Hilarious if you ever played any baseball game, particularly RBI Baseball, on the 8-bit Nintendo.

Quoted: WILLIAMSPORT, PA—The Hawaii team, known for its powerful lineup of short, fat Skill 5 hitters, defeated the Mexico team 12-3 in the championship game of the Little League World Series, a four-round, single-player tournament held from 2 p.m to 3:15pm Sunday... Hawaii got off to a quick start, scoring six runs in the first and taking full advantage of Mexico's sloppy defense. Third baseman Chico (Skill 1) had a particularly rough day in the field, committing six errors and several mental miscues. In the fourth inning, Chico slid head-first eight times in an attempt to catch a foul pop-up before letting it fall to the ground, and later ran directly past a ground ball in the hole while on his way to inexplicably cover second base. On three occasions, he fielded a routine grounder and accidentally threw it to home plate instead of first base. Chico later claimed that he "didn't know how" to throw to first.

They're GRRRRR-Eight!! Of course you can probably set your watch by the backlash of health experts criticizing Phelps for choosing to encourage childhood obesity by endorsing a sugared cereal. Personally, I never liked Wheaties anyways.

Quoted: Kellogg Co. announced today that the winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics will be featured on upcoming boxes of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. The boxes are expected in stores by mid-September.

This is a weird little story about some spring training clubhouse fun that evidently created some hurt feelings.

Quoted: In 2003, a rap lyric during a spring training skit led to three Tigers prospects being released. Two found their way to the majors -- one faced the Tigers this past week -- while the third only has regrets.

Maybe the Roger Goodell era isn't so bad after all.

Quoted: FOX and ESPN are reporting this morning that the Packers have stepped up efforts to trade Favre after being ordered by the NFL commissioner Roger Goodell to resolve the quarterback's status, preferably by the time training camp opens Sunday. ESPN's Chris Mortensen says Goodell has told Green Bay that Favre will be reinstated as an active player once he makes that widely anticipated request. Citing unnamed NFL sources, Mortensen says the commissioner has spoken with Favre and told him he's willing to assist his return.

The Packers should grant a conditional release, so that he has to go to a team in the NFC. That way when he throws that back breaking playoff INT they'll have a chance to benefit from it for once.

Quoted: Three days after a conference call with Packers officials on Tuesday in which Brett Favre emphatically expressed his desire to play in 2008, Favre on Friday formally asked for his contractual release.

This Christian news site uses word substitution to filter its news stories. One such filter is to change the word "gay" to "homosexual". After Tyson Gay's performance at this weekend's Olympic track and field trials, hilarity ensued.

Quoted: Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters at the U.S. Olympic track and field trials and seemed to save something for the final later Sunday. His wind-aided 9.85 seconds was a fairly cut-and-dry performance compared to what happened a day earlier. On Saturday, Homosexual misjudged the finish in his opening heat and had to scramble to finish fourth, then in his quarterfinal a couple of hours later, ran 9.77 to break the American record that had stood since 1999.

This is the story Javon Walker is allegedly telling in regards to his recent robbery:

Quoted: “I was just back at my room and at about 5:30 in the morning I got a knock at the door. I opened it and 3 guys with guns were there. They cracked me in the head a few times, knocking me unconscious. They then robbed me of everything I had; my watch, money, everything! Somehow they got me to a car and dropped me off in the street. That’s what happened.”

The name of his hotel? The Bellagio in Las Vegas. Somehow nobody saw any of this?

Yeah well its a week too late. I've already switched to the new AT&T U-Verse. Suck it Comcast.

Quoted: The long-running feud between the Big Ten Network and Comcast appears to be almost over. The two sides are very close to an agreement, expected to be signed and announced as soon as this week, multiple industry sources told the Free Press today.

When I watch the replay (http://soccervisions.blogspot.com/2008/06/holland-vs-italy.html) I am absolutely convinced that this was the right call. Panucci was not involved in the play, but plays like this are exactly the reason FIFA changed the rule to say that players must be officially sent off by the referee in order to count as inactive for the purpose of offsides.

I will admit to having a bias against Italy, but it seems clear to me that Panucci made no effort to recover from a relatively minor collision with his own keeper, in hopes that it would result in the Dutch being called offside. Its the Italian way.

Quoted: Premier League referees chief Keith Hackett says Ruud van Nistelrooy's controversial opening goal for the Netherlands against Italy was legitimate.