Sports season

Sport season is definitely heating up in Chicago (quite the opposite of the weather). The football season is drawing to a close but that just means that Superbowl is nigh. My adopted home teams for basketball are coming along quite well with the Bulls (NBA) on a good run and Illini (NCAA) showing them how it's done (in college).

In a few weeks it's going to be the Winter Olympics in Torino. I actually work with a team out there and would kill for a business trip out there. Although you're going to have to be a rich European to be able to watch any of the events live. Third tier (ie. nosebleed) tkts for one day to the figure skating are going for a cool 300euro. That's just ridiculous.

NBC is the 'olympic' station so I'm going to be tuned to that for most of Feb. Unfortunately it's going to mean 99% of the events will be US orientated and to make things worse I'm going to have to put up with those American commentators.