8:00 PM CSN Baltimore has video of Marcus Smith, a U.S. soldier who dressed as a minor league umpire to surprise his children at a Bowie Baysox game with a home visit from Afghanistan.
7:45 PM A Japanese Harley-Davidson motorcycle that was swept out to sea during last year's tsunami washed up on a shore in British Columbia last month. The bike's owner asked that the motorcycle be displayed at the Harley-Davidson Museum in Milwaukee as a memorial to the tsunami victims.
7:30 PM Buffalo Bills receiver David Clowneytweeted the results of his HIV test which came back negative. And to the critics of his decision to share his results, Clowney added: "Some people are Ridiculously stupid ... And can't see the bigger picture about things that are important in this world."
THIRTY-FIVE SECONDS, one of our new favorite college hoops blogs, posts about an otherwise ho-hum opening ACC win by Duke over Virginia yesterday (lo, for the days of Othell Wilson!).
But TFS does dig up something from the already-forgotten game that is linkworthy. Video of an attractive UVA coed (and Dave Matthews fan, no doubt) tell the chanting Cameron fans to “Shut the f*** up.“
(The St. Louis Billiken points to how low his team scored Thursday night, and the nearest rafter he’s going to hang himself from.)
The ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH passes the news that the Billikens lost to George Washington 49-20. The sour score set a new record for the fewest points in a game since the introduction of the shot chock.
And that’s just the beginning of a dreadful, demoralizing night in D.C.