Crank's Corner Rotating Header Image  What the puck!  This week,
I did what I would have done if I had gone to Sochi, Russia
where the Winter Olympics is currently on: Watch the Games on
TV.  Seriously, that is what professional sports reporters do on
official assignments. At any rate, from the heights that press
boxes are located at most venues, all sports appear to be played
by crazed ants. So TV it is which everyone is dependent on.
After watching the Games on the TV over the last three or four
days, I can tell you that the most superfluous thing at the
Winter Olympics is winter. I mean bulk of the events are held
indoor only.  Here I have handpicked three Winter Olympic sports
and explained their nuances in easy and every-day language so
that when they are on television you need not, henceforth, log
on to the internet avowedly to understand its intricacies, but
end up, like every one else, on a porn site.  Ice Hockey: Ice
hockey is mostly similar to regular hockey, excepting for the
facts that it is play