What happens when you merge NASCAR with the sport of kings? Magic, my friends. Oh, and two horses colliding during a warmup on the Churchill Downs racetrack. I gave this a closer look and I swear I saw glue squirt out from the impact. I’m assuming that was the magic part.
I understand that now they’ll be posting signs near the track to better enforce traffic, but horses cannot read. They are horses. Those signs will not be read to them.
Thanks to Vince for thinking of us.
Two state high school athletic associations have postponed events after residents in Texas and Alabama were reported stricken with the H1N1 influenza strain that everyone insists on calling swine flu, even though the virus isn’t communicable through ingestion of pork products. Having sex with a pig might do it, but a runny nose would be the least of your worries at that point.
On Tuesday, Texas officials postponed all public high school athletic and academic competitions on Wednesday until May 11 because of the swine flu outbreak.
School officials say 53,000 students are out of school due to concern over the virus, and dozens of schools were closed to be sanitized. With 16 confirmed cases of swine flu in Texas, Gov. Rick Perry announced a disaster declaration Wednesday for the entire state.
Wouldn’t it be so much trendier to catch a flu bug called “H1N1?” It’s sounds like the name of one of those clubs in Manhattan. You could have people on a velvet rope outside waiting to get infected. It’s not like the virus actually came from pigs. I had a pizza with bacon on it for dinner last night, and yet I’m still alive. But then again I wasn’t not drinking out of some toilet in Mexico, either.
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They certainly know psychology in Bahrain; here the team’s soccer coach, hoping to get a little extra out of his goaltender in a training session, replaces the net with his brand new Range Rover. This is why environmentalism doesn’t work–silly soccer coaches and their gas-guzzing SUVs. Of course, you don’t have to worry about foreign energy dependence when you ARE the foreigner. The Irish tried to do this once, but they kept crashing the car into the stands. They’re so cheeky.
America’s Least Favorite Sports Rumor Ever seems to be gathering steam again, this time after Favre asked the Jets for his release, despite still being on the team’s reserve-retired list. And Favre got it. And now all speculation points to Favre heading where he wanted to be last season–Minnesota. From David Haugh at The Trib:
Without a doubt, Favre would give the Vikings a legitimate deep arm to get the ball to Berrian they currently do not have no matter who is the starting quarterback. He would join a team with a better defense than he had in New York. He would be in a controlled indoor environment for home games more conducive to his aging body than The Meadowlands was.
He might be the missing piece to a team that might just be one player away from being NFC favorites.
WILL HE OR WON’T HE? Just shoot me right now. I thought Brett and John Madden were supposed to bus off together into the sunset. But if the Vikes need a quarterback for the first ten weeks of the season, Favre might be your guy. As for all of you fantasy owners planning to keep Sage Rosenfels…well, you poor bastards can’t really be helped, anyway.
Here’s a bunch of children singing Survivor’s “Eye of The Tiger,” via College Humor. And some people would say that they’ve made the song their own. They took one of the great power ballads of all time and turned it into a candlelight vigil. Without the candlelights, which is understandable. If they’d used candles, they might have burned down that entire building–with them inside. So what I’m saying, kids, is: next time, let’s try it with candles.
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