Lots of stuff on the mind here...thought I'd just throw some of them out and maybe not manage a large post today...depends on how tennis and mowing the lawn and a party this evening go...
- First, ESPN reports that Vijay Singh had to pull out of this week's PGA event. As they reported "Singh could not return to defend his title because he injured his back playing table tennis." Okay, it's one thing when a pudgy guy like me hurts himself doing something stupid, but for Vijay, some kind of professional athlete, it's kind of entertaining.
- Second, professional athletes are showing their generosity - and I don't even imagine that it's just athelets, other less famous people are doing amazing work - in a lot of different ways toward the New Orleans recovery and relief efforts.
- Third, heard the briefest bit of an NPR report saying that the desctruction in New Orleans had been at least partially predicted in an article in Scientific American in 2001, postulating what might happen if a category 5 hurricane hit the city. I haven't had a chance to do more than skim the first of five pages of the article, but I want to throw the link to it out there.
- Fourth, Tony Horton - friend of mine, former athletic trainer at PHS, current EMT - is on his way toward Jackson, Miss to do what he (as part of an emergency response team) can do to help anyone in the Gulf. I'll be following his progress here
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- Fifth, interesting and touching article on why a fan rushed the field at a recent Seattle Mariners game.
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