A Massachusetts man charged with possession of child pornography (or as my stepfather calls it, “the futures market”) asked for a stay on his home confinement to attend Red Sox games. A federal magistrate said no. From WLBZ:

[Brian] Rossi [not pictured] wears a monitoring device and is only allowed to leave home for court-approved medical and legal appointments. But he asked the judge if could attend 13 baseball games with family members because he bought the tickets before his February arrest.

He has pleaded not guilty to federal charges accusing him of possessing videos and printed images of boys ages 8 to 12 involved in sex acts.

However, I understand that the Archdiocese of Boston have made him an honorary cardinal. So there’s that.

Two of the best high school football teams in the nation played last weekend in front of 31,896 at SMU's Ford Field in Dallas.  Hooray – a high school football post!  I know, I know, but what made this game interesting were the differences between these 2 schools:

The [Northwestern (Miami, FL)] Bulls were greeted in their hotels, by D — a Dallas-area glossy magazine with Dragons quarterback Dodge on the cover, highlighting a story that explains why the affluent Dallas-Fort Worth suburb Southlake is "Perfect City, USA" — and by a front page story in the USA Today examining the discrepancies between the schools. According to the article, Carroll receives high academic ratings and has a student body that's 89 percent white, with just one percent of its students receiving free or reduced-price lunches; Northwestern, in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, gets an "F" rating from the state of Florida and is 93 percent black, with two-thirds of its students eligible for free or reduced lunch.

Yes, drastic inequality in our public education system is a very serious problem.  Anyway, just as Hollywood has taught us, the poor inner-city school defeated the rich suburban school 29-21.  Every sports film devotee knows that the inner-city school will only lose if it plays a small school from an Indiana farm town.  Thank God for Hollywood because I would never know how to bet on these games.  Not that I bet on high school football.  I think that would be a definite sign you have a gambling problem.  Unless you're good at it. -KD