2008 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team

2008 Winter X Games

The 2008 World Indoor Bowls Championships was held at Potters Leisure Resort, Hopton on Sea, Great Yarmouth, England, from 08-27 January 2008. The event was sponsored by Potters Holidays.Alex Marshall won the men's singles defeating Ian Bond in the final achieving a record fifth title. Despite the fact that a women's singles tournament was held Ceri Ann Davies was also permitted to compete in the men's singles competition.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Doubles

2008 Women's Asia Cup

The 2008 World Interuniversity Games were the tenth edition of the Games (organised by IFIUS, and were held in Budapest, Hungary, from October 6 to October 10, 2008.

The 2008 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 16th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy for women. It was held between 17–25 May 2008 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. Argentina won the tournament after 7 years for the second time after defeating Germany 6–2 in the final.

The 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics is the 2008 version of the World Junior Championships in Athletics. It was held in Bydgoszcz in Poland at the Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium between 8 and 13 July 2008. Previously Bydgoszcz hosted the 1999 World Youth Championships. The United States topped the medal table with 17 medals overall, including 11 golds, ahead of Germany and Kenya.

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's 200 metres

Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram were the defending champions, but Bob Bryan and Mike Bryan defeated them 4–6, 7–6(7–2), [10–7], in the final.

2008 World Club Challenge

The 2008 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council. The incumbent centre-left Labor Party government, in power since the 2001 election and led since 25 January 2006 by Premier Alan Carpenter, was defeated by the centre-right Liberal Party opposition, led by Opposition Leader Colin Barnett since 6 August 2008. The election resulted in a hung parliament with no party gaining a majority. Labor was two seats short of a majority in the expanded legislature. Ultimately, the Liberals were able to form a coalition government with the WA Nationals, supported by three independents. While both parties agreed to National demands that at least 25 percent of mining proceeds go to regional projects, the Nationals ultimately went with the Liberals. According to Nationals leader Brendon Grylls, a Labor-National coalition would have required the support of Green support to get mining legislation passed in the Legislative Council. The coalition agreement gave National Party ministers "the right to exempt [themselves] from Cabinet and vote against an issue on the floor of the Parliament if it's against the wishes of the people [they] represent," an explicit rejection of the pattern of former non-Labor coalition agreements under which the Nationals had been seen as virtual co-owners of Liberal policies. The election was the first to be held since a major electoral redistribution was implemented in 2007. This redistribution involved significant changes to the geographic distribution of parliamentary seats and regions in Western Australia, and brought the state into line with the rest of Australia in adopting one vote one value for the lower house. The election was called earlier than expected by Alan Carpenter, who requested the Governor to dissolve parliament on 7 August 2008. The calling of this early election is similar in circumstance to when Liberal Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser called an early election in 1983 unbeknownst that his opponents the Australian Labor Party were in the midst of changing leaders from Bill Hayden to Bob Hawke. Carpenter in similar circumstances called an early election the day after Barnett was recalled as Liberal leader after preceding leader Troy Buswell stood aside as a result of poor polling.Polls had shown that Carpenter could have won an election against Buswell and Carpenter called an early election hoping to catch his new opponent Barnett off-guard but it would prove to be a tactical error. Carpenter calling an early state election in 2008 had the same result that Fraser had in calling an early federal election in 1983. Fraser lost the early election that he called in 1983 just as Carpenter would also lose the early election he called in 2008.

2008 World's Strongest Man

2008 World Cup of Pool

2008 Winton round of the V8 Supercar Championship

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles Qualifying

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open – Doubles

Ken Flach and Robert Seguso defeated the defending champions Jeremy Bates and Anders Järryd in the final, 7–6(7–1), 6–7(5–7), [10–7] to win the Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's decathlon

2008 Washington State presidential primaries

Players and pairs who neither have high enough rankings nor receive wild cards may participate in a qualifying tournament held one week before the annual Wimbledon Tennis Championships.

The 2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship was the twelve edition of the bi-annual event, organised by the Europe's governing body in aquatics, the Ligue Européenne de Natation. The event took place in the in Málaga, Spain from July 5 to July 12, 2008.

The 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying rounds took place over 14 to 31 August 2008 in three different host nations. The winner of each group advanced to the 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals, where they had a chance to win the EuroFloorball Cup for . A total of fifteen teams played in the qualifying rounds, all from different countries. The marks the second year in which the new name for the tournament was used (previously known as the European Cup). The tournament also marks its sixteenth year. The IFF decided that the tournament will revert to its original format, and will take place during one calendar year, instead of two.

2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier

2008 Wimbledon Championships

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Singles

2008 Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival

The 2008 World Enduro Championship was the 19th season in the FIM World Enduro Championship. The season consisted of eight events and 16 races. Last season's Enduro 2 champion, Honda's Mika Ahola, took his second world championship title now racing in the Enduro 1 class. In the Enduro 2 class, Yamaha's Johnny Aubert won his first world championship, becoming the first racer to defeat Juha Salminen since the 1998 season. With nine wins, Salminen broke compatriot Kari Tiainen's record (77) for most wins in the series. In Enduro 3, KTM's Samuli Aro became the sixth enduro rider to win five world championship titles.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles Qualifying

The 2008 World Fencing Championships were held at the Olympic Green Convention Center in Beijing, China. The event took place from April 18 to April 20, 2008. It had men's team foil and women's team épée, both of which were not held at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

2008 WWE Draft

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Wheelchair Doubles

2008 World Athletics Final

2008 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles Qualifying

2008 William & Mary Tribe football team

2008 Wales rugby union tour of South Africa

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters – Singles

The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2008 tennis season. The 2008 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Tier I-IV Events, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), the year-end championships, and the tennis event at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games. The season was characterised by its frequent changes in the No. 1 ranking, with Justine Henin, Maria Sharapova, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Janković and Serena Williams all holding the position at one point during the season. Eventually Janković finished the season as the No. 1 player in the world despite not winning a Grand Slam tournament. She did however reach the final of the U.S. Open, and won four tournaments throughout the season. Four players won the Grand Slam titles. Maria Sharapova won her third major title at the Australian Open, Ana Ivanovic won her maiden title at the French Open, Venus Williams won her seventh Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, and Serena Williams won her ninth Grand Slam title at the U.S. Open. Dinara Safina also reached her first Grand Slam final at the French Open, and won four events during the season. One of the big stories of the year was the shock retirement of Justine Henin on May 14, less than two weeks before she was set to defend her French Open title. She became the first player to retire while ranked at No. 1 in the world. Henin later returned for the 2010 season.

2008 Women's ITF Circuit

The 2008 ICF World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships were the 12th edition of the ICF World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships. The event took place in Roudnice nad Labem, Czech Republic from 25 to 27 July 2008 under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation (ICF).

The 2008 Wayne State Warriors football team represented Wayne State University in the 2008 NCAA Division II football season. The Warriors offense scored 222 points while the defense allowed 161 points.

The 2008 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2008 RBS Women's 6 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the seventh series of the rugby union Women's Six Nations Championship. England comfortably won a third successive Grand Slam—the first time this had been achieved in the Women's Six Nations. However, after a good start against Wales it was not quite as easily won as in the previous year, with Italy, Scotland and Ireland all scoring tries against the champions, something that only France managed in 2007. While the England win was predictable it was Ireland that surprised many. Historically one of the weakest nations in the tournament, they only went down to narrow defeats to England, France, and Wales, while recording wins over both Italy and Scotland. The result was probably their best ever tournament performance. The decline of Scottish women's rugby, on the other hand, continued. Though their performance against England showed hope for improvement, two successive defeats in two years to Ireland meant that Scotland ranked for the first time below the Irish, while defeat to Italy—the Italians' first ever Six Nations win—was the final blow in a disastrous campaign. France—on paper the second best side in the event—were distinctly unimpressive, going down to their largest home defeat to England before losing to Wales for the second time in three years, the result being only third place. Wales, on the other hand, recovered from an English drubbing in the first game to finish in a well-deserved runners-up position. Finally, the Italians surprised everyone with their Scottish win, following a campaign that had not appeared competitive in its first four games.

2008 WWE draft

The 2008 Wales rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of matches played in June 2008 in South Africa by Wales national rugby union team. The Welsh, lost both tests.

The 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup was the seventh edition of the annual Women's Volleyball Tournament, played by twelve countries from May 30 to June 7, 2008 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico. The intercontinental event served as a qualifier for the 2009 FIVB World Grand Prix in Tokyo, Japan.

2008 Weng'an riot

The 2008 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place on March 7–10, 2008. The first round was held in San Diego, California at the Jenny Craig Pavilion. The semifinals were televised by ESPN2. The West Coast Conference Championship Game was televised by ESPN.

The 2008 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season is the team's seventh season. The Pioneers attempted to return to the ArenaCup after falling to the Tulsa Talons in ArenaCup VIII, the team's first championship appearance.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Doubles

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Qualifying

2008 World Cup final

The 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Qualifying rounds took place over 14 to 31 August 2008 in three different host nations. The winner of each group advanced to the 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals, where they had a chance to win the EuroFloorball Cup for . A total of fifteen teams played in the qualifying rounds, all from different countries. The marks the second year in which the new name for the tournament was used (previously known as the European Cup). The tournament also marks its sixteenth year.

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters - Doubles

2008 Wimbledon Men's Singles Final

2008 William & Mary Tribe football season

Jamie Murray and Jelena Janković were the defending champions but Janković did not participate. Murray partnered with Liezel Huber but lost in the semifinals to Bob Bryan and Samantha Stosur. Bryan and Stosur defeated Mike Bryan and Katarina Srebotnik in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the Mixed Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

The 2008 WTA Tour Championships – Singles was the singles event of the 2008 WTA Tour Championships, a season-ending tennis tournament held in November that featured the eight players who had collected the most ranking points during that year's WTA Tour season. Justine Henin was the defending champion, but retired from the sport on May 14, 2008. Venus Williams won in the final 6–7(5–7), 6–0, 6–2, against Vera Zvonareva.

The 2008 Women's British Open was held 31 July to 3 August at the Old Course of Sunningdale Golf Club in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, west of London. It was the 32nd Women's British Open and the eighth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. Sunningdale hosted its fourth Women's British Open and its third as an LPGA major. Jiyai Shin shot a final round 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng. Shin won the title again in 2012, while Tseng won consecutive titles in 2010 and 2011.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed Doubles

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Doubles Qualifying

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles

The 2008 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the 2008 NCAA football season. The team was coached by Bill Cubit and played their homes game in Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Western Michigan was 9–4 overall and 6–2 in the Mid-American Conference after defeating conference opponents Northern Illinois, Temple, Ohio, Buffalo, Eastern Michigan and Toledo, Big Ten Conference member Illinois, Western Athletic Conference member Idaho and Football Championship Subdivision team Tennessee Tech. Western Michigan lost to Nebraska, rival Central Michigan and Ball State. Western Michigan played in the 2008 Texas Bowl, where they fell to Rice on December 30, 2008. Over the course of the 2008 season, the Broncos received votes in the AP Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll, culminating with a top 30 ranking and 9–2 record in week 13. The Broncos no longer received votes after dropping their final two games.

2008 World Championship of Skimountaineering

2008 Web Cartoonists' Choice Awards

2008 World Enduro Championship season

2008 Wayne State Warriors football team

2008 Women's Hockey Champions Trophy

The 2008 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship was held at California State University in Long Beach, California, United States.

2008 William & Mary Tribe football

Venus Williams was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating her sister Serena Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. This was Venus's fifth Wimbledon title and her seventh Grand Slam singles title overall. This was also the second time she won a Grand Slam tournament without losing a set. The top four seeds, Ana Ivanovic, Jelena Janković, Maria Sharapova and Svetlana Kuznetsova were in contention for the WTA No. 1 ranking. Ivanovic retained the top ranking despite losing in the third round to Zheng Jie. Janković, Sharapova and Kuznetsova also lost in the first four rounds, it marked the first time in Wimbledon history that none of the top four women's seeds had advanced to at least the quarterfinals. Zheng's feat of reaching the semifinals made her the first Chinese player of either sex to reach a Grand Slam singles semifinal, and the first wild card ever to reach the semifinals of the women's singles event at Wimbledon.

2008 Webby Awards

This article shows all participating team squads at the 2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup, held from May 30 to June 7, 2008 in Mexicali and Tijuana, Mexico.

2008 Wimbledon Men's Singles Finals

Roger Federer was the defending champion, but lost in the third round to Ivo Karlović. Andy Murray won in the final 7–6(7–4), 7–6(7–5), against Novak Djokovic, to claim his first ATP Masters title.

2008 Wantok Cup

2008 World Figure Skating Championships

Rafael Nadal defeated the five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final, 6–4, 6–4, 6–7(5–7), 6–7(8–10), 9–7 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. It was the longest championship match in Wimbledon history with play lasting 4 hours and 48 minutes, and with two rain delays. The event stretched over seven hours ending just before nightfall, and is widely considered to be the greatest match in tennis history.

2008 World Cup Final

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Singles

2008 WTA Tour Championships - Singles

2008 World Indoor Championships in Athletics

2008 Waterford Senior Football Championship

2008 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles Finals

2008 World Curling Championship - Men

The 2008 Western Michigan Broncos football team represented Western Michigan University in the 2008 NCAA football season. The team was coached by Bill Cubit and played their homes game in Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Over the course of the 2008 season, the Broncos received votes in the AP Poll and the USA Today Coaches Poll, culminating with a top 30 ranking and 9–2 record in week 13. The Broncos no longer received votes after dropping their final two games.

The 2008 Wisconsin Badgers football team represented the University of Wisconsin–Madison during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Badgers were coached by Bret Bielema and played their home games at Camp Randall Stadium in Madison, Wisconsin.

The Washington Nationals' 2008 season was the fourth season for the franchise in the District of Columbia, and the 40th since the original team was started in Montreal, Quebec, in 1969. It also marked the first season the Nationals played at Nationals Park. The team finished in last place in the National League East with a record of 59–102, the worst record in Major League Baseball.

Cara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions, and won in the final 6–1, 7–5, against Květa Peschke and Rennae Stubbs.

2008 War in Georgia

2008 Washington Huskies football

The Emirates Airline Wellington 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, which took place on 1 and 2 February was the third Cup trophy in the 2007–08 IRB Sevens World Series.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles

The 12th annual 2008 Webby Awards were held on June 10, 2008 and emceed by SNL head writer Seth Meyers and help at Cipriani, a massive banquet hall in Manhattan's financial district. The Webby Film and Video Awards were held on June 9 at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and were hosted by Judah Friedlander. The awards were judged by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, and winners were selected from over 10,000 entries. Lorne Michaels was honored with a lifetime achievement award.

2008 Women's College World Series

2008 Wayne State Warriors football season

The 2008 Women's Rugby League World Cup was the third staging of the Women's Rugby League World Cup since its inauguration in 2000, and the first since the 2005 tournament. The tournament was held in Australia from 6 November, culminating in the final between Australia and New Zealand on 15 November. It was held at Stockland Park alongside the Police World Cup. Eight teams took part including defending champions New Zealand.

2008 Western Australian state election

The 2008 Wests Tigers season was their 9th in the NRL. Major signings for the 2008 season are former Dragons halfback Mathew Head, backrower Corey Payne, and back Nick Youngquest.

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 × 400 metres relay

2008 Welsh Open (snooker)

2008 Western & Southern Open

The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Spanish player Rafael Nadal won the first Wimbledon title of his career; the first Grand Slam tournament he had won other than the French Open. Nadal defeated five-time defending champion Roger Federer in the final in what many regard as the greatest tennis match of all time. In the women's singles, Venus Williams claimed her fifth title, and first win over her sister Serena in a Wimbledon final (she had lost the previous two). The performances of Britons Andy Murray in the men's singles and Laura Robson in the girls' singles were able to arouse significant interest from the home crowd. Following the completion of the 2007 Championships, the new fixed roof was put in place, in time for the 2008 Championships. The retractable section of the new roof was completed for the 2009 Championships.

2008 World Junior Canoe Slalom Championships

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics

The 2008 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) draft, the sixth WWE draft, took place at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas on June 23. The draft took place live for three hours on Raw. Every WWE wrestler, announcer, commentator, and general manager were eligible to be drafted. Similar to the 2007 WWE draft, wrestlers from each brand competed in matches to win a random draft pick for their brand. Draft picks were kayfabe selected at random via a computer that was shown on the Raw titantron. Like the previous year, a supplemental draft took place on June 25, where draft selections were randomly conducted. The Draft featured the Raw brand randomly drafting ECW Champion Kane from the ECW brand. It also featured the ECW brand drafting WWE United States Champion Matt Hardy from the SmackDown brand. The final selection in the draft was conducted by the SmackDown brand, and they drafted WWE Champion Triple H from the Raw brand. As per pre-Draft stipulations, all the three champions brought their respective titles to the brand to which they were drafted.

2008 Wenchuan Earthquake

The 2008 Welsh local elections, were held on 1 May, in 22 local authorities.

2008 World Cup

2008 West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Tournament

The 2008 Waterford Senior Football Championship is the championship of the Waterford Senior Football Championship, the premier gaelic football competition in County Waterford, having commenced on 11 May 2008. There were 13 teams in the championship, structured into 2 groups of four teams and 1 group of 5 teams. From these groups, quarter finals, and semi-finals were played with a county final played in Fraher Field. Ballinacourty were the defending champions having beaten Ardmore in the 2007 final.

Bethanie Mattek and Sania Mirza were the defending champions, but Mattek chose not to participate, while Mirza chose to compete the Beijing Summer Olympics instead. Maria Kirilenko and Nadia Petrova won in the final 6–3, 4–6, [10–8], against Su-wei Hsieh and Yaroslava Shvedova.

The Western Australian gas crisis was a major disruption to natural gas supply in Western Australia, caused by the rupture of a corroded pipeline and subsequent explosion at a processing plant on Varanus Island, off the state's north west coast on 3 June 2008. The plant, operated by Apache Energy, which normally supplied a third of the state's gas, was shut down for almost two months while a detailed engineering investigation and major repairs were carried out. Gas supply from the plant partially resumed in late August. By mid-October, gas production was running at two-thirds of normal capacity, with 85% of full output restored by December 2008.

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Singles

The 2008 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship was the 19th edition of the tournament, organised by South America's governing volleyball body, the Confederación Sudamericana de Voleibol (CSV). It was held in Chosica and Callao, Lima, Peru.

2008 Wimbledon Championships Men's Singles Final

2008 Women's ITF Circuit (April - June)

2008 Wimbledon final

2008 Women's Hockey Olympic Qualifier

2008 Welsh local elections

2008 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season

Urszula Radwańska was the defending champion, but did not compete in the Juniors this year. Laura Robson defeated Noppawan Lertcheewakarn in the final, 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 to win the Girls' Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. With this victory Robson became only the second British player in the open era to win a junior title at Wimbledon, following Annabel Croft's victory in 1984.

2008 Wales Rally GB

Donald Johnson and Jared Palmer were declared the winners of the Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships after defending champions Jacco Eltingh and Paul Haarhuis withdrew from the final.

On 6 April 2008, 15 people were killed by an alleged suicide bomber, who exploded himself at the start of a marathon race which was part of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year celebration in Weliweriya town, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka's national athletics coach Lakshman de Alwis, politician Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, former Olympics runner K.A. Karunaratne and army officer Lt Colonel Udayadeera were killed in the bombing which wounded 90 others. The Sri Lankan Government has blamed the Tamil Tigers for this attack because Minister Fernandopulle was a vocal critic of the Tamil Tigers.

2008 Widnes Vikings season

2008 World Indoor Bowls Championship

The 2008 Walsh Cup was a hurling competition played by the teams of Leinster GAA and two teams from Ulster GAA. The competition differs from the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship as it also features further education colleges and it also featured two teams from Ulster. The first four losers of the competition entered the Walsh Shield. Antrim won their first and (so far) only Walsh Cup, while Laois won the Walsh Shield.

The 2008 World Junior A Challenge was an international Junior "A" ice hockey tournament hosted by Hockey Canada. The 2008 World Junior A Challenge was hosted by the Canadian City of Camrose, Alberta from November 1 to November 9, 2008 at the . The opening ceremony included a performance from Tom Cochrane.

The 2008 Wimbledon Championships was a tennis tournament played on grass courts at the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, London in England. It was the 122nd edition of the Wimbledon Championships and were held from 23 June to 6 July 2008. It was the third Grand Slam tennis event of the year. Following the completion of the 2007 Championships, the new fixed roof was put in place, in time for the 2008 Championships. The retractable section of the new roof was completed for the 2009 Championships.

2008 WWE Draft Lottery

2008 Washington Nationals season

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Wheelchair Men's Doubles

2008 Women's Pan American Junior Championship

2008 West Asian Women's Futsal Federation Championship

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Urszula Radwańska were the defending champions but did not compete in the Juniors this year. Polona Hercog and Jessica Moore defeated Isabella Holland and Sally Peers in the final, 6–3, 1–6, 6–2 to win the Girls' Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

The 2008 IBAF Women's Baseball World Cup was held in Botchan Stadium at Matsuyama, Ehime, Japan and won by Japan.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Gentlemen's Singles

2008 Washington State Cougars football team

The 2008 Women's One-Day Internationals Asia Cup was the fourth edition of the ACC Women's Asia Cup, a Women's One Day International cricket tournament organized by the Asian Cricket Council. Four teams took part in the tournament: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was held between 2 May and 11 May 2008, in Sri Lanka. The matches were played at the Welagedara Stadium and Rangiri Dambulla International Stadium.India won the final against Sri Lanka by 177 runs.

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Singles

2008 WTCC season

2008 WTA Tour Championships – Singles

2008 Wimbledon men's singles final

2008 Women's African Football Championship

2008 World Interuniversity Games

2008 West Virginia Mountaineers football

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open – Singles

The 2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament (WNIT) was a single-elimination tournament of 48 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I teams that did not participate in the 2008 NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Tournament. The 40th annual tournament was played from March 19, 2008 to April 5, 2008, entirely on campus sites. The highest ranked team in each conference that did not receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament received an automatic bid to this tournament. The remaining slots were filled by the WNIT Selection Committee. Marquette defeated Michigan State 81–66 to win the tournament.

The 2008 Washington Huskies football team . The team's head coach was Tyrone Willingham. The Huskies played their home games at Husky Stadium in Seattle, Washington. The 2008 Huskies were the second winless team in Pacific-10 history (the first being the 1980 Oregon State Beavers football team). They were the first winless team in Power 5 history and were outscored by their opponents 463 to 159. On October 27, 2008, the Monday after a 33–7 loss to Notre Dame, it was announced that Willingham would step down as head coach at the end of the 2008 season. University of Washington Athletic Director Scott Woodward said the announcement ended speculation of what was going to happen with Willingham, who had a year remaining on his contract. "It became quite obvious that the performance on the football field wasn't up to what we talked about at the beginning of the season and previous to the season and it became more obvious as time went on", Woodward said in explaining his decision to make the move.

2008 Western Michigan Broncos football

2008 Wenchuan earthquake

The Western Australian gas crisis was a major disruption to natural gas supply in Western Australia, caused by the rupture of a corroded pipeline and subsequent explosion at a processing plant on Varanus Island, off the state's north west coast on 3 June 2008. The plant, operated by Apache Energy, which normally supplied a third of the state's gas, was shut down for almost two months while a detailed engineering investigation and major repairs were carried out. Gas supply from the plant partially resumed in late August. By mid-October, gas production was running at two-thirds of normal capacity, with 85% of full output restored by December 2008. In a state heavily reliant on continuous supply of gas for industrial processing, manufacturing, residential use and electricity generation, the sudden loss of almost 35% of gas supply had immediate social impacts, and significant short and long-term economic effects. Many businesses were forced to curtail or cease operations, resulting in workers being stood down or forced to take annual leave, and the government requested that businesses and householders conserve energy usage. An emergency coordination committee of government and industry representatives rationed and redirected remaining gas supply sources. When many large gas users switched to diesel for power generation, the risk of a shortfall in transport fuel led to the federal government authorising the release of emergency fuel reserves stored at the Garden Island naval facility. The incident raised significant public and political issues related to energy security, adequacy of existing infrastructure, contingency planning, and the role of regulatory agencies. The plant took three months to repair, although partial supplies were restored within six weeks of the explosion. A major investigation was launched by the National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA), with separate investigations conducted by the plant operator and several other government agencies. NOPSA's report was published on 10 October 2008, and confirmed early suggestions that the explosion was caused by structural failure of the export pipeline due to significant corrosion. A Senate Committee inquiry was established to investigate the economic impacts and the state government's response to the crisis. The committee's report was handed down on 3 December 2008.

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Boys' Doubles

The 2008 Women's College World Series was held May 29 through June 4, 2008 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Eight NCAA Division I college softball teams met after having advanced through a 64-team bracket to play at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium. The official host for the event was the University of Oklahoma.

2008 Women's RBS 6 Nations Championship

2008 Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles final

2008 Wests Tigers season

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's singles final

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles

2008 Women's British Open

2008 Wayne State Warriors football

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open

2008 World Allround Speed Skating Championships

2008 Washington State Cougars football season

2008 World Curling Championship - Women

2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup

2008 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters – Doubles

2008 Western Australian gas crisis

Cara Black and Liezel Huber were the defending champions but lost in the semifinals to Lisa Raymond and Samantha Stosur. Serena and Venus Williams defeated Raymond and Stosur in the final, 6–2, 6–2 to win the Ladies' Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

2008 World Junior Championships

Robin Ammerlaan and Ronald Vink successfully defended their title, defeating Stéphane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in the final, 6–7(8–10), 6–1, 6–3 to win the Wheelchair Men's Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

The 2008 Women's British Open was held 31 July to 3 August at the Old Course of Sunningdale Golf Club in Sunningdale, Berkshire, England, west of London. It was the 32nd Women's British Open and the eighth as a major championship on the LPGA Tour. Sunningdale hosted its fourth Women's British Open and its third as an LPGA major. Jiyai Shin shot a final round 66 (−6) to win her first major championship, three strokes ahead of runner-up Yani Tseng. Shin won the title again in 2012, while Tseng won consecutive titles in 2010 and 2011. It was the final major for 2003 champion Annika Sörenstam, who finished a dozen strokes back.

2008 World Field Archery Championships

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open

2008 Women's Six Nations Championship

2008 Wisconsin Badgers football team

2008 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship

2008 Women's Baseball World Cup

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open - Singles

2008 Wisconsin All-Star 100

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Ladies' Singles

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Doubles Qualifying

The 2008 Wigan Warriors season saw the club compete in Super League XIII as well as the 2008 Challenge Cup tournament.

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Boys' Singles

2008 Wisconsin Badgers football

2008 Wellington Sevens

2008 Walsh Cup

The 2008 Omega Mission Hills World Cup took place from 27 November to 30 November at Mission Hills Golf Club in Shenzhen, China. It was the 54th World Cup. 28 countries competed and each country sent two players. The team purse was $5,000,000 with $1,600,000 going to the winner. The Swedish team of Robert Karlsson and Henrik Stenson won the tournament. This was the second time that Sweden won the World Cup.

2008 World Junior Championships (disambiguation)

The 2008 Western Australian state election was held on Saturday 6 September 2008 to elect 59 members to the Legislative Assembly and 36 members to the Legislative Council. The incumbent centre-left Labor Party government, in power since the 2001 election and led since 25 January 2006 by Premier Alan Carpenter, was defeated by the centre-right Liberal Party opposition, led by Opposition Leader Colin Barnett since 6 August 2008. The election was called earlier than expected by Alan Carpenter, who requested the Governor to dissolve parliament on 7 August 2008.

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles final

The 2008 West Coast Conference Baseball Championship Series was held on May 24, 2008 at San Diego's home stadium, John Cunningham Stadium in San Diego, California, and pitted the top two finishers from the WCC regular season. The event determined the champion of the West Coast Conference for the 2008 NCAA Division I baseball season. San Diego won the series two games to none over Pepperdine and earned the league's automatic bid to the 2008 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament.

The 2008 Women's Six Nations Championship, also known as the 2008 RBS Women's 6 Nations due to the tournament's sponsorship by the Royal Bank of Scotland, was the seventh series of the rugby union Women's Six Nations Championship. England comfortably won a third successive Grand Slam—the first time this had been achieved in the Women's Six Nations. However, after a good start against Wales it was not quite as easily won as in the previous year, with Italy, Scotland and Ireland all scoring tries against the champions, something that only France managed in 2007.

This article is about the 2008 season of the Widnes Vikings This was their first season since being purchased by Cheshire millionaire after the club went into administration following their loss to Castleford Tigers in the 2007 National League One final.

The eighth round of the V8 Supercar Championship was held at Winton Motor Raceway, Benalla Victoria on the weekend of August 1 to August 3.

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters - Singles

The 2008 World's Strongest Man was the 31st edition of World's Strongest Man and was won by Mariusz Pudzianowski from Poland. It was his fifth and record breaking title. Derek Poundstone from the United States finished second, and Dave Ostlund also from the United States finished third after finishing sixth the previous year. The contest was held at Charleston, West Virginia.

The 2008 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship is the current championship of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship having commenced on 27 April 2008. There are 12 teams in the championship, structured into 3 groups of four teams. From these groups, quarter finals, and semi-finals will be played with a county final being played in either Walsh Park or Fraher Field. Ballyduff Upper are the defending champions having beaten Ballygunner in 2007. De La Salle won their first Waterford Senior Hurling Championship after an 11 points to 8 points win against Abbeyside played in very bad condition at Fraher Field, Dungarvan.

2008 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football season

2008 Web Cartoonist's Choice Awards

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's 10,000 metres

Donald Young was the defending champion, but did not complete in the Juniors this year. Grigor Dimitrov defeated Henri Kontinen in the final, 7–5, 6–3 to win the Boys' Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. Kontinen would go on to become a future World No. 1 doubles player and win the 2016 Mixed Doubles title at these Championships. This event also featured future Wimbledon Men's Singles finalist Milos Raonic.

2008 World Fencing Championships

2008 Women's Water Polo Olympic Qualifier

2008 World Grand Prix Darts

2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship

2008 White Sox

The 2008 World Cup of Pool was the third edition of the tournament. The event was held again in Rotterdam, Netherlands, from October 7–11, 2008

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Women's Open - Doubles

This article shows all participating team squads at the 2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship.

2008 Winmau World Masters

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Senior Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles

The 2008 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's new head coach was Paul Wulff and home games were played on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. The season was a disaster from the start for WSU, who gave up the most points in a single season in Pac-10 Conference history, allowing more than 60 points on four occasions.

The 2008 Welsh Open was a professional ranking snooker tournament that took place between 11 and 17 February 2008 in the Newport Centre in Newport, Wales. Neil Robertson was the defending champion, but he lost his last 16 match against Ali Carter. Mark Selby won his first ranking title by defeating Ronnie O'Sullivan 9–8, after coming back from a 5–8 deficit.

The 2008 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering was the fourth World Championship of Ski Mountaineering sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions (ISMC), held in Portes du Soleil, Switzerland, from February 23 to February 29, 2008. About 450 athletes of 29 nations participated. Compared to the former world masterships a long distance race was added.

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and the W&S Financial Group Women's Open

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Gentlemen's Invitation Doubles

The 2008 West Virginia Mountaineers football team competed on behalf of West Virginia University during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Bill Stewart, who took over after he led the Mountaineers to a 2008 Fiesta Bowl victory over the #3 Oklahoma Sooners as the interim head coach after the departure of former head coach Rich Rodriguez. The team finished the season with a 9–4 record and a win over North Carolina in the Meineke Car Care Bowl.

The 2008 World Field Archery Championships were held in Llwynypia & Cardiff, Wales. The qualifying took place in the village of Llwynypia and the final field was situated at the St Fagans National History Museum in Cardiff.

2008 Western & Southern Financial Group Masters

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles Qualifying

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Doubles Qualifying

2008 Women's ITF Circuit (July - September)

The 2008 Washington State Cougars football team represented Washington State University in the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team's new head coach was Paul Wulff and home games were played on campus at Martin Stadium in Pullman, Washington. The season was a disaster from the start for WSU, who gave up the most points in a single season in Pac-10 Conference history, allowing more than 60 points on four occasions. Perhaps the only consolation for the Cougars was winning the Apple Cup. The media joked before the game that it was the "Crapple Cup" and "full of worms", because the Huskies (0–10 at the time) also had a very poor season.

2008 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football

2008 Western Michigan Broncos football season

2008 World Ice Hockey Championships

The inaugural edition of the Wantok Cup was held during Independence Day celebrations in Honiara, Solomon Islands, from 3 to 7 July 2008. The hosts were represented by two teams, while Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu were initially scheduled to enter one team each. Papua New Guinea withdrew at the last moment, citing "financial problems". The Solomon Islands U23 became the first Wantok Cup champions, on home ground.

2008 Welsh Open

2008 West Salem Earthquake

2008 Winter Classic

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Women's Singles

2008 Western Michigan Broncos football team

2008 Women's Pan-American Volleyball Cup squads

2008 World Championship

2008 World Enduro Championship

2008 World Cup (disambiguation)

The inaugural edition of the Wantok Cup was held during Independence Day celebrations in Honiara, Solomon Islands, from 3 to 7 July 2008. The hosts were represented by two teams, while Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu were initially scheduled to enter one team each. Papua New Guinea withdrew at the last moment, citing "financial problems". The Solomon Islands U23 became the first Wantok Cup champions, on home ground. The second Wantok Cup was scheduled to be held later the same month, during Independence Day celebrations in Vanuatu. The event was cancelled for financial reasons, and the second edition of the Wantok Cup was rescheduled to be held in Vanuatu in July 2010. There is no record of it having been held, making the inaugural edition the only competition to date.

2008 Warsaw Open

2008 WenChuan earthquakes

2008 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers football team

2008 World Championship of Online Poker blinds structure

2008 Widnes Vikings Season

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Boys' Doubles

2008 World Ice Hockey Championships (disambiguation)

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Wheelchair Men's Doubles

2008 Wisconsin Badgers football season

2008 Washington Huskies football team

The 2008 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier was an eight-team tournament held in South Africa in February 2008 to decide the final two qualifiers for the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup. South Africa and Pakistan qualified, with the hosts beating Pakistan in the final.

2008 Wallabies Spring tour

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's 4 × 100 metres relay

2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup qualifying

Anna Chakvetadze was the defending champion, but chose not to participate that year. Nadia Petrova won in the final 6–2, 6–1, against Nathalie Dechy.

The 2008 World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) draft, the sixth WWE draft, took place at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas on June 23. The draft took place live for three hours on Raw. Every WWE wrestler, announcer, commentator, and general manager were eligible to be drafted. Similar to the 2007 WWE draft, wrestlers from each brand competed in matches to win a random draft pick for their brand. Draft picks were kayfabe selected at random via a computer that was shown on the Raw titantron. Like the previous year, a supplemental draft took place on June 25, where draft selections were randomly conducted. The Draft featured the Raw brand randomly drafting ECW Champion Kane from the ECW brand. It also featured the ECW brand drafting WWE United States Champion Matt Hardy from the SmackDown b

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Men's Singles

2008 WTA Tour Championships – Doubles

2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals

2008 World Championships (disambiguation)

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Girls' Singles

The 2008 Cincinnati Masters (also known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 107th edition of the Cincinnati Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier III Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, with the men playing from July 26 through August 3, 2008, and the women from August 9 through August 17, 2008.

2008 Wimbledon men's singles finals

Daniel Alejandro López and Matteo Trevisan were the defending champions but did not compete in the Juniors this year. Hsieh Cheng-peng and Yang Tsung-hua defeated Matt Reid and Bernard Tomic in the final, 6–4, 2–6, 12–10 to win the Boys' Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

2008 World Ice Hockey Championships may refer to:
* 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships
* 2009 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships
* 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships
* 2008 IIHF World U18 Championships

2008 Wimbledon Men's Singles finals

2008 West Virginia Mountaineers football season

The 2008 Women's Olympic Water Polo Qualifying Tournament was a tournament to decide the remaining four competing teams at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, PR China. Four teams were already qualified: Australia, China (host country), the Netherlands and the United States. The tournament was held at the new Olympic Swimming Pool (2005) in Imperia, Italy from February 17 to February 24, 2008 with twelve competing teams.

2008 Winthrop Eagles men's soccer team

2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship squads

The 2008 Sky Poker World Grand Prix was the eleventh World Grand Prix darts tournament held by the Professional Darts Corporation. It was held from 6–12 October 2008 at the Citywest Hotel in Dublin, Republic of Ireland. The event featured a tournament record prize fund of £250,000 with £50,000 going to the winner. Phil Taylor won his eighth Grand Prix title with a 6-2 victory over Raymond van Barneveld in the final watched by 355,000 viewers. James Wade was the defending champion, however lost 2-1 to Tony Eccles in the first round.

2008 War in Ossetia

2008 Women's Bandy World Championship

2008 World Championship of Online Poker

The 2008 Washington Huskies football team . The team's head coach was Tyrone Willingham. The Huskies played their home games at Husky Stadium in Seattle, Washington. The 2008 Huskies were the second winless team in Pacific-10 history (the first being the 1980 Oregon State Beavers football team). They were the first winless team in Power 5 history and were outscored by their opponents 463 to 159.

Venus Williams was the defending champion, and successfully defended her title, defeating her sister Serena Williams in the final, 7–5, 6–4 to win the Ladies' Singles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships. This was Venus's fifth Wimbledon title and her seventh Grand Slam singles title overall. This was also the second time she won a Grand Slam tournament without losing a set.

2008 Wimbledom

2008 World Cyber Games

2008 Wimbledon Men's Singles final

The 2008 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team represented Wake Forest University during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was Wake Forest's 56th season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Demon Deacons were led by eighth-year head coach Jim Grobe. Wake Forest played its home games at BB&T Field. The Deacons began their season on August 28 at Baylor. A win in the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl against UConn gave the Deacons twenty wins over the last two seasons. The team is finished 8–5 overall and 4–4 in ACC play, and beat Navy in the inaugural EagleBank Bowl on December 20.

The 2008 Carnegie World Club Challenge was contested between Super League XII champions, the Leeds Rhinos and National Rugby League season 2007 premiers, the Melbourne Storm. For the fifth consecutive year the English home team defeated their Australian counterparts.

2008 Women's World Ice Hockey Championships

2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics - Men's 800 metres

2008 World Junior A Challenge

2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Mixed Doubles

2008 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering

The 2008 World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held in the indoor arena in Berlin, Germany, on 9 and 10 February 2008. The Dutch skaters Paulien van Deutekom and Sven Kramer became world champions.

2008 Washington Redskins

The 2008 Rally GB was the fifteenth and final round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season and was held between December 5–7, 2008. The event was again held in Wales, with Cardiff being the host of the ceremonial start and finish, and Swansea providing the service park. The special stages took place on gravel roads on private land, owned either by the Forestry Commission (for the special stages run on Friday and Sunday, and the Resolfen stage on Saturday) or the Army (for the remaining Saturday stages). The event saw a return to the mid Wales stages of Hafren, Sweet Lamb, and Myherin for the first time since 2000. The rally was won by Sébastien Loeb in a Citroën C4. This was his eleventh win of the season - breaking his own previous record set in 2005. Second place went to Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala who was just 12.7 seconds behind. The final podium position was filled by Loebs teammate Dani Sordo. With this result Citroën clinched the manufacturers championship.

Jana Novotná and Helena Suková were the defending champions but did not compete together. Novotná and Kathy Rinaldi defeated Suková and Martina Navratilova in the final, 5–7, 6–3, [10–5] to win the Ladies' Invitation Doubles tennis title at the 2008 Wimbledon Championships.

The 2008 Women's Bandy World Championship took place in Borlänge, Grängesberg and Karlsbyheden, Sweden, between 13 and 16 February. It was the fourth Women's Bandy World Championship in bandy. Sweden won the final against Russia 5-2 and became world champions for the fourth time. Finland won the bronze final 5-3 against Norway.

2008 World Championships

The 2008 World Figure Skating Championships was a senior international figure skating competition in the 2007–08 figure skating season. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. The event was held at the Scandinavium arena in Gothenburg, Sweden from March 16 to 23.

The 2008 Weng'an riot was a riot on June 28, 2008 involving tens of thousands of residents in Weng'an County, Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, in the Guizhou province of Southwest China. Rioters smashed government buildings and torched several police cars to protest against an alleged police cover-up of a girl's death.

2008 World Cup (men's golf)

The 2008 Winnipeg Blue Bombers season was the 51st season for the team in the Canadian Football League and their 76th overall. The Blue Bombers attempted to win their 11th Grey Cup championship, but they lost in the Eastern Semi-Final game against the Edmonton Eskimos, who crossed over from the West.

The 2008 Women's EuroFloorball Cup Finals took place in Winterthur, Switzerland from 8 to 12 October 2008. The marks the second year in which the new name for the tournament was used (previously known as the European Cup). The tournament also marks its 16th year. The IFF decided that the tournament will revert to its original format, and will take place during one calendar year, instead of two.

2008 Women's Junior South American Volleyball Championship

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Girls' Doubles

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles

2008 Washington State Cougars football

2008 Women's ITF Circuit (January - March)

2008 Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers season

2008 Wimbledon

2008 Women's Rugby League World Cup

2008 Washington Redskins football team

2008 World Heads-Up Poker Championship

2008 West Coast Conference Baseball Championship Series

2008 World Championships Billiard Artistic

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Women's Singles

The 2008 Sony Ericsson WTA Tour was the elite professional tennis circuit organized by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for the 2008 tennis season. The 2008 WTA Tour calendar comprises the Grand Slam tournaments (supervised by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)), the WTA Tier I-IV Events, the Fed Cup (organized by the ITF), the year-end championships, and the tennis event at the Beijing Summer Olympic Games.

2008 Western Cape fires

The 2008 Rally GB was the fifteenth and final round of the 2008 World Rally Championship season and was held between December 5–7, 2008. The event was again held in Wales, with Cardiff being the host of the ceremonial start and finish, and Swansea providing the service park. The special stages took place on gravel roads on private land, owned either by the Forestry Commission (for the special stages run on Friday and Sunday, and the Resolfen stage on Saturday) or the Army (for the remaining Saturday stages). The event saw a return to the mid Wales stages of Hafren, Sweet Lamb, and Myherin for the first time since 2000. The rally was won by Sébastien Loeb in a Citroën C4. This was his eleventh win of the season - breaking his own previous record set in 2005. Second place went to Ford driver

2008 Winner Cup

2008 World Jiu-Jitsu Championship

2008 Weliveriya bombing

2008 WTA Tour

2008 Wimbledon Championships – Ladies' Invitation Doubles

2008 Washington Huskies football season

2008 Wigan Warriors season

The 2008 Wake Forest Demon Deacons football team represented Wake Forest University during the 2008 NCAA Division I FBS football season. It was Wake Forest's 56th season as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). The Demon Deacons were led by eighth-year head coach Jim Grobe. Wake Forest played its home games at BB&T Field. The Deacons began their season on August 28 at Baylor. A win in the 2007 Meineke Car Care Bowl against UConn gave the Deacons twenty wins over the last two seasons.

The 2008 Cincinnati Masters (also known as the Western & Southern Financial Group Masters and Women's Open for sponsorship reasons) was a tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts. It was the 107th edition of the Cincinnati Masters, and was part of the ATP Masters Series of the 2008 ATP Tour, and of the Tier III Series of the 2008 WTA Tour. Both the men's and the women's events took place at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, with the men playing from July 26 through August 3, 2008, and the women from August 9 through August 17, 2008. The men's field was led by World No. 1, French Open and Wimbledon runner-up and Cincinnati Masters defending champion Roger Federer, ATP No. 2, French Open, Wimbledon and Canada Masters winner Rafael Nadal, and Australian Open titlist Novak Djokovic. Other top seeded players were ATP No. 4, Pörtschach and Warsaw titlist Nikolay Davydenko, Valencia and s'Hertogenbosch winner David Ferrer, Andy Roddick, James Blake and Andy Murray. The women's draw featured Paris, Eastbourne and Montreal semifinalist, Standford finalist Marion Bartoli, Eastbourne runner-up and Wimbledon quarterfinalist Nadia Petrova, and Estoril, Barcelona winner Maria Kirilenko. Also competing were Strasbourg finalist, French Open and Wimbledon mixed doubles runner-up Katarina Srebotnik, Amelia Island quarterfinalist Amélie Mauresmo, Aleksandra Wozniak, Ekaterina Makarova and Tamira Paszek.

The 2008 Waterford Senior Hurling Championship is the current championship of the Waterford Senior Hurling Championship having commenced on 27 April 2008. There are 12 teams in the championship, structured into 3 groups of four teams. From these groups, quarter finals, and semi-finals will be played with a county final being played in either Walsh Park or Fraher Field. Ballyduff Upper are the defending champions having beaten Ballygunner in 2007.

2008 World Grand Prix (darts)

2008 War in South Ossetia

2008 Wimbledon Championships - Ladies' Invitation Doubles