September    19    Day    5

Jim Lampley's on a roll:

During a tease "coming up on MSNBC more softball, ...., ....., and archery. I kid you not!"

After the USA softball team loss to Japan after 112 straight wins " I can see the headlines tomorrow 'Sayonara streak'"

After a loss by USA Beach Volleyball duo who retained a good position in the standings "They are the luckiest losers since Lyle Lovett married Julia Roberts"

After airing Andres Cantor's "Gooooooooooooooaaaaaal!" forwards and backwards, Lampley warns "Kids, don't try that at home. Unless you wear support socks" --------------------------------------------

Favorite Line from a Commercial - IBM's series of 10000 heroes - featuring the swordsman from Harlem "I didn't know brotha's fenced!"

Yellow card - After a Kuwaiti soccer player was carded for taking a dive during a game versus USA, commentator Alexi Lalas deserved a yellow card for the obvious "I give him a 9 - 9.1 for that dive"

Channel surfing - Days of Our Lives -during a tender moment with his "son" Isaac, Abe admits to having positive feelings about Stefano (gasp!) to Lexie's delight.

Aussie lingo - keen as mustard (don't ask me what it means)

Buena vista award - The area around Noel Rollenson's gold mine (He is the guy donating all the gold for the medals at these games)

We love to see you smile- McD's would do well to grab 16 year old Gold Medalist Swimmer Megan Quann for this series of ads.

Channel surfing - As the World Turns - Lucinda and Iva get confirmation that Iva did indeed have twins all those years ago, Lily and Rose. Meanwhile, Holden packs his bags and separates from Lily.

Aussie lingo - Good Arnya. (don't ask me what that means)

Costas quip - (Russian Swimmer) "Alexandr Popov doesn't wear a cap or a fast skin body suit, much like myself"

Give him some decaf - Tim Daggett sounded like he was coming out of his shoes after the very first vault

Channel surfing - TBS - The Mets still can't win in Atlanta

Spirit of the Games Award- African swimmer Eric Musanbani who never swam 100 meters before, but tried it anyway, finishing 1 minute behind the next to worst time.

Big dummy award - to Me. I forgot to turn my VCR back on to capture the inspirational story of Musanbani.

Touching commercial - I'm not sure if it is a national ad or local. Olive Garden's Family spot

Heart stopping moment- Russian gymnast Yelena Zamolodtch falling head first off the balance beam. She was able to catch herself and was unhurt (physically)

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I think some of the events are tape delayed more than 18 hours, last night they showed a black guy winning a Gold Medal then showed a cutaway of Hitler glowering at him.

A neat event is the Modern Pentathlon which involves shooting and running. Puff Daddy would be perfect for that.

Pat Buchanan is a big critic of the Olympics. Too many damn foreigners!

Lookalikes - Jay's cue card guy and Al Gore. Oh, it really was Al. Al told Jay that I like the short format of the Tonight Show, because you'll tell less jokes about me. ----------------------------------------------

We viewers need a mercy rule - the USA basketball team is running away with the game, yet NBC keeps showing it instead of the competitive and exciting water polo match. Could it be because NBC is also the network of the NBA?

Original Dream Team memory 1992 - Barcelona. A 7-foot Chinese basketball player who towers over many of the Dream Teamers, acts like a giddy school girl while she gets autographs from her heroes.

I can remember 11 of those originals, but not the 12th -

1. Magic recently retired from LA

2. Larry from Boston

3. & 4. Michael and Scottie from Chicago

5. David from San Antonio

6. Charles from Phoenix

7. & 8. Karl and John from Salt Lake City

9. Clyde from Houston

10. Patrick from New York

11. Christian from Duke

Was the other one Dominique? I just went blank on this.

Channel Surfing - Hollywood Sqaures Olympics Edition - Q: In the 1896 Olympics, the winner of each event received a diploma and a laurel of leaves. What didn't they receive? Scott Hamilton's answer: An endorsement deal. (The real answer was a gold medal. 1st place got a silver medal, 2nd place a copper/bronze medal. 3rd place- nothing)

Q: What mammal has the longest hair. Bruce Vilanch's answer: Fabio

I'm able to see the events live on the Spanish language network Televisa starting at 1 AM (don't ask me what they are talking about)