EDIT: Joannie Rochette skated a free program that was far and away better than her short. We would have revised our expectations, but that would be cheating…but we were neither surprised nor disappointed in her scores.  Hurray for Joannie!
We’d like to do Joannie Rochette a favor, and discuss her skating. K?

Nobody was talking about Rochette [...]

Restaurants are thriving. Tourism is at an all-time high. The weather is gorgeous, although maybe not for a winter Olympics.
But not all of Vancouver is happy that the Olympics is there.  First of all, there’s the crowds: one woman quoted in a New York Times article waited five hours to see an exhibit of medals [...]

Last night, we had some serious multi-tasking to do, and some of it involved going to the movies. We figured we’d watch some highlights this morning on ESPN.
As our fave fat yellow guy says, D’oh!
ESPN’s down, folks.  We recommend NBC for figureskating highlights (analysis later tonight here.) and the fabulous blogosphere for everything else. Stay [...]

Rachel Flatt’s photo, which we got from her Twitter feed is:
A. A heartfelt portrayal of a worldwide icon
B. A creatively shot night scene
C. Amazing: the torch is actually working!

Brand new sports, like brand new Olympic sites, are bound to have a few glitches.  But what’s a coupl;e crashes (or a stalled out Olypic torch) matter in the face of innovation and world solidarity? Well, not much, unless the crashes are as ridiculous as what happened in yesterday’s new Olympic sport, Ski Cross.  Ski [...]

It’s been forty years since Title IV revolutionized school sports by making it unlawful not to offer the same number of sports opportunities to women as to men at all levels of education.
That was good news, and now we have some more. The increase in girls’ athletic activity that was heralded by the advent [...]

An international judge has issued an arrest warrant for Floyd Landis, best known as not-Lance-Armstrong. The case involves computer hacking at a doping lab in France. The judge wants to question Landis about hacking dating back to 2006, according to ESPN. This is the lab that uncovered the elevated testosterone levelsin Landis’ samples [...]

Yao Ming rocking the China vote. People starting who can’t play. The hype for the NBA All Star Game has been…odd, to say the least. And now, honestly, we have NO reason to watch it, because Kobe Bryant isn’t playing, and neither is Alan Iverson.
Kobe isn’t a surprise–he hasn’t played in [...]

This came to us via a Mass-based relative, if that wasn’t clear.
Sox fans, enjoy…

Two boys were playing hockey on the pond on Boston Common,Thinking quickly, the other boy took his hockey stick and managed to wedge it down the dog’s collar and twist, luckily breaking the dog’s neck and stopping its attackA reporter who was [...]

OK this isn’t about pink hats, per se. But there’s hats in it for sure, so bear with us.
Andre Dawson, who will be entering the Hall of Fame this year, is a die-hard Cub.  Dawson played for the Chicago Cubs from 1987-1992, winning an MVP trophy even though the team was in the cellar that [...]