Times staff
Sunday, May 8, 2011
He wrote it
"I won't even begin to predict the Stanley Cup winner. But I can predict this with some certainty: There will be plenty of cheap shots, more players will be hurt and (NHL vice president Colin) Campbell will confound everybody with the punishment he hands down. Garage League? Did somebody say garage league?"
Ron Cook, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Correction of the day
From the New York Times: "An item in the Extra Bases baseball notebook last Sunday misidentified, in some editions, the origin of the name Orcrist the Goblin Cleaver, which Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey gave one of his bats. Orcrist was not, as Dickey had said, the name of the sword used by Bilbo Baggins in the Misty Mountains in The Hobbit; Orcrist was the sword used by the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield in the book. (Bilbo Baggins's sword was called Sting.)"
Proposal of the day
Bryan "The Beast" Baker defeated Joe Riggs in the second round of his mixed martial arts fight Saturday night then proposed to his girlfriend during the postfight interview on MTV2. Wonder what Baker would've done had he lost?