KUSA is reporting that the balloon compartment was empty. Was boy ever in there? Where is Falcon? Hoax by Heene family? (RT @SleepoverRover)
6-year-old boy stuck, alone, in airborne balloon thingy northeast of Denver, thousands of feet up. Live video: http://bit.ly/4g5txT
In my post on the BCS pecking order last weekend, LSU fan Matt Wiser made an excellent, horrifying point that I hadn’t thought of. There is actually a very real possibility of a Florida-Alabama BCS championship game — an all-SEC matchup for all the marbles, causing Hitler and I to protest: “HOW THE F*** DO WE KNOW THEY’RE SO GOOD IF THEY ONLY EVER PLAY EACH OTHER?!” 🙂
The way this happens is not for the Gators and Tide to both go undefeated, reach the SEC title game ranked #1 and #2, play a thriller at the Georgia Dome, and hope the voters set up a January rematch. That won’t happen. So long as there’s another undefeated or one-loss team from a BCS conference available (possibly other than Virginia Tech, if Alabama is the one that loses in Atlanta; see Stewart Mandel on that topic), the voters will find somebody to place ahead of the SEC runner-up. We learned in 2006 that the voters don’t like rematches, and even the mystique and aura of the SEC won’t be enough to change that, methinks.
But there’s another scenario — one also noted by SI.com’s Andy Staples in his most recent Power Rankings — that could very easily produce an all-SEC matchup for the mythical national championship. It goes like this:
Stafon Johnson surprises the Trojans at Thursday team meeting: http://bit.ly/RAeMZ (RT @TrojanWire @LisaHorne @PeteCarroll)
…and you’ll see this:
(Hat tip: SpaceWeather.com.)
Bonus, here in Denver at least: an International Space Station flyover (albeit in a different part of the sky). To see if the ISS is visible from your location tomorrow morning, at the same time as Venus, the slender crescent Moon, Saturn and Mercury (and also Mars, overhead), check out the Simple Satellite Tracker or Heavens-Above.
“Even if the Irish win out [after a loss to USC], they might be considered the worst 10-2 team in recent memory.” http://bit.ly/2NyIms. I’m not sure this is fair, but I’m afraid it’s probably an accurate description of the likely perception. It’s a shame — Notre Dame’s schedule is not nearly as bad as people make it out to be: http://bit.ly/1jGqLT
If you were a kid in the late 80’s and early 90’s chances are you saw The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. The 52 episode series ran Monday through Friday and featured live actors playing the characters of Mario and Luigi. You may remember it for its memorable opening theme song. Mario was played by “Captain” Lou Albano, who passed away Wednesday, at the age of 76.
While kids knew him as the real life version of the star of one of their favorite video games, he was actually more well known to adults. Captain Lou was a 42 year veteran of the WWF (now WWE). He won numerous matches, championships, and awards during his time in the ring and was eventually inducted into the WWF/WWE Hall of Fame.
During the 80’s Albano helped usher in a new mainstream appeal of Pro-Wrestling when he appeared in a number of singer Cyndi Lauper’s music videos. WWF owner Vince McMahon was inspired by this and soon a cross-promotion, Rock’n’Wrestling, was designed involving Lauper and other members of the music industry.
After wrestling Albano went on to appear in a number of television shows and a movie. He co-authored a book on pro-wrestling and later a memoir.
Albano is survied by his wife, 4 children and 14 grand-children.
Fun fact: 70% of Notre Dame’s scholarship players were not on the team the last time ND scored a touchdown against USC. http://bit.ly/48C1XJ
