Sept    18,    2000    Day    4

Cute nickname - USA Softballer Danielle "Harry" Henderson

Shades of Fast Eddie - USA Softballer Leah O'Brien Amico is an Air Hockey Hustler in the village

What did they say? - MSNBC had a group of American children doing a promo, I didn't understand a word.

SummerTime- Summer Sanders may be nearly 30 but she still looks like a teenager making her perfect to host ~Scholastic at the Olympic Games~ on MSNBC

Mascot sighting- After being AWOL from NBC the first three days Syd Platypus, Millie Echidna, and Ollie Kookaburra finally made an appearance on SummerTime BTW The platypus and echidna (AKA spiny anteater) are the only mammals to lay eggs. The laughing kookaburra's call is mistakenly heard in the African jungle movies like Tarzan.

Nickname - I missed the kid's real name, but a teenage boxer from Hawaii - "Hawaiian Punch"

Great moments in Jim Lampley- Showing a reference library of 9 volumes, 5600 pages each "Rest assured I've read all of them"

Same old Coke but with Pepsi attitude - The series of family (re)unions looking like a tender moment is going to happen, only to have Grandma, the exchange student, or the soldier storm off in a huff because there is no Coke.

Oh mercy! - Boxing matches end when one boxer leads by 15 points. USA's Rocky Juarez won his 15-0.

Just wondering - Do boxers from Thailand have to fight the urge to use their feet?

Pat O'Brien annotation - Bondi Beach site of Beach Volleyball was most famous before for Nude Night Surfing

Channel surfing - Monday Night Football ran one of my all time fav commercials - Bud's Clydesdales Football Game

TechoCool in the Pool - When near world record pace, a line magically appears where the swimmer(s) must be to stay on world record pace. Only seen this once so far.

Costas quip - We hate it when we have to go to the repchage, don't we. (Referring to Rowing)

Swoosh - Skateboarder meets the Gladiator. (NBC has pulled Nike's slasher spoof ad)

Buena Vista award today- Horsely Park Cross Country Course (Equestrian)

Channel surfing- MNF -Dennis Miller "You are looking at the Jefferson Memorial in tribute to one of TV's beloved families"

Lookalikes - The Italian Baseball teams uniforms and the LA Dodgers unis. (Lasorda influence?)

Costas quip - Referring to 2 Dutch victories at the pool - The aquatic center is becoming a sort of Nether, Netherland

Channel Surfing - spotted on WCW Monday Nitro - Disco Inferno hitting The Cat in the head with a plastic duck

Tim Daggett nugget - describing a Russian gymnasts faltering routine - this routine is like a deer caught in the headlights and now it has been hit by a car.

Lookalikes - Russian gymnast Aleksei Nemov and Val Kilmer

Al Trautwig drollery- as new dad Nemov took a small step on a dismount "Nemov of all people should be allowed a baby step"

Channel Surfing - WWF Raw is War - HHH questioning 1996 Wrestling Gold Medalist Kurt Angle's sexual orientation while the Chicago audience chants a derogatory name

Touching profile - Chinese Gymnast Xing Aowei long distance bond with his mother. He bought her a gift for Mother's Day in 1998, she will not open it until he wins a gold medal

Costas quip - American swimmer Lenny Krayzelberg's dad is a chef in a hospital who sometimes cooks for his son. Lenny is in training, should he be eating that yellow pudding and salisbuty steak?

Jay Leno Interlude - Welcome to NBC where we bring you yesterday's sports tomorrow.
Speaking of tape delays, my name is Jack Paar.
Two Chinese Female Rowers were expelled from the Games today, they tested positive for testicles.
No Cuban swimmer has ever won an Olympic medal, that's because the best Cuban swimmers are in Florida.
A new event for the Olympics is the Triathlon - which consists of a 25 mile bike ride, swimming one mile, and running 6 miles. Of course that's how most people get to work in LA now because of the transit strike.

Costas quip - at the beginning of the late show - "The events may be on tape, but I'm live. It is 3:41 in the afternoon here."

Chris Marlow commentary - Womens Volleyball. In 1996 the Kenyan team was jobbed when Russia was sent to the African zone to qualify for the Olympics (no African team qualified)