Here’s more of my thoughts on recent Olympic Action…

• Did you see that men’s 100 meter race! Wow. That Jamaican dude was flying. Absolutely unreal. Not sure I’m into all the looking around and chest thumping over the last 20 meters, but that was maybe the second single most impressive thing I’ve seen this Olympics (next to Lezak in the 4X100).

• What Phelps did is pretty unreal too. I’m amazed he was able to do what he did with the number of races and the pressure.
• What’s your guilty pleasure this Olympics? Guilty pleasure defined as the sport you kind of like watching but you think you shouldn’t or think people will laugh at you. My guilty pleasure this Olympics has been Olympic softball. I love watching the U.S. women. The pitches throw gas and the hitters mash. And have you seen the U.S. clean-up hitter. She’s a beast who crushes everything thrown to her. I’m tempted to put her on my fantasy football team this fall.
• What’s an Olympics without cheating and judging incompetence? I was glad to see Shawn Johnson and Nastasia Liuken (women’s gymnasts) rise above judging bias to score 1-2 in the women’s all around. Way to overcome the odds (and the cheating).
• Olympic boxing is ridiculous. In some ways I like Olympic boxing more than professional. It’s more compelling. It’s shorter. However, it’s a dirty sport. I still remember Roy Jones Jr. in Seoul, Korea getting screwed with a few other American boxers. Tainted the sport big time. This year’s been a mess too. I saw a little bit of boxing and I saw brutal judging. If I was an amateur boxer I’d turn pro because Olympic boxing is a crapshoot and a total joke.
• The only sport that Morgan has been able to watch longer than 5 seconds has been Trampoline. I didn’t know that was a sport, but there it was. Little people jumping high on a huge trampoline.