Tag: olympics
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I Don’t Care. I’m With Hope.
Lots of schadenfreude in the op ed pages and comment sections since Hope Solo, bitter and disappointed in Team USA’s unexpected loss to Sweden in the Olympics, stepped in it on the world stage. Facing the athletically superior Americans, Sweden used a strategy of slow down and keep-away to maintain a slim lead, and hung…
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I’m More Patriotic Than You…
…And I can prove by being the biggest asshole I can be to Olympic Gymnast Gabby Douglas, a young woman I never met, barely heard about, and haven’t thought of since her spectacular performances in the London Olympic Games of 2012. In case you’re living under a rock–and if so, I envy you–you at least…
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Ali. Now There Was A Man.
When I was a kid, Muhammad Ali was a ubiquitous media figure, whether he was fighting or being interviewed or selling cologne on the television. I missed the early years of his career, and only learned about the political aspects of his fame much later. (a link to a fantastic article on Ali follows my…
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My Favorite Olympic Moment
Most people pick USA vs. USSR Hockey or basketball. Now, my mom wasn’t even born when Jesse Owens rubbed that whole “master race” crap in Hitler’s face in Berlin, 1936, and I wasn’t quite two years old at the time of the famous “black power” salute in Mexico City, 1968. Those were big, historical moments. …
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Olympics Volume 2–Meryl Takes Down Downton
It was Sunday night, the sofa was soft, the down comforter warm, and the sun was shining on Downton Abbey–it’s always shining on the glacially slow BBC soap opera, you might have noticed, despite what I’ve heard about England, yet it was brighter still inside the ice arena in Sochi, Russia where the world’s finest…
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Totally Digging Figure Skating–Well, I’ll Be Damned
Some things–like the bus that runs you down–you never see coming. When I was a kid, my mom used to torture me by taking me to the Ice Capades every year, year after year–until I was, I think, 13 and convinced her to let me bring my friend Kazoo. Instead of me sitting there sulky…
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Olympics: What I Want To See/Paralympics
“Self doubt is a much greater disability than a guy who’s missing both his legs.”–Heath Calhoun Unless you’ve been living under an abandoned fiberglass pickup camper top in the high grass back in the corner of the yard, beside the compost pile, you’ve probably seen this commercial from AT&T. I’ve seen it at least a…
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The Olympics–Volume 1
We got home and rushed to the television last night as quickly as we could after my daughters’ swimming meet–which they crushed, again, thank you very much–kicking the dog out of the way and stepping on both cats in a fervor to get the old set warmed up for…Team Ice Dancing. Hell, yeah. That fervor…
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