Nut shots aside, I almost forgot how much better basketball is at the international level. No flopping, no calls for petty fouls, no incessant timeouts or - even worse - TV timeouts. I'm going to have a hard time going back to watching the NBA after this. The quality of players certainly isn't as high, but the officiating certainly is. That counts for a LOT. Let the players play.
How weird is it the two ladies USA volleyball duos are going up against one another for medals? I didn't even know that was possible but in the end a team is a team I guess. Not sure which to root for. I must confess I didn't watch any events last night because Deadliest Catch had a marathon leading up to a new episode.
Our men's rowing team got bronze! Notice anything about the picture? Hint: The ladies will probably enjoy it a bit more than the men. *He swears he wasn't erect.
I really wish I had the time to photoshop some skirts on them. What's with those flowers? PS: Maybe he wasn't. Maybe he's just hung.
You American's pumped us in the Men's basketball, as expected. At least we have more gold than the Kiwis
How about letting giant egotistical criminal freaks take five steps with the ball before dunking while at those same cretins are calling for every foul (teary-eyed) when a rookie or sophmore grazes them accidently? Ah, the NBA. Such fags.
I see Misty May got her tribute tattoo to her grandmother covered with something else. Guess she wasn't special enough to withstand endless rumors of you fucking Jason Kidd.
I hate the NBA, I love college basketball. International basketball reminds me more of the college game so I like it.
Like most people, because of the easy-to-follow gambling format. So that American rower did NOT in fact have a north pole hard-on? Explain to me how one goes from six to midnight in shorts that gay-tight.
He claims he didn't. He said he would have tried to cover it up with his flowers if that were the case. Edit: I forgot! Their bronze was in the Coxless four rowing.
It is a really silly sport, but damn synchronized swimming looks hard. Oh, and how nice is it that Tink Tink made a final?
I don't like the NBA for several reasons, none of which apply to gambling. Its full of wanna be thugs who are too worried about looking cool to play. They flop, they complain, and sometimes they charge the stands. Oh yea and sometimes they bring guns to the arena because of a gambling dispute. There are far too many timeouts and while the athletes are better than college the play is half hearted until the last 2 minutes. Watching an entire NBA game is pointless, watching the end isn't. Now I know I'm ig'nant about the NBA game and that doesn't bother me, I'm not interested in learning about it.
Some gripes about the NBA are valid, but bringing up 2 isolated incidents and making them the rule is a bit rash and heavy handed. And you want to bitch about the NBA, bitch about the league office and the officials paid by the league office. You complain about flopping and a casual approach to the game, if the league didn't allow that shit to continue, players would adapt. You don't go from playing one way in college to another way in the NBA cause you're a "wanna be thug trying to look cool." At least try to hide your stereotyping a bit, jeez. On to more positive topics, I'm really enjoying the Track and Field events thus far. Not so much for the actual competition, but more because the competitors have, as a whole, great attitudes. Everyone is happy and smiling and for the most part pleased with whatever medal they earn, Usain Bolt is just killing it and showing a megawatt personality that makes it hard to do anything but like the dude, and there have a been a couple of nice success stories. Oh and the Chinese are nowhere to be found.
I love to swim. (Shut up you racist jackals.) However, fuck doing that shit for six miles. Hell, I used to hate our six mile runs. Also I think rhythmic gymnastics might have less of a place in the Olympics than the equestrian events. I know dancing when I see it. Give those girls a beam or a vault or something. I swear rhythmic gymnastics is the ice dance of summer Olympics.
I agree, but I did see the group rhythmic gymnastics and they were using balls and kicking/bouncing them to each other across the space. I don't think its worthy of an olympic event, but it looked fucking awesome.
Well that last 15 min of the Women's Gold Medal soccer match were chest pain inducing. I legitimately enjoy watching women's soccer, about equally as much as I hate watching women's basketball. In awesome overall news, the US has pulled away from China with 2 gold more and 11 more total medals. Suck it Mao!
Well Women's soccer is enjoyable because while they might not have a Ronaldo or a Messi, the game looks pretty much the same when a high quality team is playing and it's more entertaining than something like MU vs. Wigan. Glad to see that the U.S pulled it out, although I'm somewhat surprised to see that with their 4-4-2 style both goals came out of the midfield.