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Bob Costas Actually Has Something Critical To Say About NBC's Olympic CoverageWell, finally. Someone at NBC has admitted that its coverage of the Olympics wasn't absolutely perfect....

NBC Broke Even On The London Olympics, So Get Ready For More Tape Delays And Crappy Online StreamingThe lasting legacy of these recent London Olympics wasn't Ryan Lochte's epic bro-ness or McKayla Maroney's perpetual disinterest in everything, but rather it was #NBCfail, the hashtag that, over the course of 17 days, came to signify the complete ineptness of a media conglomerate to please its wider...

For Only $1000, You Too Can Own A Small Amount Of Water Mo Farah Probably Didn't Sit InRemember Mo Farah? He won gold for Great Britain in the men's 5000m and 10000m races at the London Olympics, everyone in the UK totally freaked out, and then he ran away from some stuff....

ESPN Figures You Were Watching The Olympics On NBC Anyway, So Why Bother Covering It?

ESPN didn't exactly break its back to cover the Olympics, if you'll recall. That was understandable, in a way. NBC's insanely restrictive rules meant that ESPN couldn't show Olympic highlights until the wee hours, after NBC's (tape-delayed) coverage had ended, which meant that SportsCenter had to se...

Russia's Women's Volleyball Coach, Distraught Over Olympic Failure, Found Hanged

Sergey Ovchinnikov, who coached Russia's women's volleyball team at the London Olympics, was found hanged in his hotel room in Croatia, according to local media reports. Dynamo Moscow, the club team he coached that is training in Croatia, announced his death on its website earlier today. Ovchinnikov...

German Field Hockey Team Gets $630,000 Bill After Cruise Ship Party

The German men's field hockey team recently won its second-straight Olympic gold medal with a close win over the Netherlands, and the celebration continued after they left London, primarily on a cruise ship that was apparently the scene of some intense partying and crazy field bro antics. The result...

NBC Cut A Memorial Tribute To A Dead U.S. Marine From Its Opening Ceremony Telecast. Here's His Story.

Three weeks ago we brought you the story of U.S. Air Force Academy cadet Andrew Chin. Chin's friends and family submitted his photo to be included in a memorial segment of the London Olympics opening ceremony, only for them to realize when the program aired on NBC in tape delay that the memorial se...

Area Couple Offended By "Loud, Sexualized, Pagan" Olympics

There is nothing in the world like the letters to the editor section of a small newspaper. Remember the Ohio man who wanted the "bisexual" buckeye removed as the state tree? By definition, the people who write these things have too much time on their hands and a capacity for outrage that only kicks ...