Nike has purchased Converse for $305 million. A pair of Chuck Taylor's was the first sneakers I ever remember owning, and I favored Converse over Nike when it came to Basketball shoes through Junior High School. Then that Jordan guy decided to leave North Carolina early. . .
After the US Postal Service Team won Wednesday's time trial, Lance Armstrong is in second place overall in the Tour de France, only one second off the lead. And we're not even in the mountains yet, where Armstrong typically destroys the field year after year.
The NCAA announced some changes in their bracketing and seeding for the Men's Division I Basketball tourney. Bottom line: it doesn't change the way you fill out your brackets, so don't worry about it.
Pittsburgh Pirates first baseman Randall Simon was questioned by Milwaukee police after he struck one of the "racing sausages" with his bat between innings at a Pirates-Brewers game:
Film of Wednesday night's race showed that when the group went past the Pirates dugout, Simon swung a bat at the Italian sausage character -- portrayed by a 20-year-old South Milwaukee woman -- causing her to fall to the ground. As she fell, a nearby sausage also went down."They were doing the sausage race. He hit her with the baseball bat," said Deputy Inspector Sherry Warichak of the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department, which provides security at Brewers games.
"When he hit her, that other character fell."They both were treated at the scene for scraped knees, but at this point I don't think they have any other complaints," she said.
Not so fast: late word from ESPN's Baseball Tonight is that Simon has been arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor battery in connection with the attack, though he has yet to be charged.
And finally, from Turkey, comes a story with a different sort of appeal:
For more than 40 grueling minutes, Hasan Tuna grabbed and tugged at his opponent's sweaty, oil-slicked body. Suddenly, he was on his back, looking up at the sun in a field of uncut grass. . .
Read the rest yourself, if you dare.
UPDATE: Charges against Simon have been dropped, but he was fined $432.
