The Olympics Sap-o-Meter

Lisa and I have watched a fair bit of the Olympics over the past few weeks, and I had noticed that NBC's reporting could be so focused on the "emotional" aspect of the games that it could distract from the events themselves. For example, during several of Michael Phelps' gold metal winning races, they talked about his mom nearly as much as they talked about swimming. Well it turns out that I was not the only one who noticed. Check out the Sap-o-Meter I ran into at Slate.com to see just how over the top the coverage was for these games.