Eric Stephen of TrueBlueLA.com Twits this priceless quip from Vin Scully about a team that has all but quit:

Vin Scully, on #Dodgers: “Admittedly you have to hold the mirror to the mouth to see the breath, but they’re still mathematically alive.”
Sadly, Los Angeles is one of the last holdouts from baseball’s Brave New World of […]

The Mountain West announced today on its official Twitter feed that it, “has extended an offer of membership to California State University, Fresno and the University of Nevada, Reno.”

Two Salt Lake City outlets reported today that BYU will soon leave the Mountain West conference and go independent in football while joining the WAC for all […]

Jay Drew and Tony Jones of the SALT LAKE TRIBUNE report Wednesday:

Brigham Young University will leave the Mountain West Conference, go independent in football and rejoin the Western Athletic Conference in all non-football sports beginning in the fall of 2011, The Salt Lake Tribune confirmed Wednesday morning.
According to a source in the WAC office, BYU […]

Here’s a fun photo of Mike Tomlin recently sent in by a reader:

(Andy Rooney wants his hat back)
Harmless fun. I posted the photo because I thought the ALTOONA (PA) MIRROR, reporting from Steelers training camp today, summed up the pic rather nicely:

In the aftermath of my report yesterday that BYU will decide whether or not to leave the Mountain West Conference by Sept. 1, KSL radio in Salt Lake City reports this morning:

BYU Associate Athletic Director Duff Tittle declined to comment on Internet rumor, but instead referred to earlier statements from Athletic Director Tom Holmoe saying […]