down three points late in a game? Please remember that you don’t need to take a three-pointer!

When he Sharks were formed in 1991, the NHL technically dissolved the merger between the Barons & North Stars, with San Jose & Minnesota both taking part in the expansion draft. So the Sharks & Barons are kinda/sorta the same franchise. Since San Jose has never won, and the Stars’ win came after the anti-merger, I say…

I think I’d have been more surprised to learn that this guy didn’t sexually harass her.

Great read. Hugo Chavez???

Quite a close shave.

I actually kind of like this idea. In practice, though, the same effect would be achieved if you built a wall say 800 feet from home plate. I think the early baseball pioneers could not possibly have imagined the importance of the home run in the modern game. They probably decided on the “over-the-fence = HR” rule…

My wife (Borat voice) still has a customized ringtone. We’re the same age. I guess that makes us old.

First lefty knuckleballer since Wilbur Wood?

Same, although I think it might be the only 20 seconds I’ve ever heard of a softball broadcast so the bar was pretty low.

Well, fuh stahtiz, Pawtlind has Lillid, and da Kid from Lehigh. Denvuh has da European kid one a da Plumlees.

I don’t know but her husband pretty much guaranteed she won’t get invited anyplace else.

The NFL is bad, and gets way too much media coverage in the offseason. But I’ve had to unfollow several people on Twitter that I otherwise like because they won’t stop talking about dumb NBA feuds. They never stop.

In the rain!

I can’t remember exactly where I read this, but there was a study done a few years ago that whatever is ailing Rosenthal right now, a.k.a. Steve Blass or Rick Ankiel disease, is actually a physical condition and not, as most tend to assume, mental.  And since Rosenthal has struck out in all four of his MLB plate…

umm, a HBP is not a wild pitch. Rosenthal threw three WP today, not four.

That really didn’t look like a major penalty to me.

Khalil Greene?

Jared Kushner

Great point! Imagine if the NFL had let the Bills get sold to that dumb guy a few years ago.

At first I misread the part about Gruden’s last success coming during the GW Bush administration to mean that you were comparing Gruden’s lack of intellectual curiosity to Dubya’s. Which wouldn’t be inaccurate either.