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Bob Costas is a famous sports announcer and was the main face of NBC's Olympic coverage.

What's just great is that he's just like the rest of us, he agrees NBC did a pretty terrible job of covering the Olympics!

He was recently on Conan and was absolutely tearing up NBC!

He even got Conan to call him his "best guest ever."

Check out the video (above) to see Costas tear NBC a new one!

Tags: announcer, bob costas, coverage, nbc, olympic, ratings, show, sports

NBC and Twitter have teamed up to defend NBC's coverage of the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

The results of almost every single event were well known to many way before they saw it actually air.

NBC chose to time delay instead of showing the events live because they wanted to wait for primetime and get more money.

Way to care about your viewers.

Twitter took to defending NBC and itself, saying:

Tags: cover, coverage, event, london, money, nbc, olympic, olympics, people, results, show, summer, team, twitter, watch, win

Aww! Such a bummer to hear, but marathon swimmer Diana Nyad has abandoned her 60 plus hour swim from Cuba to Florida after roughly 30 continuous hours in the water.

She reportedly began vomiting on top of suffering through asthma and a very sore shoulder.

Despite not being able to complete the challenge, she's STILL proved what she set out to prove. Age don't mean a thang!

The 61-year-old swimmer still spent more continuous hours swimming than most have spent in their lives TOTAL!

While "sad" she could not complete her dream, she confirmed canceling the rest of the trip "was absolutely the right call".

For more coverage from the team of reporters who covered her entire journey, check out the video above!

Tags: asthma, cnn, coverage, cuba, florida, marathon, reporter, shoulder, swimmer, vomit

We were excited to report that insured women would no longer have to dish out a copay for their birth control beginning in January 2013 under new insurance guidelines set forth by the Obama administration.

However, the health care law includes an exception for religious organizations that morally oppose contraception, which has frustrated members of both Catholic and pro-choice communities.

They feel that the exception could exclude thousands of women employed by religious institutions from the preventative benefits the new law offers.

For example, Catholics for Choice president Jon O’Brien in a statement:

“The multi-billion dollar Catholic health care industry has a lot of influence with this administration, influence that it has now used to allow religious institutions to ride roughshod over the needs of their workers. Not only that, it ignores the consciences of those who decide that to use a modern method of family planning is what is best for them and their families."

A spokesperson for Planned Parenthood said, overall, they were pleased by the new insurance guidelines, but "disappointed" that some women would be left out of the birth control coverage.

The spokesperson maintained their pledge to help women in need of affordable birth control, saying:

"Planned Parenthood will continue to work hard to ensure that all women, regardless of their employer or insurer, have access to the health care they need, including affordable birth control."

The new law is certainly better than nothing, but hopefully ALL women will have access to affordable and effective birth care one day!

[Image via AP Images.]

Tags: benefits, catholic, coverage, insurance, planned parenthood, preventative, spokesperson, women