I'm in the middle of a horribly boring and incredibly tedious homework assignment. If I never have to compute another liquidity ratio in my life, I shall be a happy man. So, to interrupt the tedium, I'm going to put up another tirade about NBC's coverage of the Olympic games.

As I've written before, I really only watch three sporting events with any real interest: the soccer World Cup, the Tour de France, and the Olympics, summer and winter alike. But yet again NBC, the official broadcaster of the Olympic games here in the United States, has decided to air almost none of the events live. According to one article I read, only curling and ice hockey will be streamed live online. Only curling and ice hockey! It's like living in 1999, albeit with higher fidelity video and audio. And on top of that, much of the content shown on NBC and its sister networks will be tape-delayed and packaged with all manner of stupid interstitial videos about the number of times some snowboarder cut open her thumb while tuning her equipment.

The tape delays aren't quite as objectionable when the games take place in a distant time zone. But there's no excuse for tape delaying events on the West Coast when cities like San Francisco and Portland are in the same time zone as Vancouver.

At the very least, the folks at NBC should put live streams of the events online for people like me who prefer to watch sports live. For that matter, I would even pay — though admittedly not all that much — to watch the games online. It's the 21st century Jeff Zucker. Wake up!