Just to put it out there, Melky Cabrera did not launch this site…
College football fans, and that’s us, please bookmark pollspeak.com for its “Poll Stalker” link all season. After the initial Associated Press (AP) preseason poll was released Saturday, no shortage of hateboys condemned Bob Asmussen of the Champaign News-Gazette for voting Meeshagin No. 1 (you cannot spell Asmussen without “UM” and, well, I’ll leave it to you to find the other joke). Asmussen’s vote was fairly radical, but was it any more bizarre than the San Jose Mercury News’ Jon Wilner voting defending national champion Alabama 9th, behind four other SEC schools (Georgia, LSU, Arkansas and South Carolina?) Or Cecil Hurt of the Tuscaloosa News being the only one of the 60 voters who did not have Clemson in his Top 25? If you’re curious, Hurt, a terrific Twitter follow (and I never say that lightly) has the Tide No. 3.
Michigan, which will open versus No. 2 Alabama on September 1 at Jerry World, is 12-0 in September since Denard “Shoelace” Robinson joined the team (we know, Tate Forcier was the starter in ’09).
This is so Larry Crowne of Michael Beasley… The irony is that Beasley’s new team, the Phoenix Suns, had an estate sale of sorts themselves earlier this summer.
For the love of God, Tom, untuck!
He’s wearing matching Ole Miss shirt and shorts, so let’s not call Mitt Rommey a front-runner (“S-E-C!”) in the apolitical sense. Photo taken on lovely Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire, which was also the setting for “What About Bob?”, one of those funnier-than-you’d-think Bill Murray films from the early 1990s (“Baby steppin’ to the bus…”)
David Freese was named the World Series Most Valuable Player award last October, and deservedly so. Yesterday the St. Louis Cardinals’ third baseman goes 0-8 with three strikeouts in the Cards’ 19-inning loss to Pittsburgh. That’s baseball. In case you were wondering, Charlie Pick of the Boston Braves went 0-11 in a 26-inning marathon on May 1, 1920 versus the Brooklyn Dodgers. The game ended in a 1-1 tie.
Greg Stanton, the mayor of Phoenix, had been lobbying to practice with the Valley of the Sun’s WNBA franchise, the Mercury. Last week Stanton got his wish… and then he had his nose broken during a scrimmage in a collision with forward Nakia Sanford. What’s worse is that Mayor Stanton had a date for Saturday with star football player Doug Simpson, but now he’ll just have to tell him that “something suddenly came up.”
Uganda has Little League baseball?!?!? You knew this? Look at the fine print. The Ugandans have roughly one baseball glove for every 20 kids who play Little League ball. The Ugandans, who were eliminated from the Little League World Series yesterday, became the first squad from Africa to advance to Williamsport, Pa.
Wondering: Will Tampa have an Opening Ceremony for the GOP convention later this month and will Bush 41 skydive in from a helicopter?
Kobe Bryant scores 68 points in one half in a charity basketball game in China. A wire story says that Kobe’s opponents “featured a mix of Chinese pop singers, actors, and TV personalities, all of them possessing limited basketball ability.” Ladies and gentlemen, your 2013 Phoenix Suns!
Jeremy Guthrie of the Kansas City Royals flirted with a no-hitter into the 7th inning, but then she left with her friends after she noticed the tan line on his ring finger. If Guthrie had closed the deal, it would have been the 7th no-hitter this season, tying the MLB record set in 1990 and ’91.
The college football season will begin in less than two weeks and for the first time since 1945, Joe Paterno will not be playing or coaching.