slam dunks, mullets, and girl-dog action on a tuesday night

Anyone who tuned to ESPN2 last night to check out the 2008 City Slam 3-Point, Skills, and Dunk Contest was probably ready to see some ridiculous 720 spinning slams along with some kind of high-jump dunk hybrid event, but thanks to a programming mix-up they were stuck with...The 2008 American Kennel Club World Agility Championships? Really ESPN? Could you possibly have picked two demographics that were further apart? At least the Kennel Club Championships provided this gem, the mullet-filled celebration between owner Joan Meyer and her dog "Neil" (your dog is a world class athlete, and all you could come up with was "Neil"?). You might wonder which gets more grooming attention, the dog or that glorious mullet.

what's in a name

This article does a good job of summing up the meaning behind the title of this blog.

"In recent years, "it is what it is" has supplanted "giving 110 percent" and "taking them one game at a time" as the reigning sports cliché. Even as Clemens testified Wednesday about the palpable mass on his buttocks, "it is what it is" took a star turn in the other big sports story of the day, the trade of Jason Kidd to the Dallas Mavericks. When asked about the pending deal, Kidd's teammate Vince Carter shrugged it off: "Right now, it is what it is." As it turned out, the proposed blockbuster trade hit a snag. One of the minor pieces in the transaction, Dallas forward Devean George, exercised a no-trade clause in his contract, to the great aggravation of Mavs fans. "It's all coming down on me, and I am being thrown to the wolves," George griped to reporters, "but it is what it is." - Doug McCollam

how have i not heard about this before?

This is how we do it in Portland, Maine. From the official site of Zombie Kickball:
"We will only be using WAKA's official rules as loose guidelines. For instance, WAKA requires that players kick the ball with their feet. We will allow hobbled zombies to use any intact body part to move the ball - in fact, dismembered parts of other bodies will also be allowed."