Ja'Vance Coleman was looking for a cup. He was in the media room inside the Save Mart Center. He was thirsty. He was tired.

The reporters and cameramen all had left. He picked up a used cup, considered it and sat it back down.

This may have gone unnoticed a few weeks ago, but the Fresno State mascot has a segment in the second half of home games in which he runs around, does back flips and pushups and situps, and basically runs around like a sailor on leave.

Well awhile back, he lost his head. Literally. He did a back flip and his mascot head flew off. He rushed to it, embarrassed, and put it back on quickly, but it was too late. It had been revealed that he is human and not a mascot.

OK, there are 10 minutes left in the Fresno State-Boise State game on Big Monday. Fresno State is down 10, but we need to talk about the Big Boys.

Fresno State has James Tchana. It is well documented that Tchana is a large, large human being, unfortunately not one that is particularly good at basketball, but you can't have everything, I suppose.

I hate the way kids are wearing baseball caps these days. There, it's been said.

Go ahead and reserve me a room in a retirement community, not a full-blown nursing home, but at least an assisted-living facility, one where I can play cards with the old men and complain about our wives and the way things used to be.

I'm going to miss the Olympic commentators most of all, even more than I'm going to miss those Bode Miller commercials where he explains how cool it is not to win medals. You're the coolest, Bode!

I have a favorite announcer comment of these Games, but a few mentions before that ...

I might have written in Thursday's column that the Fresno State women's basketball team played "spectacularly average" for most of its game against San Jose State. OK, I did.

Let's change that to significantly average. I'm new to town. It's the first time I've seen them. Let's wait for a good cross-section of games before I go committing to "spectacularly."

Just a quick fun stat that I found when I could have been doing something useful for society.
All five of the Fresno State men's basketball starters take at least 30% of their shots from behind the 3-point line.

While we're paying attention to winter sports for a little bit, it's a good time to revisit the greatest winter athletic achievement in the history of mankind.

Canoe ski jumping.

Someone please explain to me how the Olympic curlers never accidentally bump the other team's rocks?

I realize that curling isn't one of those Olympic sports that people just switch to when they flame out at their original sport.