Kobe and
@jharden13 setting up for the 100M final instagr.am/p/N9gf0Qs94Z/— Kevin Love (@kevinlove) August 5, 2012
There were lots of candidates for Tweet of the Day today as athletes flocked to the main Olympic Stadium to watch Usain Bolt win the 100 meters — again.
The race was not shown live on television in America.
Absolutely, unfathomably astounding.
Watching the Olympics on NBC is an exercise in forehead-banging. Why can’t they just show the race live for the hard-core sports fans, then show it again in prime-time? Would that be so difficult?
By the way, which of those two would win a head-to-head race? Methinks the backpack would slow Kobe down.
If there was a 100-meter dash for all Olympic basketball players, the winner would be the guy who eclipsed Carmelo Anthony’s Olympic-high of 37 points with a 39-point performance Saturday night. You can find out the name of that player by clicking here — and you’ll be treated to 5 pertinent questions heading into the final day of pool play in men’s basketball.