No year 2k Summit Series

Vladislav Tretiak, an ex-goaltender for the Russia Hockey Team, was hoping to revitalize the Canada-Russia Summit Series.  He sent a letter to the NHL asking to use NHL players in the rebirth of the summit series.
However, the NHL has decided to pass on the idea  saying they’d rather settle the Russia - NHL transfer agreement.   […]

NHL players to play at the Olympics

Let me just state that we basically knew that the NHL players would be playing.  Why?   Well, they actually enjoying playing in the Olympics and two the Olympics are in Canada.  Home of hockey. Plus what would the olympics be without some overpaid professional atheletes competing.

For example, what would the 2004 summer olympics be without […]

Enter The Dragon (In Two Years)

Chinese officials say preparations are going well for the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing and they are confident that the XXIX Olympiad will be a rousing success. Hundreds, if not thousands, of unsightly homes and businesses have been bulldozed to make way for the construction of new sports venues, they told reporters, while crackdowns on […]

Medal Detectives Find Grigorieva’s Gold

How about some good news to carry you into the weekend? Earlier this week, police were able to recover an Olympic silver medal that had been stolen from Australian pole vaulter Tatiana Grigorieva. The medal, which the Russian-born athlete won at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, was among a stash of personal mementos stored […]

Tomato Of Dog Town

Shaun White is back in the spotlight, and thank goodness because life was just a drag without the Flying Tomato around. For those of you who’ve forgotten, White is your reigning Olympic Gold Medal snowboarder and all-around Super Duuude (not to be confused with that girl who hot dogged her way out of a medal). […]

Sauerkraut, Kimchi, or Borscht

Such are the questions the International Olympic Committee must now weight, having narrowed the field of possible sites for the 2014 Winter Olympics to three cities: Salzburg, Austria; Pyeongchang, South Korea; and Sochi, Russia. Not a strong group of candidates, you say? Consider the cities they rejected: Almaty, Kazakhstan; Borjomi, Georgia; Jaca, Spain; and Sofia, […]

Making Time At The Olympics

LONDON — The International Olympic Committee inked a $70 million sponsorship deal with Omega this week, making the Swiss watch maker the official timekeeper of the London Olympic Games in 2012. The deal also expands Omega’s role during the Olympics, allowing the precision timekeeper to put the clock on additional events.
Under the terms of […]

Kind Of Like American Idol But Without The Singing And Katharine McPhee

The US Olympic Committee is currently traveling around the country to decide which American city should make a bid to host the 2016 summer Olympic games. Chicago, the Windy City, is among those vying for the chance to spend vast amounts of money to build new sports stadiums only to be overwhelmed by hundreds of […]

oddJoe takes oddsnark gold. And silver, and bronze, and whatever comes after bronze

Forgive the aggrandizement, but the efforts of one member of our snarky staff to chronicle the 20th Winter Olympiad must not go without recognition.
While the rest of us went into deep hibernation until March Madness — waking only to murmur prayers that the rock sliding Minnesotans, snowboarding hopheads, Miller-swilling Millers, and Cosby sweater-clad announcers might […]

Olympico Finito

Confident that no one is waiting for tonight’s final NBC broadcast to find out who won the men’s 50 km freestyle cross-country skiing event (well, no one with a zip code outside Minnesota but still in the continental US), we present the final results and medal count for the 20th Winter Olympics. In men’s ice […]