Spoiled?
NBC has apologized for spoiling swimmer Missy Franklin’s gold medal race with an ad DURING their coverage for the Today show featuring her win. Ah, how about forget the apology, start showing things live?
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But really, at this point with Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the internet, what is NBC thinking? At this point the results in Olympic events are less of a surprise to savvy television viewers than who gets the final rose on the Bachelor.
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Of course to be fair, by the middle of August, all these folks who are upset about various Olympic related issues will have moved on to more relevant sporting results. Sort of like Cubs fans.
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Eight women badmnton players from China, South Korea and Indonesia were kicked out of the Olympics for alleged match throwing. (Trying to lose early matches, for easier matches later.) And who says women are not as competitive as men?
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A United Airlines 737 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver ended up with a hole in its nose after apparently striking a large bird. ABC News said no injuries were reported. Well, except for the bird.
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Don’t get me wrong, Michael Phelps is amazing. But best Olympian ever? It kind of helps to pick a sport where you can enter a whole lot of events …
(comment encouraged on this one… and how about Steve Redgrave, for example?)
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The sanctions are so strong against Penn State that two top players have transfered to USC and LSU. Good to see the NCAA’s actions are benefiting such admirably clean programs….
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In England, they are celebrating the Queen’s granddaughter winning a silver medal. And some in the U.S. are saying, “wait a minute, I didn’t even know Elton John had grandchildren.”
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Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer says the former Penn State assistant coach is “distraught” over the NCAA penalties issued to his former team. “What a shame” said absolutely no one.
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Women baseball fans have a little extra fun in the MLB trade deadline – for a week or so some players on losing teams find out that men too can be regarded basically as pieces of meat.
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
August 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm
“Women baseball fans have a little extra fun in the MLB trade deadline – for a week or so some players on losing teams find out that men too can be regarded basically as pieces of meat.
Yes, but they’re getting paid very well by the pound for that meat. Most women just get a dinner, if that.
August 2, 2012 at 5:21 am
Scandal at the Olympics, as the Chinese and South Korean women’s badminton teams have been accused of tanking early round games to ensure more favorable matchups after reseeding. Word is the authorities were tipped off by a little birdie.
August 3, 2012 at 12:47 pm
“A United Airlines 737 from Dallas-Fort Worth to Denver ended up with a hole in its nose after apparently striking a large bird…” was it the NBC Peacock?
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There is no way to determine the best Olympian ever, but I’d argue for Phelps. Sure, there are many more swimming events, but he still has to win (place or show). Like every other sport, Phelps is going against the best of the best – sometimes twice on the same night w/just 20 min. between events. He isn’t going against the Jamaican Bobsled Team or Eddie the Eagle in every event.
If the number of swimming events is so influential, why did it take 48 years for someone to beat Larisa L’s record? Larisa by the way, won all her medals in gymnastics. Even among the best of the best swimmers, nobody is close to Phelps numbers. Mark Spitz was surely a phenom, and in spite of winnning 7 golds in the 72 games, his grand total is only 9 or 10. And finally, if the swimmers have such a big advantage, why isn’t the career totals list dominated by swimmers? It isn’t.