[alanmcorcoran]

Well now you got the dead guy. Sad, but, it reminds me of a Bill Maher observation on the death of Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

"So let me get this straight... You got a guy wearing little more than his birthday suit and a helmet, laying down with his ass on essentially a cafeteria tray with a pair of skate blades attached, his legs and head hanging out halfway to France and then he launches himself, feet first, down a ONE MILE ice track with a 20% grade and 500 foot vertical drop where his totally unprotected body will quickly whip through various curves, drops and what have you, reaching speeds of close to 100 miles an hour with no ability to see where he is, where he's going, or if there happens to be, say, some unpadded solid steel support beams inches from the non-guardrailed edge of the track? How could anything POSSIBLY go wrong!?"

I apologize to all of you luge fans in advance as I know about as much about luge as I do about NASCAR, but, for us Winter Games ignoramuses it pretty much looks like the object of this game is simply to arrive at the bottom alive and the guy who has shit his pants the least wins.