My wife has roped me into a Barry Manilow concert tonight, so I thought that since all the talk around the sports world is going to be about the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, we might as well have an open thread about that.

Feel free to talk about anything else you want to in here besides the London Olympics as long as it's sports-related. Here are some suggestions:

• The North Carolina academic scandal continues to deepen
• Neil Reed, the IU player that was the beginning of the end for Bob Knight, dies prematurely at 36. Our prayers go out to his family
• Is Andrew Wiggins to be part of a package deal?
• Coming soon to a gym in Lexington: Nerlens Noel
• Remember the article I did about Archie Goodwin? Here's some more detail at CoachCal.com