Hasn’t this World Series been fantastic? Defensive games, offensive games, great pitching performances, 3-home run performances, bizarre turns of events. I’ve throughly enjoyed it. In fact, here is some inspiration from the St. Louis boys of yore. Here’s hoping it’s enough to push this thing to seven games. More baseball is good.
[via Baseball's Golden Age: The Photographs of Charles M. Conlon
ESPN Magazine’s The Body Issue arrived in my mailbox last week. Here are some nice images, with my observations.
I wonder what odds Vegas would have had to lay to get bettors to wager that this issue’s cover would NOT feature Hope Solo. -3000? I still would have taken it. No brainer here.
Add Blake Griffin and Steven Jackson to my list of guys I hope are on my side in a squabble.
Surfing and snowboarding are good professions in which to find a date.
This is the second hairiest guy I’ve seen from the TX panhandle. That’s an incredibly awesome prosthesis.
Busting the LPGA stereotype?
This issue also included a story by Shaun Assael on the upward trend in athletes using stem cell injection therapy to promote healing. It’s a good read, but wanted to share a photo that was included of a bone marrow extraction. After having this done over a dozen times now, I am frequently asked questions about the process and what the needle looks like. This is a fair representation:
