Here's a modest proposal: The home team provides all the balls to be used during the game, which are turned over to the refereeing crew an hour prior to game time. Both teams use the same balls and none of this K-ball nonsense. And the same ball stays in play unless it becomes unsuitable for some reason or gets…

Rugby.

I think Miami's project is GPS-based. They are also working on an autonomous lawn mower. Engineers are awesome.

Miami University sees your R/C snow plow and raises you AUTONOMOUS SNOWPLOW!!

Neal Stephenson used the kinetic bombardment thing as an important plot element in his novel Anathem. Frightening stuff.

I grew up in Houston as a rabid Astros fan. This should be an easy one for Biggio - while I like the two different flying star logos, the star H is the classic emblem of the franchise and most fitting for the first player to go into the HoF as an Astro. Biggio wore that cap from 1988-93.

That's a slew foot right there.

I think that was the dulcet tones of Frankie Goes to Hollywood singing Power of Love, an appropriate 80s soundtrack for this one.

The tip tackle is no longer a real issue because players finally realized they are going to get dealt with severely if they lift an opponent and don't safely return him to ground. Those are easy Red Cards these days, so players have adjusted their technique. You can still crush an opponent (see, e.g., Samu Manoa and…

We don't have rules in rugby, we have LAWS!!!

+5 in the corner (missed the conversion)

Subarus.

I live in Westchester County just north of NYC. I frequently travel on the Hutchinson River Parkway. This road and the other parkways around the City were designed by Robert Moses, who has been accused by historians of designing the parkways with low bridges to deliberately prevent low income families (read blacks…

It worked for Axel Foley in Beverly Hills Cop 2. He should have told his boss he was going deep, deep, deep, DEEP undercover.

I live in NY now but donated to Kinky's gubernatorial campaign, partially because anything would be better than Rick Perry but mostly for the merchandise. I need to dig the talking Kinky action figure out of storage.

And "They Ain't Makin' Jews Like Jesus Anymore" is about confronting bigotry head-on. I heartily recommend folks find a copy of "Pearls in the Snow," an album of some pretty high-caliber country artists covering Kinky's songs. My favorites include "Ride 'Em Jewboy" (a Holocaust song) covered by Willie Nelson and "Sold…

True story: I grew up going to the summer camp run by Kinky's parents near Kerrville, Texas, deep in the Hill Country. Kinky lived in a trailer on the camp grounds and often led song time with the kids. Old Ben Lucas was a camp favorite. Kinky is the best.

My 17-year old kid has celiac - he was mostly asymptomatic for years and we had no idea until an endocrinologist came up with a positive test, subsequently confirmed by endoscopy. Now that he's gotten off gluten, if he does accidentally eat something with wheat - soy sauce is often a culprit - he is prone to severe…

I miss the 1984 Isuzu Impulse I had my senior year of high school (1988). Loved that car.