Hope you caught the Friday night prime-time telecast of the Olympics, particularly the first hour interview of U.S. men's volleyball coach Hugh McCutcheon.
McCutcheon, whose mother- and father-in-law were attacked in Beijing just before the Olympics began, sat down for an extended chat with NBC's Bob Costas just after the network showed the fifth set of the U.S. win over Russia in the semifinals.
Costas deftly moved McCutcheon from analyzing how the Americans have reached the gold medal match to discussing the circumstances surrounding the attack. In almost anyone else's hands, the interview would have been maudlin and tear-filled. In the hands of Costas, the most revered sports commentator of our generation, it was pure magic.
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