Sporting News: Uplifting Story of the Day
Came across this story while checking on some sporting news this afternoon and it made me smile to think about this Blind Lead Dog in the Iditarod. No, his team isn't winning but this nearly blind animal is working in what has been called the toughest race on the planet.

And damn, if a blind dog can run the Iditarod then I should not be complaining about being tired from moving or not having my phones hooked up yet. But I'll reserve the right to bitch about not having my DSL connected! Some things are beyond the scope of happy 'net stories to lift.

That and this piece by Jason Sehorn, late of the New York Giants (and, if every woman I know who's seen him is to be believed, a total hottie) football team, recently released to the NFL wilds. No overt bitterness but he didn't want to go and was willing to take a pay cut to stay so who's the bad guy in this case. The owners? Yeah, most likely.

But hey, you know what? I don't like the Giants and now like them even less. And Sehorn's a class act and a damned fine football player. Maybe now he'll get on a team that has a chance of doing something with the season instead of pissing it away like the Giants do every year.

Sport's Ten Greatest Lies
Got them here. They're well expanded on there but here's the top ten list of greatest lies in sports. I could add a few of my own and just might.
1 Pete Rose: I never bet on baseball
2. Steinbrenner: I'll stick to building ships
3. Avery Brundage denying Nazi discrimination
4. Bill Clements says SMU football is clean
5. Danny Almonte's father: He's 12
6. George O'Leary's masters degree
7. Wilt Chamberlain claims sex with 20,000 women
8. Tim Johnson: I saw combat in 'Nam
9. David Wells' half-drunk perfect game
10. Peter Ueberroth: MLB owners didn't collude
My own additions
11. Dusty Baker's a good manager (he gave away the World Series last year)
12. Brett Favre didn't take a dive for Michael Strahan to set the season sack record two years ago (we've ALL seen the tape and its obvious Favre sees him coming and lays down for him like a drunk frat rat)
13. Jason Giambi wanted a World Series ring, it wasn't about the money. (The A's were on track, with Giambi to stomp the Yankees, total bullshit on his part and look what it got him.....nothing!)
I'm sure I'll come up with more sometime later but this'll do for now.