The Olympics are well underway and so far I have been pretty disappointed. For starters, China currently has more gold medals than the good old U.S.A. Secondly, NBC's 24/7 coverage of a shirtless Michael Phelps is not helping my body image...
But by far the biggest tragedy of these Olympics has been the realization that America does not have a Team Handball team. Now originally I was thinking "Handball, isn't that what I couldn't get my prom date to do to me under the table?" Well according to my mom, no it isn't, and also, I shouldn't call her with these questions. But after NPR's AJ Jacobs said it was his favorite sport in the games I decided to look it up. Turns out it is awesome. It's like Lacrosse/Dodgeball/Football/TimeTravel/Hockey. Lets see what Wikipedia has to say: Team handball (Also known as "Lacroccer" has origins reaching as far as antiquity: urania in ancient Greece, harpaston in ancient Rome, fangballspiel in medieval Germany, etc. There are also records of handball-like games in medieval Blah blah blah ROCKIN VIDEO:
P.S. I Don't know what you've read in the papers, but these videos just released are not of Windsor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsKI09ODj4
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