It's always best to prepare for the unexpected, but here's a rundown of what you might expect on TV for Super Bowl Sunday: ...more

January 30, 2009

Amid the hoopla of Super Bowl and the media blitz at the Tampa Convention Center, the head of NBC Sports surprised sports analysts Keith Olbermann and Cris Collinsworth with birthday cakes. Both men turned 50 Tuesday. ...more

January 27, 2009

After two lavish ceremonies and more than two weeks of competition, the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing came to a close on Sunday. American swimmer Michael Phelps will go down as the games' star by winning an unprecedented eight gold medals in a single Olympics, and the "redeem team" helped reestablish the United States as the world's basketball powerhouse. ...more

August 27, 2008

It's just not the same. The Olympics I mean. I remember the first Olympics I saw on the television - the 1964 Summer Olympics from Japan. There were Bob Hayes, the World's Fastest Human, and Joe Frazier, the young boxer. My dad, an Air Force officer, taught me to root against the Russians, East Germans and any Soviet bloc country because they were "commies." These were the countries that wanted America to fail, he said. They hated the way we flaunted our freedom, our capitalist ways and the way we want others to be more like us. Don't be mad at the athletes, just their governments, he said. ...more

August 19, 2008

NBC's Olympic ratings glory is just slightly tarnished because not everything we saw during the opening ceremonies was real. ...more

August 13, 2008

Thinking 'out loud until it started to hurt... Chinese 'officials announced that dog meat, a local favorite, will be removed from menus of officially designated Olympic restaurants during the Summer Games, and Beijing tourism officials are telling other outlets to discourage consumers from ordering dishes made from Fido. I wonder if that also includes no Great Danish for breakfast. ...more

July 12, 2008

When Jim McKay traveled to St. Andrews in Scotland to cover the 2000 British Open, it was his final overseas event in more than 50 years of broadcasting. ...more

June 11, 2008