Ever since Kenyan independence in 1963, Kenyan politics have been characterized by ethnic tensions and rivalry between the larger groups, devolving into ethnic violence in the 2007 – 2008 Kenyan crisis.

The 2008 Finals saw a rematch of the league's highest profile rivalry, the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers, with the Celtics prevailing, for their league leading 17th championship, thanks to their new big three of Paul Pierce, Ray Allen, and Kevin Garnett.

At the end of that season, the Celtics and the Lakers renewed their rivalry from 2008 when they met again in the NBA Finals for a record 12th time.

In Round 1, 2008, St Kilda CEO Archie Fraser claimed that Craig Bolton " tunnelled " Saints ' captain Nick Riewoldt numerous times in the low-scoring match ( Sydney losing by two points, 6. 13 ( 49 ) to St Kilda's 6. 13 ( 51 ) in a heavily-criticised match ), leading to outrage amongst Swans fans, and also increasing the rivalry between the two clubs.

The rivalry had been less intense since the retirements of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008 it was renewed as the Celtics and Lakers met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series 4 – 2.

The rivalry fell off in 2005 to 2007, with the Lakers missing the playoffs in 2005 and losing in the first round to the Phoenix Suns in 2006 and 2007, but intensified again in 2008 when they met in the Western Conference Finals.

* Giles Hunt, The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and deadly cabinet rivalry, B Tauris & Co Ltd, UK / Palgrave Macmillan ( 2008 ) ISBN 1-84511-593-7

With Aldershot Town rejoining the league in 2008, it remains to be seen whether this traditional rivalry will be reestablished.

From 2003 to 2008, the Division II football teams from Western Washington University and Central Washington University met each year in a rivalry game called " The Battle in Seattle ".

Flair made his first post retirement appearance on the June 16, 2008 edition of Raw to confront Chris Jericho about his actions during a rivalry with Shawn Michaels.

Boston faced the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2008 NBA Finals, renewing the long rivalry between the two teams.

Owing to the nature of the Battle of Quebec rivalry with the Canadiens that existed when he was growing up, Tanguay admitted unease at joining the Canadiens in 2008.

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An extensive rivalry with Eastern Kentucky University, known as the Battle of the Bluegrass, ended in 2008 as WKU moved into FBS football.

Since the season 2008 – 09, the time when Borac started to be standard in the Premier League once again, a great rivalry started to develop between the two teams.

In late 2008 through early 2009, WWE Tag Team Champions The Colóns ( Carlito and Primo ) engaged in rivalry with the World Tag Team Champions John Morrison and The Miz, with the two teams exchanging victories in non-title matches and retaining their respective titles against each other.

As a result, despoite the encouragement of a local rivalry with Ehime FC, Tokushima drifted down-table, and they followed it up with a last-place finish in 2007 and 2008.

2008 saw the publication of her autobiography, Golden Girl: The Autobiography of the Greatest Ever Ladies ' Darts Player, which chronicles her ongoing rivalry with ladies darts superstar and former Olympian Crissy Manley, wife of PDC player Peter Manley.

Since Clydebank entered the junior level in 2003 – 04 they have shared a healthy rivalry with Yoker Athletic and as of season 2008 – 09, The Bankies are tenants of Yoker at Holm Park after leaving their ground in Duntocher.

Murphy also became engaged in a public rivalry with fellow player Stephen Maguire, while his separation from his wife in 2008, after three years of marriage, made the headlines.

Engineering Phoenix 2008 Dragon Day signifies a rivalry between Cornell architecture students and those in the College of Engineering.

However, on October 16, 2007, House announced he had changed his mind and the Horsemen would be playing the 2008 season in arenafootball2, where they would have an in-state rivalry (" The War on I-64 ") with the Louisville Fire.

The rivalry also allegedly prevented Spurs coach Gregg Popovich from coaching the USA Basketball team in the 2008 Summer Olympics.

The rivalry had been less intense since the retirements of Magic Johnson and Larry Bird in the early 1990s, but in 2008 it was renewed as they met in the Finals for the first time since 1987, with the Celtics winning the series 4-2.

The southern areas became part of German offices for the United Nations in 2008.

In 2008, Anheuser-Busch became Kasey Kahne's primary sponsor, and has also sponsored many races, including the Budweiser Shootout, and previously The Bud at the Glen, Budweiser 500, and Budweiser 400.

You wouldn't like me when I'm angry ", became a catchphrase the world over ( the phrase was used again, first in Ang Lee's Hulk ( 2003 ), although in Spanish, and again in the 2008 movie The Incredible Hulk, with an altered version in Portuguese ).

Jouve and colleagues suggested in 2008 that juvenile marine crocodyliforms lived in freshwater environments like modern marine crocodile juveniles, which would have helped them survive where other marine reptiles became extinct ; freshwater environments were not as strongly affected by the K – Pg extinction event as marine environments.

In May 2008, Gail finally met Ted Page, the father she'd never known and in 2009, Gail's boyfriend, Joe McIntyre became addicted to pain killers, which came to a head when he broke into the medical centre.

* Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull ( 2008 ) introduces thirteen " extra dimensional beings " with crystal skeletons, who founded a city that became the basis of the El Dorado myth.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

In 2008 16: 10 became the most common sold aspect ratio for LCD monitors and the same year 16: 10 was the mainstream standard for laptops and notebooks.

There were several piebald dachshunds that became AKC Champions in 2008.

In June 2008, EDuke32 became the only Duke Nukem 3D port to compile and run natively on 64-bit Linux systems without the use of a 32-bit compatibility environment thanks to significant porting contributions from the DOSBox team.

The 2008 team became the only team in NFL history to lose all 16 regular season games since the NFL went to a 16-game schedule in 1978.

The strength of the La Niña made the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season one of the most active since 1944 ; there were 16 named storms of at least 39 mph ( 63 km / h ), eight of which became or greater hurricanes.

In 2008 she became the recipient of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.

In 2008 it became known that during 2007 she had received two treatments at Ullevål, paid for by Norwegian public expenditures.

In 2004 development began on HTML5 in the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group ( WHATWG ), which became a joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008.

So, all works of Lovecraft published during his lifetime, became public domain in all 27 European Union countries on 1 January 2008.

Matti Vanhanen's two cabinets followed suit until autumn 2008, when the state became a major shareholder in the Finnish telecom company Elisa with the intention to secure the Finnish ownership of a strategically important industry.

In 2008, he became a patron of Population Matters, ( formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust ), which campaigns for a gradual decline in the global human population to a sustainable level.

On January 31, 2008, the Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas became the first zoo in the Americas to document parthenogenesis in Komodo dragons.

By 2008, worldwide sales of televisions with LCD screens exceeded annual sales of CRT units ; the CRT became obsolete for most purposes.

Lausanne became the first city in Switzerland to have a rubber-tyred metro system, with the m2 Line which opened in October 2008.

In October 2008 Moldcell became the first carrier in Moldova to launch a 3G network, currently all carriers provide 3G services throughout the country.

Nancy Reagan's health and well-being became a prominent concern in 2008.

Defying political pundits, who had predicted it to be trounced in the April 2008 elections, the Communist Party of Nepal ( Maoist ) became the largest party amidst a general atmosphere of fear and intimidation from all sides.