| Expect the unexpected in NL
They were an out away from making it a bottom-feeders clean sweep, but Brian Giles shook some life into the Padres with a home run of extraordinary significance. What have you done for me lately seems to be an appropriate theme as we head into the final few days. Giles had done nothing and was in the midst of a miserable slump before his heroics. Meanwhile, there certainly must be some folks in New York and Philadelphia getting concerned, considering the way the Mets and Phillies are playing. Right on cue, as some teams fall down, others pick up the slack in a big way. In this case, those two teams are the Rockies and Braves. Either club would be a great comeback story in a season of great comeback stories. The way things are going, there's been some chatter about potential six-way tie scenarios for the NL's wild-card spot.
Jeff Thelen's Blog
Thought you'd like this one. At church a few weeks back, a couple renewed their wedding vows to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary. The preacher asked them where they were married. The groom replied "Saint So-and-sos. And a short time after our wedding the church burned down and the priest died." Without missing a beat my preacher said "Would you mind if we did this outside?" I had the luck of being at the Packer game last Sunday. What a game and what a day! After spotting the Seahawks 14-points, the Packers looked like an absolutely unstoppable team. And when that snow fell down, it was like being inside a snow globe, you couldn't see the people who were sitting in the stands on the other side of the stadium. But it wasn't cold! In fact, I kept my gloves off for most of the game.
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THEY like it spicy down here in South Carolina. Locals pour hot sauce on their catfish, on their grits, even on their greens. Their politics is spicy too. Charleston, a city with some of the richest and poorest people in the state within spitting distance, has a political scene "as gothic as New York City," a local journalist says. Some folks who live in the historic mansions in Old Charleston actually commute to New York regularly. Meanwhile North Charleston has pockets of desperate poverty, and there are people living in run-down trailers not far outside town. The polls are open today in a state that has once again reminded America of its reputation for hard-ball politics. After all the antics of the past week, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and John Edwards are in the hands of Democratic primary voters.
Crocodile Bites Man's Hand Off
April 11: The severed lower left arm of Taiwanese veterinarian Chang Po-yu is seen in the jaws of a crocodile. April 11: A medic rushes Taiwanese zookeeper Chang Po-yu to the hospital after a crocodile bit off his lower left arm. April 11: A Taiwanese policeman fires at a crocodile after it bit off the lower left arm of a veterinarian in an attempt to recover the lost limb. April 11: The severed lower left arm of Taiwanese veterinarian Chang Po-yu is seen in the jaws of a crocodile. April 11: The severed lower left arm of Taiwanese veterinarian Chang Po-yu is seen in the jaws of a crocodile. April 12: Taiwanese zookeeper Chang Po-yu waves from his hospital bed after having his hand reattached. April 11: A zoo employee tries to retrieve the severed arm of a Taiwanese veterinarian, unseen, bitten off by a crocodile.
Herschel’s new book; UGA’s hoops future
Wow, what a weird day. I meant to post earlier but I ended up spending all afternoon chasing a bizarre story on Herschel Walker. If you haven't seen it yet, apparently Walker has written an autobiography called "Breaking Free" that will be published by Simon and Schuster and released on August 12 this summer. It's about — and I confirmed this through the publisher — Walker living with multiple-personality disorder. Very little information is available about the book (which you can preorder for $24.95 at Amazon.com) and, as anybody in this business can tell you, you can get the Pope on the phone easier than you can Herschel Walker. So I've left messages all over the place but we can't reach him to talk about it. Meanwhile, I talked to Vince Dooley and Frank Ros, two of Herschel's closest friends here in Georgia, and neither of them knew anything about Herschel having MPD or any other psychological disorder and certainly not that he was writing a book about it.
Leon Neyfakh
The Associated Press's Hillel Italie got in touch with romance literature's queen bee Nora Roberts yesterday and asked her what she thinks of the plagiarism accusations that have been hurled in recent days at Cassie Edwards, “the world's most prolific and popular author of Native American historical romance." Ms. Edwards, who, like Ms. Roberts, is published by an imprint of Penguin Group USA, admitted this week to “taking" passages from reference books and magazines after a website about romance lit posted side-by-side comparisons of passages from her book Shadow Bear and an article about black-footed ferrets from Defenders of Wildlife. Ms. Edwards has said she didn't realize she was supposed to cite sources, explaining that “When you write historical romances, you're not asked to do that." read more » .
Lethargic Magic fail to warm up
Beer in hand, Tiger Woods settled into his courtside seat just before tipoff of the Orlando Magic's nationally televised game Thursday night at Amway Arena.
He wasn't around for the second half. The golf superstar has seen routs like this before, from the Chicago Bulls' point of view.
Tiger knows drama, just as TNT knows drama -- and there was none in the Magic's dreadful 100-76 loss to the Bulls.
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