http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/8276748/Fresno-St.-offense-breaks-out,-forces-deciding-Game-3 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Fresno State has reached the brink of pulling off what once was unimaginable for a team in its situation: winning a national championship. One of the most amazing postseason runs in college baseball history continued Tuesday night thanks to an offensive performance that was nothing short of, well, amazing. After spotting Georgia a five-run lead in the third inning, Fresno State struck for 15 runs over the next three innings for a 19-10 victory in Game 2 of the College World Series finals. "This club has a lot of heart. I keep saying that because it's true," Fresno State coach Mike Batesole said. "This team has been going and going and going, and they're going to go for nine more innings." The Bulldogs from Fresno State (46-31) and Bulldogs from Georgia (45-24-1) will meet in Game 3 on Wednesday night to determine college baseball's top dog. "Throughout the whole season, we knew we had all the tools to do something like this," left fielder Steve Susdorf said. "To put them all together and get to the point is not really describable." Tommy Mendonca put Fresno State in front with his record-tying fourth home run of the CWS in his team's six-run third inning. Fresno State scored five runs in the fourth and four more in the fifth to trip up a Georgia team that appeared on the verge of sweeping through the CWS to its second national title and first since 1990. foxsports.net 6/25/08

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3459208 PHOENIX -- Shaquille O'Neal will lose his special deputy's badge in Maricopa County because of language he used in a rap video that mocks former teammate Kobe Bryant. Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio said the Phoenix Suns center's use of a racially derogatory word and other foul language left him no choice. Arpaio made Shaq a special deputy in 2006 and promoted him to colonel of his largely ceremonial posse later that year. "I want his two badges back," Arpaio told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "Because if any one of my deputies did something like this, they're fired. I don't condone this type of racial conduct." Shaq was seen in a video posted on the celebrity news and gossip Web site TMZ.com rapping that "Kobe couldn't do without me." O'Neal skewers the Lakers' star, with whom he won three straight NBA titles from 2000-2002 while with Los Angeles, for not being able to win a championship without him. "I was freestyling. That's all. It was all done in fun. Nothing serious whatsoever," O'Neal told ESPN.com Monday. A call to the Suns on Tuesday seeking comment from O'Neal was referred to his public relations firm, which didn't immediately respond. espn.com 6/25/08

http://www.pro-football-reference.com/blog/?p=545 Posted by Chase Stuart on Monday, June 23, 2008 Two years ago I wrote up a post about the worst quarterbacks of all time. Today I’ll be updating that post, while tomorrow I’ll be writing about the best quarterbacks of all time. To save myself some headaches, I’ve separated out the methodology for ranking the QBs into a separate post. That’s pretty much required reading if you want to understand how the rankings were derived. For starters, it always bugs me how much time NFL fans spend discussing the best quarterbacks ever, and how little time we spend discussing the worst QBs ever. Let’s start with the worst single season of all time. I doubt anyone alive today remembers the name Bud Schwenk. That’s what happens when you throw 295 passes, and complete 126 of them to your team and 27 of them to the opponents. Yes, Bud Schwenk averaged an impressive 0.69 adjusted yards per pass attempt, while the league average outside of Scwhenk was 4.25 adjusted yards per pass (After 1969, every QB will be ranked by his net adjusted yards per attempt, but we don’t have reliable individual sack data from before then). Schwenk singlehandedly dropped the league average to 3.23 AY/A, which might have misled readers into seeing how bad he really was. Six years later, Jack Jacobs was nearly as bad, averaging negative yards per pass attempt but on over 100 fewer passes. Ineptitude kept Jacobs from passing (sliding behind?) Schenk. And the third worst QB season of all time? You need to fast forward 51 years, to 1999. Check out this stat line: Cmp Att Cmp% Yds TD Int Sk SkYd ANY/A LgAvg ANY/A 201 381 52.8 2111 9 24 27 152 2.38 4.87 Plummer, in 1999, “contributed” 1,017 fewer yards to the Cardinals than the league average QB would have brought to the table. As far as modern seasons go, Plummer’s ‘99 stands as the worst. Here’s a list of the 25 worst seasons by any QB: pro football reference.com 6/23/08