While listening to Phil Savage's press conference this morning, it struck me how language constantly evolves. This has been going on for a while, but especially in sports, for some reason, things seem to change often. For an older example, no one hits .174 anymore, it's now "a buck seventy-four" and has been for a while.

Today, Savage was droning on about Reuben Droughns and the type of year he was having. He mentioned some off-the-field situations, then mentioned "he's had a knee, he's had a foot". Now, if you were Martian, you would say, of course, he has a knee and he has a foot. But this is new speak for "He's had injuries to both his knee and foot this year." And that's why English is our official language.

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Hey, Cleveland now has a gay sports bar. The concept doesn't bother me, it's the idea of "dancers" that puzzles me. I don't think you see that at Cleats.

After watching the movie "Bobby" last week, there were some things I needed to know. Demi Moore plays a drunken has-been singer in the flick. Lots of people think it's based on Rosemary Clooney (you know, George's aunt), who was, in fact, at the hotel and witnessed the shooting. But she did not perform at the Ambassador Hotel that day. The Everly Brothers were the act.

It astounded me that I could not remember others being hit with stray bullets during the shooting. There were five of them. Their stories do not particularly jive with the movie.

Things were a bit foggy regarding the actual primary process back then. For instance, Humphrey did not campaign in California. LBJ barely beat Gene McCarthy in New Hampshire on March 12. RFK jumped in on March 16. LBJ quit the race on March 31. That's when HHH entered the race. The movie leads you to believe that after wrapping up California, RFK would have been the nominee. The results after that primary, however, were: HHH 596, RFK 393, McCarthy 258. So, Chicago 1968 would have been more of a free-for-all than it actually was.

"Iconoclasts" has a marathon on Saturday. The debut of the Maya Angelou-Dave Chappelle episode tonight was really cool.

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It appears the NFL is now very committed to Toronto. Recall earlier this year, there were rumors that the Browns were going to play the 2008 regular season game there.

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