Day    6

Play Misty for Me- 21 year old from Phoenix breaks the heart of Australia, pulling off the biggest upset in swimming history. Susie O'Neil is Australia's golden girl of swimming, a legend on the level of Dawn Fraser and Shane Gould. The Aussie's had renamed the butterfly to the SusieStroke. Now it may be called the MistyStroke for Misty Hyman.

Scary American - Backstroker Tom Dolan's glare at the scoreboard after an event will stop you in your shoes.

Insightful Bud Collins Commentary - "Ooooooooh!" (Don't ask me what that means)

Lookalikes - Donna de Varona and Joanna Kerns (Growing Pains). They're sisters? That explains it!

Obvious nickname- Brandi Chastain - "Hollywood"

Duck Marv! Duck! - Boxing Feature ~In Teddy's Corner~ features Teddy demonstrating boxing moves. Watch Marv flinch as if Teddy's really going to hit him.

Channel surfing - ESPN and ESPN2 Baseball - Blah, blah, blah, jabber, jabber, jabber, yak, yak, yak. Their color commentators act like they are on radio.

Costas quip- How much does Gary Thorne like to say Repechage?

Costas quip - Dara Torres has made her return to the Olympics without Billy Blanks (referring to her Tae Bo infomercial)

Feel Good Story - Deaf swimmer Tom Parkin wins a silver medal.

Scary Frenchman - Cycler Florian Rousseau - bulging madman-like eyes while psyching himself out before his bike ride.

Elbows of stone - Match Sprint Cycling reminds me of Roller Derby with its jockeying for position, slow-downs and speed-ups. I keep waiting for a knee lift or a hip check.

Costas quip -While juggling stories "Sometimes its hard to keep track of things here. We're on the other side of the world"

Ouch - Bulgarian gymnast Jordan Jeotchev holds his national emblem on his uniform with safety pins

2nd look at a Coke Commercial - The platform diver is sweating just like the little girl's Coke. She is twisting just like the little girl's straw. Cute voodoo.

Channel surfing - PBS Live at Lincoln Center - The exquisite voice of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa along with the New York Philharmonic.

Out of the mouth of Babes - Brandi Chastain asks "Is it warmer in Canberra?" referring to cold Melbourne where they have been playing

LasordaSpeak - when asked about his team "If you don't like these guys, you don't like Christmas or Easter"

Channel surfing - WCW Thunder - the other "Filthy Animals" attack Disco Inferno but he gets to keep his plastic duck.

After an interview with Gary Hall who was wearing sunglasses indoors, Bob Costas appeared wearing sunglasses. "I'm cool"

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..the Modern Pentathlon...where you shoot a gun, then run. You do that in LA every day.

More problems with performance enhancment drugs. Two female athletes were accused of leaving the toilet seats up.

Bob Costas said because of the 18 hour tape delay, we have an emphasis on storytelling, just like Al Gore. ________________________________

In print - Seen in the San Diego Union Tribune - Doug Williams Gallery - Australian Field Hockey Player Sunni Hughes ripped off her her shirt after a victory a la Brandi Chastain. Let's hope Tommy Lasorda doesn't get in the spirit.

Channel surfing - Hollywood Squares Olympic Edition -

Q: ...Dr Benjamin Spock won a medal at the 1924 Olympics in what sport? Jackie Joyner-Kersee's answer:   How should I know?

Brad Garrett while flirting with Oksana Baiul - "I love figure skating, my people not withstanding. If you see a Jew on ice, he would be in the morgue."

Costas closing - He asked a cabdriver if people could eat kookaburra. The cabdriver explained, "Get a large pot, put the bird and a big rock in. Boil it for 3 days until the rock gets soft, throw out the bird and eat the rock."