ESPN Would Like to Reinterpret the Word 'Live' to Mean 'As it Happens'

No time like the present (or the present minus 12 hours if we’re going by NBC’s clock). Hot on the heels of the peacock network’s enormous success at the Beijing Games, ESPN has declared its interest in obtaining the television rights to the 2014 and 2016 Olympics. The key? They say they would actually broadcast the sports as they were happening and not, say, twelve hours later after the results have hit every other air wave, whilst NBC minions worked desperately to keep any and all clips off the darn Internets.