With all the troublemakers who populate their roster from year to year, that idea isn't half bad.

<854 -- Cam Newton has 854 passing yards through his first two NFL games. You've heard all about the records he's set already -- most yards in an NFL debut, most yards through two games of a career, first player in NFL history to open a season with consecutive 400-yard games -- but to really put that number in perspective, consider that 854 is approximately one-fifth of 4,083. So through two NFL games, Newton already has one-fifth of the career passing yards that JaMarcus Russell achieved in 31 games over three seasons.>

Detroit is 2-0, their point differential is +52, that works out to be 26 points a game!

Excellent article, worth reading, even though I root for the Raiders, I often wondered, should I go to a game in person or not...

<Obscure College Score of the Week: Cal 63, Presbyterian 12. Football factory programs are infamous for scheduling cupcake opponents for auto-wins that please the boosters. Here is Kurt Snibbe's wonderful illustration of the football squad at a place named Cupcake College. Even so, for Cal to schedule Presbyterian, a Division I-AA program that last season went 2-9 with losses to Stony Brook and North Greenville, seems beyond the pale. According to Yahoo! Sports, Presbyterian was paid $400,000 to agree to fly to San Francisco and be used as tackling dummies. Though Cal has been plagued by classroom budget cuts and tuition hikes, $400,000 was available to stage a football game. Located in Clinton, S.C., Presbyterian's teams are known as the Blue Hose, referring to 19th century stockings, not to melancholy courtesans.>

He now leads the NL in Ks (242), ERA (2.27) and tied for first in wins (20 with Ian Kennedy of Ariz). But Kershaw have one more loss (5) than Kennedy (4). They are both scheduled to pitch Sunday, in their last start of the season. Dodgers are at San Diego, and Arizona is hosting San Francisco.

A break from the usual gaily smiling nonsense isn't a bad thing.

Failing to predict an earthquake, indeed!

<<Sep-23-11 WannaBe: Errrr... I really, really, really, really, really want to say/post something, but..... >

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Actually it did not. The original idea was that the monkeys would produce an entire Shakespeare play in the exact word order. In this experiment words were taken off the word list as they appeared and when all the words that constitute a play were produced the experiment was considered complete.

Okay, look, if I am a contract employee with Acme, and I sign a six month, or a year contract, to design/build/service their computer network, do I ask for an extension half-way or three-quarter way through my job?

(Errr, hey boss, I unboxed all the equipment, can I extend my contract? I did do a good job getting the bubble wraps off, and I took the packing peanuts out to the trash!)

If I remember correctly, back in the days of O'Malley and W. Alston & T. LaSorda, they were given an one year signing. Period.

I also love these athletes, who signs for 5 years, whatever amount, and then one or two years in, they want a new contract, because so-and so is getting more.

Dude, next time, sign a one year contract!! You don't see me sign for 5 years/1 Billion dollar with Warner Brothers, and then demand a bigger contract just because Elmer Fudd had a better year? Do ya?! Do ya?!

<Jay Cutler has been sacked 101 times in 34 starts for the Chicago Bears. While playing for the Denver Broncos, he was sacked 51 times in 57 starts.>