Don’t you feel sorry for American Olympic swimmer Katie Grimes? What a dreadful situation she found herself swimming for over two hours and more than six miles in disgusting sewage water in the Seine River. That was putrid enough. But the currents were wicked tough to navigate. She told USA Today after fighting awful conditions: […]
Nothing but questions came pouring into my head watching Egypt scrap with Hungary in handball yesterday on Day 1 of the Paris Olympics. You can tackle a guy, basically, if he tries to penetrate and take a shot. No pads, no kneepads, bare-boned flesh hits. But it’s not clear if that’s a foul, just part […]
Feeling forgotten about this morning. The French took all my mind-expanding, mashup, and mellifluous ideas and put them in the Opening Ceremony act last night that opened the minds of billions of people, making them wonder how much sewage was pouring into the Seine, why a guy was by himself in some building high rise […]
Chills kept moving through my body as Hunter Armstrong got in the water and I found myself falling in love with him. A mountain of a man, channeling Hercules, buzz-sawing through the water, blowing by everyone to catapult the Americans into a commanding first place in the 4 by 100 men’s relay. Not just any […]
You know 17-year-old Canadian Summer McIntosh is a swimming sensation. You know she has a chance to beat Katie Ledecky in the 400-meter freestyle at the Paris Olympics, which would be monumental. You know she has a chance to break her own world record in the 400-individual medley, which would also be dope. But there […]
You will be thrilled and perplexed by a whole new range of Summer Olympics events coming up in Paris, many you’ve never heard of before but will be mesmerized by. There will be events mixing one sport with another simultaneously, and all sorts of combinations and permutations that will make this summer the most entertaining […]
The rest of you wall climbers getting in reps each day now for the Summer Olympics are merely competing for the Silver Medal because there’s one guy who’s guaranteed to win Gold: Spiderman. With hands laced with thorn-like hairs and Elmer’s Glue-like fluids, he’ll be able to easily pry into and stick to walls and […]