Outdoor reading, Knights of Columbus fish fry, drinking club yesterday. Wife and kids gone for the weekend, Final Four games, and more outdoor reading today. It's a good weekend. Call me a nerd, but I was so excited about my free day that I woke up at 3:30 and couldn't get back to sleep. Of course, I had also fallen asleep on the couch at 8:30 last night while watching the Pistons game (a throwback to my pre-children days), so I'm not skimping too much on my sleep.
Dale Price has had a few good posts in the past 24 hours:
*These duncical t-shirts from the NIT champions:
It's obviously a typo, and we all make typos. But on a t-shirt to be displayed nationwide on TV? Maybe the screener did it on purpose so he can sell them on eBay as collector's items.
*A new blog dedicated to Catholic dads.
*He also provided a link to my former stomping grounds: The Detroit River webcam. This link goes to Dale's site, not to the webcam. I tried to download the webcam and it shut down all my Mozilla Firefox windows, so I don't trust it now.
What do cheerleaders and soccer players have in common? They both lobby hard to make people believe they're engaged in sports.** But the cheerleaders appear to be taking their bid too far:
Emergency room visits for cheerleading injuries nationwide have more than doubled since the early 1990s, and the rate of life-threatening injuries has startled researchers. Of 104 catastrophic injuries sustained by female high school and college athletes from 1982 to 2005 – head and spinal trauma that occasionally led to death – more than half resulted from cheerleading, according to the National Center for Catastrophic Sports Injury Research. All sports combined did not surpass cheerleading.
NYT Link.
Top 100 April Fool's jokes of all time. Excerpt:
In its April 1985 edition, Sports Illustrated published a story about a new rookie pitcher who planned to play for the Mets. His name was Sidd Finch and he could reportedly throw a baseball with startling, pinpoint accuracy at 168 mph (65 mph faster than anyone else has ever been able to throw a ball). Surprisingly, Sidd Finch had never even played the game before. Instead, he had mastered the "art of the pitch" in a Tibetan monastery under the guidance of the "great poet-saint Lama Milaraspa." Mets fans everywhere celebrated at their teams's amazing luck at having found such a gifted player, and Sports Illustrated was flooded with requests for more information.
Live Science says medieval justice wasn't so medieval. 1, 2. Thanks Catholic Lite.
Enjoy the Spring weather.
**Later addendum: I'm not saying soccer isn't a sport. It is. I am saying, however, that soccer players tend to be rather defensive about their sport because many Americans (including me) don't put it on par with the Big Four (football, baseball, basketball, hockey), for reasons that can't be adequately addressed in fewer than 5,000 words. I probably should've saved this topic for later; it would've gotten the comboxes rockin'.
