His swing vote is no
"Much as the spasmodically comic mating dance of the whooping crane, [Charles] Barkley's swing has its own strange beauty," an e-mailer wrote to the St. Louis Post Dispatch, protesting Hank Haney's coaching intervention. "And though it is nearly impossible to imagine, changing it would deprive the world of its singular magnificence.
"In other words, if it is that completely broken, don't fix it!"
Man's best friend, and more
The 1,100-mile Iditarod race in Alaska was won Wednesday by Lance Mackey.
Before the event, The Wall Street Journal suggested sled dogs were "the Planet's Best Athletes."
David Swain, an Old Dominion University professor, estimated that a 50-pound mush dog burns 10,000 calories a day during the Iditarod, while a Tour de France rider who weighs three times as much burns only 6,000 calories each day.
Another big dance for her
Texas A&M-Commerce's Britney Jordan, the top NCAA women's basketball scorer at 31.3 points per game, once worked as an exotic dancer in Philadelphia, The Dallas Morning News reported.
No wonder they're moving up in the poles.
Oh, Canada? Not for Chipper
Chipper Jones wasn't feeling very, well, chipper about his World Baseball Classic experience, cut short by an oblique muscle injury.
Team USA played its first three games in Toronto, a bustling, multicultural city of 2.48 million people, but Jones made it sound like a cow town.
"We stayed in Toronto for a week and played three games. I don't know if you ever stayed in Toronto, but it's not exactly Las Vegas," the Atlanta Braves star told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. "To say that we were plucking our eyebrows out one at a time would be an understatement."
Police offer assist-ance
How big is high school basketball in Elkhart, Ind.?
Big enough for local police to drive the school's basketball coach 45 miles to an important regional playoff game after arresting the coach for driving while intoxicated.
Elkhart police told The Associated Press that assistant chief Tim Balyeat authorized an officer to drive Elkhart Memorial coach Mark Barnhizer to his team's playoff game against Munster once the coach had bonded out of jail.
"We felt you shouldn't penalize the 10 young adults for the mistakes of one person," Balyeat said.
The police assist didn't do Elkhart much good. Barnhizer arrived at the game with about six minutes left in the fourth quarter, and Elkhart lost 48-39.
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