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The New York Times's TV sports columnist Richard Sandomir examines how showing a complete sporting event is antithetical to NBC's Olympic programming concept.

A hockey game cannot be sliced easily into a series of short events, like ski or luge runs, figure skating programs or speedskating races. If the network cannot chop a sport into two-to-five-minute elements framed with a lot of ads, it is not likely to be shown from 7 p.m. to midnight.

With President Obama "throwing his weight around" this week as he promised immediately after his election, we're back to the BCS/playoff debate.

Abuse of the presidential bully pulpit aside, I think replacing the BCS with a playoff would destroy college football as we know it. In my perception, three distinct constituencies want a playoff for mostly distinct reasons:

Straight off the UPS truck this afternoon: my new Garmin 265WT GPS, complete with Bluetooth phone dialing. Information on the Internet about the 2x5 series's interaction with Palm OS Treos like my Sprint Treo 755p or the Centro is lacking, perhaps because we PalmOS users are the pathetic stragglers of the smartphone world.

Giving the SBNation FanPost facility a tryout, I posted a little humorous column at Canes Country to provide it a wider audience. Local archive below.