NCAA Tournament Continues to Choke on Chalk

Could we please check with NCAA officials to make sure all four teams Saturday night received the same schedule of events? This seems to have been a problem all week, what with all the blowouts. One team gets notice to show up for a game at an appointed time and the other team […]

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Former NBA Player Rider Arrested for Auto Theft

Isaiah Rider, a former NBA player, was arrested for investigation of auto theft in Los Angeles Saturday after failing to stop at an intersection at 2:30 am. Upon inspection by officers, the license plates were found to belong to a car reported stolen from South Los Angeles. As of Saturday night, Rider, 37 […]

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Stunt Casting: The Coliseum as a Baseball Park?

Los Angeles will play host tonight to the latest attempt by Major League Baseball to draw attention to itself through “stunt casting”. Much like Sammy Davis, Jr., on “All in the Family”, Joe Namath on “The Brady Bunch”, or Britney Spears anywhere on television, it’s an attempt to goose the viewing numbers through one-time […]

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Brian Stann: Midshipman, War Hero, WEC Champ

John McCain could really use a young and vital person as his running mate to offset one of his main perceived flaws: being 71 years young. For example, how about a Navy Midshipman linebacker that went to Iraq as a Marine officer and was awarded the Silver Star? That sounds like a winner, […]

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Sports Team Videos for Babies Ruining America

Educators, politicians, and talking heads often wail when the latest study of math and science scores for schoolchildren. America’s 17th in math! 34th in science! 89th in cheating on math and science tests! Why does the United States spend so much on defense and so little on education? The video […]

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Blog Expo-Fest-O-Rama: Oh, the Mascot Carnage!

• 10,000 TAKES delivers the goods: mascot-referee violence in hockey.

• REUTERS alerts us that India’s Olympic air weapon competitors are so angry that they could shoot somebody. Fortunately for all involved, they’re angry because they’re out of ammo.
• MONDESI’S HOUSE points out that Seattle’s still a little pissy (and spitty) about the results of […]

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