Ratings suck and while it could be the venue (and probably is to a certain extent, Rio is a paradigm of the corruption of the International Olympic Committee) it’s more probable that it’s the terrible and unwatchable coverage being offered by NBC. NBC knows who to blame for poor Olympics ratings — millennials and their …
Tag: 2016 Olympics
Aug 08 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 3 Evening
Time Network Event(s) 8 pm NBC Primetime Diving, Gymnastics, Swimming, Beach Volleyball 8 pm NBCSN, Part 6 Water Polo (Men’s Prelim: MNE vs. CRO), Weightlifting 9:30 pm NBCSN, Part 7 Volleyball (Women’s Prelim: BRA vs. ARG), Boxing midnight Telemundo, Part 3 Telemundo Late Night 12:30 am NBC Late Night Canoe/Kayak 2 am NBCSN NBCSN Replay …
Aug 08 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 3 Morning
Time Network Event(s) 8:30 am NBCSN, Part 1 Field Hockey, Fencing 8:30 am USA, Part 1 Table Tennis, Equestrian, Fencing 8:30 am Golf Golf Central Live from the Olympics 9 am NBC Daytime, Part 1 Rowing, Water Polo (Men’s Prelim: USA vs. SPA), Swimming, Canoe/Kayak 9 am Bravo, Part 1 Tennis 9 am Golf Golf …
Aug 07 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 2 Evening
Serena and Venus eliminated in Round 1 Doubles. Australia ruled the pool. Croatia beats Spain in Men’s Basketball. Italy wins fencing and judo, S. Korea archery, China Diving. Kosovo won a Gold too, its first ever. There was a horrible crash in the Women’s Road Race which sent Annemiek van Vleuten to Intensive Care and …
Aug 07 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 2 Morning
(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge) Yawn. Have some good sleep? Not me. Fortunately the festivities don’t start until a leisurely 9 am. Time Network Event(s) 9 am NBCSN, Part 1 Beach Volleyball, Archery, Fencing 9:30 am Bravo, Part 1 Tennis 10 am
Aug 06 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 1 Evening
(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge) I stand accused of being unfair to Brazil and mouthing the Imperialist Exceptionalist tropes that mark our Northern fully industrialized (hah!) First Worlder institutionally and systemically privileged status. Guilty! I’m the whitest guy you’ll ever meet. Nurses greet me with- “Son, the last time someone came in with numbers …
Aug 06 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Day 1 Morning
(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge) Keep in mind that the Games have been going on for 2 days in some of the longer format sports. This is just 12 hours of channel surfing, there’s an evening line up to come. All times ET. Time Network Event(s) 11:30 pm NBC Opening Ceremony (Replay) 8 am …
Aug 05 2016
Junkyard Cesspool Wars 2016: Opening Ceremony
(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge) To start on a positive note, Michael Phelps is the leading Medal Winner participating in this Olympics. He’s a swimmer (I swim) and has demonstrated remarkable longevity in his sport. He’s anti-Steroid (well, never tested positive) and claims he’s never been in a race without dopers. So U-S-A U-S-A …
Oct 06 2009
IOC Says BOHICA* to Obama
The BRIC’s Don’t Want No Pricks
The International Olympic Committee in a stunning display on the increasing prominence of the BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India, China) delivered a massive smackdown of the now obvious (to all but Murkans) illusionary American economic might of the Ponzi Wall Street machine when Chicago was eliminated from hosting the Olympics. This despite the Pope of Hope’s pilgrimage to Copenhagen, one of those damned Eurpoeen (sic) Socialist countries to pander for the awarding of the 2016 games to the Windy City where the inconvenience would totally fuck thousands of people trying to get to work for weeks like in Atlanta in 94….not that it matters, by then at the rate we are going thanks to the three headed monster of Geithner-Summers-Bernanke nobody will have fucking jobs anyway as the monthly unemployment figures (cooked as they are) only go up and Americans are on the road to serfdom and poverty.