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."
TO THINK WE THOUGHT C. WEIS WAS ALONE IN HIS DISDAIN The ALLENTOWN MORNING CALL reports a local minor league team called the Lehigh Valley IronPigs “announced it is replacing the winning entry in its ‘Name the Mascot’ contest from PorkChop to Ferrous.”
“The team said it switched the name when it was brought to its attention that the name PorkChop could potentially be offensive to members of the community. IronPigs General Manager Kurt Landes said he received a handful of e-mails and phone calls last night from people in the Latino community who called the name derogatory.“We’re like you, we thought this might be related to orthodox Jewish folks, or possibly the local Muslim population, but no, the protest came from a “handful” of Puerto Ricans living in the area.
But after reading the story, it appears that it was one man - and his family - who lead to the change: “Guillermo Lopez, a former Bethlehem Steel employee, said he was called pork chop when a co-worker wished to be insulting, particularly in his early days with the company 35 years ago.”
Oh yeah, Lopez also happens to be the vice president of something called the Latino Leadership Alliance. We’re sure that had nothing to do with the flaccid reaction of the minor league team GM (who shall remain nameless, in the interest of his safety from the unruly, onrushing Puerto Rican mobs).Well thank god Lopez straightened out the team. Now it’s on to every Waffle House menu in the Lehigh Valley! Onward!
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2010 OLYMPIC MASCOTS UNLEASHED TO A WEARY WORLD: Now the news you’ve all been waiting for - here come your 2010 Vancouver Olympics mascots!
The Vancouver Organizing Committee has unleashed their official marketing figures and set up a web site to introduce their creations to the world.We have Miga, a cute little sea bear; Quatchi, a young sasquatch; and Sumi, described as an “animal spirit” with the wings of a thunderbird and legs of a bear.
When visiting each character’s web page, Miga, Quatchi and Sumi proudly exclaim their name in Pokemon-like fashion when the mouse is moved over their images.
Upon closer examination, our new furry friends do bare a resemblance to the characters created for the 2008 Beijing Games. The IOC must have gotten a good 2-for-1 deal with the same graphic designer.
