Iceland Handball Trumps Croatian Water Polo

Argentina-Brazil and the Super Bowl

Argentine footballers sing and bang the windows on their team bus.
Bearing in mind that I didn’t attend the Opening Ceremonies or any of the Phelps Phest or any of the gymnastics or the 100-meter final….And apologies for repeating myself from the disastrous live blog, but this is for newspaper purposes.
One way [...]

USA 89-61 After Three
And there’s your rout. Kobe Bryant three-pointer. Carmelo Anthony three-pointer. LeBron James diving save of a loose ball. Kobe Bryant free throw. Jason Kidd layup. Kobe reverse layup. Kobe three-pointer. Going back to the end of the first half, that made 19 consecutive points, 11 coming from Kobe.
Oh, and mix in [...]

Fredonia Gets Silver

Inflatable Kangaroo Aussies on TV

The Many Olympic Coaching Hugs
I mentioned this over the weekend when discussing judo’s Mark Mangino but it bears repeating. There are plenty of emotive athletes here, who cut loose on their courts or in their pools or on top of their horses or whatever. But some of the more compelling viewing options at Olympic venues [...]

Kobe is Beijing’s Borf

Swedish Women Handballers Make History

Olympic Links of the Day
Ni hao, Internet. Lindsay Applebaum here, with some top-notch Olympic linkage.
- Chad Johnson knows “a couple” people who could beat Michael Phelps. . .and Ocho Cinco happens to be one of them. (Fourth-Place Medal)
- The L.A. Times’ Bill Plaschke takes on China in ping-pong. (Ticket to Beijing)
- Swedish wrestler throws a [...]

Getting Meta With Scorpions on Sticks

Random Irish man eats silkworms for American blogger.
Foreign media doing scorpions-on-sticks pieces is just about the lamest form of journalism imaginable. It’s hackneyed, cliched, predictable and useless. It relies entirely on the gross-out factor, and is basically Fear Factor on location. It creates an image of life in Beijing [...]