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SNOW BORED BY EVERYTHING.


Byline: TOM HOFFARTH

Take away our nursery full of X Games shred-ka-teers, and doesn't this American team look like just another Russian splinter country forced to call in a tow truck to help with the snow chains so its tires stop spraying snow in the spectators' faces at the Winter Olympics?

Would NBC NBC
 in full National Broadcasting Co.

Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network.
 consider renaming its coverage ``American Idle''? Including a karaoke segment each night? Replacing Dick Button with Simon Cowell? Rubbing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's foot for a little help?

How fast can fast-food giant Mickey D's sign up Shawn White to park himself on that park bench with the statue of his stunt double, Ronald McDonald, for a fresh, new TV spot?

How soon does ``She pulled a Jacobellis'' work its way into the lingo? Do you think that credit card company can use her in a new TV ad called, ``Dude, Where's My Gold?''

Has Dick Cheney now qualified for the biathlon biathlon (bīăth`lŏn), sport in which cross-country skiers race across hilly terrain, occasionally stopping to shoot with rifles at sets of fixed targets. The biathlon features the 10-km (6. ?

Does Jeremy Bloom have any kind of fallback fall·back  
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1.
a. Something to which one can resort or retreat.

b. A retreat.

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 plan when he falls backward at both skiing and football?

Is it true they've renamed the Alpine skiing venue as Broken Bode Mountain?

Where does Johnny Weir go from here? Move in with Dennis Rodman and pitch some reality TV show?

Does the U.S. women's hockey team believe in a Swedish massage?

Has anyone figured out the new figure skating scoring system yet? You sure these aren't the same judges from ``Dancing With The Stars Dancing with the Stars is the name for a number of international television series based on the format of the British series Strictly Come Dancing. Nevertheless, not all the international versions share this title. ?''

How could we have gone this long without some major scandal?

And whatever happened to the Jamacian bobsled team?

-- Which is more of a miserable afterthought, the NFL's Pro Bowl coming a week after the Super Bowl, or the NBA's All-Star Game coming a day after the skills competition?

-- Recognize any of the contestants in the slam-dunk contest?

-- Was that Knicks GM Isiah Thomas spotted outside Madison Square Garden Coordinates:

Current arenas in the National Hockey League

Western Conference Eastern Conference
 the other night waiving contracts at some of those mutts from the Westminster Kennel Club Show?

-- Quin Snyder or Mike Davis, who gets rehired first?

-- There isn't a power-deficient team in Anaheim that could use someone like Corky cork·y  
adj. cork·i·er, cork·i·est
1. Of or resembling cork.

2. Informal Lively; buoyant.



cork
 Sosa protecting Vlad Guerrero in the lineup?

-- There's no chance the Saints last in New Orleans through 2010, is there?

-- What words of wisdom does Ryan Leaf possibly have to pass on to some naive college QB?

-- How long before panicked quarterbacks and irritable receivers report to NFL NFL
abbr.
National Football League

NFL (US) n abbr (= National Football League) → Fußball-Nationalliga
 summer training?

-- How fast did it take you to go online to MLB.com to shell out $165 for your authentic World Baseball Classic
For information about the tournament held in 2006, see 2006 World Baseball Classic.
For information about the upcoming 2009 tournament, see 2009 World Baseball Classic.
 jersey?

-- Did you hear that minutes after Mike Piazza arrived in the San Diego Padres' camp, three grounds-crew guys already stole second on him?

-- So when does Tiger Woods make his move? By the way, anyone got a spare umbrella?
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Feb 18, 2006
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