This morning, a local radio station was reporting that a U.S. Olympic ski team member has been summarily dismissed from the team by NBC chairman Dick Ebersol.

        The skier was released because, according to the report, "he is utterly devoid of any compelling personal drama that could be exploited by the network. He has not had to overcome any physical disabilities. His family is excruciatingly average, middle class and bland. He has two opposite-sex parents, a dog and no black-sheep siblings. The family lives in an average neighborhood in New Hampshire in a four-bedroom Cape Cod style home. He has never donated or received an organ transplant. Neither he nor any of his close relations are or have ever been afflicted with cancer, ALS, Alzheimer's, nor are any of them considered to be Jerry's kids. He has never been a drug user or an alcoholic. In short, he is useless to the team for public relations purposes, and, despite his excellent skiing ability, supporting him through the course of the games would be an unnecessary expense that would produce no benefit whatsoever to NBC."