Running total hours recorded on my Tivo, starting with the Opening ceremony through midnight Monday--293 hours so far.
- First off, my notes this week will most likely be truncated. I had the chance to be on a staycation last week, so I had plenty of time to review the coverage. I'm back to work now, so I'll compress my reviews into a few hours each night.
- After the nightly Tivo reboot, I finished up last night's coverage. I'm getting tired of this, as I am of the gymnastics theme they keep playing (dum-dum-dum-de-dum).
- They also dug up the "Matrix" effect so they could show the gymnastic vaults in 360 degrees
- The 4 stages of grief for NBC gymnastics - "She's absolutely going to win", "Absolutely shocking", "Stunning gold", "This truly is unbelievable"
- The Canada-US soccer match went all the way to the end of second extended time period to finish up. I managed to see most of it, including the final score by the US.
- Mary Carillo had another fascinating background piece on England tonight--this one covered the Greenwich Meridian Line and the British observatory there. NBC News should use her--or I'm sure they need analysts for the NBC Sports Network?
More to come.