• The Bronx Bombers blow up in a Tuesday night fight with the Blue Jays.

• And if Derek Jeter’s gonna brawl, he’s gonna need a mighty moustache.

• Seems that Wisconsin civic leaders have a problem with 12-year-old albino boys playing football with a tinted helmet visor.

• A Walter Payton statue in front of Soldier Field: A tribute to a Chicago Bears legend, or an insult to America’s veterans?

• ESPN will truly offer a college basketball marathon, as Monmouth & St. Peter’s agree to tip off at 6 a.m. Eastern.

Read more…

There’s a reason that rules and laws exist. We get that. Sure, sometimes we chafe under the authority of bosses or government or society, but without rules and laws, our perfect little society would devolve into some bizarre violent scene out of Waterworld, with roving gangs of urine-drinking Kevin Costners wreaking havoc on the post-apocalyptic landscape. There is no in between.

(Daywalker.)

But sometimes, man…sometimes rules are just stupid. Like, really stupid. Like, “it’s-illegal-to-hunt-camels-in-Arizona” stupid (no, that’s not actually the law). See that kid right there? That’s 12-year-old Graham Bartunek, and all he wants to do is play football.  But unfortunately, the stupid rules of the Oconomowoc (WI) Department of Parks and Recreation are getting in the way. Sometimes, rules were made to be broken.

Read more…