Usain Bolt is costing me sleep

I’m blaming the CBC on this one, or, more accurately, http://cbc.ca/olympics, which indicated that the men’s 200m final would be streamed at 4:49am (Mountain). Of course, once 5am rolled around with no signs of Usain Bolt, I did some digging and discovered that the race wasn’t being run until 8:20am. And of course, at that [...]

CBC, TSN, and BOCOG: Make staying up to all hours worth my while

The first eight or nine days of the Olympics were perfectly scheduled: swimming finals in the morning, diving after those (before the swimmers came back for afternoon/evening heats), gymnastics or rowing right after the swimming, wrestling finals coming closer to the afternoon. It was perfect if, like me, you could last until 3 or 4 [...]

Bringing out the big guns

In a rare case of forgetting my iPod when leaving the house today, I found myself forced to listen to the dead medium that is FM radio while cruising around with my sunroof open and whistling at attractive soccer moms as if I were a construction worker or Raffi Torres.
Anyways, I had SONiC on because [...]

Scott Oake makes winning medals in rowing hard to watch

I like the job Barney Williams is doing as an analyst for the rowing, but it’s getting really bad to listen to Scott Oake call the last 200m of a race. I don’t know if his vantage point is poor or he just can’t read the angles on the monitor very well or what his [...]

Packing it in

From the title of this post, you’re probably thinking it’s about Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers and the whole fiasco they are going through. Then you see this old, curmudgeonly white guy with a headset over here and wonder what he has to do with either. The answer is nothing. This post has [...]