Cleveland LeBron

Time for LeBron to "Pull A Peyton", ride off into the sunset ?

He fulfilled his pledge to bring a Championship, an NBA Championship, to Cleveland.

"Cleveland, this one's for you !"

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AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

" A chicken in every pot, a car in every garage[, a chauffeur in every car]. "

Unknown Originator of Quotation

BMW Four Turbo Diesel Inline Six ?

A BMW inline six diesel with four, count'em, Four Turbos ?

Four things to go wrong, malfunction, maintain, coordinate. Complexity, thy name is BMW four turbo diesel.

On the other hand, with apologies to Mazda : Zoom!Zoom!Zoom!Zoom!

What about six turbos, one for each cylinder ?

OMG BLESS AMERICA !

OMG BLESS AMERICA !

God Bless America
The Land Of The Free

God Bless America
The Only Land For Me

God Bless America
The Land That I Love

God Bless America
God Bless America
Guided By The Light From Above !

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DeflateGate

Should the NFL acknowledge that the gameball inflation rule was wrong, that each team should have been, should be, allowed to inflate the gameballs to any pressure it chooses ?

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NASA Station Spacewalk Game

Station Spacewalk Game

A New Name for Washington DC's NFL Pro Football Team ?

Some don't like the team's current nickname, considering it a pejorative.

Should it be changed ?

If yes, to accommodate the justifiable preferences of the objectors, perhaps a public naming suggestion, voting, selection website may be established, or it might be done via Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Pinterest, Tumblr, etc..

Herewith are a few offerings to start the conversion conversation :

The Washington Reds, the Washington Skins, the Washington 'Skins, the Washington Rothskins, the Washington Natives, the Washington DCs, the Washington Ringtones, the Washington Rubies.

Earned Run Attribution

For example, a pitcher allows a baserunner, or runners, and then is replaced by a relief pitcher.

The runner, or runners, subsequently scores, or subsequently score, an earned run, or runs, before the half of the inning is over, as a result of the relief pitcher's pitching.

The earned run, or runs, is, or are, charged to the first pitcher.

A more accurate charging of a run, or runs, would result if fractional, or decimal, runs are charged, according to the number of bases allowed.

For example, the first pitcher allows a double, is replaced by a relief pitcher, who allows a double, which scores the baserunner, to a batter that half inning.

The first pitcher would be charged half, or .50, of an earned run; the relief pitcher would be charged half, or .50, of an earned run.

Each has allowed two bases, half, .50, of a run. If the above runner scored as an unearned run, only the number of bases allowed as earned would be charged, to the pitcher who allowed them.

"Half Price" Pizza If...

A pizza purveyor is offering some of its pizzas at "half price" if the Yankees score six runs or more, win.

Does that provide the pizza purveyor with an incentive to root for the Yankees to score less than six runs, to score six or more runs but lose ?

QB Contro

As the Jets turn
From Sanchez
To Smith
Is it a myth redux ?

Do the Jets
Need a new owner ?
Should the league
Take them over ?
For conduct unbecoming ?

As the Jets turn
From Sanchez
To Smith

The Legend of Beaver Falls
Looms Large

By way of Alabama
Came he
To guarantee a victory

For the AFL
Over the NFL.

Manti Te'o

Controversial Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o, he of the virtual girlfriend, was taken in the Second Round of the NFL Draft, as the Sixth Pick, 38th overall, by the San Diego Chargers.

Words similar to the above, to that effect, have appeared, or have been spoken, innumerable times, since the Draft.

Let's let this fellow put his troubles, his misfortunes, behind him, get on with his football career, with his life.

Tim Tebow

The Jets have released QB Tim Tebow, about a year after trading for him, then not playing him much at all, either as a starter or as a backup.

Did the Jets have second thoughts because of Tebow's demonstrativeness of religion ?

Did Mark Sanchez play well enough to keep the starting position ?

Tim Tebow cleared waivers, is now a free agent.

Is his future in the Canadian Football League, like Doug Flutie, to return to the NFL at a later time ?

Motor Vehicle Stopping Distances, and Stopping Times

I wish the road tests of motor vehicles would include the time it takes for the vehicles to stop from a speed.

For example,  60 MPH > 0 MPH : 114 Feet in 2.6 Seconds.

The Boston Marathon Bombing : Sports At Risk

Was the Boston Marathon Bombing the product of another Newtown Nut ?

Anathema as it was, at least this time it wasn't with a gun.

A situation which just goes to prove the NRA right ?

Guns aren't the only source of violence against humanity. Just look at 09/11, when plastic knives and human sacrificers almost brought down an empire, with hijacked airliners.

Even if the Second Amendment were repealed, a nut could still wreak havoc.

What's the public to do ?

Come, let us enjoy our sports without fear. Come, let us have civilization in gear.

Education which includes the proper use of, respect for, guns, along with shooting range practice, if feasible, in our public, in our private, schools' curriculums may be a start.

Education which includes learning the methodologies of non-violent civil disobedience, like those of Christ, Thoreau, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., may help follow up.

Winning Streaks in the NBA

The Lakers' 33 game winning streak was over two seasons.

The Heat's 27 game winning streak was in one season.

How many of the Lakers' wins occurred in one season ?

World Baseball Classic

Should the World Baseball Classic be discontinued ?

Post what happened to First Baseman Mark Teixeira, the New York Yankees may think so.

Post what happened to Third Baseman David Wright, the New York Mets may also think so.

Or perhaps the WBC should be turned into a virtual, fantasy, event, the World Baseball Fantasy Classic, to eliminate the risk of injury, to eliminate the additional, excess, number of games, innings, played, to eliminate being away from the team.

Best Movies and Films

What is the Movie Of The Year, the MOTY ?


What is the Film Of The Year, the FOTY ?


What's the difference between a Movie and a Film ?


A Movie is ______________________________ .


A Film is ________________________________ .

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Lance Armstrong Confesses

Lance Armstrong says it is so.

The Mayan Calendar claims another fulfillment --- of the end of the world as we know it.

He used banned substances, banned procedures, through his cycling career to enhance performance.

According to the US Anti Doping Agency, most cyclists did the same.

He would have been at a competitive disadvantage if he hadn't done it.

Were they, was he, wrong ?  Was, is, the ban wrong ?

Should the banned substances, the banned procedures, have been allowed ?

Should the banned substances, the banned procedures, be allowed retroactively ?  Should any and all penalties associated with the use of PE Drugs, of PE Procedures, be rescinded and removed ?

"Say it ain't so, " US Anti Doping Agency, Rule Making Organizations, etc. ?

'Say it ain't so," Pro, College, High School, etc., Sports; Entertainment, Real Life, ?

A Tale of Two Mannings

Should the Jets have signed Peyton Manning and traded Mark Sanchez to Denver for Tim Tebow ?

Southern Calif to Southern Mich

So Road & Track is moving from Newport Beach to Ann Arbor, to be near the center of the auto industry, to be close to its fellow Hearst Auto publication, Car AND Driver.

Consolidation of the publications' back office, etc., functions, is planned.

Perhaps the editorial functions can follow. After all, who needs to publish more than one automoto mag  ?

Car Driver Road Track ?  Car Road Driver and Track ?  How would you name it ?

Does the move leave Motor Trend as the only major auto magazine located in sunny So Cal ?  If so, it has a defacto monopoly on the sushine, on the warmth, year round.

USA Wins Olympic Men's Basketball Gold Medal

USA 107
Spain 100

Maybe the NBA would be interested in expanding to Europe. The league might offer a franchise to the Spanish National Team, perhaps as the Madrid Mas.