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| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The Sap-o-Meter bids a tearful farewell. Plus: the Sappiest Word of the 2008 Olympic Games. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 25, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Dunks, Mom, and Apple Pie The marketing genius of USA Basketball's "Redeem Team." | Tommy Craggs | Aug 22, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter After a week of Olympic-sized schmaltz, the Sap-o-Meter battles adversity. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 22, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Usain Bolt might be the world's fastest man, but mom runs away with the night yet again. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 21, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Olympic-Sized Racism Remembering the 1904 games, where Indians, Pygmies, and other "savages" faced off in the interest of science. | Nate DiMeo | Aug 21, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Remember When Decathletes Were Cool? Why the world stopped caring about track and field's most grueling event. | Robert Weintraub | Aug 20, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter NBC reaches yet another milestone on its magically sappy Olympic journey. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 20, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Newborn Demigod Contemplating the media presence of Michael Phelps. | Troy Patterson | Aug 19, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter "We saw people all around this stadium, as we were leaving, in tears, sobbing uncontrollably." | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 19, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Like Regular Ping-Pong, With Concussions In praise of doubles table tennis. | Robert Weintraub | Aug 18, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Taking Sprinting to New Heights The 6-foot-5 Usain Bolt set a world record in the 100-meter dash. Short sprinters, beware. | Edward McClelland | Aug 17, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter More tears, more moms, more dreams, and three new Sap-o-Meter records. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 16, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Beach Bums Why are beach-volleyball players always patting each other on the butt? | Troy Patterson | Aug 15, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Ballerina vs. the Energizer Bunny Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson battle for the women's gymnastics all-around title. | Meghan O'Rourke | Aug 15, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter A new rivalry in the sport of schmaltz: dream vs. mom. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 15, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter On a night of dreams, NBC saves its syrup for Michael Phelps. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 14, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Silver Lining The U.S. women's gymnastics team overturned cultural cliches in the team event. | Meghan O'Rourke | Aug 13, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Just like Michael Phelps: another day, another record. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 13, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Explainer's Olympics Roundup Your questions about the Games, with answers from our archives. | Derek Thompson | Aug 13, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| "Why Not Just Use Beavers?" NBC's visit to the Three Gorges Dam, and other Olympics coverage highlights. | Troy Patterson | Aug 12, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Down With the Perfect 10! A mathematician explains the genius of the new gymnastics scoring system. | Jordan Ellenberg | Aug 12, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Sap-o-Meter Widget Embed our Olympics schmaltz tracker on your blog, iGoogle, or Facebook page. | Aug 12, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus | |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter The sap reaches a record high. Blame mom. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 12, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| Dispatches From Beijing The science of DJing an Olympic beach volleyball match. | Jacob Leibenluft, Tom Scocca, June Shih and Tim Wu | Aug 11, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
| The Olympics Sap-o-Meter Finally, a scientific way to measure the sappiness of NBC's Olympics coverage. | Josh Levin, Derek Thompson and Chris Wilson | Aug 11, 2008 | Five-Ring Circus |
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