Brooks Brothers Selling College Gear
The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.
Michigan Basketball Recruit in Coma after Second Plane Crash
A horrible tale: A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life. Austin Hatch, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., remained in critical condition Sunday in a northern Michigan hospital after the Friday [...]
What Not To Do If Your Team Loses
BBC (“Vancouver riot after hockey defeat“): Mobs of angry fans roamed central Vancouver after the game. Riot police in Vancouver used tear gas to quell violence that broke out after the Vancouver Canucks lost the final game of the Stanley Cup. Cars were set on fire and shops were looted following the ice hockey team’s [...]
NASCAR Driver Kyle Busch Clocked Going 128mph In A 45mph Zone
Perhaps Kyle Busch thought he was at Daytona Motor Speedway rather than a public street in North Carolina: NASCAR driver Kyle Busch offered a public apology Tuesday after he was ticketed for careless and reckless driving and speeding in North Carolina. Deputies said they clocked Busch doing nearly three times the posted speed limit, according [...]
NFL’s Ray Lewis Says There Will Be A Crime Wave If The NFL Lockout Continues
The Baltimore Ravens Ray Lewis warns the NFL that continuing the NFL lockout into the season could lead to a crime wave: Lewis said a lockout would impact more than just NFL players. “What we’re going through right now, we’re affecting way more than us,” he said. “Too many people live through us. People live [...]
Nerdiest Correction Ever
An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R. A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in “The Hobbit”; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins’s sword was called Sting.)
Indianapolis 500 To Donald Trump: You’re Fired
It appears that Donald Trump’s big mouth has caused him to be removed as the driver of the Official Pace Car at this year’s Indianapolis 500: A source affiliated with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway tells us Donald Trump will not be the driver of the pace car for this month’s 100th anniversary of the Indianapolis [...]
NFL Lockout That Was Off Now On Again
No sooner did players start coming back to team facilities, than the 8th Circuit granted the league’s request and issue as temporary stay of the injunction ending the lockout. “The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for a stay pending appeal,” the [...]
Mystery Solved: What Cubs Game Did Ferris Bueller See On His Day Off?
Larry Granillo of Baseball Prospectus decided to see if he could figure out if the Wrigley Field scenes in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off took place at an actual Cubs game: The scene finally shifts to Wrigley Field, where Ferris and company are sitting near the leftfield foul pole. Off in the distance, we can see [...]
White House Super Bowl Menu: Not Exactly Health Food
Politico has the menu for President Obama’s Super Bowl party: Here, according to the White House, is the menu for Sunday’s party: “Bratwurst, Kielbasa, Cheeseburgers, Deep Dish Pizza, Buffalo Wings, German Potato Salad, Twice Baked Potatoes, Snyders Potato Chips and Pretzels, Chips and Dips, Salad, Ice Cream. Beverages including the following beers: Hinterland Pale Ale [...]
Video Of Super Bowl I Finally Found
The Holy Grail of sports film has apparently been found: Football fans know what happened in Super Bowl I. The game, which was played on January 15, 1967, was the first showdown between the NFL and AFL champions. It ended with the Green Bay Packers stomping the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10. Unless they were one [...]
Chicago Car Salesman Fired For Wearing Packers Tie To Work
Apparently the Bears loss to Green Bay on Sunday is a sore subject in Chicago: With Chicago reeling from Sunday’s painful playoff loss, Monday morning probably wasn’t the best time for car salesman John Stone to share his love for the Green Bay Packers with co-workers and customers. But Stone, 34, proudly showed up for [...]
Luck to Stay at Stanford
So reports ESPN: Andrew Luck staying at Stanford "I am committed to earning my degree in architectural design from Stanford University and am on track to accomplish this at the completion of the spring quarter of 2012," Luck said in a statement. If that is what he wants to do, it is certainly his right [...]




































