Easy. An air tanker fighting a nearby forest fire picked up a bucket of water, the shark was picked up with the bucket and dropped on the ground. (H/T Mordecai Richler)

My first reaction was Bill Self = Joe Paterno. Sure a crime has been committed, but no need to make this public and treat it like a “crime” . . . let’s handle it in-house.

People keep pretending that US sports is cleaner than other countries. There’s no reason to think that it is. The actions of USADA deserve the same degree of skepticism that we apply to stories about the rest of global sports.

I always assumed ESPN’s show was a pale rip-off of the Chicago show. It was always entertaining to watch Gleason, Jauss, and the others sit around a bare table, smoke cigars, and talk.

+1

Portland, OR, yesterday, from my study.

DON’T DO IT! The only way to watch Sunny is to binge watch from the beginning to the end - as many as you can watch in one sitting before you need to either take a shower or drink heavily because of our impending doom.

Thanks for posting. After Hamilton Nolan’s posting of Trump voters “explaining” their reasons for voting for Trump, this restores at least a little joy to my life.

Ah, good times. Thanks - made my day!