Only 10 hours before the Scripps-Howard Spelling Bee hits primetime tonight on ABC and I'm pysched! I love the Spelling Bee, these kids are true gamers as they spell such challenging words as chiaroscurist and vivisepulture.

Now I know you are saying to yourself, "Why does Corey love the spelling bee?" and it's true I am an avid watcher of all things sports, cars and violence. However the spelling bee tugs at my heart. Watching these megabrains fight it out for that trophy and huge scholarship is assurance to me that competition on any level of academics is still alive.

Besides the spelling bee offers up great human drama and much like ABC's Wide World of Sports there is the thrill of victory:



and of course the agony of defeat:



(Watch his eyes go BOOM!)

So take a break from the Laguna Beach marathon of the latest Real World challenge and root for these kids as they struggle with esquamulose and remember the correct latin verbiage of prospicience.