A few days ago I hyped up the United State’s exciting split second win in the Men’s 4 x 100 relay. It turns out you can now watch the entire race underwater on NBC’s site (provided you first install Microsoft Silverlight). I must say, on my internet connection at least, the quality of NBC’s online [...]
If horseracing is the sport of kings, then surely bowling is a … very good sport as well.”
Truer words have never been spoken by fictional athlete and animated gadabout Homer Simposon, but alas, neither horseracing nor bowling are in the Olympics. Instead, we’ll have to make due with gymnastics (also 35 other sports).
Gymnastics gets quite [...]
Since my last post, in which I heralded the arrival of the 2008 Olympics, this blog has been inundated with over 2 comments. The most recent comment even contained the word “Olympic”. Either America has a bad case of Olympic fever or this blog’s popularity just skyrocketed. Either way, the only sensible course of action [...]
If you’re part of overheardinprovidence’s legion of fans, you probably noticed that I haven’t posted anything in over a month. My apologizes. I think I was out looking at stuff or something. Regardless, there’s no need to dwell.
If you’re also part of the relatively small group of people that watch Summer Olympics, you probably noticed [...]
When it comes to olympic fandom, I dare say I’m in the top 1 percent. For two magical weeks every two years, I make it my personal mission to absorb as much olympic coverage as humanly possible. During this time I talk about the olympics constantly, I watch TV a minimum of 12 hours a [...]