Posts Tagged ‘Olympics’
Second Half Bonus Points
Challenging times. We’ve endured. We’re halfway there. We’ve GOT to be in the second half, right? Joyful bingeing of many hours of Olympic figure skating makes me think we’ll make it, I swear. Sports are always a great metaphor for life lessons. My favorite life lesson in figure skating is the second half scoring: extra…
Read MoreLeave It All On the Ice
Like some of you, I just spent two weeks watching 6 hours a day of Olympic coverage. Whew! I love figure skating more than football or any other sport. I find the Shib Sibs (Shibutani siblings) synchronized twizzles (multi-rotational one-foot turns) in ice dancing moved me to instant tears, just as the running back who…
Read MoreFirst Female NFL Referee Takes the Field!
NFL Preseason AND the Olympics on my TV last week . . .ahhhh . . .music to my eyes and ears. The coolest thing about the NFL Preseason (maybe the ONLY cool thing) was the first female NFL referee on the field for the first Preseason game last Thursday night! The regular officials are in…
Read More“You Go Girls!”: U.S. Women Take the Gold
So I’m sure many of you watched the Opening Ceremonies for the Olympic Games on Friday night, and I’m sure many of you were as underwhelmed as I was. Even if I felt like being generous, what chance did the Brits have after the Chinese choreographed 10,000 people in perfect harmony in Beijing four years…
Read MoreGuys Conceding Because They’re Not Comfortable? NEVER!
This morning, as I was having my usual leisurely breakfast in front of the early ESPN shows, a most disturbing bit of news came across the “crawl” at the bottom of the screen. (The “crawl”—I could do a whole blog on it—it seems men can multitask when it comes to watching the big screen and…
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