We are everywhere

From Pittsburgh to Fort Smith to Beijing for the Misty May-Treanor/Kerri Walsh gold medal ceremony ...



Here We Go Steelers, Here We Go.

Nike does good commercials

I'm not a fan of the NBA, so I'm not that interested in the USA Olympic basketball team.

That said, NIke put out one hell of a commercial for the team by using Marvin Gaye's National Anthem from the 1983 NBA All-Star Game as the soundtrack.

Olympic guilt

I love the Olympics. I think it started watching Bruce Jenner winning the decathlon in the 1976 Olympics. (How sad is it that young people only know him as the step-father to the Kar-dazzz-ian family?)

But I'm conflicted with the Beijing Olympics.

By watching, am I kinda, sorta turning a blind eye to the genocide in Tibet, slave-labor factories, restrictions on dissidents and heavy restrictions on journalists? Or, as some foreign experts suggest, will the Olympics help to foster change in China by exposing the nation to the rest of the world?

Of course, the biggest problem will be the time difference. Beijing is 13 hours ahead of East Coast time. So all the good events (aka live and not the sappy features done by NBC) will be happening in the middle of the night.

Years ago, I'd have just stayed up all night watching. During the last Summer Games, Jen and I stayed up until 5 a.m. one night watching canoeing. Not whitewater canoeing, but flatwater. And some crew events. It rocked.

But I'm too old for that these days.