PHELPS MANIA

How many of you had Phelps fever over the weekend? It was awesome, watching him win by .01 seconds on Friday night then win his 8th gold of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday night

His next "gold" is going to come in endorsements. After winning six gold medals in 2004 Michael Phelps made $5-million in endorsement deals.
"Speedo," one of Phelps major sponsors gave him a $1-million dollar bonus before he even entered a swimming pool in China.
David Harrow, of the National Sports Lawyers Association said Michael Phelps could earn $30-50-million dollars in endorsements before this is said and done.

The only problem I had with this whole Michael Phelps hype was NBC's announcers and news anchors trying to make clever "head lines" after Phelps one his eight gold medal.

Bob Costas said " These Olympics started on 8/8/08 and now Michael Phelps is 8-for-8!

On the on Sunday's "NBC's Today" show they were calling Phelps "The Eight Wonder!" Why do announcers and anchors feel they have to have fancy headlines to sell the story? YUK!

If you heard or read any other cheesy headlines, share those with me, just drop me a comment.