2 shot foul.

I hate to be one of those anal people, but California University is not now, nor has it ever been "Cal". That is the University of California, Berkeley, a proud university that appears to be playing without defensive backs this year in a bold, but idiotic, experiment.

My first thought was, Jesus Christ, the Cubs must be completely deaf to the concept of karmic payback. And then I realized: the Cubs. They are to karma what fish are to the desert.

Well you right very well for someone with - uhm, let's say - your condition!?

It all depends on what Jerry Jones thinks.

My kids and I have a pact that the first one of us that appears on television will lead with "Apparently, this is my first time on live tv . . .", but we may have to incorporate the Calvin & Hobbes dance into our pact.

I grew up in the '70's when Ali had become the biggest athlete in the US (maybe the planet). I never liked him, because I felt he was a braggadocio and a dick. I still think that way, so his current status as "beloved" mystifies me. But I'm also a boxing aficionado and even when I was in my early teens I could see…

Another possibility: play foosball instead. It will likely produce the same level of "beautiful game" that playing in 100 degree heat will. FIFA - protecting the integrity of the game since 1904.

No one is denying he wasn't great in the past. Both articles are merely making the point that (1) Kobe has always been an asshole, (2) Kobe was once great, so people put up with his assholeishness, and (3) Kobe is a shadow of his former self so no one is willing to put up with his assholeishness anymore. Kobe was…

Yao is amazing; he doesn't really look that big until you see him next to someone you know is huge. Beasley is 6'9". When Howard signed with the Rockets, they published a picture of the great Rocket's centers (and coach Kevin McHale), and Yao makes 6'9" Elvin Hayes look like a little old man:

And the Sixers would let them.

His reaction time sucks, but once you know how to throw a punch, you never forget. The pony-tail doesn't take it seriously until its too late.

It was a nice moment when the Pittsburgh fans joined in towards the end of Jimerson's excellent rendition (of arguably the best national anthem in the world - and I'm not Canadian).

Does FIFA have a club/league ranking system the way they have a nation/region ranking system? I'd really like to know where the MLS falls relative to the EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga, etc.

I realize I am being horribly naive, but can someone explain to me why Walker is so popular to Wisconsin voters? I mean this sincerely. From what I can see, his supporters would logically include:

Our first child was a near 10 lbs. behemoth delivered by my hardcore wife (who is a rather slight woman) without any drugs (oh, she asked for them; it was just too late). Our second was even larger, but was breach (in fact, she was what they call "frank breach", which means she had one leg above her head), so we had a…

I'm a Cal guy and I agree with both gablesanderson3 and Timothy Burke: it was an awesome game and a bad game at the same time. Our defense is generally bad and our secondary is absolutely high-school level: we've given up 520, 449, and 734 passing yards in the last three games. But we've won two of them and barely…

I was at that game and it was kind of amazing how few people in the stands were aware we were watching potential history until way late in the game (like, the 8th inning). When most pitchers get past the the 3rd inning without allowing a baserunner, you are almost always impressed and the Perfecto enters your…

Thuggery, drunken louts, dicks; say what you want, that was a textbook right cross.

I've heard the final pronouncement as "Death it is. I pronounce death . . . by roo-roo!"