Sports Illustrated article on a the dribble-drive motion offense that’s sweeping college and high school basketball.

Patriots’ Season Perfect For Rest Of Nation | The Onion. ha.

All Too Perfect. Chuck Klosterman on how the Patriots would be more legendary if they lose the superbowl.

Chess Master Bobby Fischer Dead at 64. man, even tom cruise would say this guy is nuts.

Big wave surfing at Cortes Bank (kottke.org). the photos on these sites look nuts.

The Rarest of NBA Treats: a Game Protest is Granted - TrueHoop. they’re going to replay the last 51 seconds of the game. for real.

top 25 individual seasons

ESPN’s Page 2 has a great article up right now about the top 25 individual seasons of all time across all sports (or sports popular in the US). There’s a couple facts which I find particularly ridiculous because they put everyone else’s career totals to shame or seem to just rub it in…

  • Barry Sanders, Oklahoma State Cowboys, 1988 - “Sanders had four 300-plus rushing games that season — more than anyone else has had in a career.”
  • Martina Navratilova, 1984 - 74 straight wins, 13 straight singles titles, 3 major championships. “To top it off, Navratilova and doubles partner Pam Shriver won all four majors and did not lose a match all year.”
  • Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, 1992-93 - “Lemieux finished the season with 160 points (69 goals, 91 assists) and won the Art Ross Trophy despite missing 24 games” and coming back from cancer!
  • Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Warriors, 1961-62 - “Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds. [...] To put all this in perspective, take Tim Duncan’s best scoring and rebounding season — then double it.” and “He set the NBA record with 4,029 points — Michael Jordan is the only other player in league history to crack even 3,000. Chamberlain scored 50-plus points 45 times. Just how impressive is that? Michael Jordan cracked 50 points 37 times in his entire career.”

Serfs of the Turf - New York Times. Michael Lewis on the hypocritical business of “amateur” college football.

Steep - Trailer. really fucking steep. I’d love to see a movie like this in Imax.

o’mitchell report

Some of you might have heard about the Mitchell Report which came out yesterday and named a long list of baseball players connected with using performance enhancing drugs. I’m sure ESPN commentators have been crafting their dismay for months now and are climbing over each other for a chance to appear altruistic on Sports Center.

Seeing how many names were on the list made me think about how the Onion might report on such an event. Since they don’t have an article on the topic, I’ll take a stab at it:

Today, the less publicized “O’Mitchell Report” was released. Coming in at a stunning 1/4 page length, the report names the 3 major leaguers who were NOT using performance enhancing drugs during the 2007 season. The list includes the likes of former Tampa Bay outfielder Elijah Dukes and the Pirates’ Matt Kata.

Unlike Kata, who will be reporting to the Pirates AA affiliate in 2008 (the Altoona Curve in Altoona, PA), Dukes managed to be traded to the Washington Nationals for future unnamed prospects. Dukes, who spent the majority of last year being utterly dominated by juiced AL East pitchers, expressed mixed emotions after reading the O’Mitchell report. “Today I feel quite vindicated for my poor showing ‘07 but can’t help and wonder why my fellow teammates, some of whom I consider close friends, didn’t reach out and offer me these performance enhancing drugs when I was in such a slump”, said Dukes. He added, “Hopefully Washington will offer some better hook-ups. My wife and I are expecting our first child and I really can’t take the chance of getting sent back to the minors.”

Torontoist: Super Jamario. “If you haven’t been following the Raptors too closely this season, it’s possible that you may have missed one of the greatest stories in professional sports at the moment.” the second highlight reel has some crazy blocks. via ram.

The Kick Is Up and It’s … A Career Killer - New York Times. fantastic article by Michael Lewis on the life of a NFL field goal kicker. This video montage of “greatest” field goals over at nfl.com has most of the Adam Vinateri highlights talked about in the article.

gladwell.com: Kenyan Runners. they run a shit load in kenya.

ESPN - Barry Bonds indicted on perjury, obstruction charges. it’s interesting that lying about it is a bigger crime than admitting you took it.


“the secret to flight is hammerpants”. via sean.

MLB rips off fans who bought DRM videos - Boing Boing. they switched DRM providers and all old licenses just don’t work anymore. MLB is so ass backwards.

ESPN - Shay dies during U.S. Olympic marathon trials. supposedly this guy was one of the top marathon runners in America and he just dropped dead during a run.


seattle high school cheerleader getting mauled. thanks to the tv producer who did the slo-mo and replays.

Video of probably the ugliest football play ever which won a division III championship. there’s like 20 people in attendance and the play looks like something i might have done in super tecmo bowl.

Yankees Decline Wild Card | The Onion “Please don’t patronize us with by making us the wild card. The New York Yankees aren’t wild cards. We’re the New York Yankees, for God’s sake.”