So equal time for some other sports, in the hopes of placating Greg with something:

Baseball - The wife will be displeased with the news that Trot Nixon signed a one year deal with the Cleveland Indians. I suppose she'll get to see him when the Tribe and the Sox face off. Assuming he's not hurt.

Hockey - steer yourself over to Slate to see an interesting article on how the NHL fixed the All-Star vote to keep Rory Fitzpatrick from starting. Clearly there were voting irregularities, but it's amazing to see how inept the league was in (a) preventing it from happening, and (b) correcting the problem.

A similar problem hit the Hobey Baker folks, and they at least caught it early enough to shut things down and start over. I'm still a little surprised at how the parties involved - or their IT folks - didn't set up the security correctly in the first place.

Unrelated, but the pair of wins by the Icedogs in Maine last weekend was the first time they'd won two in Orono since 1986. Now if we can just manage to win both this weekend against Merrimack.

Basketball - the Celtics still stink.

Cycling - with Floyd Landis out of the way, things were clear to name Tour de France runner up Oscar Pereiro as the actual winner, right?

Wrong.

Turns out that he also failed drug tests during the race. In his case it was for a banned asthma medication, for which he claims to have a waiver. The problem for Oscar is that the French officials don't seem to think that the waiver was justified.

If Pereiro gets bumped, there are only four more riders the French would have to disqualify to get a native son into the winner's circle. That's doable.