These gruesome photos come from Track and Field News:

Stanford’s Alicia Follmar took a hard fall on the leadoff leg of the Penn women’s distance medley. While she was on the ground, Follmar took a spike to the head but got up to finish a gutsy 3rd, the same position in which her team ultimately finished behind Michigan and Tennessee.

I'm glad they renamed it "women's distance medley."  The "escape from my apartment" event was drawing fewer and fewer entrants every year.

[sportsBYbrooks] 

ESPN sideline reporter Jack Arute (try saying it "Jackaroo" — whee!) seems to be a little oblivious to terminology that entered the popular lexicon via Friends a decade ago.  John Walters writes, 

The most disturbing image [from Saturday's Notre Dame-Stanford game]? ESPN sideline reporter Jack Arute describing how Charlie Weis likes to deviate from his scripted plays at the 8-minute mark of the first quarter. Arute informed viewers that Weis' wife, Maura, describes her husband's ad-libbing as "going commando."

Thanks to 289 and his Photoshop skills, I won't be able to fall asleep for the next couple nights. So let me stress something here: CHARLIE WEIS DOES NOT ACTUALLY GO COMMANDO.  He has cast iron underwear that are never removed from his body.  They get cleaned when he walks through a car wash every day.

That's what I'm going to keep telling myself, anyway.  Gah.  Fucking 289.  That much FUPA should never see the light of day. 

[FanHaus]

2 burly representatives of my local independent businessman just reminded me that USC lost to Stanford last night.  As they gently and lovingly bent the fingers of my left hand back, I realized that the upset hadn't been a dream.  This was the first loss at the Coliseum for the Trojans since 2001, and Stanford achieved the improbable win with a new QB, Tavita Pritchard.  Cardinal coach Jim Harbaugh was understated in his praise of his field general:

"I knew he'd come through," Harbaugh said of Pritchard, a 6-foot-4, 200-pound sophomore from Tacoma, Wash., who entered the game having thrown three passes. "From the beginning of the week, he had a bounce in his step. He had a gleam in his eye from Sunday on. We have found a true warrior."

Sounds like Pritchard had a good night a week ago Saturday night.  When I have a gleam in my eye and a bounce in my step, it means I had a magical evening with my escort.  My good humor usually lasts until I  begin experiencing a burning sensation when I urinate.  Anyway, Trojan fans were disappointed even before the loss:

Leading 9-0, the Trojans were booed off the field at halftime.  "That's football," Booty said. "Expectations are higher here than anywhere else. Heck, inside, I was booing, too. If you don't meet those expectations, you're going to get booed."

Just another excuse for John David Booty to become one of our leading assassins.  He already has the 3 names going for him.  Sure, you scoff at this theory now, but the logic of my thesis will be irrefutable when Philip Michael Thomas finally takes a pot shot at a politician. -KD 

Hopes were dashed for many college basketball squads as the NCAA Selection Committee released the brackets for the upcoming Division I Championship.  Most notable among the omissions were Syracuse (22-10), Drexel (23-8), Air Force (23-8), West Virginia (22-9), Florida St. (20-12), Missouri St. (22-10), and, of course, the DePaul Blue Demons (30-0).  Don't worry guys, there's a tournament for you, or you can always get back to your studies like the lovely Brooke above. 

Also, does anyone know who at Stanford has naked pictures of Gary Walters? -KD