If it weren’t for USA Judo’s press releases on Olympic judo competition, it would be darn tough to find out what’s happening in Beijing on NBC.

I enjoy virtually all sports, and the American women played an exciting volleyball game last night against Belgium, but I’d love to see some judo. I’m sure the NBC execs made the decision that there’s more interest in volleyball than there is in judo, and that’s probably true.

Print journalism seems to be on top of things. The Los Angeles Times provides an alphabetical order recap of all the sports, including judo. The paper’s main coverage is for the bigger sports. For example, they, naturally and understandably, are allocating an abundance of space to swimming’s Michael Phelps, but at least we’re getting judo highlights.

Maybe that is what NBC could do, too. They could show highlights at the outset, or at least early in the broadcast, of sports such as judo. Athletes like Ronda Rousey and Daniel McCormick deserve a little publicity. Let’s give it to them.

— DJ

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