Blogrolling Is Unsportsmanlike And Hilarious

Researchers in Brooklyn have recently given a single dose of an experimental drug delivered to areas of the brain critical for holding specific types of memory, like emotional associations, spatial knowledge or motor skills.

The drug blocks the activity of a substance that the brain apparently needs to retain much of its learned information. And if enhanced, the substance could help ward off dementias and other memory problems.

As soon as they can market this stuff to rid me of, say, the end of the Eagles-Patriots Super Bowl, or the Jeter Play in Oakland, I'm there. With a credit card, cash, or my vital organs. I'm easy that way.

Here's my early choice for Sports Blogosphere Story of the Year: a soccer team was punished for unsportsmanlike behavior when one of its players passed wind during a penalty kick. No, I'm not making this up. And the only follow-up question that I have... was the penalty for the sound, the odor, or the fact that the player probably thought it was, in the words of the team traveling secretary, "Freaking hilarious"?

It’s been more than 8,000 years since humans first domesticated cows. But it wasn’t until last month that somebody noticed a defining feature of cattle at rest: Like the needle on a compass, they tend to point north.

German scientists analyzed 308 herds that had been photographed by Google Earth. According to the researchers, nearly two thirds had a north-south orientation, which strongly suggests that livestock are sensitive to magnetic fields.

Today's fun but almost completely useless fact does, at the very least, explain why Cub Fan sets up his tailgate the way he does...

MLJ with a fun list of notable names that didn't make an MLB roster this spring. I'm sure the A's will wind up giving Chad Gaudin a job again, and that he'll be better than a lot of guys in the bigs.

Nick at IWS has the fearless idea that Matt Holliday won't do well outside of Colorado. Seriously, if you didn't write this during the spring, you weren't allowed in Blogfrica. I'd say more about this, but my A's are getting shut out by Joe Freaking Saunders, so clearly I'm doomed.