I think they are missing some commas or something

From ESPN:

Ramirez was supposed to sit out the sold-out game when the Dodgers gave away his bobblehead doll for precautionary reasons after being hit with a pitch on the side of his left hand in a game the night before.

Mormon communities in Mexico at war with drug cartels

Now that's a headline you don't see every day.

From the Washington Post:

In the past three months, American Mormon communities in Mexico have been sucked into a dust devil of violence sweeping the borderlands. Their relative wealth has made them targets: Their telephones ring with threats of extortion. Their children and elders are taken by kidnappers. They have been drawn into the government's war with the drug cartels.

So why are there Mormons (some who swear and drink beer, the Washington Post reports) in Mexico?

Their ancestors first settled in Mexico in the 1880s, during the reign of dictator Porfirio Díaz, who offered the religious outcasts refuge from the harassment and prosecution they faced in the United States for their polygamist lifestyles. Some men in Colonia LeBaron and surrounding towns continue to follow what early Mormon prophets called "the Principle," marrying multiple wives and having dozens of children, though the custom here is fading. Polygamy was banned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the official Mormon Church, in 1890.

I lost a little respect for Bill Simmons

*sigh*

Simmons talking to Mediaite:

1. How do you get your first news of the day?

ESPN.com, RealClearSports, hoopshype, Buster Olney’s baseball blog, Mike Lombardi’s football blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Drudge Report, TV Tattle, Google Trends, my Twitter page.

Drudge Report? Really?

Though I do like his take on Twitter:

Facebook is a social network; Twitter is a media/marketing vehicle disguised as a social network.

Ex-MMA fighter to media: Um, I'm not dead

As Mark Twain once said, "The report of my death is an exaggeration." (Depending on who you believe as to what Twain actually said.)

Former MMA fighter Kim "Kimo" Leopoldo now has something in common with the great American author, though:

"When I saw the sites, it scared me," Leopoldo said, according to the Times. "I wondered, are they predicting the future or am I cursed?"

Leopoldo did have something significant happen Monday, but it wasn't a heart attack. According to the report, he was sentenced to 10 days of community service and referred to a drug diversion program in connection with a February arrest, in which he was found in possession of marijuana and wearing a Long Beach police officer jumpsuit.

Former college athlete sues NCAA over licensing

I have to say, I agree with this suit.

In a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday, Ed O'Bannon says the NCAA illegally has athletes sign away their rights to the commercial use of their images and does not share any of the proceeds from their use with former athletes.

It's always a bone of contention with NCAA athletes and the NCAA about how the NCAA makes hundreds of millions (or is it billions?) of dollars from their work.

But the athletes themselves? No money at all.

Odd.