Picabo Street, after winning her gold medal: "It was
time to wake the Games up" (ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH, 2/12).
In Houston, John Lopez: "Picabo Street, American hero,
certainly looks the part" (HOUSTON CHRONICLE, 2/12)....The
WALL STREET JOURNAL examines the U.S. women's ice hockey
team. The Olympics "expose women's sport to a broad fan
base." It's "happened with women's basketball. It's
happening with women's soccer. It could happen with women's
hockey" (WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2/12)....USA TODAY's Kevin
Maney examines coverage of the Games on the Internet and the
future battle over Internet broadcast rights (USA TODAY,
2/12)....On the "Late Show," David Letterman offered his Top
Ten ways of mispronouncing Nagano, read by James Earl Jones:
9) Nagagga; 5) Snoop Noggy Nog; 4) Naganja; 3) Fig Naga
Newton; 2) Magano Lewinsky; 1) Naganna Ever Agree To Do A
Top 10 List Again." Also on the "Late Show," gold medalist
Jonny Moseley discussed his plans for the rest of the
Olympics: "I'm going to go into the Nagano city and check
out all the cool things there are about the Olympics, and
there's a lot of them." Letterman: "What you mean there is
you're going to go looking for babes." Moseley: "Exactly.
I'm going to see how many babes I can get" (CBS, 2/11).
