Denver Post
"Roots has 'em waiting"
By Jim Beneman
Kathy McNelis asks, "How dumb am I?"
I'll assume it's a rhetorical question. Kathy's visiting the Olympic Games from Long Island, N.Y. On this rainy day in Salt Lake, she's spending four hours of her hard-earned vacation time waiting in an outdoor line to get into one of the Roots stores downtown.
Yes, that's correct. Four hours! If you needed any proof of how hot the Roots merchandise has become at these Games, just check out the lines outside their stores. . . .
The Los Angeles Times
"He Thinks Protests Are Too Much"
By Bill Plaschke
Russian officials have pounded on desks, threatening boycotts, asking for double gold medals in skiing and figure skating, begging for public apologies, hoping to be embraced by public opinion.
But until Friday, it was all nothing more than noise.
Then the game started, and it became apparent that the flames of the controversy had turned inward, engulfing athletes and their attitudes.
A pretty good hockey team became an unwitting group of political pawns.
All those people who thought the IOC did the right thing last week by kowtowing to NBC and the North American media should have been here.
The game was contested in what is formally called the E Center.
But in reality, it was played in the mouth of Pandora's box.
Everyone remaining in this Olympics feels now that the squeaky wheel will get the (greasy) medal.
Here's what happens when that wheel eventually falls off. . . .
SportsLine.com
"Memo to Russians: Quit whining, or quit the Games"
By Dave Richard
These Winter Olympics have been bogged down by myriad tirades and tearful pleas, making it the Whiner Olympics. More and more, people are interested in the sob stories and not the actual Games. It's almost as if the real sport is who can have the most obnoxious press conference. . . .
