I can't take it any more and needed to vent about what's making me turn off the Olympics.  Things driving me nuts are:

 1) Bob Costas

 If he says, "LIVE" again, I'll puke.  Someone on FoxSports has stated the same thing about Bobby!  I think he's the offspring of a frickin' gopher and locust.  Every so often he shows up and annoys us.  Thank God he doesn't do NFL games.

 2) Chinese Gymnasts

 Olympic gymnasts must be 16 to participate.  These kids still have baby teeth and Hello Kitty t-shirts.  No one is fooled.

 Who did their birth certificates, a Dominican baseball coach?

 3) Olympic Beach Volleyball

 There's not enough of it!  Do NOT show dudes again!

 4) Gymnastic Judges

 Apparently the East German and French figure skating judges are now doing women's gymnastics.

 Oh, if a competition isn't head to head or against the clock, it's an activity, not a sport.  Judges are political tools.

 5) NBC

 The network is China's lap dog.  The show is an infomercial for the Red Menace.   Nice hard hitting, personal interest stories about TEA make me puke.  Point out the gulags built by the Russkies for Mao's bad boys.  Wanna buy a smog face mask?  Whoops, can't show those either.

 6) Chinese Olympic Committee/Politbureau

 You may have noticed some strange things during the Opening Ceremonies.  I did and screamed, "Bullshad!" immediately.

 It seems the sneaks used computer generated graphics to phony up what you saw on the screen.  To make it worse, some politicians decided that the little kid scheduled to sing a song wasn't cute enough!  They pulled a Milli Vanilli and had a better looking kid lip synch.  Seems the US is having an influence on China!

 7) Medal Trackers

 I don't see this as country by country competition.  Some countries are better at given activities.  That's the way it is.

 I watch to see the best, especially without corrupt judges deciding results in advance.

8) Russia

 Nice timing there, Putin.  You invaded Georgia, during the Opening Ceremonies.  You've been busted for killing journalists and attempting to kill heads of state.  The Hague should be in your future.  (Left wing liberal pukes need not add their anti-Bush slants.)

 9) Not enough hottie shots

 I keep seeing writeups about all the cheer squads(code for  babes) at sports venues.  Hey NBC, where are these lovelies.   Since Ana Ivanovic withdrew, the hotness factor has dropped.

 10) Brett Favre

 Why him?  It took the Olympics to move this drama queen off the hourly sports intro.  Stop the tabloid reporting.  I don't need made up items reported as fact.  Now, where are those cheerleaders?

Bonus

11) The US Olympic Committee

Mark Spitz was hosed by the USOC.  Instead of bringing Spitz over for the games, we're forced to hear the announcer insert a Spitz comment into every sentence containing Michael Phelps.  This was handled poorly, which isn't a shock.  Maybe the Chinese can use some more CGI to drop Spitz into the crowd!

Anna Kournikova:  My favorite Sports Illustrated issue just arrived:  Where Are They Now.   This issue revisits the lives of a dozen or so former athletes.  The swimsuit issue is in second place, thank you.

The cover shot includes a small teaser shot of Anna Kournikova.  Yeah, baby.

Like most men receiving the mag, I thumbed directly to the Anna Kournikova article.   Holy Schneike, she's just becoming beautiful.

Is she hotter on page 112 in the white dress she'll wear at our wedding or on page 116 in the ballerina tennis outfit she'll wear around the house? It's a tough call.

No image to post because I don't want Time Warner suing me, thank you!

This means Ana Ivanovic will be gorgeous near 2015.

Add your own Anna K pic to a reply.

Here's a pic in case you forgot who Anna K was.

As we type, another network is pushing a segment on Title Town.  Ok, them is fighting words, Vern.   This is as stupid as claiming which NCAA football conference is the best.  Several conferences need to travel TO bowl games instead of playing at home stadiums before the masses will offer total respect.  Remember the four-letter network's terrible "Who's Now" segment last year?  I'm still hosing down the living room to remove the stench.  This is more of the same refuse.

No city owns the Title Town moniker and plenty of fine citizens will offer to fight over the name.

Green Bay was ONCE known by that name; it's lame to make a claim to a name that has applied only ONCE since the late 1960's.  Let it go, Green Bay.  Be happy you still have an NFL franchise.  Los Angeles will be sniffing for an NFL team in a few years.

Please feel free to toss replies with team/franchise nicknames that really piziss you off.  Yes, I live in DFW; I grew up despising the Cowboys, since Pearson pushed off on the Hail Mary pass against my beloved Vikes!

What franchise do you hate and why?  Here are the leading contenders.

NFL-

America's Team!  That was a name created for a NFL FILMS video.  Tex Schramm and his Cowboys cronies jumped on it and the flea bag media and fans kept it going.  Hey!  Every sport needs a Dr. Evil franchise for everyone else to hate.  Philly fans should be happy it's not them the rest of the leagues hates and is jealous of, too.

In the 80's the SuperStation, TBS, a Turner commodity, attempted to bogart the name, America's Team, for the Braves.  Didn't work, did it.  How can a team from a city that can't build a freeway to loop the city be hated?  Well, unless Ray Lewis has a weapon, I'm not worried!

The New England Pats are rising on the hate charts, courtesy of the video camera and three, lame three point SuperBowl wins(?).

MLB-

The prissy Yankees and their astronomical payroll win in an uncontested match.  How can we not hate the Yankees!  It's as easy as ' A squared + B squared = C squared.'  The highest payroll in the western hemisphere can't buy titles any more.  I love it.  Red Sox fans, quit your crying.  You're the second most hated franchise in  MLB, since your 'Johnny come lately' fans have a huge sense of entitlement.  Go back to worshipping Dennis Leary, please.  Anyone know who's the daddy of A-Rod's kids? 

NHL-

Let's face it, Detroit is the bomb.  This is the Title Town of the NHL.   I respect the pizza franchise dictator's running of the Red Wings.   This only leaves teams with dirty players and that leaves Sean Avery, dirtbag-turd.  The NHL created a rule, during the playoffs because of this swine.   Wait, he just signed with the Stars.  Whoops!  I'm not impartial any more.  Fans are more jealous of the Red Wings than anything else.

NBA-

That's  beyond easy, since Kindergarten kids hate the Lakers.  There's nothing more to say.  At least the Police Blotter has not included Lakers lately.

MLS-

Psych.  The masses aren't watching.

Gentlemen, start your fisticuffs. 

American gluttony again took center stage on t.v. 

It's Hot Dog eating time. B-U-R-P!

Shaq jumped onstage and freestyled a nice rap in the past several days.

The target was none other than the reigning MVP, Kobe Bryant.  The hook was:

"Kobe, tell me how my ahhhssss tastes!"

This tune is actually great and might cause you to lose the funky taste of Kazaam that still resides by your #28 molar.

Follow the Yellow Brick Link below:

http://www.tmz.com/tmz_main_video?titleid=1626146951

The lyrics will cause the Conspiracy Brothers to blog like crazy about the truth or consequences of this GREAT video.  Prepare for the Laker bloggers to jump on this like it's Area 51.  Shaq can be seen this Saturday on Soul Train, rapping his new #1 hit.

TMZ had the tape and ESPN showed it today.

I'd "pay a dollar" to hear that! (RoboCop reference, sorry!)  I did like the tune.

It may be that Shaq and Kobe aren't the great friends the media makes them out to be.

Aftermath:

Shaq-Lost his Special Sheriff badge in AZ, due to "language, etc." in the video.  I feel safer already.

Kobe-Ordered a special screening of Kazaam for L.A. area youths, which highlight's Shaq's real talent.

Suggestion: Check out the 2007 article on Kobe's tossing Shaq out of L.A.  Link below:

http://community.foxsports.com/blogs/slshusker/2007/06/23/Kobes_eBay_post_Anyone_need_a_Bus