Culture Buzz Shut everything down. This is one of the craziest feel good stories of the year.
Sports Buzz Looks like the riots have cause some last minute changes. If we don't laugh, we'll cry.
Pyeongchang, the third largest city in South Korea, was just awarded the 2018 Winter Olympics over Munich, Germany and Annecy, France.This is South Korea's first Olympic Games since Seoul 1988.
Amazing video of something called “Jeux Olympiques des Pompiers” (“Olympic Games of the Firefighters”), in which Frenchmen in tights do incredible feats of skill with ladders, hoses and fire. How do you say 'badass” in French? Oh. Babel Fish is telling me “mauvais âne.” Sorry to bother you with that easily answered question.
Sports Buzz There was an abundance of “mangina” at the Vancouver games. The exact cause of this phenomenon- why it looks like a vagina- remains unknown.
More than you ever thought you wanted to know about the history and evolution of Olympic pictograms. Made for The New York Times by designer Stephen Heller.
To help you through your post-Olympics transition: here's a page from Julia Mancuso's Vancouver album, complete with fan comments calling Lindsey Vonn ugly. Sarah Nash is NOT wrong about Bode. (Also, here is an interesting story about Mancuso's crime boss father.
The Ryan Seacrest ish of Canada is reporting that Nickelback will perform at the Closing Ceremonies. Of course. Related: if Celine doesn't show up on a throne of some sort, our border is no longer friendly.
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It's official: The Vancouver Olympic Games will go down as the raunchiest, drunkest, most party-tastic Games ever.
TV Buzz The best signs at the Olympics have been at the Stephen Colbert Show tapings, obviously. FYI, the “Cripples For Colbert” sign was held by two people in wheelchairs…so that makes it okay.
Sports Buzz Here's a list of the 20 funniest figure skating facial expressions from the Olympics so far. I know it's hard to look “good” in the air, but these are really funny.
You can follow this list of Olympians that are on Twitter right now! This includes Shaun White, Apollo Ahno, Christine Nesbitt, and plenty of other people you don't know about.
Plushenko may have lost the gold (GO USA!) but he will always be a winner with this (by the end of the performance) nearly nude masterpiece.
Australia's Light Cycle team is expected to do well in Vancouver as well.
Sports Buzz It's been a while! (For both aging timelines and Bob.) Let's take a trip back to the 80s.
Sports Buzz Quick! The Vancouver Opening Ceremonies just started!!!! Prepare your adult beverages.