We need a road map. Or a time card. Or something to help us sort out NBC's train wreck TV coverage of the U.S. Figure Skating Championships in Cleveland today.

Today's episode came on at 1 p.m. PT. It's advertised as the men's free skate. First up: Johnny Weir disintegrating in his free skate today. Cut to 7 minutes of commercials.

Next up: (TIME WARP WARNING) Evan Lysacek's short program, from Friday. Cut to 7 minutes more of commercials.

After that: Still in Friday time zone, Jeremy Abbott's short program.

Next up: Who knows? Weir's short program, shown after his free skate?

How is the average fan, interested in some sort of sequential organization of a sports event, supposed to follow this? I mean, c'mon. There's nothing wrong with showing highlights of the short program to set up the free skate. But let's stick with one or the other, please.

Coming up at 2: Dick Button's 1948 compulsory figures.

Did anyone else notice this, or are we losing our minds?

UPDATE: 1:50 p.m.: TIME WARP: We now appear to be back to Sunday, with the other top skaters prepping to skate their free skates, as NBC does the sort of scene-setter for the competition that you'd expect to see at the beginning of the program. No announcement about the how or why of the quantum leap. Smooth. So smooth.

UPDATE UPDATE: Ok, it's over. We can sort of see NBC's tiny logic -- perhaps. Weir, by nature of his poor performance in the short program, uncharacteristically did not skate in the final group of skater for the free skate. The final group typically all you get to see on TV. And they must have felt they needed to show Weir's free skate live.

But by doing so, then switching abruptly back in time to show the short programs, they turned the entire event on its head. Very bad call, made to look worse by the fact that Weir imploded in the free skate.

Oh, yes: Results. Great day for Colorado Springs, Colo., as Jeremy Abbott is crowned the new national champion after defending champion Evan Lysacek falls on his opening jump and falls to third. In second place was Abbott's Colorado Springs training partner, Brandon Mroz, a senior at Cheyenne Mountain High School. His debut at seniors was capped by a stellar free skate and a shocking finish. Not until the final scores were tallied for Abbott, the final skater, was Mroz bumped from first place.