Olympic Bet of the Day – Because everything is a competition, I’m going to put a mythical $100 per day on these Olympic bets and keep score. Feel free to make your own bets in the comments along the way. Things started out well on this front when Simon Ammann took down the ski jumping in dominating fashion. Splitting the $100 evenly between my two picks I wound up making a profit of $75. For today’s pick we’re going to go with biathlon. Ole Einar Bjoerndalen is like the Tiger Woods of biathlon. He has a record 91 World Cup victories, and he won four golds at the last World Championships, including the 10 km sprint that is being contested today. He can be had at +210, and that seems like a solid price given all he has accomplished. I’ll put my money on him.

Few guys have ever had a 24 hour stretch like Steve Nash just had. Friday night he was one of the five iconic Canadian athletes chosen to light the Olympic flame at the Vancouver opening ceremonies. Last night he schooled three youngsters to cruise to an easy win in the Skills Challenge at the NBA all-star weekend. Just wow.

I slept particularly well last night, and I got an early start to the sleep thanks to the slam dunk contest. Wow, was that ever bad. DeRozan had a nice enough dunk to win, and Robinson was okay, but there was a stunning lack of creativity or ingenuity in that dog of an outing. So, so ugly.

Stephen Curry didn’t quite win the three point contest this year, but I put he over/under at career wins for him at three, and I still lean to the over. the guy has such a sweet stroke.

Predictably, Danica Patrick’s NASCAR debut yesterday was much ado about nothing. She lost her NASCAR virginity in the Nationwide event at Daytona, but she was a total non-factor before crashing out about halfway through and winding up 35th. She can still hold her head up high on one front – no woman over the last decade has finished better than that in her debut race.