London following Beijing

Watching the closing ceremonies last I was thinking how in the heck will London top these 2008 Beijing Games. I don't think they'll be able to. Certainly London's piece in the closing ceremonies was lame.
Here's what a London mayor Boris Johnson said in a Business Week article.
"We've been dazzled, impressed, and blown away by these Beijing Games," he says, adding, "but we've not been intimidated."
That's good to read.
One thing I did notice was the lack of full venues in the Beijing Games, and the article mentioned that too.
For instance, although Beijing's operations worked with clockwork precision, many events were surprisingly short on spectators (BusinessWeek.com, 8/15/08). London has already said it aims to avoid that by making more seats available to Londoners at discount prices.
Later ...
Formerly imperial Britain—now more laid-back than ambitious, upwardly mobile China—will be hosting its third Olympics and has less to prove to the world. As long as security is effective but not heavy-handed, London should manage to provide Olympians and guests a great time.

I'm so done with

On Fox Sports Radio the Czabe, aka Steve Czaben, has a segment called "I'm So Done With."
Well I don't have time to phone or text the show. So instead I'll post what I'm done with here.
I'm so done with, already, all the NFL coverage. The way the media fawns over the league is sickening.

Olympic coverage on ESPN

So Monday night I'm at my favorite bar, and all three TVs were on an ESPN channel. So much for my latest boycott of the four-letter network. One show I was watching, not listening theTVs were muted, posed the question,  "Will you watch the Olympics?"

I highly doubt if the Olympics were on a Disney-owned network a question a question like this would be asked. This is a network on that chooses to hype its own talking heads or its supported sports than offer an objective view.