In the words of Just South of the Dot blog “I HATE YOU NBC. I. HATE. YOU.”
Then Mike shows exactly how to get around their inane obsession with Beach Volleyball. Is it entertaining? A little. Olympic? Not really. Especially when you show BV instead of ancient tradtions like Hammer and Pentathlon. Some of us suspect [...]

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Watching NBC’s nightly Olympic coverage of the same three sports and the 4 same people again and again forces huge groans out of me each night. The made-for-TV prime time soap opera is once again so melodramatic and drawn out, that it doesn’t even feel like I am watching sports.
I guess enough of us have [...]

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Bird’s Nest Stadium, designed for the Beijing Olympics, looks pretty incredible – as do many of the other buildings created for the Olympics. But for every building that gets built, there are many ideas that don’t. For the national stadium, China had a competition. Here are some of the other entries (click on thumbnails to [...]

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