Well hell. Leading 2 – 0 with 3:26 left in the game, the American women gave up two goals to send the game into overtime and then gave up the game-winner eight minutes into OT to lose the gold medal game to Canada. That’s unpleasant. The two teams are unquestionably the best in women’s hockey; …
So you win the gold medal for ice dancing. What’s next? Why, you risk humiliating yourself on the “Today” show the following morning by playing violin, of course.
I know very little about the Olympics’ Opening Ceremonies as they haven’t aired yet here and won’t for another 6 hours, but I’ve been told they will try to show what Russia has given to the world over the centuries. Okay, I’ll grant Russian literature from Dostoevsky to Tolstoy to Pasternak and points in between. …
You remember the Cold War, thought to have died umpty-ump years ago when Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost helped knock down the Berlin Wall and the Warsaw Pact? It’s back, and the culprit is yogurt. The US Olympic team likes it, so Chobani thought it would be great PR to send them 5,000 containers of the …
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The Takeaway this morning had a story about a retiring cricket player in India. Apparently he’s the bee’s knees, the cat’s meow, the bomb. To cricket fans he’s Babe Ruth, Henry Aaron and Michael Jordan rolled into one. So what’s he gonna do in retirement? The reporter said “he’s probably going to sit down, take …
Actually, Andy Murray is a Scot, but I don’t think the tennis-mad section of the UK is making that sort of distinction tonight. The gap between the last time an Englishman won the Gentlemen’s Singles tournament at the All England Lawn Tennis Club and Murray’s win today was 77 years. Not quite the 105 years …
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I have no idea whether the claim the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency makes that it has physical evidence that Lance Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs is true or not. Given the agency’s reluctance to show its cards, particularly now that Armstrong has said he won’t contest the charges, I don’t necessarily trust it. I find myself sympathizing …
I’ve never played water polo, and after watching the US v. Australia women’s match this morning I don’t think I’d like it. Oh, the swimming and the ball-throwing would be just fine, but my goodness, the contact between opponents is as close to legal mugging as any law-abiding citizen can get. Of course, when you’re …
That was Usain Bolt’s time as he won the 100-meter dash in London today. It’s an Olympic record, but it’s 0.05 slower(!) than the world record of 9.58, also held by Bolt. My goodness that’s fast. Believe it or not, it’s a full second faster than it was 100 years ago.