The World Says Goodbye To Vancouver Games

How will the Vancouver Games be remembered? No one answer emerges. The Games will certainly be remembered for the celebratory nature, as IOC President Jacques Rogge says the event saw an "extraordinary embrace of the entire city." But they will also have a tragic and bittersweet legacy, as the death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili "remains a permanent stain," which will "remain linked" to Vancouver. There were weather challenges, technical, organizational and site issues, but at the end of the day, most agree these Games will be remembered as a success, "a blemished but celebratory antidote to the astonishing but sterile 2008 Beijing Games."

As Good As Gold 
NBC earns a monstrous 17.6 overnight for Canada's OT win over the U.S., a game that puts NHL's Olympic future directly in the spotlight.

The Best Of What's Around
The USOC needed strong showing in Vancouver, and its athletes delivered with a record 37 medals.

You Say Goodbye ...
Canada delivers a "funny, dazzling, surprising and utterly Canadian" Closing Ceremony.

... I Say Hello
IOC approves "Gatekeeper's Package" for '14-16 media rights; says presentation of the Games just as important as bid fee. 

Aiming High
Sally Jenkins rips Rogge's IOC tenure, highlighted by a "breathtaking collaboration with regimes that commit human rights abuses."

Taking One For The Team
Sources state Jordan makes "a huge personal financial commitment" to buy Bobcats. 

Stay Thirsty My Friends
Tiger loses the support of another sponsor as Gatorade ends its deal with the golfer.

Making A Splash, Literally 
Jerry Jones talks of building a pool inside Cowboys Stadium for swimming events.