I stayed up to watch the quarterfinal men's hockey match between Canada and the Czech Republic last night. It was a tense game. Both goalies blocked shot after shot. Neither team scored until the third period when Czechoslovakia finally managed to score. Then Canada rallied to tie the game with less than two minutes to go. After a scoreless overtime period, it was a 1-1 tie. The game came down to a shoot-out.
By this time, I was excited. It had been a good game, but it only led up to this deciding moment. Canada went first. Hasek, the Czech goalie, blocked the first guy's shot with his shoulder. They started to show a replay, but the announcer was cut off in mid-sentence by a commercial. After three more 15-second commercials, some lame infomercial about Protein Power came on. I have no desire to stay up until 2:30 a.m. to get the 1-800 numbers I need to buy lame products I'll never use.I just wanted to watch a hockey game. Who knows, I might get lucky and catch a replay of highlights tomorrow. I would just like to publicly thank the morons at CBS, and especially the programming morons at KUTV, who helped ruin the Olympics for me. My advice is this: CBS should either improve its sports coverage or leave sports to the networks who don't screw it up.
Brian Jensen
Orem