NBC plans many, many hours of Olympic coverage
NBC is showing a lot of stuff during the Olympics.
Why? Because it's there, I suppose.
I wrote my Sunday newspaper column about that.
My favorite Summer Olympics sport: team handball, of course. What, you were expecting synchronized swimming?
(Here is another thing I produced for the Olympic viewers guide, which involved a lot of lists and short items and no doubt looks much better in the newspaper itself, where it was dressed up with graphic material. Newsday still publishes a printed edition every day, ya know. Really. You should check it out. Much more portable than this digital stuff, and still works during power outages!)
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Women's softball when Jennie Finch is pitching.
Yo Best!
You missed the LI connection for Shep Messing - he also played for the fabled New York Arrows of the MISL when that league first got going in 1978. The Arrows won the first 4 titles in the history of the league before folding a couple years later.
Their big scorer was Steve Zungul.
Yo Best!
You missed the LI connection for Shep Messing - he also played for the fabled New York Arrows of the MISL when that league first got going in 1978. The Arrows won the first 4 titles in the history of the league before folding a couple years later.
Their big scorer was Steve Zungul.
Neil -
Perhaps I'm just cynical, but I think NBC plans 'many many hours' of lucrative commercials interrupted for very short segments of some 'sports'.
I'm a real sportswoman, but what will be emanating from Beijing has ceased to be sports. Instead of amateur athletes - we get the pay for play kids.
In recent years these extravaganzas have strayed far far away from what the Olympics are meant to be.
It's a shame.
The modern Olympics were revived by Pierre de Courbetin who thought his native France got beat by the Prussians in the 1870-71 war because they weren't physically fit. He also thought it might bring peoples of the world closer by having sports. He obviously knew little of ancient Greece: those city-states fought all the time.
But it sort of worked. The next two times France and Germany went to war, the French won. Mainly by getting the Russians, English, Americans, Canadians, Belgians, Australians, New Zealanders, Indians, etc to do most of the fighting.
UH OH!!
Spaghettios.
Jim Clark opens a can of Francophobia on the WatchDog Nation!!
Love it.
The only Franco phobia I have is when John Franco came in to save a big game. But someday I must go to France and see Alesia, site of Julius Caesar's greatest victory. Caesar and 50,000 Roman legionnaires surrounded by 330,000 Gauls and guess who comes out on top? Vercingetorix never had a chance.