The Olympic 29: Women’s football/soccer

July 25, 2012

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m fairly excited for the 2012 Olympics, to say the least. It’s a pretty spectacular mix of sports we all know and love and more obscure disciplines that just don’t show up on television too often the rest of the time. Shortly before I returned home from London, I went to the Waterstone’s near Trafalgar Square and bought a book I’d already gotten for a professor from the Waterstone’s near Piccadilly Circus.

I’ll Try To Have More On This Tomorrow But…

Barry Petchesky of Deadspin summed up this afternoon’s Gold Medal Game pretty beautifully. http://deadspin.com/5482294/canada-wins-but-so-do-you.

Gold Medal Game, part 1

So here we are, a little over an hour away from the most important hockey game in years. NBC is actually broadcasting the game itself and doing do live throughout the United States, without any figure skating or tape-delayed alpine skiing to cut away to every 5 minutes and without the analysts trying to interview players while they’re still on the ice, ala the All-Star Game.

Everyone, not just die-hard hockey fans like myself, is talking about this game and everyone is watching. Whatever happens in this game, whether or not Gary Bettman actually makes good on his threat to make this the last Olympics with NHL players, for one glorious afternoon, ice hockey will receive its due in the United States as one of the most exciting, thrilling, breathtakingly awesome sports around.