Yadier Molina Just Wants Someone To Listen To Him

Your morning roundup for Aug. 3, the day we ate zombie meat. Photo via Sports Grid. Got any stories or photos for us? Tip your editors.

What we watched: The Mets have a way of losing in the most Mets way possible sometimes, don't they? Last night, they had a chance to finish off the Marlins, only to have Justin Turner somehow transform a potential game-ending double play into a two-run error that was the difference in a 4-3 loss. This after a 10th-inning grand slam beat them Monday and a last-at-bat loss to the Nationals on Sunday. We almost want to watch again tonight, just to see how creative they might get.

In which the Big East is compared to a prom queen: "The scene was reminiscent of a junior high school dance, with Big East and TV executives flirting but keeping their distance. ESPN has the first chance to negotiate a contract with the Big East next September. The Big East may still have braces and thick glasses, but it is being courted like a prom queen." [ NY Times]

Third person alert!: "Just to show that Albert Haynesworth can still play football," he said. "It's all about now, rewriting my name as Albert Haynesworth the Patriot." [ ESPN Boston]

It's too hot for football: "Two Georgia high school football players died Tuesday, one after more than a week in the hospital, as officials try to determine the effects of hot weather on both players." [ AJC]

Your Bahrain-Kuwait lengthy basketball fight interlude:

What's in the swag bag at the Lyles Bowl?: "Willie Lyles does not coach or play football or work for ESPN. He is not a candidate for this year's Heisman Trophy. No one invited him to grand-opening festivities. He just sort of crashed the party.Only in wacky college football world could Oregon and Louisiana State meet in a huge Sept. 3 game in Dallas with both teams under NCAA investigation for dealings with same guy. Some are already calling it ‘The Lyles Bowl.'" [ LA Times]

Just yell louder, Jered: "‘I obviously knew that something was going to happen,' Weaver said. ‘It's six games, and it is what it is, but I've decided to appeal it. I wanted my voice heard a little bit on the situation and how it went down, see what they feel about it and go from there. So we'll see what happens.'" [ AP]

This is a sad story: "Life was to be lived. That's what Hatch taught Austin. In the eight years since the plane crash that killed Austin's mother and two siblings but spared a father and son, Hatch tried to cultivate normalcy. If he fell apart, where would that leave Austin? Eventually, in spite of all the horrible memories, they got back into a single-engine prop and flew again. Life was to be lived. Hatch was, at his core, a pilot, and Austin was meant to ride shotgun." [ Outside The Lines]