The Olympics is over now and we are moving as a sports society back to "regular" sports. I'm not so certain that is good.  On one hand, we will get to watch the NBA playoffs, which should prove to be as boring as the regular season, until the Championship between the Lakers and Cavs – wait! - I'm not supposed to know that already.  Did you know that if you connect the tattoos on LaBron and Kobe they make the shape of Brazil?  Kobe's armpit is the rain forest.

On a positive note, March Madness will be in full bloom by April. The NFL will have struggled to end its season by mid- June. Don't forget the NFL Draft, where we spend two days watching pro football teams play "choose 'em".  First to pick is the guy who gets to the top of the bat - no wait! - that's street baseball.

Speaking of baseball by April, we will be on our way in the marathon season that is this sports watchword.  Yes, baseball will be on until October, just in time to conflict with college and high school football, which is all we want to see anyway.

As for the Winter Olympics, the key to the event’s popularity is that it is held only every four years.  I don't think we would watch if it was every year.  Okay,  we would watch the figure skating, but the rest is just a diversion from the ordinary.  Plus, it's kind of neat to have four years of work all riding on a few seconds of completion.  This just doesn't work if it's some annual get together.

Here's another thought and it may make some of you mad. The world watches the Olympics to see an individual or country beat the big guys, who is uniformly, the United States.  You don't think basically everybody wants us to lose?  We are the biblical giant and everybody else is David – yes, even China with its 300 trillion people.

When many of us were growing up, we watched the Olympics, and everybody rooted against the USSR with its CCCP logo on every uniform. This, of course, stood for the communist sports authority that ran their pro teams long before pro team members where allowed.  I'm afraid too often we are seen as the CCCP team of today.

This year we did really well in the medal competition, which is funny as this is supposed to be all about the fellowship of athletes and countries and not who gets the most awards - yeah right!

It's not easy being number one and we all hope that the world doesn't see us as the big bad guy. The Olympics proves that there is not a lot of love out there for the US, but as history has proven many times and in many ways, this dislike will last until someone really needs a bunch of help.  Then once again we will come to the aid as no one else would, which clearly demonstrates who the true Gold Medal winner is in world events.