Q: What's the most popular Olympic sport?

Km: Watched? Volleyball (especially beach volleyball), basketball, track and field (in particular, the 100m final), gymnastics, and equestrian events round out the top 5 (I would have thought swimming would have ranked higher). Media attention? Swimming, gymnastics, track and field, soccer, and volleyball (based off of hits to the IOC webpage and the number of articles published). Played? Volleyball, basketball, track and field, soccer (known in the rest of the world as football), and tennis (I guess the viewing statistics make a bit more sense now... swimming ranks down at #7, behind table tennis). 

Happy Halloween!

What to blog about on Halloween... hmmm... I know - horror movies! Yeah, you wouldn't think there would be any horror movies involving sports, but you'd be wrong:

• Graduation Day (1981): After a high school track runner, named Laura, suddenly dies from a heart attack after finishing a 30-second 200-meter race, a killer wearing a sweat suit and a fencing mask begins killing off her friends on the school track team one by one. The suspects include the track coach Michaels, Laura's sister Anne who arrives in town for the funeral, the creepy school principal Mr. Guglione, and Laura's strange boyfriend Kevin.
• Undead Pool (2007): A girls' high school team is having a competition. Aki persuades her friend Sayaka to join the swimming team. However, a mysterious virus is spreading throughout the school. After Aki discovers the incident and tries to tell other people, she is killed. The swimming team takes up the challenge to cope with it and begins the fierce battle.
• I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008): A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.

Graduation Day made money ($250,000 budget and $23+ million in sales)... I think our next "fundraiser" should be writing a decent horror movie... I mean you can't get much creepier than Schenck or Dorothea Dix in the dark! Or maybe we can write it about a group of runners that gets lost in a corn maze and is forced to wander around for hours and hours... oh wait, that happened to this poor family!