Afternoon Blogdome: Back In My Day ...
• Red Grange weeps: Tim Tebow is the greatest college player of all time? How quickly we forget ... (And I still say there are at least a dozen guys better than both of them.) [ The Big Lead]
• Spitting on an umpire costs extra: The Fort Worth Cats are selling their managerial gig on eBay. If only the Brewers had thought of that. [ Beckett Blog]
• Or apple polishers: Should Derrick Rose be on the All-Star team? I'm not sure if they need someone with sweet knife skills. [ Mouthpiece Sports]
• Lightning quick: Len Barrie responds to Barry Melrose and insists that he always knows how to keep his business side and his party side separate. [ FaceOff]
• Focus!: A cameraman at an Illinois club team hockey game captures a rarely seen goalie fight, as well as most of his friends in the crowd. Who directed this masterpiece? [ Daily Illini]
Wait was that ...?
It's Alternative Universe Will Leitch, who never left Illinios to pursue his crazy dreams and instead became a doctoral student in electrical engineering at Champaign-Urbana.
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