- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice didn’t expect Dan Steinberg of D.C. SPORTS BOG to come at her with his best journalistic shot during a charity golf outing.
- The Chinese Olympic baseball team is giving it their best, even if their country has basically abandoned them. (MLB’s helping them instead; there’s no ulterior motives in China, of course.)
- We cannot be more strident about this: be safe around fireworks and alcohol. We’ll keep telling you about teenagers that die because of this combination until it stops.
- NBC has set up new cable channels just for the Olympics, including one in Korean and one in Mandarin. You won’t be surprised to find out that Bob Costas will anchor coverage in all of them. The man’s versatile.
- THE ARIZONA REPUBLIC has a nifty series of articles on baseball and music, including entrance music, baseball in music, and music in baseball.
- Here’s a very sweet story of a sportswriter’s Olympic inspiration as a little girl.
- And now to ruin that story: hundreds of thousands of pounds have already been spent on feting London Olympic officials.
- Finally, this has no sports bearings oncesoever, but we’ve always wanted to say this: Forget it, Jake; it’s Oniontown.
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