* 2008 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( b. 1939 )

* 1939 – Skip Caray, American sportscaster ( d. 2008 )

* Ron " Skip " Greer – vocals ( 2008 – present )

** Skip Caray, American baseball broadcaster ( d. 2008 )

* Also in August 2008, about 36 editorial employees took voluntary buyouts or resigned, including well-known bylines like Michael Tackett, Ron Silverman, Timothy McNulty, Ed Sherman, Evan Osnos, Steve Franklin, Maurice Possley, Hanke Gratteau, Chuck Osgood and Skip Myslenski.

* Skip Caray ( 1939 – 2008 ), baseball broadcaster

His son Skip Caray followed him into the booth as a baseball broadcaster with the Atlanta Braves until his death on August 3, 2008, and his son Chris had a long career with Maritz Travel before passing away at an early age from brain cancer.

Harry Christopher " Skip " Caray, Jr. ( August 12, 1939 – August 3, 2008 ) was an American sportscaster, best known for his long career as a radio and television play-by-play announcer for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball.

Billy Graham, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Lt. Col. Oliver North, Steve Forbes, Leonard Davidson, former US Senator Jesse Helms, Sam Donaldson, John R. Rice, Rabbi Eric Yoffie, CEO William S. Simon, Elisabeth Elliot ( wife of the late missionary Jim Elliot ), Skip Erickson, Freddie Gage, Adrian Rogers, governor Tim Kaine, Sean Hannity, Neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Pastors ; Mel White, Mark Driscoll, Josh Mcdowell, Miles McPherson, Rick Warren, Steven Furtick and Francis Chan, Entertainers / Athletes in pro-wrestler Lex Luger, Bobby Bowden, Lou Holtz, Carrie Prejean, Allan Houston, and Candace Cameron Bure, Douglas Gresham, Gianna Jessen, Clint Hubbard and 2008 Presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ron Paul.

On the show airing the weekend of May 24, 2008, the hosts began using the terms " See It " and " Skip It " ( which appeared in on-screen graphics ) when summarizing their reviews.

The program was built by nationally recognized coach Skip Flanagan ( coach at the 2008 high school all star game ).

* Michael " Skip " Cromer-Bass ( 2004 – 2008, 2010 – Present )

Hit the Lights covered the song for the extended iTunes release of their 2008 album, Skip School Start Fights.

The song has been covered by many other artists, including 2Play ( 2005 ), Bananarama ( 2001 ) on Exotica album, Brian McKnight ( 2007 ), Kenny G featuring McKnight ( 2004 ) from At Last ... The Duets Album, Boston Pops Orchestra composed by John Williams, Columbia Ballroom Orchestra ( 1994 ), Dave Koz featuring R & B artist Montell Jordan taking the vocal lead ( 1999 ) on the album The Dance, David & the High Spirit ( 2003 ), Del ( 2004 ), Delight ( 2001 ), DJ Irene ( 2003 ), Farhad Besharati ( 2006 ), George Michael ( 1998 ), Gloria Gaynor, Harlemm Lee ( 2003 ), Hit Crew ( 2006 ), James Douglas ( 2003 ), Julio Iglesias ( 2006 ), Jordan Knight ( 2006 ), Katelyn Tarver ( 2006 ), Kenny G ( 2004 ), Kymeria ( 2005 ), Paul Mauriat, Richard Clayderman for his 1988 album ' A little night music ', Roger Williams, Roxy Pain ( 2007 ), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( 1998 ), Sarah Washington, The Sax Brothers ( 2003 ), Simion Luca ( 1998 ), Skip Martin ( 2006 ), Slinkee Minx ( 2004 ) A on " Closer ( Slinkee Minx song ) | Closer " single, The Shadows ( 1987 ) on Simply Shadows, Barry Manilow ( 2008 ) Tereza Kerndlová and 3Oh! 3 Ft: Juliet Simms of Automatic Loveletter & Alex Gaskarth of All Time Low, The Supervillains ( 2011 ) and sampled by the Paper Route Gangstaz, Sharam Jey ft. James Douglas-Out Of Your Mind ( Club Mix ).

Recording artist Brandy Norwood included a song on her 2008 album Human titled " A Capella ( Something's Missing )".

During the Orioles ' heyday in the 1970s, a club song, appropriately titled " Orioles Magic ", was composed, and played when the team ran out until Opening Day of 2008.

Also in 2008 the band remixed the Attery Squash song ' Devo Was Right About Everything ' which was released on the B-side to the Watch Us Work It vinyl 12 " single.

* " Euphoria ", a song by Sarah Slean from the 2008 album The Baroness

2008 The Egyptian Lover records with Who Cares on the song " They Killed the Radio "

In 2008 Egyptian Lover works with Jamie Jones making the song " Galactic Space Bar "

November 2008 saw the release of And Winter Came ... with a new video for the song " Trains and Winter Rains ".

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

* 2008 – Yegor Letov, Russian song writer and singer ( Grazhdanskaya Oborona ) ( b. 1964 )

Fellini ’ s work is referenced on the albums Fellini Days ( 2001 ) by Fish and Funplex ( 2008 ) by the B-52's with the song Juliet of the Spirits, and in the opening traffic jam of the music video Everybody Hurts by R. E. M.

In 2008, international star Snoop Dogg appeared in a song in the film Singh Is Kinng.

Snoop Dogg appeared in a song from the film Singh Is Kinng in 2008 which further popularized hip hop music amongst the people of India.

In June 2008, on DJ Cisco's Urban Legend mixtape, Ice-T criticized DeAndre Cortez " Soulja Boy Tell ' Em " Way for " killing hip hop " and his song " Crank That " for being " garbage " compared to the works of other hip-hop artists such as Rakim, Das EFX, Big Daddy Kane and Ice Cube.

" The Doors incorporated " Asturias " into their song " Spanish Caravan "; also, Iron Maiden's To Tame a Land uses the introduction of the piece for the song bridge ; and more recently, a guitar version of Granada functions as something of a love theme in Woody Allen's 2008 film Vicky Cristina Barcelona

It is featured in several music videos, including Marilyn Manson's " Mobscene ", the 2002 music video to Elvis Presley vs. JXL remix of " A Little Less Conversation ", the 2007 music video to Christina Aguilera's song " Candyman ", the 2008 video release from Millencolin ; Detox and the music videos to Movits!

iTunes picked " Saints of Los Angeles " in their " Best of 2008 " in the Rock category as the number one song ; the song was also nominated for a Grammy Award in the " Best Hard Rock Performance " category.

* " Mad " ( song ), a 2008 song by Ne-Yo

*" Madness ", a song by Alanis Morissette, on the 2008 album Flavors of Entanglement

In 2008, folk musician Dar Williams released a song called " Buzzer ", in which the narrator participated in the Milgram experiment.

* " The Lightning Strike ", a 2008 song by Snow Patrol

Twain joined Canadian singer Anne Murray on the song " You Needed Me " on Murray's Anne Murray Duets: Friends and Legends album released November 13, 2007 in Canada, and on January 15, 2008 in the U. S.

* 2008: Mark Kozelek recorded this song and released it on his album The Finally LP

The Omaha Sports Commission is a quasi-governmental nonprofit organization that coordinates much of the professional and amateur athletic activity in the city, including the 2008 and 2012 US Olympic Swimming Team Trials and the building of a new stadium in North Downtown.

Nebraska – Omaha joined the conference on July 1, 2008. and conference records tend to begin with that date.

Bright Eyes performed at a Barack Obama rally in Omaha, Nebraska on February 7, 2008.

* Omaha World-Herald, Andrew J. Nelson 18 September 2008

He again failed to make the 2008 club and spent the first two months in Omaha.

On September 9, 2008, a pedestrian bridge connecting Omaha, Nebraska with Council Bluffs, Iowa was named in his honor by the Omaha City Council.

UMES women's bowling team won the NCAA Bowling Championship in 2012, in Ohio against Fairleigh Dickinson University and 2008 in Omaha, Nebraska against Arkansas State University.

* Phil Galfond, professional poker player who won the 2008 World Series of Poker's $ 5, 000 Pot-Limit Omaha with Rebuys event

In 2008, a 10-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska died while playing tag when he suffered brain injuries from falling onto a metal pole, and a school dinner lady in Dorset was left partially paralyzed after a 13-year-old boy playing tag ran into her in 2004.

Damage totaled $ 250 million, ($ 1, 411, 900, 000 in 2008 dollars ), making it the costliest U. S. tornado until it was surpassed by the Omaha Tornado of 1975.

The tenth event produced under the Judgment Day chronology was held on May 18, 2008 at the Qwest Center Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.

* Omaha ( 2008 )

From 2005 to 2008, NBM Publishing imprint Amerotica published seven volumes of strips under the title The Complete Omaha the Cat Dancer.

Johnston cashed three times in the 2008 World Series of Poker, including 10th place in an Omaha Hi / Lo event, and he is currently 42nd on the WSOP all time money list.

* Omaha Beef ( 2005 – 2008 )

An oratorio, Blizzard Voices, was commissioned by Opera Omaha and was premiered there in September 2008.

* Omaha, NE-From 2 Apr 2008 to 6 Apr 2008

In 2008, Time Inc. Home Entertainment published Omaha Steaks: The Great American Grilling Book.

On October 8, 2008, the University of Nebraska at Omaha celebrated its 100th year of existence.

* Fresno State University Bulldogs made history by becoming the biggest underdogs to win an NCAA championship by beating their University of Georgia namesakes in the 2008 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska

Bon Jovi was scheduled to rehearse at the arena beginning February 14, 2008, prior to the start of the North American leg of their Lost Highway Tour on February 18 in Omaha, but was forced to start the tour without rehearsals due to the NIU shooting and the subsequent closure of the campus.