Austrian weightlifters competing for Germany!


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Wait a minute, the Olympics are on, and McDonalds has commercials on, but where's the game? You know, the one where you pull off the tabs on the fries and drinks and they give you a sport to watch the results of ( Read more... )

Time for a few answers...

First, braddumm asks: "Explain the moniker "Eggwards"Back in college all of the Tubads - the tuba section of the Univ. of Houston Marching Band - got nicknames. There's a some thought put into the names and a big naming ceremony for the new guys, much like what you see in "Animal House." I was given the nickname "Egg". Two ( Read more... )

Today two of the best guys to ever play baseball, Cal Ripken, Jr. and Tony Gwynn were inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. It's a good moment for the sport as lately there hasn't bee a lot of talk about the good guys. In the next few days we'll see one of the people that I think is a bad guy tie, and then pass the all time record for home ( Read more... )

➜First, a couple of sidelines. The coverage of the life of Lady Bird Johnson is interesting. I'm really surprised by her and what she did in an era when first ladies really weren't supposed to do anything. Now they are all supposed to have their pet causes. Lady bird doesn't seem like one to cause too much of a fuss, or be much of a feminist or ( Read more... )

I'd really much rather be watching the Colt's Offensive Line and the Bear's Brian Urlacher playing with puppies.

The commercials haven't been that entertaining, but the rain has made the game interesting.

While Chris and I were playing trivia at BW3 tonight I noticed an interesting poll on ESPN News. It's Mark McGwire's first opportunity to be on the ballot for the Baseball Hall of Fame, and of the Baseball Writers (those who vote on the Hall of Fame inductees) only 25% said that they would vote for McGwire on this ballot ( Read more... )

I still follow Houston news, partially because I like the Houston Chronicle better than the Dallas Morning News or the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. The other reason is that the Chronicle puts all of their comic strips on line (except for Sundays), so I usually read those at work, then skip over to the news part of their website. i can tell you about ( Read more... )

So if the news that Floyd Landis won the Tour de France wasn't a surprise to you, then you were probably one of the millions of americans who thought that no american had a chance at winning, and tuned the whole thing out. Why, since we Americans are a little self-centered, would we care when some other bloke wins a cycling race ( Read more... )

So tonight's headline reads "Amendment on Flag Burning Fails by One Vote in Senate." Really, i don't know whether to be happy, because it didn't pass, or sad that there's enough idiots in the Senate who would vote against our freedom to free speech and expression. Sure, it's a little loss, to be sure, but it just becomes one more domino in the ( Read more... )