Calm, cool, dignified = Comic Sans? | MetaFilter. reaction from the owner of the Cavs about Lebron leaving town.

Bill Simmons: Countdown to LeBronocalypse. some great commentary on the NBA free agent insanity.

Magazine Preview – Mariano Rivera, King of the Closers – NYTimes.com. yup, he’s a robot.

Soccer Shennanigans. nothing like scoring an own goal to tie a game and then having to defend both nets. unreal. via ram.

Charlie Rose – An appreciation of John Wooden. Wooden, who is regarded by some as the greatest coach in American sport history, passed away last week. This interview excerpt is really quite amazing.

the_vuvuzela on Twitter. bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Opening weekend – 2010 World Cup – The Big Picture – Boston.com. couple awesome game shots.

Armando Galarraga and the Perfect Asterisk – NYTimes.com. interesting comment on the botched perfect game and how it’s perfect for baseball.

Missed call ends Galarraga’s perfect bid | MLB.com: News. Pitcher from the Tigers threw a perfect game only to have the umpire blow it on a call in the last out. absolutely insane.


Write The Future. I can only image the budget on that ad. The Ronaldinho bit with youtube and Kobe Bryant is great.

Panic Blog » The Official Panic Basketball Team. that is plain awesome. granted, volunteering to be a inner city basketball coach is even more awesome. via ram.

What If Everybody in Canada Flushed At Once?. a graph of water consumption in Edmonton during the gold medal hockey game. people were really holding it until intermission.

Four Seconds – thestar.com. a frame by frame breakdown of Crosby’s gold medal goal.

FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right: Sports. turns out fivethirtyeight is doing daily updates of medal results based on predictions. the US is doing surprisingly well.

Worst NBA Teams – ESPN. The Nets are doing so bad this year that ESPN has this page to let you compare their track record to other horrible teams.

Norwegian 19-year-old crowned world chess champ. damn.

As Hawaii’s Seas Roil, Surfers Await the Big One – NYTimes.com. it’s like the end of Point Break.

rc3.org – Which analysis is worth paying for?. interesting comment about main-stream reporting versus blogger reporting of a recently disputed call by Patriot’s coach Bill Belichick.

Mets Fans Have Choice of Two Evils in World Series – NYTimes.com. “This, my friends, is Baseball Armageddon, there is no happy ending. The next two weeks are going to be the worst two weeks on earth.” ha.

On the Way to the N.F.L. Draft, a Year of Fulfillment in England for Rolle – NYTimes.com. a rhode scholar who played safety at Florida State. crazy.