The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

# No playable tiles-Per 2008 rules, a player that has no legal plays because all 6 tiles in his or her hand are unplayable may reveal his or her hand, set aside his or her unplayable tiles, and draw six new tiles at the beginning of his or her turn.

In 2007 the international rules series was abandoned because of the aggression and the severity of the Australian team in the previous year, but in 2008, under new rules to protect the player with the ball, it resumed in Australia.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The original Yankee Stadium closed in 2008 to make way for a new Yankee Stadium in which the team started play in 2009 ; it's north-northeast of the 1923 Yankee Stadium, on the former site of Macombs Dam Park.

In May 2008, the Navy announced new plans to reposition its forces throughout Brazil.

The system was formally launched on 1 September 2005, and in 2008 the Bundestag moved to a new system based on its evaluation.

Chaosium released a new version of BRP on June 24, 2008 as single comprehensive book.

In April 2008, the channel was renamed " BBC News " as part of a £ 550, 000 rebranding of the BBC's news output, complete with a new studio and presentation.

In 2008, the graphics were again relaunched, using the style introduced in 2007 and a new colour scheme.

The conclusion of the countdown was altered in 2008 to feature the new presentation style, rather than a data stream moving in towards the camera.

The new highspeed ICE railway line from Karlsruhe to Basel was completed in 2008 while phase I of the TGV Rhin-Rhône line, opened in December 2011, has reduced travel time from Basel to Paris to about 3 hours.

* In 2008, 7 new species of Microcebus were formally recognized, but Microcebus lokobensis ( Lokobe Mouse Lemur ) was not among the additions.

An annual private media summit called Captivate, renamed from Gamers Day in 2008, is traditionally used as a platform for new game and business announcements.

* 2008 Ottawa radio licences: On November 21, 2008, federal Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages James Moore issued a statement calling on the CRTC to review its approval of two new radio stations, Frank Torres ' CIDG-FM and Astral Media's CJOT-FM, which it had licensed in August 2008 to serve the Ottawa-Gatineau radio market.

In the April – June, 2008, issue of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, computer scientists describe a potential new way to combat internet worms.

The Cairo Governorate was just north of the Helwan Governorate from 2008 when some Cairo's southern districts, including Maadi and New Cairo, were split off and annexed into the new governorate, to 2011 when the Helwan Governorate was reincorporated into the Cairo Governorate.

The closures will include the new facility that was opened in August 2008 at a cost of US $ 25M, plus the McCauley Propeller Systems plant.

In October 2008 TfL introduced a new colour scheme to the vehicles, using the blue, white and green of the routes ' symbol on TfL maps, to distinguish the trams from its buses operating in the area.

On 25 February 2008, he started presenting Brainbox Challenge, a new game show, for BBC Two.

After years of stagnation, the " new thinking " ( Anatoli Cherniaev, 2008: 131 ) of younger Communist apparatchiks began to emerge.

On 21 August 2008, the official A1GP site reported that the 2008 / 09 season's first race has moved from the Mugello Circuit, Italy to Zandvoort on the 4 – 5 October 2008 due to the delay in the building the new chassis for the new race cars.

A bocce player of note is Umberto Granaglia ( May 20, 1931 – December 13, 2008 ), who was awarded the honor of " Player of the Twentieth Century " by the Confédération Mondiale des Sports de Boules.

* 2008: River Ridge Sports Complex, Oxnard, California

* 2008 Botham was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Sports Science by Leeds Metropolitan University.

In 2008, savate was recognised by the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ) – this recognition allows savate to hold official University World Championships, the first was held in Nantes, France in 2010.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

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** Jim McKay, American sportscaster ( ABC's Wide World of Sports ) ( died 2008 )

For 2008 the team was known simply as Piquet Sports.

In 2008, Gagnon was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

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.

* World Mind Sports Games, first held in 2008 for games of skill ( e. g. chess, go, etc.

In 2008 Sporting News ranked Dover 215th in its list of the 400 Best Sports Cities based on the year October 2007-October 2008, a year which saw high attendance for the NASCAR races and Delaware State's football team making its first FCS tournament appearance.

On February 13, 2008, it was announced that Palace Sports & Entertainment had agreed to sell the Lightning to OK Hockey LLC, a group headed by Oren Koules, a producer of the Saw horror movies.

Category: Sports clubs disestablished in 2008

They also won an ESPY award for Best Moment in Sports in 2008, were featured in Sports Illustrated, and are part of a national billboard campaign promoting sportsmanship by the Foundation for A Better Life.

The Michael A Ashcroft Building opened in 2003 ; the Mildmay Sports Centre, and the Tindal Building, in 2005 ; the William Harvey Building in 2007 ; The Faculty Building ( renamed The Marconi Building in 2011 ) in 2008 ; and the Postgraduate Medical Institute building, opened 2011.

* 2009-Matthew Mitcham, Australian Olympic gold-medalist, world record holder and 2008 Australian Sports Performer of the Year

The new club finished construction of the new Spa & Sports Club building in April 2008 that houses a new fitness center with state-of-the-art StarTrac exercise equipment, a spa with many services, a snack bar with Starbuck's coffee, and the Michael Chang tennis hall of fame and member lounge.

The newspaper has a daily circulation of 3, 259 and was awarded second place for Sports Page Design, Opinion Page Design and Editorial Comment at the 2008 Better Newspapers Contest, hosted by the California Newspaper Publishers Association.

JCPenney opened a store on US Route 19 ( Commercial Way ), just south of Spring Hill Drive in Spring 2008, adjacent to the store is a shopping center that include many stores and restaurants, including: Best Buy, Cracker Barrel, Office Depot, Ross & Sports Authority.

The Tupelo High School Athletic department was ranked # 3 in the nation in 2008 by Sports Illustrated as best athletic department.

Opened in 2006, Miller Motorsports Park hosts many of the world ’ s most significant racing series, including the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, NASCAR Grand National West Series, AMA Superbike and Supersport Championship and, new for 2008, the FIM Superbike World Championship, one of the top three racing series in the world.