EDIT: Joannie Rochette skated a free program that was far and away better than her short. We would have revised our expectations, but that would be cheating…but we were neither surprised nor disappointed in her scores.  Hurray for Joannie!
We’d like to do Joannie Rochette a favor, and discuss her skating. K?

Nobody was talking about Rochette [...]

It’s been forty years since Title IV revolutionized school sports by making it unlawful not to offer the same number of sports opportunities to women as to men at all levels of education.
That was good news, and now we have some more. The increase in girls’ athletic activity that was heralded by the advent [...]

Merry Christmas–or, if you’re us, happy holidays!
UPH is making a resolution for the New Year: at least five posts a week, no matter what.
We’ll be back in 2010!

So, we’re rooting for a Freeway series now.  Dodgers-Angels. How ’bout you?

9:27 Mathis provides the first Angels hit, a quick single.
9:28 He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on the flying tra–oh, that’s just Alex Gonzalez, making a relatively routine play.  Wow.
9:29 THANKS TBS.  Now I know what RISP are.  Now explain what “scoring position” means.  Or better yet, [...]

9:17  1 pitch, 1 out.  Yep. These are the August-September Sox.
9:18   “Kendry Morales is no Mark Teixeira, but he’s getting better all the time.” Did we get Yankee ass-kissing advice from Joe Buck? (Clearly, yes, I get it.  Teixeira was in fact the guy at that corner for a brief period last year.  Still….)
9:20 First [...]

The Twins are our favorite Little Team that Could (Maybe).With only the 23rd highest payroll in the majors, their just fun to root for, darn it
Sure, they lost last year’s one game playoff, against the White Sox, and thus ended up finishing second in their division.  But this year, we think, they can do it.
It’s [...]

Our formatting is fixed, and our post schedule is sped up!  You’ll see lots more updates as playoffs come around and NFL and NCAA football heat up, so get excited!
Love,
The Sports Chick

The Obama’s plea didn’t make much of a difference as it turns out.  Rio has the 2016 Olympics…and here’s why that’s good.
People come visit the USA.  Even a city like Chicago, while not the number one tourist destination, is likely to glean some tourist dollars.  While this is of course also true of Rio and [...]

So, we bought some baseball cards on Ebay, just for fun, as we mentioned we were going to.
It paid off.
Last night’s haul, all in perfect just-out-of-packs-and-into-the-sleeves condition:
-a Josh Hamilton rookie card.
-a 1982 Reggie Jackson card
-a Curt Schilling card from his first year with the Phillies
-a Mark McGuire “slugging rookies” card
Altogether, the experiment has totally paid [...]

So…no Wes Welker = fantasy fail.
Drew Brees got himself a win without a passing touchdown.  Wes Welker didn’t play.  Chris Johnson was controlled.  Darren McFadden? We don’t even want to talk about it. (Three fumbles. THREE.)
So this week wasn’t so good.   Even the day off due to the long weekend hasn’t lessened the sting.  On [...]

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