I'll keep the roundup simple. I learned numerous valuable lessons today while watching the Olympics:
There is near round the clock coverage between NBC, USA, and MSNBC. There is at least one channel airing Olympic events from 2 am until 7 pm, and again from 8 pm to midnight.
Of course, not all of the coverage is live, so you may at some point do like I did. In channel surfing back and forth, I pit-stopped on ESPN just long enough to accidentally see the final score of the U.S. women's soccer game on the ticker, thus defeating the purpose of me switching back to MSNBC to watch the game.
Diana Taurasi is a monster. Granted, the US women's basketball team is now what the original Dream Team was in the '90s, and this was a game against the Czech Republic, but it was impressive. The woman was faking people off the dribble, driving by them, and scoring just about whenever she felt like it, ripping off 13 points and three assists in the first half before sitting most of the rest of the game.
The women's volleyball team has to play better than they did today if they expect to contend for a medal. Sloppy passing kept them scrambling most of the day, and having regular kills blocked by a Japanese team whose second tallest player would be your shortest is unacceptable.
Oh, that final score I stumbled on was women's soccer beating Japan 1-0. They didn't look as lost as the volleyball team, but they still looked a far cry from a team that could win a medal. More work to be done there, as well.
Lastly, if you ever get a bit bored, Olympic badminton is absolutely awesome. It's tennis, but with a higher net, a smaller court, and a lighter and faster ball (the shuttle). It almost looks like fencing, especially when each serve is from about five feet away from your opponent. I'll admit it, I'm addicted.
Article comments
1 - Jordan Richardson
What was the "sour note?"
2 - Tan The Man
I think it was the fact a lot of the Olympic coverage isn't live...
3 - jeff
How could NBC start with synch diving in prime time? Do the real sports and save the queer stuff for midnite.
4 - Jordan Richardson
Ah, the queer stuff. It must be nice to live in the Dark Ages, eh?
5 - Andy Marsh
Synchronized diving is queer? Did you even watch it? It looked pretty impressive to me. just the fact that these folks are diving off a 5 meter platform is impressive enough, but to do it the way these guys are doing it is just impressive to me. Although, it was kinda weird (queer) to watch the Russians doing a 2 1/2 with 2 1/2 twists and the two divers spinning off the platform in opposite directions...it looked more like mirror diving than synchronized...but that's just me...
6 - Jet
Jeff, that was so gay of you to say that-me thinks you doth protest too much... you wanna see queer, I'll show you queer.
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7 - Dr Dreadful
Speaking of gayness and gay icons (or was that a different thread?) did anyone else notice that one of the Russian divers was the spitting image of Vin Diesel?
8 - Jet
The men or the women Doc?
9 - Jet
As for the Icons, I was branded old and stupid because I tried to say Elton John was a gay icon....
sigh
10 - Dr Dreadful
Jet: LOL @ your #8.
As for Elton John, well, it's my understanding that in order to be a gay icon you have to be straight, female, or (preferably) both. I don't know why. Maybe it's that aura of unattainability which makes such people so alluring.
So under those criteria, I suppose Elton John would more accurately be described as an icon who is gay.
11 - El Bicho
I would love to know what part of the Olympics Jeff thinks isn't gay.