Young women love American Idol

I know, I know, it's not exactly breaking news... but according to a poll by the Pew Research Center, the demographic that follows American Idol most closely are young women -- that is women from the age 18-30.

The poll shows that 26 percent of women in this age group follow American Idol "Very" or "Fairly" closely. Me, I didn't know who Adam Lambert was until I was pointed to this video of the Idol runner up massacring "Ring of Fire," the Johnny Cash classic.

The numbers are slowly dropping across the board, a trend that I wholeheartedly support. In fact, I would hope that the numbers accelerate, but that is just me.

Meanwhile, men 18-30 (which is my age group) aren't that enamored with American Idol. Just 13 percent of men in the youngest age group follow American Idol "Very" or "Fairly" closely.

If you take away the number of men who are forced by their girlfriends or wives to watch the show, I would be the number would rapidly approach five percent.

Oh, an 71 percent of people say that they have followed the karaoke competition "Not at all closely."

Americans sweep awards at "Mustache and Beard" championships

USA! USA! USA!

Americans took the top three slots at the biannual World Beard and Mustache Championships.

The winner was this guy, David Traver of Anchorage Alaska:



But really, after seeing all of those pictures, aren't they all winners? And will Alaska Governor Sarah Palin invite him to the governor's mansion to congratulate him? Or maybe not because Traver's epic facial hair would just emasculate the "First Dude" Todd Palin and his facial hair.

Milton Bradley: Umps are out to get me

Baseball hothead and current Chicago Cub Milton Bradley (no, not this Milton Bradley) is in the news again, this time for saying the Major League Baseball umpires are all out to get him.

Or something like that.

From ESPN.com:

Bradley, suspended one game last month after an argument with umpire Larry Vanover, said he thought other umps were getting back at him for the incident.

"Unfortunately, I just think it's a lot of 'Oh, you did this to my colleague,' or 'We're going to get him any time we can," Bradley said, according to the Chicago Tribune. "As soon as he gets two strikes, we're going to call whatever and see what he does. Let's try to ruin Milton Bradley.'

"It's just unfortunate. But I'm going to come out on top. I always do."

Bradley has had some problems with his anger on the field in the past, as I mentioned above. Just look at this 2004 ESPN story.