I have to admit I've watched some of the Olympic coverage this week. I must also confess it's highly entertaining at times. I especially love the highlight reels of the most spectacular fuck ups. The snow apparently isn't very good for the skiing in the Italian Alps or wherever the fuck they are and there's a ton of ice. I'm no ski expert, but I'm told ice sucks when you're trying to slide downhill standing up on two bands of some space-age plastic material. This always leads to high drama (comedy) when they crash and burn. We haven't seen anything to rival that agony of defeat guy from the old ABC Wide World of Sports—but there have been some good crashes….and isn't that what it's all about?

Speaking of that—I saw a figure skating highlight in which a Chinese guy threw his partner about 15 feet across the ice and busted her all to hell. Now THAT's entertainment.

A sportswriter in my paper back at home had a great column this week. He was opining the fact that the summer Olympics will soon be stripped of baseball. Okay fine, but they're leaving TRAMPOLINE in as a medal sport. WTF? He suggests replacing baseball with NASCAR. He contends it would be a huge boom for television—which is what this made for TV freak show is all about anyway. He also says it would make for some of the greatest commentary from announcers in history. It would be the first time you would hear the phrase, "I see Kid Rock and Desmond Tutu have met up at Junior's trailer." Oh, I love that.

Is bowling an Olympic sport? Jeff Kay mentioned the other day that they now run outsized bowls of chili down scrubbed ice for a medal. If bowling isn't included in the Olympics, it damn sure should be. Bowling is the best sport on the planet. Think about it, a maximum of 10-seconds of physical exertion and concentration…followed by 15 minute breaks of drinking beer, smoking cigarettes, telling jokes, and buying chances on a tip board. Does life get any better than that??

We didn't get the NYC style snow where I live, but it was among the top five snows since I moved here five years ago. Had about five inches in the yard and you would have thought the world was tilting on its axis. People cleared the stores of milk, bread, beer, and cigarettes. (Maybe they were going bowling?) All of the kids on the street started doing idiotic things like kids always do. One was driving a four-wheeler up and down the street dragging about six others on a trash-can lid and piece of paneling. Oh yeah, we do it up right when we play here in West Virginia.

I keep hoping it will snow here in the blizzard-like fashion of the 1990's. I was living in Morgantown then and recall walking out the door and seeing only a hump in the snow where my truck was sitting. Now THAT was some snow.

Buck Out