Pride (in the name of sports promotion)

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Here’s an observation about the often peculiar choice of music during TV sports coverage, in this case, from NBC’s Winter Olympics telecast last night. (It was called in by a friend of AdFreak; in keeping with Mark Dolliver’s post below, I got stuck on the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.) Anyway, our friend told me of that heartwarming moment last night when unheralded American skier Ted Ligety was the surprise gold medal winner of the Alpine combined.

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