Despite there being about 80 million more Americans than in 1980, the number of people who watched Canada beat the United States in overtime for the Olympic gold medal on Sunday was 20% below the number who watched the U.S.-Soviet Union semifinal game in Lake Placid, and even 15% below the U.S.-Finland gold-medal game that [...]

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Thanks to a reader for this shot of members of the U.S. bobsled team shirtless and flexing. I notice that some of the gold-medal four-man team are pictured. I am not sure when or where the photo was taken, by the photographer has our thanks. The full photo:
By Jim Buzinski

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Vancouver’s final medal count shows the unhappy Russians way down the list, with just 15 medals.   But there’s more to their grumbling than sour grapes — way more.  A little analysis shows an interesting picture of wins leveraged by political shifts.
The Russian government is unhappy because it is remembering the “good old days” of the Cold War, 1949-1989.  This was when the [...]

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It’s always fun for us to look at our stats and see what drove people to our site. Sometimes it’s very revealing. Over the last two weeks, the top search term that drove people to Outsports: ‘Scott Lago.’ He’s the American snowboarder who was sent home after some racy pics (right) surfaced of him, a [...]

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The Winter Olympic games have come to a close, and I got to thinking about Pride House today. How was it? How did they do? Did it have the impact the organizers said it would? We heard bits and pieces about “great parties” and a “fun space,” but we heard of only one Winter Olympian [...]

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Whether you think Canada (14 golds) or the USA (37 total) gets the moral victory in the final medal count, there is one thing we can all agree on: Russia did not own the podium. And Russia’s president is pretty bitter about it.
A day after the Vancouver Games, and four years before the Winter Olympics are [...]

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Someone had mentioned this to me a few days ago but I couldn’t believe it. Then I saw the story for myself: The native-inspired logo for the 2010 Olympics actually represents death. NPR spoke to Peter Irniq, an expert on the stacks of rocks that inspired the logo:
“It’s a symbol of the fact that someone [...]

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