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This article from slate.com pretty much sums up my thoughts on the figure skating announcers:
Every morning for the past week, I have woken up, made myself a cup of coffee, and sat down in front of the television to hang out with Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. The 29-year-old, two-time Olympian Weir, who has spent every day of this Olympic Games rubbing sequins into Putin’s anti-gay eye, and the 31-year-old gold medalist Lipinski have been pulling the early shift in Sochi, announcing figure skating live on the NBC Sports Network. At night, the same routines are rebroadcast on NBC proper, announced by Olympic stalwart Scott Hamilton. But if you have only been watching Hamilton’s reliably excitable and knowledgeable play-by-play, you have been missing out one of the Olympics’ truly transcendent pairings—not to mention its very best fashion show.
Every morning for the past week, I have woken up, made myself a cup of coffee, and sat down in front of the television to hang out with Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. The 29-year-old, two-time Olympian Weir, who has spent every day of this Olympic Games rubbing sequins into Putin’s anti-gay eye, and the 31-year-old gold medalist Lipinski have been pulling the early shift in Sochi, announcing figure skating live on the NBC Sports Network. At night, the same routines are rebroadcast on NBC proper, announced by Olympic stalwart Scott Hamilton. But if you have only been watching Hamilton’s reliably excitable and knowledgeable play-by-play, you have been missing out one of the Olympics’ truly transcendent pairings—not to mention its very best fashion show.
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**wet fart noise**degenerasian wrote:Rules are pretty dumb. Can't have 1 guy shoot 6 times.
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It pretty much sums up Slate, too.Bensell wrote:This article from slate.com pretty much sums up my thoughts on the figure skating announcers: . . .
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Kori Ade,Jason Brown's coach, is hot too. Never heard of her.
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save of the tournament
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Lipinski and Weir are great. Really enjoyed their work, and have wondered why they bring on Hamilton during prime time. Also, Rebecca Lowe would have been a much better choice than Viera.Bensell wrote:This article from slate.com pretty much sums up my thoughts on the figure skating announcers:
Every morning for the past week, I have woken up, made myself a cup of coffee, and sat down in front of the television to hang out with Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. The 29-year-old, two-time Olympian Weir, who has spent every day of this Olympic Games rubbing sequins into Putin’s anti-gay eye, and the 31-year-old gold medalist Lipinski have been pulling the early shift in Sochi, announcing figure skating live on the NBC Sports Network. At night, the same routines are rebroadcast on NBC proper, announced by Olympic stalwart Scott Hamilton. But if you have only been watching Hamilton’s reliably excitable and knowledgeable play-by-play, you have been missing out one of the Olympics’ truly transcendent pairings—not to mention its very best fashion show.
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hamilton is a legacy at this point. ive thought lipinski and weir have been informative without being obtrusive in terms of analysis. i've enjoyed them throughout this week.govmentchedda wrote:Lipinski and Weir are great. Really enjoyed their work, and have wondered why they bring on Hamilton during prime time. Also, Rebecca Lowe would have been a much better choice than Viera.Bensell wrote:This article from slate.com pretty much sums up my thoughts on the figure skating announcers:
Every morning for the past week, I have woken up, made myself a cup of coffee, and sat down in front of the television to hang out with Johnny Weir and Tara Lipinski. The 29-year-old, two-time Olympian Weir, who has spent every day of this Olympic Games rubbing sequins into Putin’s anti-gay eye, and the 31-year-old gold medalist Lipinski have been pulling the early shift in Sochi, announcing figure skating live on the NBC Sports Network. At night, the same routines are rebroadcast on NBC proper, announced by Olympic stalwart Scott Hamilton. But if you have only been watching Hamilton’s reliably excitable and knowledgeable play-by-play, you have been missing out one of the Olympics’ truly transcendent pairings—not to mention its very best fashion show.
and by the way, fred roggin has to be the basis of the shooter mcgavin character in happy gilmore. or, roggin watched the movie and said "hey..."
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govmentchedda wrote:Also, Rebecca Lowe would have been a much better choice than Viera.
Word. Never liked Meredith Viera, but she brings in the Today Show soccer mom crowd. Finally caught a bit of Rebecca Lowe, they have really been hiding her.
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Fred Rogin has been goofy like that since forever. I like the Johnny and Tara show too. I love how the X-country skiiers, as soon as they cross the finish line, just lie down on the ice, like exhausted broads. Even the guys. Even if they are carrying rifles.
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Gary Bettman: (furiously taking notes)degenerasian wrote:Rules are pretty dumb. Can't have 1 guy shoot 6 times.
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Late night infant feedings have allowed me a few Lowe shows. Did anyone happen to see the shot MiB posted of her receiving a signed wine bottle? Way cuter than normal.The Sybian wrote:govmentchedda wrote:Also, Rebecca Lowe would have been a much better choice than Viera.
Word. Never liked Meredith Viera, but she brings in the Today Show soccer mom crowd. Finally caught a bit of Rebecca Lowe, they have really been hiding her.
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Kate Hanson is awesome
And I mean that in the non-swamp creepy way. She seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.
And I mean that in the non-swamp creepy way. She seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.
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I get her first!Brontoburglar wrote:Kate Hanson is awesome
And I mean that in the non-swamp creepy way. She seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.
(You can do curls with her, bronto)
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The Sybian wrote:govmentchedda wrote:Also, Rebecca Lowe would have been a much better choice than Viera.
Word. Never liked Meredith Viera, but she brings in the Today Show soccer mom crowd. Finally caught a bit of Rebecca Lowe, they have really been hiding her.
They are using Viera as she required the least amount of shuffling of other coverage.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Brontoburglar wrote:Kate Hanson is awesome
And I mean that in the non-swamp creepy way. She seems like she'd be fun to hang out with.
Except the whole member of the Mormon cult thing.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
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Scottie will agree, that Canada-China game this morning might have been the best curling game ever seen. For those who don't know the result, you should go find it.
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I like that the Russians don't speak a word of English, except when it's time to yell, "SVEEP! SVEEP! SVEEP!"
I was watching one of the Chinese games the other day and it was the same, out of nowhere, you hear "GOTTA GO!"
I was watching one of the Chinese games the other day and it was the same, out of nowhere, you hear "GOTTA GO!"
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All these ice dancing women are incredibly sexy.
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Yes, the China/Canada game looked like it was brilliant; I've only seen fragments of it but thankfully have it PVRd.degenerasian wrote:I like that the Russians don't speak a word of English, except when it's time to yell, "SVEEP! SVEEP! SVEEP!"
I was watching one of the Chinese games the other day and it was the same, out of nowhere, you hear "GOTTA GO!"
Language is habit. One repeats what one regularly hears. In the case of the Chinese curling teams, what they hear is at the Saville Ice Center in Edmonton. Funny thing, before I noticed Marcel Rocque coaching the Chinese Men, I heard Liu Rui (the skip) shouting WHOAWHOAWhoawhoawhoawhoa rapidly but tapering, and I thought "Wow that sounds exactly like Kevin Martin, that's how Martin calls off sweeping when a draw is a bit heavy." And sure enough that has to be where they got it. Another Martinism Liu picked up is breathe-muttering "Sheeeez" to himself after a miss and that is pure Kevin Martin. Liu also habitually, reflexively yells "Right off! Right off!" which is unquestionably something he picked up over here.
The Korean women are the smallest team you'll ever see. The Korean women are the loudest team you'll ever hear. Damn those girls can scream. And the chick that throws third for them looks like she's 11-years old.
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The American girl is pretty but her makeup is a bit creepy.howard wrote:All these ice dancing women are incredibly sexy.
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for those interested in Canada, TSN2 will show the tiebreaker tonight between Scotland and Norway at midnight ET, 9pm Scottie time.
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Sweet! Thanks for the heads up. But surely it is also on those Telus (and Shaw?) "feed" channels of the CBC with no announcers and no commercials? Gotta be, eh?degenerasian wrote:for those interested in Canada, TSN2 will show the tiebreaker tonight between Scotland and Norway at midnight ET, 9pm Scottie time.
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don't think we get those on shaw.
The announcers don't bother me, it's not Vic Rauter.
also sometimes it's on the french channel. Guy Hemmings and some chick.
The announcers don't bother me, it's not Vic Rauter.
also sometimes it's on the french channel. Guy Hemmings and some chick.
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Who are you getting for announcers? During the Canadian games it is Harris, Rainnie and McCusker (who is flat-out silly, giggle-gushing like a schoolgirl). But 90% of the curling games have no announcers or commercials. I've PVR'd at least a dozen non-Canada games.
ETA2: This is the guide, channels 12-17 showing. The CBC HD announcer-free/commercial-free block is something like channels 10-24. At any given time you have something on whether curling, hockey, skiing, skating, or going breakneck fast down a track and while it is overnight in Russia those channels have uninterrupted full-match/event replays around the clock. I'm pretty sure most of those are international pool feeds. But the coverage on those channels is amazing; you get pretty much every single moment of every single event with no chatter or ads. I haven't even looked at the actual CBC channel's feed yet. Why would I? Telus channels ordinarily start at 100 (CBC is 100) so those 10-24 channels are a special block Telus created.
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ETA2: This is the guide, channels 12-17 showing. The CBC HD announcer-free/commercial-free block is something like channels 10-24. At any given time you have something on whether curling, hockey, skiing, skating, or going breakneck fast down a track and while it is overnight in Russia those channels have uninterrupted full-match/event replays around the clock. I'm pretty sure most of those are international pool feeds. But the coverage on those channels is amazing; you get pretty much every single moment of every single event with no chatter or ads. I haven't even looked at the actual CBC channel's feed yet. Why would I? Telus channels ordinarily start at 100 (CBC is 100) so those 10-24 channels are a special block Telus created.
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Seems the locals aren't enamoredrass wrote:Profile in courage by the ref! Oh boy....
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I dont get those Scottie.
I've been either watching CBC mainstream or mobile on my phone.
I've been watching biathlon on delay. Love it. The Belorussian girl has won 3 gold medals and she pretty toned.
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I've been either watching CBC mainstream or mobile on my phone.
I've been watching biathlon on delay. Love it. The Belorussian girl has won 3 gold medals and she pretty toned.
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Upon further review ... according to the NHL Network on Sirius/XM the video review judge who made the call to disallow the goal was Russian. The call was not made by the on ice officials.SportsDoc wrote:Seems the locals aren't enamoredrass wrote:Profile in courage by the ref! Oh boy....
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Degen, see Murdoch's raise double for the win in the 10th last night? Best shot of the Olympics so far. Scotland goes on to the 1 -v- 4 game. Norway goes back to dropping acid and designing pants.
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Yup I saw that live before going to bed. Pretty gutsy to go for that do or die shot when a draw for 1 was available. He must have thought it was impossible to steal in this match (in the extra end) so he went for it.Scottie wrote:Degen, see Murdoch's raise double for the win in the 10th last night? Best shot of the Olympics so far. Scotland goes on to the 1 -v- 4 game. Norway goes back to dropping acid and designing pants.
Scotland are still struggling though because they should have won that a lot easier. Norway's strategy is bogus. We Canadians watching that are just shaking our heads. They don't do any of the basic things that we do.. like clearing the 4-foot area with last rock, or not going around the opponents guards without last rock etc...
Scotland's front end will have to play much better if they stand any chance against Sweden.
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I wonder if Russia's poor performance against Finland will convince Germany to invade around a year from now.
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Holy crap, Teemu Selanne still plays? That is incredible.
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Wonder if Siberia needs a new coach?Johnny Carwash wrote:I wonder if Russia's poor performance against Finland will convince Germany to invade around a year from now.
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The Moscow News twitter feed was pretty funny.
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Sandis Ozolinsh is the captain of Latvia. I'm surprised that Arturs Irbe isn't in net.The Sybian wrote:Holy crap, Teemu Selanne still plays? That is incredible.
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Anyone have a good link for the US-CZE game online?
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Depending on your TV service provider, try nbcolympics dot com.Jerloma wrote:Anyone have a good link for the US-CZE game online?
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I need to mix in a few more 'well, la de dah's.degenerasian wrote:The Moscow News twitter feed was pretty funny.
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Thanks. Firewalled but was able to download the phone app.rass wrote:Depending on your TV service provider, try nbcolympics dot com.Jerloma wrote:Anyone have a good link for the US-CZE game online?
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