Steve visited out studios Wednesday morning. We get a lot of celebrities that visit our seven stations, but Steve was by far the one everyone was most excited to meet. Especially our traffic (commercial scheduling) department…

And as you can see, Steve didn’t come alone – he also had his Gold Medal with him! Which is a “he” as I learned during an interview he did with WBEN’s Barbara Burns – LOL!

Steve is very down to earth and definitely deserving of that Olympic Gold Medal (along with his entire Night Train team).

Amidst the three other interviews he did in our building, I also got the chance to talk with him for the Star 102.5 morning show. I aired the interview in three parts scattered through the morning show. Here’s the full interview.

All week long at 9:00am with Star Of The Day, I’m giving away tickets to see David Gray at the UB Center For The Arts on March 29th. But who is he?

He’s one of the artists many people can’t place by the name, but I know you know some of his songs (at the very least the one from the 90’s).

Babylon was a late 90’s hit. Fugitive was a recent hit on the AAA charts and Stella The Artist (my favorite song from him) is his recent hit.

Hear them all here and then think up someone to nominate for Star Of The Day for your chance to win tickets to see him with Star 102.5…

Remember the board game Mousetrap? The game is actually still around!

I don’t think I ever played the full game when I was a kid – instead, me and my cousins would put together the “mousetrap” and set it off over and over.

The group OK Go must have been a fan of that part of the game as their new video is like one giant version of Mousetrap.

By the way, that fun part of the game is actually a Rube Goldberg machine – an overly complex machine designed to produce a very simple result. That’s definitely the case in this incredibly clever video…

First off, congrats to Steve Mesler & the rest of his team for getting the Gold in 4-Man Bobsled on Saturday! Here’s an interview Steve did with Channel 2 the other day.

And here’s Steve and his teammate Justin talking about bobsledding from an interview they did before the Olympics…

Speaking of bobsledding, I just saw this video of one of the members of the Russian team getting a little too excited over the Canadian sled crashing. Notice how he immediately changes his mood when he’s reminded there’s cameras on him. And all throughout, his teammate is stunned.

The Olympic anchors on NBC and CTV are absolutely amazing and definitely deserve recognition.

It’s a tough call picking favorites because they’re all good. For some Winter Olympics, there’s been anchors that I haven’t really liked, but that’s not the case this year.

I’ve been watching CTV every morning. It’s been anchored by Beverly Thomson and Jay Onrait. What a great morning show it’s been because of them. NBC can’t even compete here.

At night, it’s just a matter of who’s covering what sport when. But I’ve really been loving the Canada-themed stories that Mary Carillo has been doing. So far, her dog sledding “Mary’s Moment” has been my absolute favorite.

With that said, here’s my favorite anchors of the 2010 Winter Olympics…

BRONZE – Bob Costas, NBC – He always does a great job bouncing between the different events without stopping the momentum.

SILVER – Brian Williams, CTV – A phenomenal Olympic anchor who seems to be having the time of his life. It makes it even more fun to watch when you know the anchor is having a great time too.

GOLD – Mary Carillo, NBC – You can tell Mary’s also having a blast – both in studio and throughout her pre-taped segments. In addition to the NBC late night anchoring, her Mary’s Moments where she explores the wonders of Canada are priceless. That’s where Mary is really at her best. And her sign-off the other night was awesome – she had a deep conversation with the studio moose as the late night coverage ended – too funny!

What do you think? Feel free to comment here or call me when I’m on-air at 716-644-1025.

The #2 American sled had a crash in the 50/50 curve yesterday during the second run. Everyone was physically okay luckily and they’ll continue to compete today.

I can’t believe how many sleds are crashing on this track. I think it’s making the Bobsled, Luge, and Skeleton events less fun to watch. No one wants to see the athletes putting their lives at risk. And we all know this track is the reason the Olympics got off to it’s worst start ever this year.

So hopefully, today will be crash-free and it will be all about the start times and the expert driving as it should be.

And speaking of experts, the #1 US sled with Buffalo’s Steve Mesler is in first place after two runs! And they’ve got a lead of 4/10th’s of a second going into run three – that’s a big lead for Bobsledding!

The third heat of Four-Man Bobsleigh (yeah, that’s all the official wording there) is at 4:00pm Eastern time with the final heat following at approximately 5:40pm. I’m sure that final run will air in primetime.

As you watch, do you ever wonder how they steer the bobsleds? Visit HowStuffWorks.com to find out.

And just for fun, here’s some footage of the original Jamaican Bobsled Team from 1988. Considering how bad the Whistler track is, maybe it’s good they didn’t make it into the Olympics this year…

I watch the freestyle skiing events and can’t believe these athletes can do all those flips in the air and then still manage to land on their feet and ski down the rest of the hill.

One thing they probably don’t worry about during those flips is actually losing their skis mid-jump. That’s what happened to this ski jumper (who at the end of the video walks down the hill and seems understandably annoyed)…

The pickle you see to the right is now officially more popular than the group Nickelback according to FaceBook.

As of this post, the pickle has 1,504,800 friends while Nickelback only has 1,425, 294 friends.

In addition to being more popular than Nickelback, the pickle has angered the group. Nickelback’s lead singer Chad Kroeger posted a message on his FaceBook page recently that said: “Your page will be closing in two weeks”.

Even if that happens, everyone will always remember that a random pickle online managed to become more popular than Nickelback!

Dutch speed skater Sven Kramer won his second gold medal yesterday. But shortly after that, it was taken away.

Sven changed lanes at a point in the race when he shouldn’t have. And his coach is the one who accidentally told him to do it.

Here’s the complete story.

Chances are, even if you don’t follow speed skating, you’re probably familiar with Sven Kramer thanks to an interview he did last week with NBC. This will make you feel a little less sorry for him…

Granted, it was kind of crazy for the reporter to start the interview like that minutes after he won his first Olympic gold medal. But he still could have been nicer about it.

UPDATE 2-25: Good luck finding the video online now – the Olympic Committee has now pulled it from just about everywhere.