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Reconsidering Bode Miller
To Winter Olympics naysayers, there is no bigger symbol of the event's waste and piffle than Bode Miller, the much hyped U.S. skier who was on the cover of seemingly every national magazine yet came away from the Games without a single medal. Hell, he barely even finished a race....
Juicing Up The Olympics, Jedi Style
Not to get all Page 3 on you today, but we've been alerted to a rather amusing proposal for the 2014 Winter Olympics: Let's have it on the Ice Planet Hoth!...
Curling Like You've Never Heard It Before
We're going to go light on the Olympics today, because, well, they're over (and we're sure you're all pretty hungover from all the Closing Ceremonies parties last night), but we're giving you two, because they're the Olympics and therefore sports, we guess....
The Egalitarian Olympics
As the Olympic flame is extinguished this evening, a record twenty-six different countries won a medal in the 2006 Torino Games, including Slovakia and Latvia, who earned their first ever Winter Olympic medals. Eleven different countries won medals in the double-digits, which is also a record. I'...
Talented, Entertaining, and Dainty... it's Ted Ligety's MySpace
I'll be upfront with you. The entire MySpace craze is lost on me. I don't know why so many people have them, I don't know what they're for, I don't know what they do. But when a gold medal skier posts pictures of himself like that one, I become grateful for MySpace....
You May Have Helped Support Julia Mancuso's Training
Julia Mancuso earned a gold medal in the giant slalom yesterday, and, like many Olympians, she couldn't have done it without the support of her family, particularly her father Ciro Mancuso. "He came over when I was struggling a couple of years ago, arranged to get a car and a trainer in Austria, a...
Bode Miller Completes The 0-fer
Mercifully, it is over. The Nike marketing blitz, the ever-present stubble, the brooding stare designed to say, "Yes, ladies, I am that deep"... all gone. After today, it will probably be a while before we hear the name Bode Miller again. His 2006 Olympic games concluded with a whimper as he strad...
Olympic Lookalikes
An observant reader sent in the following Olympic lookalikes. First, Sasha Cohen and the girl from The Neverending Story:...
No, Since You Asked, I Don't Believe In Miracles
The dream has ended for the U.S. Olympic men's hockey team. They just lost in the quarterfinals to Finland, though it may have been the best hockey they've played yet, at least in stretches. Finland beat them 4-3....
Johnny Weir Goes Shopping
"I love to shop," says Johnny Weir. Color me shocked....
Bode Injures Ankle; Vows To Continue Failing Anyway
Playing a game of pick-up basketball in which the winners and losers aren't important, Bode Miller rolled his ankle. Bode is set to run his final Olympic event on Saturday, his fifth and final chance at a medal. But, there is good news. The ankle injury is not severe enough to keep Bode's indomita...
Shani Davis Is Huge in Holland
Nearly lost in the hullaballoo (I've never used that word before, and I have no idea why I'm starting now) of the Chad Hedrick/Shani Davis post-race news conference yesterday, is the fact that members of the Dutch curling team showed up for the sole purpose of heckling Chad Hedrick. In turn, I sup...
Tonya Harding, The Female Butterbean
The Sports Pulse takes a look back at the rise and fall (mostly fall) of Tonya Harding over the past twelve years. It's hard not to think about her and Nancy Kerrigan when the Winter Olympics roll around. It was a time when it was OK to be a figure skater and not appear to still going through pube...
NBC Resorts to Child Porn for Olympics Ratings Boost
Or, at least, it would seem that way. Why else would the Olympic website feature some, um, questionable photos of figure skater Sasha Cohen? Hey, I'm no prude, but for the love of Jon Benet Ramsey this just seems a little...creepy. Maybe this is strategic network synergy? You know, NBC gets people...
Swedish Hockey Coach Shows Off his Bode Miller Side
Once again, there's more head-shaking controversy surrounding the Olympics as Swedish hockey team coach Bengt-Ake Gustafsson suggested that his team would be better off losing to Slovakia tonight(or, right now, actually) in order to get a better match-up in the medal round. Obviously, the Internat...
We Have To Do Something About Male Speedkating Uniforms
Because I don't want this to ever happen again. In fact, I'm not even sure what is happening there. Calling it a cameltoe would be disrespectful to camels everywhere. Thanks (kinda) to the reader who sent in the pic. He made me look at it, and I'm making you look at it....
Speedskating Beef
The issues between U.S. speedskaters Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis continue to garner attention. I mentioned it briefly yesterday, but the story's picking up a little steam, and hopefully has the potential to develop into a Harding/Kerrigan situation. If things continue on this path, one is going t...
Johnny Weir Is Huge In Kansas. And In The Glute Area.
Eventually, yes, the Johnny Weir posts will stop. But not today. I think I might be developing a crush on the guy, and I'm not even gay....
Nudie Magazine Day!
Well, alright, it's not a magazine, it's a calendar. But I think you'll enjoy the Nude Curlers Calendar anyway. The Wade Blogs has gotten their paws on these titillating photos of various curling athletes, and I agree: I'll take the nude curlers over the SI Swimsuit Issue. It's not a judgment on t...
Black Guy Wins Gold Medal
American Shani Davis won a gold medal earlier today in the 1000m speedskating event, becoming the first black person to win an individual gold medal in Winter Olympic history. Debi Thomas won a bronze in figure skating in 1988, and Vonetta Flowers won a gold medal as a member of the women's bobsle...