008 spots in this tournament.

2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting

Media of both side started the public sidepeace initiatives

2008 International Cup

The 2008 Indonesia Independence Cup (also known as Pertamina Independence Cup 2008) was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the 8th time the championship had been played since its inception in 1985. It marked the first time since 2000 that the championship was being held. The tournament was played between 21–29 August and included national teams from Cambodia, Libya U-23, Myanmar and Brunei DPMM FC, as well as, two teams from the host nation, the Indonesia national team and the Indonesia U-21 national team. Teams from Europe, United States and Japan had been invited but declined to participate due to the timing of the event. The final game ended in controversy as the Libyan team refused to return to the field for the second half although leading 1 - 0. The Libyan team walked out following an incident between two coaches from each team. As a result, Indonesia was awarded 3 goals and declared the winner of the tournament.The Libyan team accused a member of the Indonesia team of hitting Libya coach in the tunnel at halftime.

The 2008 International Formula Master season was the second International Formula Master series season.

2008 Indy Lights season

The 2008 International Women's Open was a tennis tournament played on outdoor grass courts. It was the 34th edition of the International Women's Open, and was part of the Tier II Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. It took place in Eastbourne, England, United Kingdom, from 16 June through 21 June 2008.

Individual Speedway European Championship

The 2008 KB První Liga Competition was a Czech domestic rugby club competition, operated by the Česká Rugbyová Unie (ČSRU). It began on August 31, 2008 with a match between Olomouc and ARC Iuridica, and ended with the final on 18 October of that year with Bystrc beating Olomouc 31-10. Unlike most other years, the league was played over the course of only one year.

2008 Istanbul fireworks explosion

The 2008 Individual Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP) is the 2008 version of Individual Speedway Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM).
Individual Speedway Polish Championship

The 2008 International Bowl was played on January 5, 2008 at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The game featured the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University—who finished 5th in the Big East Conference—and the Cardinals of Ball State University—who finished co-champions of the Mid-American Conference's West Division. The game was the only NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision game from the 2007-2008 season to be played outside the United States. Rutgers won by a score of 52–30.

The 2008 Individual Under-19 European Championship was the 2008 version of UEM Individual Speedway Junior European Championship. The Final took place on August 30, 2008 in Stralsund, Germany; it was second Final in Germany. Defending European Champion was Nicolai Klindt from Denmark who won in 2007 Final in Częstochowa, Poland.
2008 Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football team

2008 International Formula Master

2008 Ironman World Championship 70.3

Justine Henin was the defending champion, but retired from the sport on May 14, 2008. Agnieszka Radwańska won in the final 6–4, 6–7(11–13), 6–4, against Nadia Petrova.

The 2008 edition of the J. League Cup sponsored by Nabisco began on March 20. The top 4 teams of each qualifying group automatically qualified for the quarter-finals along with the best two remaining runners-up. Both Gamba Osaka and Kashima Antlers received a bye to the quarter-final stage due to their participation in the group stage of the Asian Champions League. Oita Trinita defeated Shimizu S-Pulse 2-0 in the final on November 1 at the Tokyo National Stadium. They qualified for the 2009 Pan-Pacific Championship and the 2009 Suruga Bank Championship.

The 2008 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team represented Jacksonville State University in the college football Division I FCS (Football Championship Subdivision). The team was led by ninth-year head coach Jack Crowe. Jacksonville State played their home games at Paul Snow Stadium in Jacksonville, Alabama.

2008 Israeli bus crash

The 2008 Issers bombing occurred on August 19, 2008 when a suicide bomber drove and detonated a vehicle laden with explosives into a crowd of para-military recruits waiting to take exams outside a police academy in Issers, Boumerdès Province, Algeria killing 43 and injuring 38. The Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb is suspected as being responsible.

2008 Ironman World Championship

2008 Ironman 70.3 World Championship

2008 James Madison Dukes football season

2008 J. League Division 2

2008 Indonesia Women Football Tournament

The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. Some of the specific details remain uncertain, with different plausible scenarios having been given about different climbers' timing and actions, when reported later via survivors' eyewitness accounts or via radio communications of climbers who died (sometimes minutes) later in the course of events on K2 that day.

2008 Japan Series

The 2008 Ironman 70.3 World Championship was a triathlon competition held in Clearwater, Florida on November 8, 2008. The race was sponsored by Foster Grant and organized by the World Triathlon Corporation. The championship race is the culmination of the Ironman 70.3 series of events that took place from October 2007 to September 2008. Athletes, both professional and amateur, earn a spot in the championship race by qualifying in races throughout the 70.3 series. The 2008 championship race was represented by athletes from 52 different countries and 46 different U.S. States.

The K3 League 2008 was the second season of K3 League. It operated in two stages, with the winners of each stage and the two runners-up advancing to the post-season championship playoffs. The five clubs on high rank also earned a spot to the 2009 Korean FA Cup competition. The league began on 22 May 2008, and ended on 6 December 2008.

2008 James Madison Dukes football

2008 Jerusalem BMW attack

2008 Irish pork recall

2008 KNSB Dutch Allround Championships

The 2008 Japan Series was the 59th edition of Nippon Professional Baseball's championship series. The best-of-seven playoff between the respective champions of the Central League's and the Pacific League's Climax Series (postseason) began on Saturday, November 1, 2008, and went the full seven games. The deciding Game 7 took place on Sunday, November 9.

2008 Jon Stewart

2008 Jodhpur stampede

The 2008 Irish flash floods were a series of flash floods that occurred across the island of Ireland in August 2008. The floods and related weather conditions primarily affected the following counties; Limerick, Cork, Dublin, Antrim, Carlow, Galway, Laois, Louth, Meath, Kildare, Kilkenny, Tipperary, Offaly, Sligo and Donegal. Parts of Ireland's large urban centres, including Dublin and Belfast, were submerged, whilst Carlow town has experienced some of the worst flooding in the country. One person died; 31-year-old Polish dad-of-one Przemyslaw Jablonski. He went missing in the River Fergus, in Ennis, and was found 6 days later (on 18 August) in the same river. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

2008 Italy rugby union tour

The 2008 Italian Formula Three Championship was the 44th Italian Formula Three Championship season. It began on May 10 at Mugello and ended on October 19 at Vallelunga after 16 races. The season began with Edoardo Piscopo dominating the field with four successive wins, but another run of seven victories by Mirko Bortolotti, gave him the leadership in the championship. The championship title was delayed to the last round in Vallelunga, the victory in race one and his eighth of the season gave Bortolotti the championship crown.

2008 KBO League season

2008 Jordan Rally

2008 Israel–Gaza conflict

The match for 2008 Johan Cruyff Shield was held on 23 August 2008 in the Amsterdam Arena. The match, which inaugurated the 2008–09 season in Dutch football, featured the 2007–08 Eredivisie champions PSV and 2007–08 KNVB Cup winners Feyenoord. PSV won 2–0.

2008 Indonesian Women's Football Tournament

2008 Individual Speedway Latvian Championship

2008 IndyCar Series season

2008 Junior Eurovision Song Contest

2008 Israeli early elections

2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo

2008 KB První Liga season

The Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus occurred on January 3, 2008, and was the state caucuses of the Iowa Democratic Party. It was the first election for the Democrats of the 2008 presidential election. Also referred to as "the First in the Nation Caucus," it was the first election of the primary season on both the Democratic and Republican sides. Of the eight major Democratic presidential candidates, then-U.S. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois received the most votes and was ultimately declared the winner of the Iowa Democratic Caucus of 2008, making him the first African American to win the caucus. Former U.S. Senator John Edwards of North Carolina came in second place and then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton of New York finished third, though Clinton received more delegates than Edwards. Campaigning had begun as early as two years before the event.

On 24 January 2008 Prime Minister of Italy Romano Prodi lost a vote of confidence in the Senate by a vote of 161 to 156 votes, causing the downfall of his government. Prodi's resignation led President Giorgio Napolitano to request the president of the Senate, Franco Marini, to assess the possibility to form a caretaker government. The other possibility would have been to call for early elections immediately. Marini acknowledged impossibility to form an interim government due to the unavailability of the centre-right parties, and early elections were scheduled for 13 April and 14 April 2008.

2008 K-League Cup

The 2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250 was the eighth round of the 2008 IndyCar Series season. The race was held on June 22, 2008 at the 0.894-mile (1.439 km) Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. At the green flag, Hélio Castroneves took the lead in turn 1 from polesitter Scott Dixon. Tony Kanaan quickly moved up to second position. Over the next 10-15 laps, Castroneves and Kanaan battled back-and-forth for the lead, side-by-side on many laps. Kanaan finally muscled the lead away on lap 16, and gained a lead of roughly one second. On lap 39, Ed Carpenter brushed the outside wall in turn 2. The leaders pit, and Kanaan exited the pits as the leader. On lap 51, the green came back out, and a lap later, Castroneves got by Kanaan for the lead. Jaime Camara brought out the yellow on lap 106 when his car lost pow

2008 Junior Worlds

2008 International Rules series

The 2008 KB Extraliga Competition was a Czech domestic rugby club competition, operated by the Česká Rugbyová Unie (ČSRU). It began on August 16, 2008 with a match between Tatra Smíchov and Petrovice at the Stadion ragby Císařka in Prague, and ended with the final on November of that year with Tatra Smíchov beating Říčany 17-9 played on Synot Tip Arena in Prague. Praga and Přelouč were added, increasing the number of teams to 10 from the 8 of the previous season. Unlike most other years, the league was played over the course of only one year.

The 2008 Italian Formula Three Championship was the 44th Italian Formula Three Championship season. It began on May 10 at Mugello and ended on October 19 at Vallelunga after 16 races. The season began with Edoardo Piscopo dominating the field with four successive wins, but another run of seven victories by Mirko Bortolotti, gave him the leadership in the championship. The championship title was delayed to the last round in Vallelunga, the victory in race one and his eighth of the season gave Bortolotti the championship crown. The three first classified drivers of the championship were rewarded with a Formula One test organized by the Scuderia Ferrari at the wheel of a Ferrari F2008 at Fiorano, with Bortolotti setting the new track record.

2008 Irish pork and beef crisis

The 2008 IndyCar Series was the 13th season of the IndyCar Series. Its premier event was the 92nd Indianapolis 500 on May 25. The first race was held March 29, at Homestead. It was the 97th recognized season of top-level American open wheel racing, which will remembered as the season that ended the Champ Car/IRL rivalry from 1996 to 2007. All races were televised on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPN Classic. All IndyCar Series broadcasts continued to use the popular Side-By-Side format in their first year of HD broadcasts. Races were also broadcast on the IMS Radio Network and XM for the radios.

2008 Justice and Development Party closure trial

Mariya Koryttseva and Darya Kustova were the defending champions, but Kustova chose not to participate, and only Koryttseva competed that year.Koryttseva partnered with Galina Voskoboeva, but lost in the semifinals to Sara Errani and Nuria Llagostera Vives Sara Errani and Nuria Llagostera Vives won in the final 2–6, 7–6(1), 10–4, against Alla Kudryavtseva and Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova.

The 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was an Egyptian-brokered six-month Tahdia (an Arabic term for a lull) "for the Gaza area", which went into effect between Hamas and Israel on 19 June 2008. According to the Egyptian-brokered agreement, Israel promised to halt air strikes and other attacks, while in return, there would not be rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. Once the ceasefire held, Israel was to gradually begin to ease its blockade of Gaza.

2008 Junior World Championships

2008 Issers bombing

2008 Indo-Pakistani standoff

2008 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Championship

2008 Iowa State Cyclones football season

2008 Italian Formula Three Championship

2008 Indonesian Movie Awards

2008 Iwate earthquake

The 2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football team represented the University of Iowa and the Iowa Hawkeyes football program in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. Coached by Kirk Ferentz, the Hawkeyes played their seven home games in Kinnick Stadium.

2008 KNVB Cup Final

2008 Jos riots

The 2008 K2 disaster occurred on 1 August 2008, when 11 mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth. Three others were seriously injured. The series of deaths, over the course of the Friday ascent and Saturday descent, was the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering. Some of the specific details remain uncertain, with different plausible scenarios having been given about different climbers' timing and actions, when reported later via survivors' eyewitness accounts or via radio communications of climbers who died (sometimes minutes) later in the course of events on K2 that day. The main problem was reported as an ice avalanche occurring at an area known as "The Bottleneck", which destroyed many of the climbers' rope lines. However, two climbers died on the way up to the top prior to the avalanche. Among the dead were people from France, Ireland, Korea, Nepal, Norway, Pakistan, and Serbia.

The 2008 Jerez Superleague Formula round was the sixth and final round of the inaugural Superleague Formula championship, with the races taking place on November 23, 2008. Eighteen football teams were represented on the grid, the same number of teams as there was at the previous four rounds. There were two driver changes before this round of the championship: James Walker replaced Enrico Toccacelo in the Borussia Dortmund car and Bertrand Baguette returned to the Al Ain cockpit replacing Dominick Muermans. Paul Meijer had been expected to return, however his injury from the previous round at Vallelunga kept him out. The meeting saw a second win for A.C. Milan and a first win for Borussia Dortmund. With a ninth in the first race coupled with other low placings for Liverpool F.C. and PSV Ein

This page records the details of the Japan women's national football team in 2008.

2008 International Formula Master season

2008 K2 Disaster

2008 Jerusalem front-end loader attack

2008 Indianapolis Tennis Championships – Singles

2008 Japan national football team

2nd Annual Indonesian Movie Awards

2008 International Lacrosse Federation Under-19 World Lacrosse Championships

The 2008 Indy Japan 300 was the third round of the 2008 IndyCar Series season, for drivers who competed in the series in 2007 and teams that had entered for 2008 who were not former Champ Car teams that were in transition. This was because the 2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach occurred on the same weekend and there was no way of changing dates to avoid the clash when the reunification took place. Originally scheduled for the afternoon of April 19, 2008 at the 1.52-mile (2.45 km) Twin Ring Motegi in Motegi, Tochigi, the race was delayed by 22 hours until the morning of April 20, due to water seeping up onto the track from previous heavy rains. The race was historic in that Danica Patrick became the first woman to win a race in the history of top-level American open-wheel racing.

Michael Russell was the defending champion but chose not to defend his title. Flavio Cipolla won the title after defeating Stéphane Bohli 6–4, 7–5 in the final.

The 2008 Indonesia Independence Cup (also known as Pertamina Independence Cup 2008) was held at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium in Jakarta, Indonesia. It was the 8th time the championship had been played since its inception in 1985. It marked the first time since 2000 that the championship was being held.

The 2008 International GT Open season was the third season of the International GT Open, the grand tourer-style sports car racing founded in 2006 by the Spanish GT Sport Organización. It began on 19 April at ACI Vallelunga Circuit and finished on 2 November, at Barcelona after eight double-header meetings. Overall championship and GTA class was won by Scuderia Playteam SaraFree drivers Michele Maceratesi and Andrea Montermini, while GTS class title was clinched by Marco Cioci and Andrea Pellizzato.

2008 Istanbul Cup

2008 Juno Awards

2008 Insight Bowl

2008 John McCain lobbyist controversy, February 2008

2008 K League Championship is postseason championship playoff of 2008 K League. The championship are a series of playoff matches contested by the teams 1st to 6th in the 2008 K League table. All matches are played one leg, except final is played two legs. With 6th playing 3rd and 5th playing 4th, winner of each matches play one match in higher team's homeground. This match's winner gain the next 2009 AFC Champions League spot by the secured 3rd position. The winner of second round playing regular season's 2nd position team in the 2nd team's homeground. The final is played home and away format. The 2008 K League Championship was won by Suwon Samsung Bluewings for the 4th time, who defeated FC Seoul by the aggregate score of 3-2.

2008 International Women's open

The 2008 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth round of the 2008 MotoGP championship. It took place on the weekend of 30 May-1 June 2008 at the Mugello Circuit. It marked Valentino Rossi's seventh consecutive victory at the Italian motorcycle Grand Prix, a run which was to be finally broken the following year by Casey Stoner.

2008 Japan Women's Football League

The 2008 Indonesia Open Superseries in badminton is the sixth tournament of the 2008 BWF Superseries. It was held in Istora Senayan, Jakarta, from June 16 to June 22, 2008.

2008 K-League

2008 Irish floods

2008 Irish Poker Open

The 2008 International Rules Series was the 14th annual International Rules Series and was played between Ireland and Australia. After the 2007 series was cancelled by the Gaelic Athletic Association, the Australian Football League and the GAA agreed in 2008 to resume the series. The matches were played in Australia – 24 October in Perth, Western Australia and 31 October in Melbourne (after the AFL Grand Final and All-Ireland Senior Football Championship). Ireland won by five points on aggregate after recording victories in both tests.

2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg - Doubles

The 2008 International Challenge Cup (also called the AEGON Challenge Cup after its title sponsor) was the International Challenge Cup figure skating competition for the 2007–2008 figure skating season. It was held between March 6 and 9, 2008 in The Hague, Netherlands. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, and ice dancing, across the levels of Senior, Junior, Novice, and the pre-Novice discipline called "Debs". The junior compulsory dance was the Viennese Waltz.

2008 Iwate Earthquake

2008 International cup of nice

2008 Intercity Football League

2008 Jerusalem yeshiva attack

2008 Jelajah Malaysia

2008 Inter-Provincial Hurling Championship

The 2008 Italian general election was the second in which Italian and dual citizens living outside the country could vote by postal ballot in international electoral districts. Twelve members of the Italian Chamber of Deputies and six members of the Italian Senate were elected in this way. Italian and dual citizens in North America and Central America (including the Caribbean) elected one member of the Italian Senate. The winning candidate was Basilio Giordano from Silvio Berlusconi's party, known as the People of Freedom.

2008 Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku earthquake

Ágnes Szávay was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Sara Errani won in the final 6–2, 6–3, against Mariya Koryttseva.

2008 Israeli Basketball League Cup

2008 Júbilo Iwata season

Dmitry Tursunov was the defending champion, but second-seeded Gilles Simon defeated him 6–4, 6–4, in the final.

2008 Irish pork contamination

The closure trial of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of Turkey was a court case in 2008 to close the party and ban its 71 leading members from politics for five years, based on the charge that the party violated the principle of separation of religion and state in Turkey. The closure request failed by one vote, as only 6 of the 11 judges ruled in favour, with 7 required; however, 10 out of 11 judges agreed that the AKP had become "a center for anti-secular activities", leading to a loss of state funding for the party.

2008 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

2008 Israel-Hezbollah Prisoner Swap

The 2008 Individual Speedway Polish Championship (Polish: Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, IMP) is the 2008 version of Individual Speedway Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on August 9, 2008 in Leszno. Last time Final was took in Leszno in when Wojciech Załuski beat Jan Krzystyniak and Tomasz Gollob. Defending Champion Rune Holta (Gorzów Wlkp.) was 12th. First time Individual Polish Championship was won by Adam Skórnicki (Poznań, former Leszno's rider) who beat former permanent Grand Prix riders Jarosław Hampel (Leszno) and Grzegorz Walasek (Zielona Góra). Tomasz Gollob (Gorzów Wlkp.) who won Polish Championship 7 time was 4th.

2008 International Rally of Canberra

The 2008 Individual Speedway Junior World Championship Emil Saifutdinov from the Russia speedway team is the defending World champion.

2008 Israel-Hamas ceasefire

2008 IndyCar Series

The 2008 Individual Speedway European Championship Jurica Pavlič from Croatia is the defending European champion.

The 2008 Italy rugby union tour of South Africa and Argentina was a series of matches played in June 2008 in South Africa and Argentina by Italy national rugby union team. The "Azzurri" lost heavily the first a match against "Springboks", and won afgainst the "Pumas”

2008 Jr worlds

2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie – Doubles

2008 Iwate–Miyagi Nairiku earthquake

←2007 - 2008 - 2009→ This is a list of Japanese television dramas often called doramas by fans. The list is not complete, and aims to include all those Japanese television dramas that are somehow of interest for Wikipedia contents.

2008 International Women's Open

The 2008 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships were held at the Thialf ice stadium in Heerenveen from Friday October 26 until Sunday October 28, 2007. Although the tournament was held in 2007 it was the 2008 edition as it is part of the 2007/2008 speed skating season.

2008 International Congress of Genealogical and Heraldic Sciences

2008 Itek Air crash

2008 International Cup of Nice

Individual Speedway Junior European Championship

2008 Johan Cruijff Schaal

The 2008 Jordan Rally was the fifth round of 2008 World Rally Championship season and the third gravel round of the championship and also the second round of the Junior World Rally Championship. The event began with a ceremonial start on Thursday, April 24 in Amman, Jordan, near the Dead Sea.

2008 International Cup Of Nice

2008 Istanbul bombings

2008 Iowa caucuses

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia – Women's Singles

This page records the details of the matches played by the Japan national football team during 2008. In 2008 the Japan national football team competed in the third and fourth round of the AFC 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifications, the 2008 East Asian Cup Final, and the 2008 Kirin Cup, amongst other friendly matches.

2008 Jubilo Iwata season

2008 J.League Cup

2008 Jiangsu Classic

This article details the fixtures and results of the Indonesia national football team in 2008. Notes
* Match was suspended at the start of second half as Libya team failed to take to the field. Indonesia awarded 3 goals and the title.

2008 Istanbul Cup - Doubles

2008 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix

The 2008 Inter-provincial Hurling Championship, known as the 2008 M Donnelly Hurling Inter-provincial Championship due to the tournament's sponsorship by businessman Martin Donnelly, was the 81st series of the Inter-provincial Championship. The annual hurling championship between the four historic provinces of Ireland was contested by Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The championship was won by Leinster.

2008 Jerusalem bulldozzer rampage

The 2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor clay courts. It was the 22nd edition of the Internationaux de Strasbourg, and was part of the Tier III Series of the 2008 WTA Tour.The tournament took place at the Centre Sportif de Hautepierre in Strasbourg, France, from 19 May until 24 May 2008. Sixth-seeded Anabel Medina Garrigues won the singles title, her third at the event, after 2005 and 2007, and earned $28,000 first-prize money.

The 2008 season of Intercity Football League started from August 23, 2008. Taiwan Power Company F.C. won the league championship.

On June 14, the 2008 Iwate earthquake struck the Tōhoku region of northeastern Honshū in Japan. Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) officially named this earthquake the Iwate–Miyagi Nairiku earthquake in 2008 (平成20年（2008年）岩手・宮城内陸地震). The strongest shaking was measured in the cities of Ōshū (Iwate) and Kurihara (Miyagi), both of which were measured as "strong 6" on the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale, shindo (震度 shindo). Peak ground acceleration readings were high, with a maximum vector sum (3 component) value of 4,278 cm/s2 (4.36g).

2008 Kabul Serena Hotel Attack

2008 Israel-Gaza conflict

2008 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football season

2008 Iranian election

2008 Johan Cruyff Shield

2008 Iowa caucus

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, India accused Pakistan for coordinating the attacks through its Internal Intellegence Service the ISI. The accusations lead to strained relations between the two countries for a period of time. The accusations were taken seriously by the International Community, resulting in the United States to call for probes into it. The standoff was significant because both these countries are nuclear nations, having first successfully tested nuclear weapons in 1974 and 1998 respectively. The countries had already participated in 4 wars since their partition and independence in 1947, and relations between the two nations have been strained throughout their histories. The lone surviving terrorist of the Mumbai attacks confirmed that the terrorists came from Pakistan, and that they were trained by Lashkar-e-Taiba operatives. In 2011, he also confessed that the ISI had been supporting them throughout the attacks.

The 2008 Indianapolis Colts season was the 56th season for the team in the National Football League and the 25th in Indianapolis. It was the first season since 2002 that the Colts did not win the AFC South title. However, after a 3–4 start on the season Peyton Manning led the Colts to a nine-game winning streak, a 12–4 record, and a wild card berth in the playoffs. The Colts' season came to an end in San Diego when they were upset in their wild-card round playoff game against the Chargers.

2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season

2008 KB První Liga Final

The 2008 Intense Football League season was the fourth and final season of the Intense Football League. The regular season began on Saturday, March 1, 2008 and ended on Saturday, June 28. The league champions were the Louisiana Swashbucklers, who defended their title by defeating the Corpus Christi Hammerheads in Intense Bowl IV on July 28, 2008. Following Intense Bowl IV, the IFL champion, the Louisiana Swashbucklers, played against the UIF champion, the Sioux Falls Storm, on Saturday, August 2 in the inaugural National Indoor Bowl.

2008 Junior World Figure Skating Championships

2008 K2 disaster

The 2008 Latvian Individual Speedway Championship was the 34th Latvian Individual Speedway Championship season. The final took place on 13 July 2008 in Daugavpils, Latvia.

The 2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire was an Egyptian-brokered six-month Tahdia (an Arabic term for a lull) "for the Gaza area", which went into effect between Hamas and Israel on 19 June 2008. According to the Egyptian-brokered agreement, Israel promised to halt air strikes and other attacks, while in return, there would not be rocket attacks on Israel from Gaza. Once the ceasefire held, Israel was to gradually begin to ease its blockade of Gaza. During the initial week of the ceasefire, Islamic Jihad militants fired rockets on Israel. Under pressure from Hamas, Islamic Jihad had agreed to abide by the temporary truce, which was meant to apply only to Gaza, but had balked at the idea of not responding to Israeli military actions in the West Bank. The New York Times reported that the Islamic Jihad action broke the Hamas-Israeli Gaza truce. During the next 5 months of the ceasefire, Gazan attacks decreased significantly for a total of 19 rocket and 18 mortar shell launchings, compared to 1199 rockets and 1072 mortar shells in 2008 up to 19 June, a reduction of 98%. The agreement called on Israel to increase the level of goods entering Gaza by 30 percent over the pre-lull period within 72 hours and to open all border crossings and "allow the transfer of all goods that were banned and restricted to go into Gaza" within 13 days after the beginning of the ceasefire. The increase in supplies of food, water, medicine and fuel did improve, but the increase was only to an average of about 20 percent of normal levels. Two months later the volume of goods arriving was too low to significantly improved living conditions, preventing UNRWA from replenishing its stores. Israel told U.S. officials in 2008 it would keep Gaza's economy "on the brink of collapse". On 4 November 2008, Israel raided Gaza, killing six Hamas militants. The Israeli military claimed the target of the raid was a tunnel that they said Hamas was planning to use to capture Israeli soldiers positioned on the border fence 250m away. Hamas officials claimed that the tunnel was being dug for defensive purposes. Hamas replied to the Israeli attack with a barrage of rocket fire. On 20 December, Hamas announced it would not renew the ceasefire. Operation Cast Lead commenced on 27 December 2008.

2008 Internationaux de Strasbourg – Singles

2008 Israel-Hezbollah prisoner exchange

2008 Indonesia Super Series

2008 Jade Solid Gold Best Ten Music Awards Presentation

2008 International Rules

2008 Israeli tour bus crash

2008 Jr. Worlds

2008 Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast Second League

2008 Jerusalem bulldozer attack

2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing

2008 Jiangsu Snooker Classic

2008 Individual Speedway European Championship

2008 Indy Japan 300

Individual Speedway Junior World Championship

Japanese Regional Football League Competition

The 2008 Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship (Polish: Młodzieżowe Indywidualne Mistrzostwa Polski, MIMP) is the 2008 version of Individual Speedway Junior Polish Championship organized by the Polish Motor Union (PZM). The Final took place on August 19, 2008, in Rybnik. The last time the Final took place in Leszno in the 2003 season, with Łukasz Romanek beating Adrian Miedziński and Zbigniew Czerwiński. Defending Under-21 Polish Champion is Paweł Hlib from Caelum Stal Gorzów Wlkp. who won in 2007 Final in Rzeszów, but he is 22 old and can not started in this competition.

The 2008 Ford Ironman World Championship was held on October 11, 2008 in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii. It was the 32nd such Ironman Triathlon World Championship, which has been held annually in Hawaii since 1978. The champions were Craig Alexander and Chrissie Wellington. The championship was organised by the World Triathlon Corporation (WTC).

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Women's Doubles

2008 Iran Futsal's 2nd Division

2008 Isle of Man TT

2008 Italian political crisis

The 2008 Jos riots were riots involving Christians and Muslims over the result of a local election on 28 and 29 November 2008 in Jos, a city in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Two days of rioting left hundreds injured and at least 761 dead. The Nigerian army was deployed and by November 30 order was restored.

The 2008 Iowa State Cyclones football team represented Iowa State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was led by head coach Gene Chizik, who had coached the Cyclones since 2007. They played their home games at Jack Trice Stadium in Ames, Iowa.

2008 Ireland rugby union tour of New Zealand and Australia

2008 Istanbul Cup - Singles

2008 Islamabad Marriott Hotel attack

2008 International German Open

The 2008 Junior League World Series took place from August 10–16 in Taylor, Michigan, United States. Willemstad, Curaçao defeated Hilo, Hawaii in the championship game.

2008 Israel–Hamas ceasefire

2008 K-League Championship

2008 Ivorian New Forces unrest

2008 KB Prvni Liga Final

2008 International Fight League

The 2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season was the third season of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. The season consisted of ten rounds and began on April 4, with the Istanbul Rally. The season ended on December 12 with the China Rally. Nicolas Vouilloz won the title ahead of Freddy Loix and Giandomenico Basso.

Yan Zi and Jie Zheng were the defending champions, but Zheng chose not to participate, and only Yan competed that year.Yan partnered with Tatiana Perebiynis, and won in the final 6–4, 6–7(3–7), 10–6, against Yung-jan Chan and Chia-jung Chuang.

The 2008 Israeli tour bus crash was a road accident in southern Israel on 16 December 2008 in which a coach carrying Russian tour operators left the road and plunged into a ravine, killing 25. It is the deadliest traffic accident in Israel's history.

The 2008 KBS Drama Awards (Hangul: KBS 연기대상) is a ceremony honoring the outstanding achievement in television on the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) network for the year of 2008. It was held on December 31, 2008 and hosted by Choi Soo-jong and Han Ji-min.

2008 IndyCar season

2008 JB Group Classic

2008 J. League

2008 John McCain lobbyist controversy

2008 Indianapolis Colts season

2008 Istanbul serial blasts

The 2nd Annual Indonesian Movie Awards was held on March 28, 2008, at the Plenary Hall, Jakarta Convention Center, Central Jakarta. The award show was hosted by Nirina Zubir, , , and . And the nominations have been announced for the category of Favorite, which will be chosen by the public via SMS. As for the category of Best, will be selected by a jury that has been appointed. For the category which contested are the same as last year's celebration. The national film participated in the 2008 of celebration is a movie that was released in the period March 1, 2007 to January 30, 2008. The time span that registration on December 11, 2007 to January 30, 2008. And the number of nominations received, of which 16 drama genre titles, 13 horror film titles, one children film title (Anak-Anak Borobudur) and the other of comedy film. is a film with receiving of the most awards this year, with three awards. Other film Nagabonar Jadi 2, Quickie Express, and Mereka Bilang, Saya Monyet! compete behind with two awards each, while another film receiving one award each.

2008 Junior worlds

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Men's Singles

2008 Isle of Man TT Festival was held between Saturday 24 May and Saturday 7 June on the 37.733-mile Snaefell Mountain Course and was the 89th Isle of Man TT Race. After the 2007 Centenary TT Races, the 2008 event included a second 600cc Supersport Junior TT race and the re-introduction of two-stroke motor-cycle racing with a Lightweight TT and Ultra-Lightweight TT race on the (4.25 mile) Billown Circuit in the Isle of Man. For the 2008 Isle of Man TT Races, following the deaths of a race competitor and two spectators at the 26th Milestone during the 2007 Senior TT a number of changes occurred in spectator safety and road widening occurred at Braddan Bridge and a new link road and mini-roundabout at Governor's Bridge. The race organisation changed with the Manx Motor Cycle Club (MMCC) replaced by ACU Events Ltd a subsidiary of the Auto-Cycle Union (ACU). A contract for the official course vehicles was awarded to Audi in a 3-year deal to celebrate the win by the pre-war Audi satellite company DKW by Ewald Kluge in the 1938 Isle of Man TT Races. A further contract was awarded to Yamaha UK to provide motor-cycles and support for the . The Isle of Man TT competitor Martin Finnegan was killed while racing at the Tandragee 100 Races on 3 May 2008 and this was followed by the former Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix winner Robert Dunlop who died in an accident on 16 May 2008 at during practice for the 2008 North West 200 Races.

The 2nd Annual Indonesian Movie Awards was held on March 28, 2008, at the Plenary Hall, Jakarta Convention Center, Central Jakarta. The award show was hosted by Nirina Zubir, , , and . And the nominations have been announced for the category of Favorite, which will be chosen by the public via SMS. As for the category of Best, will be selected by a jury that has been appointed. For the category which contested are the same as last year's celebration.

2008 Jerusalem vehicular attack

2008 International Women's Open - Doubles

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Men's Doubles

The 2008 Insight Bowl was a college football bowl game played at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe, Arizona. The game, in its 20th year of existence, began at 5:30 p.m. EST on Wednesday, December 31, 2008. The game, which was telecast on NFL Network, featured the Minnesota Golden Gophers from the Big Ten Conference against the Kansas Jayhawks of the Big 12 Conference, with the Jayhawks winning, 42-21.

2008 Israel–Hezbollah prisoner swap

2008 Italian Formula Three season

2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie – Singles

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia – Men's Singles

2008 Japan women's national football team

The 2008 Iraqi Day of Ashura fighting was a series of clashes that occurred on the Islamic holy day of Ashura on January 18, 2008 and the next day in the Iraqi cities of Basra and Nasiriyah. The battles were fought between the Iraqi security forces and fighters of an Iraqi cult called the Soldiers of Heaven, which a year before fought a similar battle, also on Ashura, near the city of Najaf. Then their leader was reported killed along with his deputy Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni but this time around it was reported that al-Yemeni was still alive and leading the cultists.

The Jerusalem bulldozer attack occurred on July 2, 2008, when an Arab resident of East Jerusalem identified as Hussam Taysir Duwait (also referred to as Hussam Duwiyat, Hossam Dawyyat, or erroneously as Jabr Duwait) attacked several cars on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in a vehicle-ramming attack using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a bulldozer in the media), killing three people and wounding at least thirty other pedestrians, before being shot to death. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said that an inquiry indicated the attacker had been acting alone. A motive for the attack could not immediately be determined, but police at the scene referred to the incident as a terrorist attack. Three copycat attacks have occurred since then. This attack was the second incident in 2008 in which an Israeli Arab committed a violent act in west Jerusalem while carrying an Israeli ID Card (allowing for freedom of movement and travel throughout Israel), the first being the Mercaz HaRav massacre in early March 2008. On April 7, 2009, Duwait's house was demolished as a declared deterrent against future attacks, the first such demolition since 2005.

The 2008 Jelajah Malaysia, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It was held from 7 to 13 January 2008. There were seven stages with a total of 1,352.2 kilometres. In fact, the race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.2 category race and was part of the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour calendar. Tonton Susanto of Indonesia won the race, followed by Ghader Mizbani of Iran second and Fredrik Johansson of Sweden third overall. Anuar Manan of Malaysia won the points classification and Hossein Askari of Iran won the mountains classification. Tabriz Petrochemical Team won the team classification. A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2008 Jelajah Malaysia. Out of 120 riders, a total of 91 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.

2008 KB Extraliga season

After the 2008 Mumbai attacks, India accused Pakistan for coordinating the attacks through its Internal Intellegence Service the ISI. The accusations lead to strained relations between the two countries for a period of time. The accusations were taken seriously by the International Community, resulting in the United States to call for probes into it.

2008 Iowa Corn Indy 250

2008 Indonesian Womens Football Tournament

2008 Istanbul Cup – Singles

2008 Individual Speedway Polish Championship

2008 KB Extraliga Final

2008 Iowa State Cyclones football team

2008 Irish Classic

2008 Iraq Shi'a unrest

The 2008 IndyCar Series was the 13th season of the IndyCar Series. Its premier event was the 92nd Indianapolis 500 on May 25. The first race was held March 29, at Homestead. It was the 97th recognized season of top-level American open wheel racing, which will remembered as the season that ended the Champ Car/IRL rivalry from 1996 to 2007. All races were televised on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, or ESPN Classic. All IndyCar Series broadcasts continued to use the popular Side-By-Side format in their first year of HD broadcasts. Races were also broadcast on the IMS Radio Network and XM for the radios. On February 26, 2008, the managements of IRL and Champ Car came to an agreement to become one entity. The move effectively ended a twelve-year split and reunited American open wheel racing, resulting to the cancellation of the 2008 Champ Car World Series. Scott Dixon driving for Chip Ganassi Racing won the first unified title for 13 years after completing the IndyCar–Indy 500 double. Dixon was the driver with the largest amount of race wins with six victories over the course of the season but had to fend off a consistent championship challenge from Hélio Castroneves during the final round at Chicagoland Speedway.

2008 Indonesia national football team results

2008 Iraqi Army-Mahdi Army fighting

2008 Japanese films

2008 Istanbul Cup – Doubles

2008 International Bowl

2008 International Women's Open - Singles

2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo – Doubles

2008 InterLiga

2008 Isle of Wight Festival

The Jerusalem bulldozer attack occurred on July 2, 2008, when an Arab resident of East Jerusalem identified as Hussam Taysir Duwait (also referred to as Hussam Duwiyat, Hossam Dawyyat, or erroneously as Jabr Duwait) attacked several cars on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem in a vehicle-ramming attack using a front-end loader (erroneously referred to as a bulldozer in the media), killing three people and wounding at least thirty other pedestrians, before being shot to death. Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said that an inquiry indicated the attacker had been acting alone. A motive for the attack could not immediately be determined, but police at the scene referred to the incident as a terrorist attack. Three copycat attacks have occurred since then.

2008 Jaipur bombings

2008 Iowa Hawkeyes football season

2008 Israel-Gaza cease-fire

The 2008 Italian Figure Skating Championships (Italian: Campionati Italiani Assoluti 2008 Pattinaggio Di Figura Su Ghiaccio) were the Italian Figure Skating Championships of the 2007-2008 figure skating season. Skaters competed in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies singles, pair skating, ice dancing, and synchronized skating on the levels of Senior and Junior, and Novice syncro for the title of national champion of Italy. The results of this competition were used to choose the teams to the 2008 World Figure Skating Championships, the 2008 World Junior Figure Skating Championships, and the 2008 European Figure Skating Championships. The competition was held in Milan from December 22 through December 23, 2007.

2008 J. League Cup

2008 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football

2008 Intercontinental Rally Challenge

2008 Jacksonville State Gamecocks football team

2008 Internazionali Femminili di Palermo - Singles

2008 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia – Men's Doubles

2008 K League Championship

2008 International Women's Open – Doubles

2008 Jos, Nigeria riots

2008 Indy 500

2008 Italian Figure Skating Championships

2008 Internazionali BNL d'Italia - Women's Singles

2008 Italian motorcycle Grand Prix

2008 Internationaux de Nouvelle-Calédonie - Singles

2008 Jerez Superleague Formula round