Skimming the sports shorts...

Three ESPN sports articles for you to check out...

• A great piece about simulated baseball junkies - that make my enjoyment of fantasy baseball look like a pittance
• Jim Caple's sports beliefs - noting yet again that the true value of humanity is in that ability to keep two totally opposite beliefs at our core
• Summer college basketball preview #30-21 - the first four teams here have to be stunt ranking...back-to-back-to-back-to-back throwdowns of Louisville, Texas Tech, Indiana, and Kentucky...WTF, mate?...just a fluke that those four (who, of course, have no rivalries or ties to each other) just happen to be ranked next to each other?...sure, a total fluke!...and it's also sad to see how much those three (ignoring TT for now) once-mighty programs have faltered in the last few years - Indiana, especially...there was a long while (my childhood, pretty much) when the axis of college basketball was the stretch from Lexington to Bloomington via Louisville...sad...