More Winter Olympic coverage you won't see on NBC

Kudos to MSNBC for pre-empting Imus In The Morning yet again today. Yesterday was only a snooze of a re-hash of Olympic backgrounders but they hit the programming jackpot today...live coverage of an epic ice hockey battle between Sweden and Kazakhstan...I'm sure you were all on the edges of your respective seats watching this 7-2 battle.

This thriller displaced the coverage of the second of three demostration sports this year...bungee luge. That's where bungee cords are attached to the sled and the scoring is based on the total time from the start to the time the luger is dragged back up through the starting gate by the stretched bungee cords. The major moment of excitement in this event of course is usually watching the atheletes trying to actually stay on the sled through the reversal of direction at the bottom when the cords have reached S-2 (Insider's lingo for "those suckers have stretched about as far as they are going to). Rumor has it that the American team should medal in bungee luge since we are the first country to use duct tape as a sled retention device.