Reaching… Olympics… saturation… point… about… to… explode… JUST KIDDING. We could watch crazy weird winter sports all day every day until we are lowered into the grave. Tonight: Women’s free skate, men’s freestyle skiing, giant slalom. And… (sigh) nordic combined. More »
The Way We Live Now: Trying to cover our bad bets. We are seriously bad gamblers. Worse than the average gambler (who is not good, in the first place). There’s an upside, though: coke, models, and booze! Cheap booze. More »
Watching the silly drama unfold yesterday about disappointed skier Julia Mancuso‘s mean Tweets about teammate Lindsey Vonn, I started considering how the internet has played a part in these Hotlympics. And I don’t like it! More »
Whew! Whatchya gonna watch tonight: Hockey on MSNBC CNBC or a bunch of other sports on NBC? Things might get messy in the Olympic Village tonight as team sport collides with individual glory. DRAMA! EXCITEMENT! HOT CHOCOLATE! OLYMPICS! More »
During last night’s short program, Tom Hammond noted that an American woman has made the figure skating podium every Olympics since Peggy Fleming. This year, that streak might be broken. That sort of…
Matt Damon Will Play Jack’s little brother in a biopic. Emily Post’s Etiquette to be made into highly proper film. Jason Segal joins the Farrelly Brothers. The Olympics’ ratings domination is done….
If being dull was a medal event, team nordic combined would win the gold. If making viewers want to watch 30 Rock on Hulu was an ice-skating move, team nordic combined would be a quad. This is the…
Crap: We accidentally said it was day 12 last night. All that figure skating has turned our brain into a bedazzled ice cube. The real day 12 brings: Women’s figure skating (LIVE); Men’s giant slalom,…
Mean old figure-skater Evgeni Plushenko didn’t win the silver in Vancouver. He won the platinum.
Anyone noticed we haven’t heard as much about Haiti lately? A Nexis search shows us that US newspapers and wires have run 30% fewer “Haiti Earthquake” stories this week than last week. What could be…