So to anyone who saw Lindsey Jacobellis fall at the end of the women’s snowboard cross finals last night, thus losing a gold medal, I apologize. It was my fault. All night I was cheering on Ms. Jacobellis–partly because of a cool name–and wanted nothing more than for her to win.

But when she was way out in front I got a little excited. I thought back to her prowess in the snowboard halfpipe, and started egging her on to do a sweet trick at the end to cap things off. And since I am such a charming fellow, Ms. Jacobellis couldn’t help but oblige my request (we’ll ignore the whole time difference/tape delay thing and assume that she hadn’t already fallen hours before I started watching.)

Then boom. She missed the landing. Ended up with silver. My bad.

In other news, there’s another newscast up–Feb. 16.

Not a particularly strong effort, but the panda story at the end might make you cry…