Out Very Own Brit Soccer Team

Thanks to the Wall Street metldown. Kevin Drum has the details.

Science Explains Why the Yankees Suck

The New York Times, reporting on a new study by British psychologists who explain why it’s so hard to judge a line drive:
The problem Damon and Abreu face, the scientists say, is a product not only of human biology and the laws of physics, but also of our environment. We live, generally speaking, in a [...]

Pay Attention, Steve

Via Orson at EDSBS. Reminds me of a photo in one of Henry Kissinger’s books of Leonid Brezhnev and his translator eyeing actress Jill St. John in even more-salacious fashion. But Spurrier had best mind matters on the field. A few more 24-17 losses, never mind to a team like Vanderbilt, will get the faithful [...]

Missed Connection

Sports information guy at small football school misprints phone number on news release, sends sportswriters scrambling to call a phone-sex line instead of the coach’s weekly news conference. Hilarity ensues:
When I dialed in, the voice on the other line said, “Hi sexy, you’ve reached the one-on-one fantasy line.” I gasped, hung up and figured I [...]

Happy Landings

It’s become somewhat fashionable for college football teams to commission parachute jumpers to drop on their stadium and deliver the game ball. Unfortunately, some of the jumpers have all the smarts of people who’ve landed on their heads a few times.
I was witness to one of two incidents over the weekend that stemmed from this [...]

Cub Bidders Shuffle

The Chicago Tribune supplies an update on the state of the bidding for the Cubs. A couple of the competitors are looking shaky, but Mark Cuban could face a battle with Thomas Ricketts, the son of Ameritrade founder J. Joseph Ricketts:
Forbes magazine estimates the family’s war chest at $2.6 billion. The Ricketts’ bid matches the [...]

Cry, the Beloved Seminole

Orson at the world’s best college football blog, Every Day Should Be Saturday, has taken official notice of the Florida State NCAA-investigation situation. As befits a fan of the University of Florida, he is amused:
A good villain needs to be someone who could kick your ass, which is why it’s been sad seeing Florida State [...]

USA 118, Spain 107

Spain brought its A game to the final, but so did Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade and Team USA prevails in a rather exciting fourth quarter. I maintain that this was LeBron’s team but in the final he was Kevin Garnett to Bryant’s Paul Pierce — the glue, but willing to let the hotter hand [...]

Free Shoes U.

Florida State University appears to be in serious trouble with the NCAA over a cheating scandal and is busy trying to cover it up. When this school and the crooks running it finally do get caught, it’s going on probation for a long time. The NCAA is big on “institutional control,” meaning it cracks down [...]

US Hoops, On the Way

The US men’s basketball team thumps Spain and looks like a world-beater. LeBron is on a mission. (Pau Gasol, by the way, is still a wimp.)