Having covered this story from the beginning, we are beginning to wonder just where Michael LeMaitre’s body could be. And by that we mean, Is he even on Mount Marathon? Guarantee this will be an Outside magazine cover story within the next 12 months.
Mount Marathon, Seward, Alaska
How awful was Jered Weaver last night? The Angels’ ace, who took the mound leading baseball in both ERA and WHIP, allowed seven runs in the fourth inning although his official line will say he pitched three innings (you’re intelligent, you’ll figure it out). Weaver allowed nine earned runs before being yanked in the fourth inning in the Angels’ loss to the Tampa Bay Rays of St. Petersburg. In the past week Weaver has tripled his loss total this season, from one to three, and gone from leading baseball in ERA (2.30) to being in ninth place (2.74).
Dash Sandecki, a Gilbert (Ariz) Higley High School linebacker, leads the state in tackles a full two weeks before the season begins.
America’s shortest “tallest building”, Decker Towers in Burlington, Vt. At 124 feet, 23 of which are an antenna spire, no state’s tallest building rises to a lesser height.
Decker Towers: Feel free to put the latter word in quotes
It was only a matter of time before all the defections out of Happy Valley led to other players gleaning an opportunity to play for a bigger-name program than, say, the Akron Zips. The “We Are” gang welcomes wide receiver Jared Fagnano, whose brother Jake is already a safety for the Nittany Lions. This isn’t just a football story. It’s an osmosis story.
These dudes eventually got their man, but why did it need to be more arduous than a Reno 911 arrest? They could stand to take a lesson from Dash Sandecki.
Acceptable topless magazine cover model. Unacceptable topless magazine cover model. Go ahead and make the “Who has bigger jugs?” joke.
“Compliance”, starring no one we’ve ever heard of, has the top rating (91%) on Rotten Tomatoes of any film opening this weekend. How long has John Infante been rating films for Rotten Tomatoes?
Anchor Steam
We love local news anchors & reporters, i.e. “the talent”. The only thing we love more than local news talent is the obligatory bios that appear on their station’s websites. Years of thorough research has taught us, for example, that female anchors are either married with two children or single with a beloved pet named Taffy. Because it is our duty and honor to serve you, the reader who pays nothing, we hope to feature one anchor each week or, more likely, whenever the mood strikes us. Today’s anchor (drumroll)…
Name: Kellie MacMullan
Market (rank): Sacramento (20th)
Married or Pet? Single, Annabelle, a basset hound
Kellie Kellie Kellie Kellie Kellie Kellie K-E-L-L-I-E Kellie
Joe Po on Joe Pa
If you are keeping track of the excerpts from Joe Posnanski’s biography, “Paterno” which, unlike Jerry Sandusky, is soon to be released, you can answer us this. How is it that the former Penn State football coach knew the meaning of “omniscient” (“I’m not omniscient!”) but not the meaning of “sodomy” (“What does ‘sodomy’ mean?”). In Paterno’s defense, the first declarative statement is a sound argument for the latter interrogative statement.
Musing: Last night I thought I was watching the Little League World Series but then I realized it was just the right-field porch at Yankee Stadium.