Did anyone catch that video of Cabrera trying to stretch a triple into a double and getting thrown out by a mile? He's been like that for about a month now, to the point where it seems like he's deliberately trying to hit home runs so he won't have to run the bases.

My own feeling is that USC generally provided such a strong supporting cast, particularly at running back, that the QB had less pressure on him to win the game himself. This led to gaudy stats, which led to drafting by bad NFL teams which needed him to be the go-to guy before he was ready for the role.

Oh, how the mighty has fallen-Bills are one team which could be termed desperate for a warm body to open their season, yet had no compunctions over cutting Leinart in favour of an unknown quantity, to put it mildly.

http://www.nfl.com/schedules/2013/R...

As least, not most of the time:

"Baseball is in the middle of one of its periodic doping scandals, centering on one of the game’s best players, Alex Rodriguez. Rodriguez is among the most disliked players of his generation. He tried to recover from injury and extend his career through illicit means. (He has appealed his recent suspension, which was based on these allegations.) It is hard to think about Rodriguez, however, and not think about Tommy John, who, in 1974, was the first player to trade in his ulnar collateral ligament for an improved version. John used modern medicine to recover from injury and extend his career. He won a hundred and sixty-four games after his transformation, far more than he did before science intervened. He had one of the longest careers in baseball history, retiring at the age of forty-six. His bionic arm enabled him to win at least twenty games a season, the benchmark of pitching excellence. People loved Tommy John. Maybe Alex Rodriguez looks at Tommy John—and at the fact that at least a third of current major-league pitchers have had the same surgery—and is genuinely baffled about why baseball has drawn a bright moral line between the performance-enhancing products of modern endocrinology and those offered by orthopedics."

I think there are at least a couple of errors here:

One third of pitchers have had Tommy John surgery? Also, Gladwell doesn't make it clear that the surgery is to recover from an injury. If I didn't follow baseball, I'd read that as saying all those pitchers get the surgery when they're healthy, to become better pitchers.