While waiting for the Colts to win later tonight...

My Dad was a late substitute off the bench to attend the CSU-Wisconsin-Green Bay game last night. The song remains the same, as CSU, in probably their worst effort in a long time, lost again. This time, 79-66. Green Bay shoots 60% on threes, 52% overall, and displayed a pretty good floor game. Hard to believe they've won only 5 league games. Another indication of how bad the Vikings are. Even though the Vikings shot 46%, their best in a while, they still got stuffed.

The highlight may have been the "cheese cup". Uncle Joe wanted a pretzel at halftime, and the John Carroll women's crew team was working the concession stand. These women looked not like your average crew, because they were very athletic, and really cute. I couldn't say the words "cheese cup" without thinking extremely nasty thoughts. Then my Dad, having apparent motor skill troubles, couldn't handle the cheese cup, pretzel and dipping simultaneously, as I watch the lid of said cheese cup fall from a precarious perch he thought was stable. Of course, the lid drops straight to the floor, landing face down. Can't take him anywhere.

However, I did take him elsewhere, and we went to Eat'n Park. They actually have decent food there, I hardly ever go, but they have a Senior's Menu. But there are a lot of kids there. The booth next to us had four of 'em. Jeezy creezy, what a job to be a parent these days. The words "I'll beat your butt." were uttered too much for my taste. Overhearing their remaining evening schedule, they were also headed to Giant Eagle and Chuck E. Cheese. I like kids, but, wow.

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One of my early football memories is depicted right here. Hall of Famer Gene Hickerson leading a sweep for the Browns. Yes, Virginia, we were good once. And do we even run a sweep anymore?

FSC ran the Catania-Palermo replay this a.m. It's amazing they moved the game to Friday in the first place, because of violence concerns, and the St. Agatha holiday. St. Agatha? WTF? Serie A on hold for a while.

We found out today that Bob Feller still gets people out at Indians Fantasy Camp. He thinks Riggs Stephenson and Lefty O'Doul should be in the Hall of Fame before Ron Santo, even though he votes for Santo. And he's in the Larry Doby special currently on Showtime.

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Last night on Showtime's boxing card, it shows that when a "Puncher's Chance" exists in a bout, you can't give up on it. It was a light heavyweight match between two unbeatens, the Polish champion (yes, we didn't forget Poland) Tomasz Adamek and "Bad" Chad Dawson. Dawson completely dominated the first nine rounds, tossing a shutout. I've never seen Adamek so completely thrashed. He was tripped in the eighth, but it was ruled a knockdown.

In the 10th, after doing nothing to that point, and trainer Buddy McGirt implying he would stop it, Adamek knocked Dawson down and became rejuvenated. Let's face it, he needed a KO, because he was so far back. He probably won two of the last three rounds but could not deliver the death blow. It was a perfect example though, when you oppose a hard puncher, you gotta see it through to the end, and cannot coast.

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