Opening ceremonies inspire
Mark Twain described the American West as the land of enchantment. Friday night, tribal chiefs, ice skaters, dancers, puppets and musicians treated 52,000 spectators in Rick-Eccles Olympic Stadium and a television audience of 3.5 billion viewers to a stunning display of Western artistry, history and patriotism during opening ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Games.

Already an upset for Picabo
Before the first strains of the Olympic theme had soared, before the first ski jumper had ever launched, before the first starting gun had sounded, there was already one upset in the books.

Amid the ahhs, you could hear Utahns exhale
On a winter Olympic kind of night — cold enough you needed the parka, not so cold you wished it wasn't you in it — the 19th Olympic Winter Games opened in Salt Lake City Friday night.

NBC's coverage of Games gets off to silver start
NBC's coverage of the Friday night's opening ceremonies may not quite have taken the gold, but let's at least give it a silver.

Olympic sound—off question