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The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The Sap-o-Meter bids a tearful farewell. Plus: the Sappiest Word of the 2008 Olympic Games.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 25, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Dunks, Mom, and Apple Pie The marketing genius of USA Basketball's "Redeem Team."	Tommy Craggs	Aug 22, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter After a week of Olympic-sized schmaltz, the Sap-o-Meter battles adversity.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 22, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Usain Bolt might be the world's fastest man, but mom runs away with the night yet again.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 21, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Olympic-Sized Racism Remembering the 1904 games, where Indians, Pygmies, and other "savages" faced off in the interest of science.	Nate DiMeo	Aug 21, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Remember When Decathletes Were Cool? Why the world stopped caring about track and field's most grueling event.	Robert Weintraub	Aug 20, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter NBC reaches yet another milestone on its magically sappy Olympic journey.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 20, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Newborn Demigod Contemplating the media presence of Michael Phelps.	Troy Patterson	Aug 19, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter "We saw people all around this stadium, as we were leaving, in tears, sobbing uncontrollably."	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 19, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Like Regular Ping-Pong, With Concussions In praise of doubles table tennis.	Robert Weintraub	Aug 18, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Taking Sprinting to New Heights The 6-foot-5 Usain Bolt set a world record in the 100-meter dash. Short sprinters, beware.	Edward McClelland	Aug 17, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter More tears, more moms, more dreams, and three new Sap-o-Meter records.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 16, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Beach Bums Why are beach-volleyball players always patting each other on the butt?	Troy Patterson	Aug 15, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Ballerina vs. the Energizer Bunny Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson battle for the women's gymnastics all-around title.	Meghan O'Rourke	Aug 15, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter A new rivalry in the sport of schmaltz: dream vs. mom.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 15, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter On a night of dreams, NBC saves its syrup for Michael Phelps.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 14, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Silver Lining The U.S. women's gymnastics team overturned cultural cliches in the team event.	Meghan O'Rourke	Aug 13, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Just like Michael Phelps: another day, another record.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 13, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Explainer's Olympics Roundup Your questions about the Games, with answers from our archives.	Derek Thompson	Aug 13, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
"Why Not Just Use Beavers?" NBC's visit to the Three Gorges Dam, and other Olympics coverage highlights.	Troy Patterson	Aug 12, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Down With the Perfect 10! A mathematician explains the genius of the new gymnastics scoring system.	Jordan Ellenberg	Aug 12, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Sap-o-Meter Widget Embed our Olympics schmaltz tracker on your blog, iGoogle, or Facebook page.		Aug 12, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The sap reaches a record high. Blame mom.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 12, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
Dispatches From Beijing The science of DJing an Olympic beach volleyball match.	Jacob Leibenluft, Tom Scocca, June Shih and Tim Wu	Aug 11, 2008	Five-Ring Circus
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Finally, a scientific way to measure the sappiness of NBC's Olympics coverage.	Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson	Aug 11, 2008	Five-Ring Circus

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