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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

the answer isn’t going to surprise you, so we’ll go ahead and put it right out there.  Three little–powerful–words.  These words make the world go ’round, and you’ve probably heard them before.  They’re the subject of poets, of playwrights, of songs and epic tales.  People have lived and died for them.
The words?

The last few years have led to something we’re thinking of  calling the DePrivitazation of Privates, or at least of panties.  There’s Victoria’s eponymous fashion show…about that Secret? In name only, trust us. Sports isn’t immune…the Lingerie Football League  sports lots of chicks in corsets (and the magical tagline “true fantasy football”–NSFW, btw.)
So the furor [...]

Fill in the blank, kiddies;
A) taking a brief nap on the court–multitasking is key!
B) channeling her inner kangaroo.  It is the Australian Open, after all. Three second later, she jumped.
C) Debating the dangly earrings choice.  On a tennis court? Really?
D) Just really really pissed off–she did lose, after all….
credit: (WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)

We think we might have posted this title before, actually but this time we’re quite sure: steroids are now a non-story.
Mack McGuire, PED posterchild?  He’s come out of isolation, signed a contract to coach for the Cardinals, and is going to work out with the team in spring training–with the semi-tacit goal of being on [...]

Imagine Derek Jeter’s sterling defense in 3D.  Now, imagine his amazing assets, if you will.
Happy yet?  OK, try Sharapova, if you must.
ESPN’s making your dream a reality, with a 3D TV network–the first of it’s kind–which will debut sometime this year. It will broadcast a minimum of 85 live sporting events, including the 2011 BCS [...]