PICK'EM: "Curl Runnings" or "Cool Curlings"

USA Curling - just wow.  Last place.  Men's and womens.  Both teams conceded in their final matches.  The men's team conceded to China in their match.

CHINA HAS NEVER HAD A CURLING TEAM BEFORE.

Good news for China though - Disney will probably offer them a movie deal.

Not a sport

I'm sorry, but any "sport" that does not have a physically measurable determination of a winner and the trailing losers should not be in the Olympics.  I'm looking at you, figureskating, halfpipe, ariels and moguls.

And at least some guy in Australia agrees with me.

Really, I wouldn't even call them sports if I had it my way.  Anytime that it is left up to a group of fallible human beings to rank who has done the best job at something, to me, it's just not a sport.  Athletic competiton, sure, but not a sport.  Sure, other real sports have judges or umpires, but the determining factor of scoring is defined and actively controlled by the competitors and not by the zebras with a rubric.

Hell, even curling is measurable and that's pretty damn borderline as a sport.  But it makes the cut.

Sorry gymnastics, but you're not gonna make it too.  Try your luck in the XGames.

FREE KORNHEISER

Tony Kornheiser gets suspended from ESPN for a few weeks for making comments about Sportscenter anchor Hannah Storm's wardrobe, an article here.

Kinda stupid, since Hannah Storm never really dresses like a mid-forty year-old professional newscaster, and because obviously Kornheiser really has no right to criticize people's outfits.

Worst of all, it means Dan Le Batard is going to allowed to make everyone stupider with his comments for the next couple weeks on PTI.  ESPN should realize two wrongs don't make a right - giving Le Batard a soapbox should be against the Geneva Conventions.

FREE KORNHEISER!

Drury FTW!

BU alum Chris Drury scores the go-ahead goal in Team USA's upset over Canada in the Olympic hockey prelims.  Easily one of the most awesome hockey games I've ever seen - the last 3-4 minutes of the US's defense was amazing.  Just awesome.

Update: Watching msNBC after the game and their coverage of the US's "huge" upset, and the anchor keeps saying how "the streets of Canada are dead quiet right now."  They then cut to a reporter live outside the hockey arena in Vancouver after saying it to guage the reaction of the fans - and the Canadians go wild as soon as the camera turns on, and start singing "Oh Canada" so loudly that they drown out the reporter.  He trieds to run away, and the crowd just follows him.  Classic media fail.

The Eye of the Beholder

Via Andrew Sullivan, Pollster.com's Charles Franklin takes the information from one chart being passed around via Organizing for America (the residual circle from Obama's grassroots efforts in 2008) and one chart he made using the same data from the OfA chart.  Both are true, but if you ever wonder how pols design their rhetoric this is a great example.

OfA Chart:

And Franklin's:

Now if we could only get a politician that would admit and react responsibly to both...

And we're back!

...And with a deep philosophical question to deliberate on.

If you sleep with someone else in your own bed, kiss that person, are turned on or aroused by that person during the course of the night into the morning - and then the next day do not want to see that person again ever again - is it a one night stand?

Also, I am neither party in this inquery since I'm sure that will influence your decision making in said bed.

I say it is - teh Google defines a "one night stand" as:

a brief sexual encounter lasting only for a single night; "he ran through a series of loveless one-night stands"

A "sexual encounter" defines itself - and encounter of a sexual nature - all that leaves is to define "sex."  Again from teh Google:

arouse: stimulate sexually; "This movie usually arouses the male audience"

And there you have it.  Now granted, I can imagine some saying that the parties involved didn't perform the act of "getting down with your bad self" and therefore it doesn't count.  But I think that the definition of sex is inclusive rather than exclusive - ranging from getting turned on or aroused all the way up to all of the nasty, gross things people think up.  There could be varying degrees of "one night stands," and if that's true this most certainly would classify itself as the lowest level, but it's still got to qualify.  So I'm saying "One Night Stand."

That's what you get here at Cheshire Prospects - where hard-hitting deep thinking meets the absolutely absurd.

...And it continues.

Sorry folks, just too much going on right now to get back on a regular blogging cycle.  Maybe next week...

Hiatus

Sorry about the extended hiatus, sports fans.  We'll be returning with some new programming in the coming week (hopefully).  Right after I finish shoveling out from this storm.  Which may not ever happen.