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While NBC is focusing on speed skating and alpine skiing today, the real action is on its other networks, MSNBC and USA, where you can watch live hockey games all day long. The American men will play Finland in the quarterfinals at 11:30 this morning. Also, the American men's curling team is in the semifinal game against Canada. It airs on CNBC at 5 pm.

No figure skating tonight but the ladies will be back Thursday to determine the gold.

Here's the schedule:

One of many double standards between the sexes is that men are more or less allowed to have their hair turn gray, even at a youngish age. I guess it all comes down to "rugged sophistication" or something. The New York Daily News claims that "sexy gray" has made a comeback, at least on TV news, and they blame sexy silverhead Anderson Cooper. I guess you have to admit, he is kind of dreamy. I imagine Anderson and I floating on a boat down a moonlit river, he plucks a banjo and serenades me as I relax under a parasol while the crickets sing harmony. Wait, what was I talking about? Right, gray hair. It seems more and more newsmen, like NBC's Dan Abrams, have ditched the die and are letting their freaky gray flag fly. I guess if you got it, you flaunt it. Just ask Jon Stewart.