Reply #24: Ditto, any Olympiad trumps all

[Awsi Dooger]

I've been fortunate enough to attend many of the recent Olympics, both summer and winter beginning with LA '84. It's incredible how superior the TV coverage is in other countries, especially to the ratings paranoia of NBC. Locally, both Sydney and Barcelona had all day coverage virtually without interruption. And the CBC coverage is fantastic compared to American treatment. I have saved at least several VCR tapes full of coverage from every Olympiad since '84.

Otherwise, give me college football and golf. College basketball was near the top until they instituted the garbage 3 point shot, which guaranteed an inferior style of play with up to 3 players per team doing nothing on offense other than make sure their toes are behind an arbitrary line.