Hey all, Hope you've been enjoying the Olympics. What a week so far, right? I've been covering a lot of the soccer games for TV broadcasts, though I am such an Olympic junkie that I was watching the men's gymnastics and swimming till midnight last night. Unbelievable stuff.

With all the excitement and staying up that late, it's been tough getting used to my work schedule. The soccer games start at like 6 in the morning, which feels even earlier on my California body. ! I got here on the first day and set my alarm for 5am and I was like "Oh my gosh," because I had a meeting at 8:30. It was brutal. But the excitement of the games, being on a team with the folks over at NBC and MSNBC for soccer, has been a lot of fun. It's enthusiastic, everyone's in it for the same reason - because we all love the game. So it's been great fun.

I guess we can all, on some level, say we've commentated a game, right? We sit in our homes and make comments like "Why didn't they do this?" and "Why aren't they doing that?" So on some level, I've been watching sports my whole life, I feel like I have a lot of opinions on them. But this is the first official time I've been an analyst. Might as well just start at the Olympics, you know! Just jump right into the fire!

If only I could watch every second of every game, that would be a dream. But I can't because we have games that are simultaneously going on and I can only focus on one thing at a time. Today, for example, I called USA versus New Zealand women's game at the same time Norway-Japan was going on. Luckily I get copies of all the games them on DVD just in case I get them in the next round, I can be prepared. I will study the roster and go over the players and the things that stood out. That's how it works.

As for the U.S. Women, what a game today! Their 4-0 win was promising because they had only scored one goal in the first two games. And that's very unlike the U.S. National Team. Granted, Abby Wambach is not in the lineup, which makes a huge difference. If she's not scoring goals, she at least has the attention from the other team. In the first game against Norway and going down so quickly, the team never got a chance to settle in. It's like they took a sucker punch between the eyes and couldn't shake it off. So they just weren't themselves. Then they had a player injured in that game who didn't start in the second game. So things have not gone according to plan.

People have been asking me if I'm surprised the U.S. lost the opener. I am and I'm not. It's not so much the youth and inexperience of the team as it is their not being with new coach Pia Sundhage long enough. She's got them doing things that they weren't doing this time last year. Even though they've been play soccer their whole lives, terminology is still different, the approach is different and it takes time to adjust. Their transition has been a little bit difficult.

Regardless, we're smack in the middle of this tournament and the single elimination process begins Friday. It's a clean slate.

The U.S. men play tomorrow morning, though I haven't been able to see them play too much. The bottom line is they truly blew an opportunity to be leading in their group in the last game with that silly goal at the end. That's a lack of concentration. But I really feel that they're going to bounce back from that with a good match. I'm really looking forward to the lineup that Coach Peter Nowak puts out.

So get up early and watch, support the U.S. and root them on!