I think all the goodwill generated by the Beijing Olympics has just disappeared.

• China’s Dairy Woes Widen. Wall Street Journal.
• China Milk Scandal Widens as Melamine Found in Yogurt. Bloomberg.

Yahoo/AP: Yao Out for Season with Left Foot Injury. All-Star center Yao Ming is out for the season with a stress fracture in his left foot . . . .

Currently, the Houston Rockets are 3 games behind the Los Angeles Lakers, the Western Conference leader. However, the Rockets are only 3 1/2 games ahead of the ninth place Denver Nuggets. Yes, the NBA Western Conference is extremely competitive this year without a lot of breathing room between the top eight teams. As precarious as Houston’s fortunes appear right now, consider the fate of the Chinese basketball team during the Beijing Olympics without Yao Ming. A lot of Chinese sports fans are probably studying up on stress fractures right now.

Chris Anderson calls the partnership between NBC Universal and Microsoft to broadcast over 3,000 hours of live and on-demand content at NBCOlympics.com the first “Long-Tail Olympics.” This should be great news for table tennis fans in the United States. Sure, we can catch our regular basketball, track and field, swimming, diving, and gymnastics events on television, but I’ve never seen Olympic table tennis before. Hopefully, this will be one of the sports that will fall within the 3,000 hours of coverage.