This is Reon Dawson of Trotwood, OH. He's a three-star high school cornerback who just committed to the University of Michigan, where he will play on a full football scholarship.
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Ohio State is Michigan's deeply hated rival. As Ohio is also often a recruiting ground for Michigan, many youthful Ohio State fans have turned into Buckeye-hating Michigan players. Dawson didn't want that to happen.
Surface tension arises from intermolecular forces between water molecules. In the bulk of the liquid, any given water molecule is being pulled on in every direction by the surrounding molecules, which results in zero net force. At the surface, however, molecules only experience forces from those to the side and below them. As a result, these molecules are pulled inwards, forcing the liquid to take on a form with minimal area.
The likes of which have not been seen since the 1940s and may never be seen again.
The Butler Bulldogs are in Washington D.C. this weekend to take on the George Washington Colonials tomorrow. Before the game, the teams' actual bulldog mascots had important business to attend to on the campus of Georgetown University.
Butler's Blue II and Blue III arrived in the Blue Mobile to begin proceedings.
Edith Houghton became a professional baseball player at the age of 10, and was the first woman scout in Major League Baseball. She passed away this month at the age of 100. Words via Obit Of The Day , reprinted with permission.
Edith Houghton had an interesting childhood. While the rest of Edith's friends went to school, did chores around the house, or played with toys, she began playing shortstop on the Philadelphia Bobbies, an all-girls professional baseball team. She was ten. (She was so small that she had to pin her hat and her pants to make them fit.)
Ms. Houghton would spend much of her childhood on the diamond playing with various all-girls teams, commonly called "Bloomer Girls." She would play with the Bobbies for four seasons, ending in 1925 with a tour of Japan, playing men's college teams, when she was only 13. (Ms. Houghton and her teammates earned $800 a game during the tour.) She moved from Philadelphia to New York after her return from Asia and played six seasons with the New York Bloomer Girls. Her last known professional affiliation was with the Hollywood (CA) Girls in 1931, where she earned $35 a week.
During the Depression most Bloomer Girls teams found it hard to earn enough to continue playing. The last all-women's team of the era disbanded in 1934. Ms. Houghton would get her baseball fill by playing professional softball.
Random note: If you visit the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY you will find Ms. Houghton's Bobbies cap and her U.S.A. jersey from the Japan tour on display in the museum.
No. 1 Indiana was supposed to destroy Illinois. Instead, Cody Zeller fell asleep.
In each of the last five weeks, the No. 1 ranked team in college basketball lost a game. Last night in Champaign, it was unheralded Illinois knocking off Indiana, thanks to some of the worst corner inbound defense in the history of basketball. Let's break it down.
Cody Zeller is Indiana's star center. Zeller normally patrols the paint, as centers do.
Notre Dame senior Casey Murdock hit the State Farm half-court shot on his second try. Keep an eye out for the Notre Dame fan wearing the bunny suit.
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On ESPN's College GameDay, Notre Dame senior Casey Murdock hit the State Farm half-court shot for $18,000 on his second try. Only three people have ever made the shot in GameDay history.
In case you missed the bunny suit the first time around:
With a blizzard hitting the Eastern Seaboard, the possibility that next year's Super Bowl might take place in bad weather — Super Bowl XVRNJ* will be held in New Jersey's open-air MetLife Stadium — has been made more tangible. Prominent Pro Football Talk blogger Mike Florio used the storm as an occasion to criticize the league's decision not to hold the game in a warm city or a dome, and he's not the first to treat the issue as a burgeoning controversy. The New York Post has been trying to suggest that event organizers might not be able to put a halftime show; Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco called the choice of MetLife "retarded", but only because reporters asked him about it at Super Bowl media day.
Meanwhile, fans are taking to Twitter en masse to express their concern that Super Bowl's logistics could be rendered overly complicated by several inches of rain or sleet on game da — [furrows brow, re-checks Twitter search] — that is, their worries about a storm's impact on the game-week schedule of networking events for NFL sponsors and heavy hitters in the world of sports commer — [scratches head, stares at empty document titled "Twitter fan complaints"] — er, their sympathy for writers and broadcasters who might have to bring an extra few pairs of socks to the — ah, what am I saying: no actual humans are worried about any of those things at all.
*RNJ stands for Roman Numeral Joke.
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Indeed, The Real Dan Hatab (if that is your real Dan Hatab name) — you are an American Hero for standing up to this non-story. And while there are many other Joe Sixpacks online on Real Dan's side, there doesn't seem to be ANYONE on the internet, except for paid writers, complaining that bad weather at the Super Bowl would be anything but great news. Which makes sense — many of the NFL's most historically memorable games, from the Tuck Rule Raiders-Patriots classic to the Bears-Eagles Fog Bowl to John Elway's playoff comeback drive down a chewed-up, muddy field in the Cleveland cold, are memorable in part because of the conditions they were played in. In addition to providing a more spectacular TV experience, bad weather always seems to make the stadium crowd goofier and more energetic — which is just the kind of thing that the Super Bowl's staid corporate audience could probably use. While no one's rooting for a genuinely destructive or dangerous storm, it doesn't seem like anyone would have anything to lose from a little winter weather excitement at next year's game.
At 2:22 a.m. this morning, Kobe Bryant posted a five-second video to Facebook of him playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on a piano. It is weird in the way that only a legendary basketball player posting a five-second video of himself playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" to Facebook at 2:22 a.m. can be weird.
Including Andrea Bargnani as an object in a fantasy novel.
Every week, the NBA gets closer and closer to the playoffs, at which point whatever team has LeBron James will win the championship. Just kidding! It's like way more exciting and complicated than that (we hope). Here are the five most fascinating stories of basketball season as it currently stands.
As The Lakers Flounder On, Steve Nash Goes Dark
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Between Kobe Bryant's Twitter and Dwight Howard's bid to be the Howard Stern of the NBA, the Lakers are more than present in the drooly media churn of the sports world. However, over the course of the team's 23-27 start, in which they've settled at 10th place in the West and made the word "disappointing" part of the climate of greater Los Angeles, one thing that's gone relatively unaddressed is the silence of Steve Nash, veteran point guard and gadabout fan-favorite. Nash has been remarkably subterranean so far in 2012-13 despite having a 50-40-90 season, the gold standard for shooters. His assists per game are down, and his veteran chemistry locker room intangibles haven't stopped the Lakers from being a total clownshow. Nash ostensibly joined the Lakers to get a ring. Not only is that not happening: that is so far from what is happening! The Lakers suck! Everyone clearly hates each other! It's like going from having your own talk show to being a cast member on Jersey Shore. Nash must be frustrated, confused, and feeling a little let down by the whole broken-piñata stupidness of everything. The low profile might be the only thing he can do to keep himself from trying to employ an Los Angeles Times reporter in a scheme to fake his own death.
Like, in the dictionary. Inmessionante. adj. To be absolutely perfect.
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Lionel Messi netted his 35th goal of the La Liga season in a rout of Getafe Sunday, his 299th goal with Barcelona. Last calendar year, Messi set a record with an astounding 91 goals, which led to his fourth consecutive Ballon d'Or award. His soccer prowess basically defied description, until now.
The Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL decided to honor the largest North American land bird by bringing an actual, live condor onto the ice. A natural scavenger, the condor escaped its handler and hunted for Don Cherry or other carrion. This is what ensued.
The condor, sensing prey and irritated by a sub-par national anthem, escaped the grasp of its handler.
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Surprisingly, a condor's talons aren't well-equipped to walk on ice.
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The handler caught the condor, but took a nasty spill while trying to get back to the carpet.
Also, his facial expression as he got kicked out is super incredulous. Very incredulous indeed.
What really makes the story, though, is this Instagram photo, posted by user dreamteammiami. LIL WAYNE IS VERY INCREDULOUS ABOUT YOUR ADMINISTRATIVE DECISION.
