Kristin Schall + Elijah Wood = Rebecca Soni
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Also, great job by Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson - especially after getting jobbed on the early rotations.
Kristin Schall + Elijah Wood = Rebecca Soni
Discuss.
Also, great job by Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson - especially after getting jobbed on the early rotations.
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Soni's upset of Lethal Jones was exciting to watch. It seemed like she caught her on every leg, then fell a little behind on every turn, and then she won.
Yeah, he's underrated a little bit. He seems to improve something ever year as well. I'm really excited about next year, if Jermaine O'Neal can stay healthy that's a pretty devastating front court for us. With Calderon running the point that's a three-headed monster. The question marks are our wings, but Kapono and Moon each bring something totally different to the table -- defence and rebounding and deadly three-point shooting. Parker is getting on in years but he's smart and plays within himself. If one of Ukic or Hassan Adams can surprise a little bit, and Bargnani plays like he's capable of doing I think Toronto can make some noise.Originally Posted by Americas Team
What was the best concert you've been to?
-- Probably Sade. It was just so sexy and relaxing.
i enjoy the raptors.
i also enjoy misti may.
2 things i enjoy.
I am so bored with Misti May and Kerri Kenney.
Beach volleyball is an atrociously boring sport to watch on television, and it seems pretty cheap of NBC to go wall to wall covering it during primetime just because they ain't wearing much clothes.
I've gotten very quickly tired of Gymnastics, Beach Volleyball (boring as tits), and Swimming in primetime. There are so many other sports in the Olympics that they could feature and they just aren't.
I am amazed at the amount of coverage NBC has devoted to May-Walsh. I think I've seen at least part of every match they've played so far without even trying to. They've been on every night this week in the prime-time sweet spot of 8:30-9:30pm. Meanwhile, they don't even replay the U.S. Men's Basketball team games on the all-basketball channel after the initial 3-5am airing (instead they show a static image of the schedule for 8 hours -- good use of HD, guys). It's also annoying that they hold the stuff people want to see (Phelps, women's gymnastics) until some ungodly hour -- do they really think people will stay up past midnight to watch this stuff? It's not live, so just put it on from 6-11p instead of 8-1a. Or at least stop boasting about five hours of coverage when half of it is happening after everyone's gone to sleep.
Oh, and watching May-Walsh couldn't be less interesting: they dominate everyone they play. It's barely even sport. What's entertaining about a lopsided ass-kicking? Drama only comes when competitors are evenly matched and anyone can win, and that's not about to happen here. Bump, set, spike. Dig, set, spike. Block. We get it.
Like most people in the world, past and present, I don't follow beach volleyball. So I was really shocked to see that there are a lot of points scored "easily," as in: Serve and then the returning team just puts the ball in an empty space. I thought it would be more like team volleyball where back-and-forth seems to be the norm.
Secondly, can we just go ahead it and call it "Girls Gymnastics"? It has to be one of the only athletic competitions where people are walking around saying, Look at her! She's 12! How am I supposed to beat a 12-year-old girl?
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What about competitive child abuse?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-..._b_118842.html
What began as whispers among the media and gymnastics insiders weeks ago about the ages of three of China's female Olympic gymnasts -- Jiang Yuyuan, Yang Yilin and He Kexin -- has grown into ear-shattering, head-hurting shouts. Despite assurances by Chinese officials that all three are 16, the minimum age of eligibility for Olympic competition, newly discovered documents and records prove otherwise.
The New York Times first looked into the age of China's gymnasts with a story on July 27 that focused primarily on He Kexin, whose birthdate on numerous online records was listed as January 1, 1994, making her 14 when the Games began and ineligible to compete.
When the world was officially introduced to He Kexin this week, even those unwise to the ways of competitive gymnastics could tell that with He, something was not right. At 4-foot 8-inches tall and weighing 72 pounds, the Beijing native appears significantly younger than most of her Chinese teammates much less her American and European counterparts.
The world's foremost expert on female gymnastics Bela Karolyi has routinely referred to the 2008 Chinese team as "half people" and in his contributions to NBC as a commentator during the Games he has railed against the Chinese for engaging in age falsification. After China outscored the U.S. in the qualification round, Karolyi had this to say about the Chinese gymnastics officials:
These people think we are stupid...We are in the business of gymnastics. We know what a kid of 14 or 15 or 16 looks like. What kind of slap in the face is this? They are 12, 14 years old and they get lined up and the government backs them and the federation runs away. There is an age limit and it can't be controlled.
"Not the victory but the action. Not the goal but the game. In the deed the glory."
Well, some of it is live (the swimming, mostly; there's a 12 hour time difference, so a race at 10:30 pm eastern Thursday is being swum/swam/swem Friday morning in China). I think the reason they keep showing May-Treanor/Walsh is precisely because they're so dominant. Also, because they're American. I have a feeling their matches aren't so heavily televised in, say, Australia. That's annoying for those of us who want to see good athletes and good competition no matter what the country or sport, but I'm sure it's been proven over the years that the majority of American TV viewers want to see Americans doing well.
It might be live on the east coast, but then they delay it for the west (mens vball is on here right now).
just saw Phelps. Wow. That didn't seem real. It was like a corny movie how he was basically beat, but then he magically reached out and won.
My new candidate for worst television sport is Water Polo.
Seriously, without an 80 inch HDTV, how can you possibly follow what the fuck is going on? Ice Hockey seems like the easiest sport in the world to spot the ball/puck in compared to this.
I don't know if you guys feel this, but the NBC commentary is so anti China that it drives me up the wall. I saw the 1996 games in China, and if I recall correctly, it was highly complimentary of the American athletes.
Winter is Coming: Summer 2011.
This really got my goat in the opening ceremonies. I'd have to watch it again, but Costas's constant comments like "Oh, there's the delegation from the Dominican Republic, who are not going to medal this Olympics" really pissed me off. I know it's a competition, but fuck, have some respect for people that are merely athletic representatives of their respective nations.
It's one thing to be "Rah! Rah! USA!" and it's another to be "What the fuck do they think they're doing here?"
I would not consider myself a Chinese apologist but all the shit people are talking about the opening ceremonies is annoying to me. No one goes back to football game half time shows and does this. Who cares if people are lip synching? It is a ceremony which in and of itself suggests that things are going to faked to make it look better. FYI Those Disney characters, at Disneyland, are just people in costumes.
I flipped to the Olympic women's marathon during preseason football commercials. Early on it was about as boring as watching people running sounds, but later on, seeing the overhead shots of just how far ahead that (38 year old) Romanian woman was was pretty incredible. She wasn't even in the same frame.
Oh, and Colt Brennan looks like he throws with his shoulder too much.
Please tell me you watched the ending to that game. I'm still lost for words since Nugent shanked that kick. That'll teach Mangini to go for overtime in a frickin preseason game.
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