This Week in Bloggernets: Trouble in Toronto
Red Sox Monster —
... -- with Jon Lester on the mound, no less -- is perplexing. Nevertheless, we move on to This Week in Bloggernets, Red Sox Monster's weekly look at some of the best and strangest things on the Web. Enjoy the basketball game tonight . You are watching it, right? -- Kevin Millar interviews during Boston visits to Baltimore never get old. ( ...
Your Gold Medal Game: Good News for the West Coast
The Big Lead —
... as it’s not going to get it’s own post, the U.S. Women have won their fourth straight gold after taking a giant dump on Australia, winning 92-65. Lisa Leslie and Teresa Edwards become the only basketball players ever to win four gold medals.
Somewhere, Rick Mahorn is furious with this news and savagely inhales a giant meatball hero.
That’s it for today, enjoy the game.
NBC To Show Gold Medal Game Live Across The Country (Awful Announcing)
Why Does That Chinese Tattoo Look Like a Bar Code? [DUAN]
Deadspin —
... Regardless, we'll be up for the gold-medal match between the US and Spain because NBC has finally deemed us worthy of a live event shown at roughly the same time the event occurs. (We had assumed this was a core tenet of the phrase "live television", but The More You Know, we guess.) Therefore, we will stay up to see it out here in the Western hinterlands at 11:30 pm. (Yes, 2:30 am in the East.) ...
Kobe Bryant, the ‘03 Draft Class and USA Sing Redemption Song at Beijing
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
... I made the mostly glorious mistake — the not-so-glorious part was eating two microwavable breakfast burritos immediately before — of staying up until 5 a.m. on Saturday night to watch the men’s Olympic basketball team win gold over Spain, 118-107. (What’s that? You didn’t know? Sorry, NBC actually ran this game within 72 hours of it being live, so you have no excuses.) ...
