There are plenty of sports events to watch on TV tonight, from the Phillies-Reds game at 7PM ET on ESPN 2 to the Sabres at Bruins on NBC Sports at 7:30 PM ET to the incredibly intense Jazz and Lakers games, on ESPN at 8 PM and 10:30 PM respectively, which will decide the fate of both of those teams, as one of them will miss the playoffs. There’s also WWE Main Event on ION, in the event that I ever discover what channel that is on U-verse.

Chances are I’ll probably end up watching the Cardinals game in an exhausted daze on my couch, because the 24/7 cable news cycle is breaking me to pieces, and I don’t even watch that nonsense. But it finds a way to sneak up on you and get you in a mental chokehold, like carbon monoxide in a running car in the garage, except all in my brain. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, to be honest, but I’m tired and my head and heart hurt, that’s for sure. (I’ll be more fun tomorrow, I promise.)

But baseball made me pretty happy last night as teams and fans across the country paid tribute to the victims of Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing, and I’ll watch that New York Yankees video again, as the Bronx Bombers fans sang along with “Sweet Caroline” for one night. And I had some leftover photo tributes left over from my morning search, so I figured in lieu of the TV listings, we could honor New York’s finest baseball fans one more time.

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Actually, I should say that most baseball teams (if not all) and fans were class acts last night, as moments of silence were held in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing at ballparks across the country. More specifically, a number of parks played “Sweet Caroline” as well, as the song, of course, is a staple of Boston Red Sox and Fenway Park tradition.

But because sports fans can be such overzealous a-holes sometimes thanks to heated rivalries, it’s especially sweet to see that New York Yankees fans paid their respect to their bitter adversaries in Beantown by playing the song and singing along. Leave it to the one thing that makes people act the most insane to help bring us a little closer to normalcy.

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One of the great sports wishes of my adulthood has been that stadiums and arenas stop playing Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’ all the time. Be careful what you wish for, I guess.

Following the sex scandal that forever turned Jerry Sandusky from an assistant coach into an expert on love and justice, Penn State’s coughing and slowly hitting the delete button on ‘Sweet Caroline’, because … well, you know.

Here’s one interesting (and probably quite smart) adjustment: Beaver Stadium will not play Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline.”

According to the Altoona Mirror, university officials were concerned about the lyrics — “touching me, touching you” — and what it would look like for a stadium full of Penn State fans singing those words.

Hint: it wouldn’t look good. (via USA Today)

Child molestation anthems never stopped ‘Rock And Roll Part 2′ from being played all the time.

It’s still very hard to joke about Penn State. The trick isn’t to joke about what HAPPENED at Penn State or about the people affected, but to maybe start joking about the ridiculous crap that you don’t think about happening when you systematically abuse and cover up the abuse of children because football is more important than human lives … like how the parts of ‘Sweet Caroline’ nobody really cares about are gonna sound awful and ruin the parts we like to sing. Well, look on the bright side … I can think of at least one MC Hammer song that would make a fine replacement.

Oh, and regarding that whole “stadium full of Penn State fans singing happily about touching” thing …

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