@avclub-26c0eb74eb2e815d15918a4ac46473ec:disqus and several other have nailed it. Lolo didn't have any control over the hype surrounding her. If NBC was in the business of seriously covering the sport and not turning it into a parade of feel-good human interest stories, they would have noted that she hasn't run as…

@avclub-26c0eb74eb2e815d15918a4ac46473ec:disqus and several other have nailed it. Lolo didn't have any control over the hype surrounding her. If NBC was in the business of seriously covering the sport and not turning it into a parade of feel-good human interest stories, they would have noted that she hasn't run as…

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus You're right, and that is awesome. The US has three guys in the 5k final.

@avclub-a1967e6de4ca99fb2635d94b99453928:disqus You're right, and that is awesome. The US has three guys in the 5k final.

US distance runners have been pretty competitive at the past few world championships. After the post-Bob Kennedy lows of the late 90s and early 00s, it seems that the US guys have trained appropriately and adapted to what international championship races have become: slow(ish) chess matches that come down to who has…

US distance runners have been pretty competitive at the past few world championships. After the post-Bob Kennedy lows of the late 90s and early 00s, it seems that the US guys have trained appropriately and adapted to what international championship races have become: slow(ish) chess matches that come down to who has…

@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus Oh, I know. I just still marvel at the fact that Duritz was enough a symbol of cool that he was even capable of being spoofed. If that video had come out in the 80s, the fake lead singer would have looked like Prince or Michael Jackson. But it was the mid 90s, so of…

@avclub-62812d8eb06386505986efff8b5e43ac:disqus Oh, I know. I just still marvel at the fact that Duritz was enough a symbol of cool that he was even capable of being spoofed. If that video had come out in the 80s, the fake lead singer would have looked like Prince or Michael Jackson. But it was the mid 90s, so of…

I have no idea why you brought this up, but that bit came up on shuffle while I was driving with my girlfriend the other day, and she didn't seem to know what to make of it. I, on the other hand, chuckled, just like I did every time I heard it in high school.

I have no idea why you brought this up, but that bit came up on shuffle while I was driving with my girlfriend the other day, and she didn't seem to know what to make of it. I, on the other hand, chuckled, just like I did every time I heard it in high school.

The 90s: When Adam Duritz was inexplicably cool.

The 90s: When Adam Duritz was inexplicably cool.

H.O.R.D.E. was also my first festival experience. I saw it in 95ish somewhere near Syracuse. Beck, Ben Folds Five, Morphine, Primus, Neil Young. I think they even threw in the Gin Blossoms for good measure. Oh, and Cake Like was there, the band that Kerri Kenney from The State was in.

H.O.R.D.E. was also my first festival experience. I saw it in 95ish somewhere near Syracuse. Beck, Ben Folds Five, Morphine, Primus, Neil Young. I think they even threw in the Gin Blossoms for good measure. Oh, and Cake Like was there, the band that Kerri Kenney from The State was in.

I haven't seen this episode in years so I don't remember Dinello's delivery, but I can't stop laughing just reading that line.

I haven't seen this episode in years so I don't remember Dinello's delivery, but I can't stop laughing just reading that line.

"Rosta Man" is a true pile of shit on the mountain of shit that is To the Extreme.

"Rosta Man" is a true pile of shit on the mountain of shit that is To the Extreme.

See, I feel like Lolo Jones is the epitome of the NBCification of the Olympic athlete. She's a great human interest story (grew up poor, devout Christian, waiting for sex until marriage, choked in Beijing and looking for redemption), but she's actually a bit past her peak. She was third in qualifying in the 100m…

See, I feel like Lolo Jones is the epitome of the NBCification of the Olympic athlete. She's a great human interest story (grew up poor, devout Christian, waiting for sex until marriage, choked in Beijing and looking for redemption), but she's actually a bit past her peak. She was third in qualifying in the 100m…