My New Favorite
I sometimes cringe when they start adding new sports to the Olympics. The change sometimes comes from trying to ride the wave of a fad instead of truly recognizing a…
More NBC Bashing
I can find many bad aspects of how NBC has chosen to cover these Olympics. Smarter people than me have tackled that task. Let's just focus on the horrible execution…
I Still Don’t See It
Today starts a series of occasional posts about the Olympics. I will vent about what I hate, praise what I like and just point out random stuff. So NBC showed…
Loving the ‘Lympics
The world has come to Vancouver as the Winter Olympics are under way.
I usually just sit back and cheer for the Americans, but I have a different rooting interest this time around.
I traveled to Vancouver for work last November and shared a plane back with a bunch of athletes from around the world who will compete in bobsled, luge and skeleton over the next few weeks. In fact, I was one of the few people on the plane who did not voluntarily hurtle themselves down a sheet of ice for a living.
About five years ago, as we prepared for the last Winter Olympics, I wrote a column about how I thought I would fit in perfectly on the bobsled team. The only problem was that the guys who usually did that sort of thing were world-class athletes.
On the Road: Vancouver
I spent much of last week on the West Coast for work, attending a conference in Vancouver. I didn't have a ton of free time - I was busy 8…
Miracle Completed
Everyone remembers the "Miracle on Ice," the night the U.S. Olympic hockey team beat the heavily-favored USSR in the 1980 Winter Games. The 29th anniversary of that game passed on…
Olympic Dreams
Over the past few weeks, some of my siblings have done a great deal of genealogy research. We have found out many details about relatives on both my mother and father’s sides of the family.
While I really enjoy learning where I come from, none of the research has turned up the most important thing right now.
I still have no idea how to easily qualify for citizenship in some obscure country so I can represent them in the Olympics.
Olympics off to a Good Start
If you're hiding from Olympic results, shame on you. You're gonna get spoiled here, and I don't really care. If I "ruined' the result of the soccer game today, take…