let the games begin

Despite not being that excited about them beforehand, I got sucked into watching rather a lot of the Olympics this past weekend. The opening ceremonies were, of course, spectacular and there have been plenty of superlatives bandied about to describe them. Thanks to ESPN I got turned onto handball, which is an interesting hybrid of basketball and soccer. Its a lot of fun to watch and I can't believe that not only is it not popular in this country, but the US doesn't even have a team competing! Watch that sport for a bit and tell me we couldn't field a pretty awesome team with some Division II tight ends or tall forwards.

The groundwork is very nearly finished for the Greatest Fictional President Tournament. Head over and check out the write-ups for the 1-5 seeds. I'm hoping to get the 6 seeds up soon and start posting results. I've had some great help from friends getting this going, and I think it will be a lot of fun (and wasted time!) to see this all play out.

UPDATE: All the candidate write-ups are now up, and I've updated the above link to point to the new version of that blog. Results coming tomorrow!