Tell that to Rob Lowe, 49.

Little known fact: The French 2-man team IS Daft Punk.

Way back when it was a real shock to share the mountains with snowboarders who had large blind spots on their heelside that skiers aren't used too. Plus all the boarders back then were young and therefore threatening.

No figuring skating tonight, so in lieu we get two figure skating preview segments, but at least we got Johnny and Tara in primetime so that was nice.

That's intresting. I have a very different perspective on language. I like language to be fluid and progressive. Almost an evolutionary force, constantly adapting to reflect an ever changing world.

Curious: If the judged competitions between athletes aren't sports, what are they? They're not nothing. Ultimately the problem with your argument is that you are suggesting that these other competitions are less worthy of the cultural prestige that comes with the 'sports' label. That's incredibly insulting to the…

I don't mean for this to sound like an attack, but why? Why do you desire to have a separate words for these other competitions between athletes? To me, it sounds awfully like the reason why people desire a separate word for gay marriage.

Professional competitive eaters would consider themselves athletes and competitive eating a sport. Why wouldn't it be? I would also consider an endurance contest where competitors hold their hands over a candle a sport, as long as it was organized like one, although I can't imagine it would catch on.

I see that now. I just hate when people dismiss an argument for being about semantics as if those arguments aren't worth having. Semantics often matter a great deal. What's the subtext of having Ice Dancing not being a sport? I know you know. It's the reason the conversation is worth having. Anyways, pet peeve of…

Not me. I was arguing values. scaffnet was making a value judgement that sports like figure skating and diving have less value. I reject that argument soundly.

This is a pretty dumb line of thinking. Judged sports have specific criteria on which the athletes are judged. Athletes know what tricks/elements score the highest points and how specific mistakes effect their scores. It's nothing like letting your little sister decide who's the better dancer. It's a sport. With rules.

Yeah, same ESPN. What better event than the Olympics to utilize ESPN's star making apparatus. The Olympics is such a natural fit. NBC primarily considers the Olympics a 2 week mini-series with a 3.5 hour nightly runtime. ESPN would go bigger. Comprehensive coverage. A lot more athletes featured. A lot more…

I was all in on the French although the Black Swan Russians were great too. I get that the Americans and Canadians scored higher largely because of degree of difficulty but I judge these things solely on choreography, costuming and the charisma and beauty of the athletes.

I have felt like for the most part NBC's commentary teams have been doing a good job but I really don't know enough about any of the sports save Hockey to be able to catch how honest they're coverage is. (Doc Emerik is excellent)

I want ESPN to pick up the games because of the resources they have available for smart sports-focused coverage. They'll have to borrow Doc Emerik from NBC though

Related: I read Johnny Weir's outfits as a big fuck you to Putin and I love it. Caught some of the live coverage of ice dancing yesterday and Weir/Lipinkski are so much better than the primetime crew.

They got the reaction they needed without needing to goad it out of her, but if she would have had a reserved celebration, NBC would have found a way to get its moment.

Fair enough. NBC has never taken a journalistic approach to their coverage, specifically in primetime. The reaction may have been extreme but NBC's approach didn't change to get that reaction. They treated the Pikus-Place narrative in the same way.

My point was that it wasn't journalism at all. The interviewer wasn't being tasked with a journalistic mission; she was being asked to get an emotional response from Bode so NBC would have a dramatic ending to their Bode Miller narrative.

I see where you're coming from. It was an uncomfortably large display of emotion. Larger than what we're used to seeing even in the Olympics, but Bode chose to let NBC cover this narrative. It's not like they asked him questions about the custody of his children. Bode is not a reluctant participant in his coverage. He…