I’d rather watch hair curling than Winter Olympics curling — how about you?
Do you think Winter Games deserve Dud of Week? (Please vote at end of this blog)
I’m glad the Winter Olympics are over.
There, I said it.
In fact, the Winter Olympics are my Dud of the Week.
Call me unpatriotic if you want, but I’m not going to be like all of the other sportswriters, broadcasters and radio hosts out there who pretend they are interested in sports like curling and ice dancing. I am not and I’m not going to apologize for it.
By the way, happy Monday and I hope you are once again ready to participate in our beginning-of-the-week game show here on our wildly popular Open Mike blog and interactive extravaganza. It’s called “Studs and Duds” and it’s your chance to sound off and identify the best and worst sports performances of the weekend and beyond.
By now, you know the drill. I’ll give you a couple of quick takes from the week in sports and then you vote in the polls at the end of this blog.
OK, back to my Winter Olympics rant:
My editor sent me a note the other day and wanted me to type out a few paragraphs describing “my favorite moment of the Winter Olympics.”
Here was my sarcastic answer:
“My favorite moment from the Winter Olympics?
I would say that magical moment frozen in time when the flame was extinguished and the Games officially ended.
Hallelujah!
Now maybe we can get back to real sports that real sports fans care about.
Seriously, is there anything more annoying than turning on your favorite sports radio show in the morning and listening to two ex-NFL players arguing about how Evan Lysacek could win a gold medal in men’s figure skating without performing a quadruple jump? Puh-leeze.
It’s no secret that the Winter Olympics are not really geared toward the traditional sports fans. I knew this when I flipped over to NBC to watch the much-anticipated matchup between Canada and the U.S. in the prelims of the hockey competition. Instead of hockey, NBC was televising an ice-dancing cowboy doing the do-si-do to the Dixie Chicks. The hockey game, believe it or not, had been relegated to MSNBC.
I am just glad the Winter Olympics are over so now Americans journalists can get back to covering the things that are really important to sports fans – like gun-toting NBA players and Tiger Woods’ sexual escapades.”
OK, so the Winter Olympics are my early favorite for Dud of the Week. That said, I have to be fair. I did watch the hockey gold medal game between Canada and the U.S. and therefore I have to give Canada’s Sidney Crosby my vote for Stud of the Week. Crosby, of course, flicked his wrist and scored the winning goal in overtime and will never, ever again have to buy a beer in his home country.
By the way, last week’s Stud was Dwight Howard, who was named the NBA’s Player of the Week for his dominant performances in recent games. Your Dud was PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem, who described Tiger Woods as “an American hero” after his meal ticket’s public apology last week. As I pointed out to the commish in my column: “What, has Tiger suddenly become Abe Lincoln: ‘Four scores and seven cocktail waitresses ago!’ “
So let’s get to it, shall we?
Who will be honored and dishonored this week?
You tell me.
Happy voting.
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