Greetings, weekend readers. Here’s hoping that you watched the Olympic opening ceremonies instead of the Vikings last night - at least, we’re hoping for your furniture’s sake. Ah, the Purple: Meet the new team! Just like the old team!

A few links to help you through your Saturday:

*Hey, if I was in the middle of a bunch of American Olympians, that’s where I’d probably look, too.

*Second obligatory Olympics link: forget Bob Costas, forget the late, great Jim McKay, forget John Tesh. If I had to pick one journalist to cover the Olympics, it’d be the Late Show’s Biff Henderson.

*Matt “SMQ” Hinton is taking one final week to write (and over-write) at his current, non-Yahoo-based locale, and he checked in with a rather nice take on college football playoffs. I’m a well-known playoff hater, myself, but even I can get behind an eight-team deal, presuming that this included conference champions (say, the six major-conference champions, the best out of the smaller-conference champions, and a single at-large team.) Anyway, take one last read, before Yahoo grabs the guy and makes him write fifteen 65-word posts per day instead of one 3,000-word opus.

*Man, I love the JoePa Chronicles.

*And finally: in honor of your Braves-loving regular proprietor, and in honor of all of us who grew up watching the Braves on the Superstation, a tribute to the late Skip Caray. Key quote: “HERE COMES BREAM! HERE’S THE THROW TO THE PLATE! HE IS … SAFE! BRAVES WIN! BRAVES WIN!”

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