Finally someone who thinks NBC is not doing such a shabby job with the Winter Olympics. While plenty of people have spent the last 12 days complaining about NBC’s tape delayed coverage NPR’s Frank DeFord thinks most Americans actually prefer it: watching the Olympics is that much more enjoyable when you’re already assured of the fact your country has won the gold.

Tiger Woods is safe from no one! Last Friday even Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn took aim at the beleagured Woods when she walked into a Time interview shortly after the golf mega-star’s bizarro press conference. Listen up SNL, Vonn appears to be pitching you!

Those who doubted Lindsey Vonn‘s injuries when she soared to a gold medal finish in last night’s women’s downhill skiing event can now believe. Vonn, who had been suffering from an injury on her right shin sustained during a practice run, held the pain back just enough to win her medal last night, but just crashed while seeking her second medal in the women’s super combined competition. NPR reported that she was visibly limping and complaining that the injury was “not good” this morning. She managed to maintain her lead during the downhill portion of the competition, but wiped out, giving up the lead– and the gold medal– to her friend Maria Riesch of Germany.

Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, Shani Davis…your new American Idols!

For the first time in six years, American Idol did not finish #1 in the ratings – losing last night to NBC’s Olympics coverage that featured some big name Americans winning gold. The win had NBCU President Jeff Zucker bragging early this morning.

Make no mistake, this Sports Illustrated photo spread of Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn is definitely supposed to make you think of sex. Earlier this week there was some controversy over whether Vonn’s SI cover – she was fully clothed, in a downhill skiing position — was overly sexual. No need to guess this time!

I mean more so than you normally would upon seeing an attractive, fully clothed, woman on the cover of a popular magazine. That’s what sports blogger Nicole M. LaVoi apparently feels is the message here. Anyone else?