I just want to say that this is an extremely helpful and clarifying comment. I was also confused how this cheating occurred, and the article doesn’t offer up much of an explanation. .

He was caught cheating and DQed from the Vermont 100 in 2012.

Across the Years is run at Camelback Ranch, the Dodgers/White Sox Spring Training facility. The course is not a circular track, but a 1.05 mile course meandering around and between the practice fields.

Get this idiot in Desert Solstice and see how he does!

Having run/volunteered at Across the Years the past few years, it’s as much festival as race. For someone to feel the need to habitually cheat there is mind-boggling.

This is bullshit.

Thank goodness we’re a basketball school now.

The Dodgers should bring in Scottie Pippin to instruct their pitchers on the art of not tipping.

According to a Houston player, the Astros often knew what Darvish was about to throw by the way he brought the ball into his glove in the set position.

The only way the Eagles have a shot at a deep playoff run now is if they take drastic steps and bring aboard a player whose very presence might cause a huge distraction due to his off-the-field racial statements.

Trammell being voted in will hopefully help a light get shined on Whitaker... because in many years Trammell wasn’t even the best middle infielder on his team.

I think you know this, but fielding percentage is a rather inefficient way of judging fielding. In fact, it’s incredibly inefficient. At best, it only tells you half the story. An infielder who gets to every ball, but makes an errant throw on a few of them will see his fielding percentage suffer, while a statue in the…

Jack Morris, a teammate of Trammell’s in Detroit, was also elected.

I took in two cats a few years ago. I named one Whitaker because he was polydactyl and he could catch anything. We took in another non-polydactyl from the same litter and I named him Trammell. My wife didn’t get the joke and named him Tennyson. Whitaker was great. Tennyson got all the credit.

And why shouldn’t he go in? He’s like the Lou Whitaker of shortstops! Only, you know, white.

It’s not a “fake accolade.” They don’t pick names out of a hat when they put a belt on somebody. It’s a combination of in-ring ability, drawing power on TV, PPV, and the gate, and reliability/work ethic. So if they write a “story line which leads to somebody playing a champion,” as you so reductively put it, think…

It’s not real to me at all. I just don’t understand the point of someone being an asshole about it like it’s somehow still a secret that wrestling is fake. I know that Robert Downey Jr. isn’t actually Iron Man, either, but I still enjoy watching those stories as well.

Ah, you folks are fun. I guess since we’re being technical, my suggestion is to “attempt procreation with yourself”.

Man, those jerseys are TIGHT.

Their scheme went so far it doped the White House.