Sport
- For football, see 2008 in Norwegian football
- January
- The 2008 European Men's Handball Championship is hosted by the Norwegian Handball Federation with venues in Bergen, Drammen, Lillehammer, Stavanger and Trondheim.
- March 29– The Norwegian Premier League 2008 (association football) kicks off, lasting through November 2.
- November 2– The Norwegian Premier League 2008 ends.
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“I wish glib and indiscriminate critics of industrialists had some conception of the problems that have to be met by factory management.... General condemnation of employers is a favorite indoor sport of the uninformed intelligentsia who assume the role of lance- bearers for labor.”
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