Welcome to the Gawker Guide to the Obscure Olympic Sports You Have Never Heard Of Or Given A Damn About. First up: Archery—the 14th Most Important Olympic sport and apparently not just for summer day camps!

Lending some credence to Mitt Romney's controversial comment that Britain might not be ready for the Olympics, Jeremy Hunt, the UK's Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport, experienced a major technical difficulty this morning when the bell he was using to ring in the Games broke apart in his hand and struck a passer-by.

It's been exactly one week since a gunman fired indiscriminately into the crowd at a Dark Knight Rises midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 59.

I've ridden past the Tiki "Xymposium" hundreds of times on the 704 bus, which connects L.A.'s concrete-laden eastside to its breezy western coast via Santa Monica Boulevard. Every time I'd by chance glance over and see the theater, its fading, sunburned red sign getting shabbier all the time, I'd think that it looked like a good spot to drink oneself to death or to look for someone who owes you money.

While on a summer trip to Copco Lake in 1982, five Santa Barbara High School buddies snapped a random photo that became a lifelong bond.

The most vivid memory that the majority of Americans have of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, apart from the awe-inspiring opening ceremonies which will no doubt be bested tonight by the appearance of over two dozen Mary Poppinses, was that odd 40-day stretch in which women's beach volleyball was the only thing on television. Not the only competition being broadcast on the NBC Olympic channels. Not the only sport on all the sports channels. Literally the only thing being shown at any time on any channel, including HBO which is not even TV, it's HBO, was women's beach volleyball.

Are you enjoying this July we're having? Yeah you should because it's probably going to be America's HOTTEST MONTH EVER.

What was supposed to be an "intimate" concert for Madonna fan club members ended in public outcry after audience members gathered at the 2,700-seat Olympia Theatre in Paris became disgruntled over the singer's abrupt departure just 45-minutes into her set.

An upstate New York man had to be rescued by firefighters after falling 40-feet down a gorge while attempting to sneak inside the Saratoga Performing Arts Center to see Nickelback in concert.

Americans have gone to England and been pancaked by London black cabs because they looked the wrong way before crossing the street. Americans have unluckily picked seven-day stretches of rain for their week's vacation in the sceptered isle. But Mitt Romney might be having the worst English vacation since Harald Hardråde's, and his is only two days old.

Glasses-adjusting New York Times-version-of-a-Republican David Brooks is a highly talented political columnist-craftsman, in the sense that he is able to lay a thin veneer of pop psychology-varnish over even the most cracked glass coffee table of intellectualism* (*David Brooks-style mishmash alert). Today, Brooks puts forth his most breathtaking ideological prescription yet: our leaders should always be doing opposite things at all times.

Walking out onto the set of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to the tune of the theme song from Diff'rent Strokes, actor Fred Willard last night made his first public appearance since being arrested for lewd conduct inside an adult movie theater in Hollywood.

From the people who brought you Service Puppy Cam and Siku Cam 1 and 2 comes Brown Bear & Salmon Cam — the latest Internet time-waster that has Internet users everywhere wasting their time!

Rodney Dwayne Valentine was released on Saturday morning from Rockingham County jail after spending over two months locked up on charges of injury to personal property. Upon release, Valentine asked for a lift to a nearby motel. Everyone in the sheriff's office was like, "No way," so Valentine refused to leave and just sat there, apparently. After a few hours, officers suggested that Valentine take a cab. He still refused to leave.

The family of a stuntman killed during the filming of Expendables 2 filed a lawsuit Thursday against Nu Image and Millennium Films, that studios that produced the film. The stuntman, Kun Liu, was killed in an explosion last fall in Bulgaria. Another stuntman was injured during the scene. According to TMZ, the scene, "involved the use of high powered explosives and other 'ultra-hazardous activities.'"

San Francisco mayor Edwin Lee became the latest big city mayor to make empty threats at Chick-fil-A. First it was Boston mayor Thomas Menino, who just today toned down his rhetoric because he realized it was, you know, illegal and impossible to actually ban Chick-fil-a from Boston. Then it was Chicago alderman Joe Moreno who said: "Because of this man's ignorance, I will now be denying Chick-fil-A's permit to open a restaurant in the 1st Ward." Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel had his back, telling reporters that opening a Chick-fil-A in Chicago, "would be a bad investment, since it would be empty."

It was a ten minute interview. Here are four of the most overheated minutes. "You're a fiscal cliff!" "No, YOU'RE a fiscal cliff!" Good show everybody. [Business Insider]

And outside of New York City, in case anyone cares, some 300,000 homes in New York state, Pennsylvania and Ohio have already lost power and at least 840 flights have been grounded. Earlier this afternoon, there were reports that a tornado touched down in Elmira, NY.

Eight out of ten Americans believe in angels. Almost five out of ten Americans are creationists. Thirty percent of Americans either disagree with or are undecided on this newfangled Declaration of Independence thing. So I guess it should come as no surprise that, after four years in office and two years on the national campaign trail, fewer than half of American voters can correctly identify President Obama's religion as Christian, according to a Pew survey.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino is no fan of Chick-fil-A, but there isn't anything he can do to stop the controversial fast-food chain from opening a branch in the city — and he knows it.