And the Oplympics are back on. I don't know if anyone remembers that I do this, but here's my weighted ranking of medal winners so far. Gold=4, Silver=2, Bronze=1. With two days of competition in the books, the weighting is already being felt with Italy leapfrogging Australia; Russia getting ahead of Hungary; and Japan in front of Hungary, Great ( Read more... )

"Aside from his dashing good looks..."

Is this something they'd say about an African American? This feels a little problematic to me. Anyone else bothered?

Post by Dallas Mavericks.

One of the nice things about a Black Sea Olympic Games is that the final results from the day come in about 1:30 pm, CST ( Read more... )

So far, the weighted rankings follow the total and medal color rankings most often used. We'll see how long that lasts. I'm particularly tickled by Russia's last place, though I suppose lots of countries don't have any at this point.

Rank

NOC

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Score

1

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The defense of the Dolphins organization and Richie Incognito (how is that not the pseudonym of an underground DJ?) has consistently been, "Well, that's life in the NFL ( Read more... )

The speech Jacques Rogge should be giving in Sochi at the opening ceremonies adapted from the speech he gave in Vancouver four years ago ( Read more... )

I've been reading a lot about calls for action regarding the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia because of Russia's recently passed anti-gay laws and very well publicized abuses of gay people and their supporters both officially and by private citizens ( Read more... )

Revisiting a comment I made in a previous post, I think there is a very narrow window available to a hockey player who wants to come out at this point. The draft is June 30 and free agency starts July 5. Today is the Blackhawks' day. If a player decided it was time, I'd expect the announcement to come Thursday or Friday, giving the weekend to ( Read more... )

The important thing to remember while debating the impact/importance/significance/etc. of current events is that in not too many years they're going to be history and evaluated by a whole different group of people by entirely different standards ( Read more... )

It appears that my html skills deteriorate as the games go on. Last time I was able to add a column to this table. Now I just have to change the total column to score and carry on. I'd really like to know how to manipulate this so I can add a column to it here.

Since the original table is in descending order of medal ranks (most gold is the highest ( Read more... )