Starting Five
1. Of course the team that scored the fewest points in the NFL preseason scored the most (48) in Week One. J-E-T-S, Jets! Jets! Jets!
2. “AAPL hits all-time high.” Again. Apple has become the Sergey Bubka of record-breaking stocks, no?
3. Wimbledon. Olympic gold medal. U.S. Open. It is the Summer of Serena.
Straight Outta Compton: Sportswoman of the Year, SI?
4. American males, faced with a Sunday evening devoid of Mad Men or Breaking Bad (or alliterative shows of any sort: We couldn’t find The Brady Bunch or Gossip Girl, either), tune in to Sunday Night Football and give it the highest rating for any prime-time NFL contest in 15 years.
5. Chicago’s public school teachers go on strike. Warm weather, 400,000 idle youths and the murder capital of the USA. What could possibly go wrong?
Reserves
Last week Houston lost its season opener and two days later offensive coordinator Mike Nesbitt resigned/was fired. This week? The Cougars still lost, 56-49 to La Tech, but rolled up 693 yards of total offense in a game that set four NCAA records (for two teams in one game): offensive plays (209), first downs (78), completed passes (87) and passes attempted without an interception (129).
Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively tied the knot. Or was it Jason Bateman in Ryan Reynolds’ body?
They’re not… Just Friends
In his NFL debut, Cleveland Brown quarterback Brandon Weeden was sacked twice by the Philadelphia Eagles and once by Old Glory.
At about the time Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were getting married, stories were appearing that Ryan Lochte had a “huge crush” on the bride.
One day shy of eleven years after 9/11, here is a stunning photo of One World Trade Center as it nears completion.
How did Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson get sideline passes for the Purdue-Notre Dame game? They told Fighting Irish SID Brian Hardin that they were the co-owners of an emerging maple syrup conglomerate. Works every time.
“Rule 72: No excuses. Play like a champion (today?)”
Today’s moment of irony is brought to you by the New York Port Authority.
After its overtime loss to Louisiana Monroe Doctrine, Arkansas suffers an historic fall, plummeting from 8th to unranked in the AP poll. When officers arrived on the scene to investigate, the Razorbacks contended that they were riding alone and that they simply lost control of the game.