Odds and Ends

-- Tomorrow, Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 9:00AM EST, quite possibly the most ironic sports talk radio broadcast in the history of the medium is scheduled to take place. A gang from WFTL-AM 640 in Fort Lauderdale will broadcast from a golf club in nearby Boca Raton...called Broken Sound. The broadcast will take on a more precise irony in the event someone trips over one the many cords, cables and wires needed mount such a broadcast.

--Last night, I ate a burger while watching the Ladies' Olympic Snowboarding competition on NBC. It must have been terribly important, because snowboarding does not often attract an NBC broadcast crew or, apparently, the Goodyear Blimp. I couldn't help but notice that one of the American competitors was listening to an iPod under her crash helmet while snowboarding. I should think you'd want to be fully engaged at the Olympics, not listening to God knows what, possibly recorded using a lug wrench and the flag of Ireland, among other things.

--Staying with the Olympics, aren't you just really fond of these prima donna athletes who complain when they don't win the gold medal? I'm thinking of the Russian skater who was whining that the American who won the gold was "not a true champion." At the time, if the silver medal was not dangling around the Russian's neck, it may well have been close at hand. Doesn't that remind of the Swedish wrestler in Beijing who threw his bronze medal on the ground and would eventually be stripped up of it? "I want gold!" he is believed to have said. He'll just get old, faster than others, perhaps. (One other thing: I'd like to think that Al Michaels was only slipping with the tongue when he went on a radio show yesterday and referred to "the Soviet skater.")

--A friend of mine is out for a weekend in Las Vegas. She is a Republican. At this hour, President Obama, a Democrat, is addressing a town hall in Henderson, NV. At the time I came in here, the President was on the dais addressing the specially selected few. As I write right now, Mr. Obama's jacket is off, his cuffs are rolled up, as per his handlers' instructions, I'm sure, and he is pacing the stage with a hand mike. If I were my friend, I'd tell him, "Slow down, Barack. The election isn't for at least two years. You can take a break from the campaign."

--Don't hold your breath for this one, folks: The film that features Diane Keaton going into a fast-food joint and pulling a loaded gun or taking a crowbar to a Lamborghini will make James Cameron's box-office records seem quite tenuous.

--Tiger Woods said he has moved away from Buddhism. To what, I wonder, besides apparent Hedonism?