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Saturday marked the 25th anniversary of the conclusion of the longest professional baseball game ever. If you’ve ever groaned after watching a scoreboard operator reset the inning display, if you’ve ever rooted against your team just so the damn game would end or if you’ve ever felt a twinge of disappointment after the home team [...]

Great Slate article on intellectuals and soccer.

I’m not above admitting that I let out a hearty yelp on Saturday afternoon when the U.S. almost took the lead against Italy. It was called back, however — something about being offsides — and the U.S. team left the “pitch” with a tie — not “nil-nil” but 1-1.
The apparent apathy in this country (next [...]

I’ve been meaning to post about my feelings regarding Monday’s horrendous loss to the Czech Republic. Until now, emotion has had my typing fingers in a rigor.
Thanks to this blogger, for laying out all the legitimate criticisms of the U.S. loss to the Czech Republic in last Monday’s World Cup opener.
For anyone [...]

As the Sonics fight for more of tax money, Josh Feit reminds us why the deal’s such a stinker. We’re going to pay for $200M in remodels, double the square footage, and somehow only gain 425 seats. Jeebus, that sounds like a waste of taxpayer money. There will be some expanded luxury [...]

1) Where is Vince Young when you need him?
2) I bet Hamas is p*ssed.
3) I didn’t realize that Scalia had a moonlighting gig.
Thanks very much. I’ll be here all week.

In the NFL’s perfectly orchestrated circus, Hall of Fame inductees are announced annually on the eve of the Super Bowl.
This year’s electees iinclude the great defensive lineman Reggie White. Despite a stellar career - and a reputation as a genuinely model citizen - White was not without his controversies.
Still, at the announcement of his [...]

Via Slog, we see that The National Review has taken Matski’s bait on the metaphorical implications of Pittsburgh v. Seattle in the Superbowl:
GO STEELERS! [Michael Novak]
So it’s steeltown America on the rise, the rough and the ready, not a rich team but always fighting and always playing smash-mouth, and running hard, and slashing… and I [...]

While I’ll be the first to admit that it’s easy to get carried away applying sports metaphors to real life, I’m intrigued by this year’s Super Bowl matchup, pitting “Old Blue” Dems Pittsburgh vs. “New Blue” Dems Seattle.
In a year that will prove to be a major test of the Democrat’s ability to thrive as [...]

Zach Lund, the top U.S. skeleton competitor has been suspended from the Olympic team after testing positive for an illegal substance — Propecia:
Jim Shea Sr., president of the United States Bobsled and Skeleton Federation, confirmed that Lund, who holds the No. 1 ranking in the world, tested positive for using Propecia, an anti-baldness drug.
“It’s on [...]