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Take This to Your Weekend

Friday, 18 May 2012 13:34

Here’s the Fast Five for Friday. Take this to your weekend, and not a moment too soon.

1. The Preakness may be a two-horse race between I’ll Have Another and Bodemeister, although some of the so-called smart guys are saying Went the Day Well has an opportunity to pull off an upset. Now you know.

2. Tiger’s fortunes, those on the golf course anyway, aren’t looking so hot right now, but he's still got something going for him. ‘Forbes’ ranks Tiger as the world’s most powerful athlete – and for the 11^th straight year. Woods ranks 12^th on the list of its top 100 celebrities using a formula with fame figured in with media coverage and social media. Jennifer Lopez is No. 1.

3. Sad, sad day. Marlins’ manager Ozzie Guillen has stopped tweeting. @OzzieGuillen is no more, despite 230,926 followers. Said Ozzie: “I hate Twitter.” Ozzie also said he’s tired of people ripping him.

4. Lawyers for Tim Tebow are asking a T-shirt company to stop making a shirt that has ‘My Jesus’ on the front, inside of a Jets’ logo.

5. Line of the Week, Late Night Division, from NBC’s Jay Leno: “JPMorgan lost $2.3 billion in the first quarter and today they lost another $1 billion. They bet on the Lakers.”

(19^th hole: And very happy 60^th birthday wishes to one of my heroes, the great George Strait, from Poteet, Texas. George said it best: We ain’t here for a long time, we’re here for a good time. Amen, brother.)

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Strange but True

Thursday, 17 May 2012 14:16

Here's another edition of Strange but True . . .

1. Keegan Bradley returns to defend his title at the Byron Nelson, where he was the first rookie to win the tournament. No one has won back-to-back Nelsons since Tom Watson won three in a row (1978-80).

2. Now that Virginia Commonwealth is joining the Atlantic 10 Conference, that makes it three teams named Rams in the league (also Fordham, Rhode Island).

3. The Insurance Information Institute says insurance companies paid out nearly $479 million in dog bite claims last year.

4. A study of 400,000 by the National Institute of Health and the AARP suggests coffee drinkers are more likely to live longer.

5. A study published in ‘Science’ magazine revealed that creative output was doubled when test subjects were in a blue room instead of a red one.

6. A study published in ‘Consciousness and Cognition’ found that a few alcoholic drinks improved performance on a test of creativity by 30 percent.

7. A study conducted by the RAND Corp. said 96 percent of the entrees at top U.S. chain restaurants go over the daily limits for calories, fat, saturated fat and sodium.

8. They’re expecting a total of 120,000 at Staples Center for a combined total of six NBA (Lakers, Clippers) and NHL (Kings) playoff games in the next 72 hours.

9. The judge in the 5-week-old perjury trial of Roger Clemens has dismissed two jurors for sleeping during the trial and a third has been caught dozing off during testimony but is still on the panel.

(19th hole: And a happy 56^th birthday to Sugar Ray Leonard.)

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