If you've been watching the Confedrations Cup and wondering why it sounds like the game is being played inside a bee hive this is your answer. The vuvuzela. FIFA has discussed banning it for the 2010 World Cup, but apparently they will not because the instrument is a part of South African culture.

I hate South Africa.

Quoted: Sepp Blatter has stated that vuvuzela horns will not be banned for the World Cup Finals next year in South Africa after television broadcasters complained about the noise during the Confederations Cup. “It is African culture, we are in Africa and we have to allow them to practice their culture as much as they want to," he told reporters.

Bob, here is why you're going to get fired. I know you don't believe it, but the best way to advance is not to count on your third opponent's best player to get injured, the world's #2 team to beat the world's #5 team 3-0 and your own team to win 3-0, all so you can make up a 6 goal differential in the second tiebreaker.

It worked, but it is not the type of result that allows you and your son to point a finger at critics and boast about sticking to your guns.

Quoted: Thing is, Bradley doesn't care. People can criticize all they want. "I don't pay any attention to it," he said after the match. "It goes with the territory." What major changes did he make after a difficult 3-1 loss to Italy where they controlled the match for the first 55 minutes, and a 3-0 drubbing against Brazil where they controlled the match for zero seconds. "There was nothing different," said Landon Donovan. "My ways of doing things are set," Bradley said.

Just about every other day for the rest of the month ESPN and ESPN2 will be televising the Confederations Cup live from South Africa usually at 10am ET and 2:30pm ET. Set your DVRs, the US plays tomorrow at 2:30pm.

Quoted: Confederations Cup 2009 Schedule

Quoted: Paul Donahoe and one of his University of Nebraska wrestling teammates posed nude for a pornographic Web site aimed at gay men. And that was only the beginning of the trouble.

A very interesting article. However it (indirectly) launches a very challenging debate about halfway through.

Quoted: Donahoe says he is straight

Can someone claim to be straight if they knowingly agree to

Quoted: "There Donahoe was, gyrating and masturbating among tousled bed sheets, under running water in a marbled tile shower and on a charcoal chaise lounge facing a patio window.

on camera, knowing it would be posted to a porn website for gay men? Does it matter if you're a wrestler?

Then it gets to the true question of a double standard, given Nebraska's checkered history of turning the other cheek with football players.

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I hate the Penguins so much right now.

Quoted: Crosby takes a dive after a small tap on the calf, up by 2 with 7 minutes to go. He tried hard to sell it but didn't get a call.

If Memphis doesn't receive any postseason ban or scholarship reduction (and they don't expect to), why should the NCAA enforce anything? Pleading ignorance is no excuse. The fact that Calipari will skate on this again is also ridiculous. This will be the second or third time in his collegiate coaching career that he has left a job, only to have the school he left get investigated for major NCAA violations.

Quoted: Memphis was first notified in May 2008 that star freshman point guard Derrick Rose had an invalidated standardized test score the previous year at Chicago's Simeon High School, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the e-mail...Specifically, on [date redacted] an unknown individual completed [redacted (Derrick Rose's)] SAT, with [redacted (Derrick Rose's)] knowledge, which was used to obtain his admission into the institution and to certify his NCAA eligibility.

Drew, is it me or are people making too big a deal out of a competitive series between two teams that probably can't even take a game off of Cleveland?

Exciting? Sure. But not to anyone outside of Chicago or Boston. Its absolutely pathetic that Boston fans are excited about this series. Shorthanded or not, the defending champs don't get pushed to a game 7 against the 7th seed in the first round. And if they do, you're supposed to hang your head in shame. This isn't the NHL.

Quoted: We are watching a first-round series in which five of the first six games have come down to the final play. Four of those games went into overtime. One went into double OT. One went into triple OT. It's the wildest first-round series ever played. Whatever happens in Game 7, we will remember it as one of the most incredible matchup in NBA playoff history.

Mark Dantonio strangely gives himself a little hanging rope for some later point in his career.

Maybe this is a forced situation by the NCAA, but the odds that the rest of Glenn Winston's career at MSU goes on without incident are *extremely* small.

Quoted: Suspended Michigan State running back Glenn Winston will remain on an athletic scholarship while he serves a six-month jail sentence for two misdemeanor assault convictions, coach Mark Dantonio said.

Well it looks like the future is now for the Tigers, and I don't blame them. The economy is shit and they either make some noise and give people a reason to spend their rapidly dwindling entertainment dollar, or they fade into bolivian.

Quoted: Porcello, 20, and Perry -- both right-handed pitchers -- made the Tigers' Opening Day roster, according to Tigers Insider Steve Kornacki...Porcello was told Wednesday he had earned a spot in the starting rotation. Perry will start the season in the Tigers' bullpen, along with right-handers Eddie Bonine and Juan Rincon.