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Really, honestly ...
Enough with the diving, NBC.
By King Kaufman August 22, 2008
Hench items
The U.S. track and field debacle and NBC's shabby treatment of the games' glamour event. Plus: Keri Walsh. And: Teddy Atlas.
By King Kaufman August 22, 2008
Babe Ruth and the Nippon Ham Fighters
NBC's baseball announcers make stuff up about both. And insult West Virginia for good measure.
By King Kaufman August 20, 2008
Mom favored for Sap-o-Meter gold
Slate has a scientific method for measuring the mawkishness of NBC's coverage.
By King Kaufman August 19, 2008
Get the names right
NBC's lazy approach to pronunciation isn't limited to non-American athletes. The Peacock even butchers "Beijing."
By King Kaufman August 15, 2008
Clear the beach!
Volleyball in sand. Skimpy outfits. Americans good. We get it. Can we have a little basketball on TV please?
By King Kaufman August 14, 2008
Phelps, Phelps, Phelps
The American phenom has been annoyingly omnipresent. That's too bad, because there are other things happening, and because he's not annoying.
By King Kaufman August 14, 2008
Milli Vanilli plays Beijing
In cheating news, mini-scandals about deception at the Opening Ceremonies have replaced drug busts. For now.
By King Kaufman August 12, 2008
Sports vs. schmaltz
The ultimate combat sport of the modern Olympics is action battling features for TV time. Schlock, in retreat for a while, has rallied.
By King Kaufman August 11, 2008
Show the games live
NBC can't keep getting away with delaying the events we want to see for 12 to 15 hours.
By King Kaufman August 9, 2008
Breakfast of also-rans
What do McDonald's, Budweiser and other advanced nutritional supplements have to do with the Olympics?
By Jennifer Sey August 9, 2008
You control the vertical
With 3,600 hours of coverage planned from Beijing, you get to decide what to watch -- and what to skip.
By Heather Havrilesky August 8, 2008
Clip and save: SPOILER ALERT
If you don't want to know who won that event you're planning to watch later, don't come around here.
By King Kaufman August 8, 2008

Recent posts

Scoring the Beijing Olympics
They get a 9 for pomp and spectacle, but only a 3 for furthering world understanding and a 2 for the fan experience.
Athletes are just people
The outrage over Usain Bolt's chest-pounding proves that we expect athletes to be heroes -- and when they're not, we turn on them.
What happened to the real Olympics?
By only showing snippets of classic events like the decathlon, high jump and pole vaulting, NBC is missing what makes the Olympics special.

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About the Authors

Gary Kamiya is Salon's writer at large. He covered the Olympics for the magazine in Nagano, Sydney and Athens.

King Kaufman is Salon's daily sports columnist.

John Krich has been covering China for 20 years, most recently as the Asian Wall Street Journal's main food/sports/culture writer. He's the author of "El Beisbol," "Won Ton Lust" and other literary travelogues.

Jennifer Sey is the author of "Chalked Up," her memoir about the ups and downs in internationally competitive gymnastics. She was the 1986 U.S. National Champion and a seven-time national team member.

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