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Salon.com
February 13, 2002
King Kaufman |
Skategate A figure skating scandal rocks the Games and tragically overshadows some fantastic women's curling...   |
Salon.com
February 16, 2002
King Kaufman |
Fixing figure skating would kill it Without the diva judges, the bad costumes and the chance for scandal, it's just a chili cookoff on ice... |
Sports Illustrated
February 13, 2002 |
Figure skating's black eye Another controversial decision hurts the sport. Canadians Jamie Sale and David Pelletier were awarded the silver. |
Salon.com
February 16, 2002
Kerry Lauerman |
Make Olympic skating judges accountable Awarding the Canadians the gold was a half-measure, but as long as figure skating is controlled by a bitchy sewing circle it won't be a real sport... |
Salon.com
February 15, 2002
King Kaufman |
The puck starts here The Olympics: As Jamie and David take over the world, the hockey spotlight turns from the dominant U.S. women to the "Dream Team" men's tournament. |
Sports Illustrated
February 14, 2002
Brian Cazeneuve |
Dominoes continue to fall Changes must take place to ensure figure skating's integrity |
Salon.com
February 18, 2002
King Kaufman |
NBC shows its true colors You mustn't miss a minute of the Olympics, the network says, unless we can save a few bucks by you missing a whole day. Plus: Ohno, hockey and more... |
Sports Illustrated
February 26, 2002
Brian Cazeneuve |
Winter Games top 10 For those who have had enough of the pairs figure skating controversy, here, in no particular order, is a very unofficial Jamie Sale-and-David Pelletier-free list of the top 10 moments/sports/athletes, good and bad, from the just-completed Winter Games... |
Salon.com
February 22, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Golden girl 16-year-old Sarah Hughes, who looks like America's composite babysitter, shocks the figure-skating world -- and bails out the beleaguered Olympic judges... |
Salon.com
February 20, 2002
King Kaufman |
Don't believe the hype It's always fun to watch a media darling lose, but Tuesday's bobsled upset offered up a tale for the ages... |
Sports Illustrated
February 19, 2002
Janet Maslin |
Medal Worthy NBC's two toughest jobs in broadcasting the Olympics have been guessing what will make the best broadcast and, more important, knowing when to leave well enough alone. So far the network is succeeding at both... |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Top 10 Olympic Athletes To Look For In Torino These skiers, skaters and sledders have an excellent chance of making their home countries proud by writing a page in the history books at the Winter Olympics February 2006. |
Salon.com
February 11, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Red, white and wrong NBC's jingoistic provincialism is missing what the Olympics are all about -- but the Games will prevail... |
Salon.com
February 22, 2002
King Kaufman |
So, they're all gay, right? Former U.S. figure skating champion Rudy Galindo talks about the Salt Lake Olympics, the sport's effeminate image and the reactions to his coming out. And no, they're not... |
Sports Illustrated
September 29, 2000
John Walters |
Ugly Americans The media coverage bias toward U.S. Olympians can make even an American despise the U.S.A.... |
Sports Central
January 25, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics Athletes Face Double Standard Big media and corporate sponsorship of sporting events in the US have become as big a story these days as the sports and athletes they themselves sponsor, with nary an opportunity missed by advertisers and networks alike to promote themselves. |
Sports Central
August 7, 2012
Brad Oremland |
Olympics: Gymnastics is Not a Sport I still believe what I wrote almost a decade ago: "If you need judges from seven countries to vote on who won, your activity is not a sport." |
Sports Illustrated
January 29, 2002
Tim Layden & Kostya Kennedy |
Seasonal Debate Forget the Summer Games, the Winter Olympics are tops... Put the Winter Games in deep freeze, the Summer Olympics are hot... |
Sports Central
February 17, 2006
Diane M. Grassi |
Winter Olympics TV Coverage Far From Golden Sports fans are not averse to watching Winter Olympics coverage, but trying to figure out NBC's television schedule has become a sport of Olympic proportions unto itself. |
Salon.com
February 14, 2002
Gary Kamiya |
Flight of the wonder boy If ski jump hero Simon Ammann never grows up, we won't mind... |
Outside
February 2006
Gordy Megroz |
Medal Heads A look at the talent pool for the 2006 Winter Olympics suggests that the U.S. may have the firepower to return to the top. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 6, 2006
James Aisner |
Winners and Losers at the Olympics Harvard Business School professor emeritus Stephen Greyser has been studying, teaching, and writing about the business of sports for over 30 years. Here, he discusses his perspectives on the the marketing aspects of the recent Turin Games. |
Sports Illustrated
March 5, 2002
Kostya Kennedy |
Left missing the five-ring distraction There'll be no Salt Lake City Olympics next year, or the year after that, or, in all likelihood, ever again in most of our lifetimes. Maybe that's why it has been so hard to let it go... |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Best Olympic Events 2014 With so many events and a weird time difference, keeping up with what's on at the Olympics is daunting. We'll be featuring a daily list of the best events to watch. |
Sports Central
August 14, 2012
Brad Oremland |
Thumbs Down For Olympic Coverage I mentioned last week that I didn't get into the Summer Olympics as much as usual this year. Much of the reason, I'm afraid, was NBC's television coverage of the London Games. |
The Motley Fool
February 6, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
They Should Have Gotten the Gold Some great stocks have been robbed of their shiny medals. Is Microsoft now the one being robbed -- by the market? |
Outside
December 2004
Ted Spiker |
So Wrong It's Right Ramp up for winter thrills with counterintuitive cross-training. |
Sports Illustrated
September 25, 2000
John Walters |
All about Bob Fun and Games for Costas as Olympics enters Week 2... |
Sports Illustrated
February 20, 2002
Rick Reilly |
Go Fourth ... and Disappear Win a medal in Salt Lake City, and you're treated like a returning astronaut. The rest of your life is just walking past smiling bouncers into the coolest parties and having the words "Olympic medalist" follow your name. Fourth place? Never heard of you... |
Outside
February 2002
Howard Berkes |
Let the Games Begin The just-in-time, let's-party, fear-no-evil Winter Olympics get ready to rip in the country that needs 'em now more than ever... |
Sports Illustrated
February 12, 2002
Richard Hoffer |
Snowboarding's crowning achievement Snowboarding is still not really mainstream at the Olympics. |
Sports Illustrated
February 22, 2002
E.M. Swift |
The golden child With nothing to lose, figure skater Sarah Hughes was simply terrific... |
AskMen.com
January 6, 2003
Matthew Ross |
2002 Sports Highlights: What A Year! It certainly was an eventful year in sports. There were controversies, triumphs and tragedies. But rather than focus on the tragedies, let's focus on the more entertaining aspects. Here is a look at some sports highlights of 2002. |
Outside
January 2010
Ryan Krogh |
The Rise of Curling Enough with the beer jokes -- curling's quickly gaining on classic Olympic sports like skiing. |
AskMen.com
Patricia Gajo |
Fitness Interview: Chris Del Bosco After ditching a marijuana and alcohol habit, this 27-year-old is now a major contender for the top podium prize at the Vancouver Games. |
Sports Illustrated
April 11, 2001
E.M. Swift |
Setting the record straight Skier Bill Johnson reigned at more than just Sarajevo... |
Salon.com
February 14, 2002
Allen Barra |
I'm so outraged I could twirl! Something really ugly went down on the Olympic rink, and it wasn't just a Canadian skating costume... |
AskMen.com
February 19, 2014
Michelle Magnan |
Meet The Olympian Who Gave A Teammate His Spot In The Race Canadian speed skater Gilmore Junio, gave up his spot in last week's 1,000-meter race to his teammate, Denny Morrison |
AskMen.com
Joel Balsam |
Lindsey Vonn Out Of Sochi Unfortunately, the skeptics were right and Vonn couldn't recover from a major knee injury in time to defend the gold medal she won at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. |
Sports Illustrated
September 26, 2000
John Walters |
Making sense of NBC's tumbling Olympic ratings Question: Could NBC's ratings for the Olympics be any worse? Answer: Only if Dennis Miller were added to the broadcast team... |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Alex Hutchinson |
New Game Theory The surprising, fresh science behind the icy tracks, massive leaps and blistering speeds of the Winter Olympics. |
Sports Central
August 27, 2004
Eric Poole |
An Immodest Proposal It seems we can't get through an Olympics without having some sort of controversy over judging. That's because gymnastics are fundamentally flawed. |
Sports Illustrated
September 7, 2000 |
The life of an NBC researcher In the next month nobody will have earned their stripes more than the network's Olympic researchers, the unsung heroes genetically altered to function without sleep while keeping encyclopedic recall of split times, hometowns and superstitions at their forever-typing fingertips... |
Sports Central
February 15, 2006
Mark Barnes |
The Olympics Are No Longer Olympian There may be hockey in the 2006 games, but there's no Jim Craig, no Mike Eruzione, and no Herb Brooks. Is there anyone left to represent us, to fight for gold, to honor America by giving us a new athletic hero? |
Sports Illustrated
August 16, 2000
Frank Deford |
Sydney Olympics must overcome The Sydney Olympics are a month away, so let's look at the problems they face in attracting their usual high degree of interest in the United States. |
AskMen.com
Ryan Faller |
5 New Ways To Watch The Olympics Here are five new ways to watch the Olympics; they're innovative and sure to enhance your viewing of the 21st Winter Olympics. |
Sports Illustrated
March 27, 2001
E.M. Swift |
They Spun Gold Glittering performances lit up the World Figure Skating Championships... |
Sports Central
March 2, 2010
Bob Ekstrom |
America Touched By a Different Midas For 30 years, I've have shied away from any Olympic hockey discussion. |
Sports Illustrated
January 3, 2002
Frank Deford |
Games glut All-sports, all-the-time has caused ratings erosion... |
Sports Central
February 25, 2006
Greg Wyshynski |
For USA Hockey, Miracles Can Wait The U.S. men's Olympic hockey team was overrated. Plus, a debate about sports vs. non-sports. |
