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Passion in the pool

Before the women's 400-meter freestyle final, NBC gave us a titillating report about French swimmer Laure Manaudou and a supposed love triangle involving a member of the Italian men's swim team and one of the other women in the race, Italy's Federica Pelligrini. Hot stuff. Except when the report was over, Rowdy Gaines said Manaudou had no chance to win the race. And she didn't come close, fading to last place after leading the early stages of a race that Katie Hoff nearly won.

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Posted by Ray Frager at 12:11 AM | Permalink | Comments (2)

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What is with the "LIVE" icon in the upper right side of the screen when the events have been over for 2+ hrs (at least here in Arizona)?
I was watching the race you mentioned and at the same time saw that Yahoo had a story about it posted 1 hour, 52 minutes earlier.
Kind of false advertising.
Rich

Posted by: Rich | August 11, 2008 1:28 AM

NBC totally blew it with that silly soap opera. They hardly mentioned Hoff, and basically annointed Pelligrini as the winner. The poor Brit who won wasn't even mentioned until the end. What a horrible announcing job by an otherwise good team.

Posted by: WildBillFan | August 12, 2008 3:50 PM

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About Ray Frager

Ray Frager joined The Baltimore Sun’s sports department in 1985 and has been an assistant sports editor for more than 15 years. This is his second stint writing a sports media column for The Baltimore Sun. Most sequels aren't as good as the original, but then, the original wasn't all that great either.

Frager, born in 1957, grew up in northern Delaware (graduating from a high school that since has shut down) and received his bachelor's degree in journalism from Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J. He worked as a reporter and copy editor at The Trenton Times and The Dallas Morning News before coming to Baltimore.

Surprisingly, if you look at his accompanying photo, Frager is married and has a son and daughter. He enjoys playing basketball and has organized pickup games among members of The Baltimore Sun staff for many years, which means they don't get too mad at him for shooting way too much.

He has a good beat and is easy to dance to. I'd give him an 85.