ESPN’s Pac-10 blogger, Ted Miller, reports that Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott is attempting to shoot down yesterday’s report that an en masse membership offer to the entire Big 12 South, minus the fat kid (Baylor), plus the cool hippie (Colorado), is imminent: Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott released a statement on the matter to The Sporting News: “We are aware of… Read more »
If this report is correct — and the sourcing sounds solid — we may soon be looking at a Pac-16 instead of a Pac-10: According to “multiple sources close to the situation,” the Pac-10 plans to offer conference membership to six Big 12 teams at its conference meeting in San Francisco, forming a 16-team behemoth that spans the entire Western… Read more »
Bud Selig is reportedly “considering the unusual move of overturning the call at first base on Wednesday in Detroit that cost Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.” The New York Times‘s Tyler Kepner invokes an interesting analogy to make the case that Selig shouldn’t do it: It was not a perfect game. The game continued after Joyce awarded Jason… Read more »
"Smug liberal?" HAHAHA.
Baseball almost had its third perfect game in a month tonight. Correction: baseball did have its third perfect game in a month tonight, but the record books won’t reflect that fact, because an umpire blew the call on (what should have been) the game’s final play: Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game Wednesday… Read more »
This is a near-verbatim transcript of a conversation between me and my 2-year-old daughter one day last week. Background: she is obsessed with asking, and being asked, the question “how was your day?” She sometimes asks it when it makes no sense, like at 7:30 AM, or when we’ve been together all day. And even when it’s a logical question,… Read more »
So, I was taking some pictures this evening of USC national championship paraphernalia around the house, preparing for a future blog post in the unhappy eventuality that, sometime soon, some of said paraphernalia may refer to events that, according to the NCAA, never happened. In the course of this, I took the following picture of an item that refers to… Read more »
As noted earlier, today is Atlantic hurricane season’s opening day. But the Pacific hurricane season starts a half-month earlier, on May 15, and it has already produced a landfalling system — Tropical Storm Agatha — which has killed more than 150 people in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and produced this enormous, building-swallowing sinkhole in Guatemala City: Photo courtesy of… Read more »
Happy Monday Tuesday! In need of something new to worry about? Start off the new week, and month, right — with a new source of PANIC!!!!!!!!!: [A new plant-blighting virus, called] brown streak, is now ravaging cassava crops in a great swath around Lake Victoria, threatening millions of East Africans who grow the tuber as their staple food. Although it… Read more »
Today is the “official” start date, climatologically speaking, of the Atlantic hurricane season. As I’ve pointed out before, it’s really an arbitrary date, with no special significance except that the National Hurricane Center begins publishing its Tropical Weather Outlook four times a day. Speaking of which: TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 800 AM EDT TUE JUN… Read more »