The Roundup: MLS Goalie Hit in the Face - and Bloodied - by a Bobblehead, USC Trojans Lose Jio Fontan For the Year & Anne Hathaway Raps
By Jason McIntyre
Why did the Post-Standard’s website announce Michael Jordan’s daughter is going to attend Syracuse? [Syracuse.com, Black Sports Online]
Huge loss for USC: its best player, Jio Fontan won’t play this year due to an ACL injury. [LA Times]
Mitch McGary, a 6-foot-10 19-year-old who has been compared to Tyler Hansbrough, could make the NBA leap without playing in college. [Indiana Rivals]
Barrett Trotter has won the starting QB job on the Auburn Tigers. [AL.com]
Here’s the retort to Warren Buffett’s much-talked about op-ed piece a few days ago. [WSJ]
An HGH test finally nabbed someone! [SI]
The Miami assistant basketball coach who allegedly gave $10k to a recruit, won’t face punishment at Western Kentucky (where he is now). [Herald]
Video of an interesting Rick Perry encounter in Iowa. [Economist]
University of Miami President Donna Shalala, in early August, before the Yahoo Sports blockbuster: “I have no tolerance,” she insisted, “for breaking rules.” [TIME]
Denver sports fans may want to take a look at this. [Business Journals]
Yes, it is sad that the MLB Players Union will defend a loser like Carlos Zambrano. [CBS Sports]
“… we are living in an increasingly post-idea world — a world in which big, thought-provoking ideas that can’t instantly be monetized are of so little intrinsic value that fewer people are generating them and fewer outlets are disseminating them …” [NYT]
Padres prospect has to quit baseball due to rare condition. [MLB.com]
How Marty and Doc Brown first met. Tremendous. [MovieLine]
Villanova basketball Isaiah Armwood is transferring. [Goodman]
Anderson Cooper can’t stop laughing at this poop joke. He starts with pee jokes for the first 2 minutes, and around the 2:30 mark, the poop arrives, and the laughter begins.
Anne Hathaway rapped on Conan.
Babysitter arrested for … geez, how could anyone be so stupid?
MLS keeper goes for a drink of water and someone hurls a bobblehead at him. The keeper was cut under his eye, but remained in the game. Good thing this didn’t happen in Philly! [via Hot Clicks]