Someone posted above that because women's marathon numbers are falling, it's possible that women will start to beat men's times. I agree with the other poster that the women's numbers are falling rapidly due to the increase in training and specialization, but to say that they're going to eclipse men's times is not borne out.

Someone else posted that since women's endurance levels are (or can be) high, they will beat men, but again this is not backed up by statistics. Looking at the Colorado ultra-marathon times, for example, the men's times are always significantly better: the Hardrock (23:23 vs 29:24), Wasatch (19:35 vs 22:27), and Leadville (15:42 vs 18:06).

In general, women's Olympic-level track numbers are roughly equivalent to boys' elite high school numbers. In fact, just from glancing at the current year's numbers, boys have beaten the women's world record, with the one exception of the women's 3K record set back in 1993.

The ironic thing is that Deadspin, which tends to salivate over Erin Andrews (or "America's Sideline Princess", as they call her), has been very stern in *not* displaying the photos, and just using her standard headshot to report on it.

See for example the link below written today on Deadspin decrying the situation.

Susan Sarandon? Ok, I know she's not technically a wife, but...

I got a robocall at home yesterday asking if I was aware of the "growing tea party movement".

Putting the interests of UAW members above the contractual rights of hedge fund investors is being decried as banana-republic-style corruptionbeen .

It should be "comparatively liberal social views" instead of "comparatively social liberal views", yes?

Saw one the other day in Silicon Valley, although I had to do a double-take as at first I figured it was another Elise. Unfortunately, the guy driving it was happy cruising at 65, so I couldn't see what it could do in the wild.

* Man to give birth to octuplets

* 'Octodad': I just want to be normal

* Octodad had surgery to look like Willem Dafoe!

was not 22.

...is how exactly the ISPs will know what the per-subscriber usage is. Most systems don't have the NMSs in place in order to monitor it. How will they prove that you've gone over? Are they storing that value for every subscriber in the system? For how long?

Both IE & Firefox crashed on me. Google Chrome worked, though. Perhaps it was the embedded bit from "specificmedia.com"?

An article on the AV Club the other day had a photo of OJ Simpson shirtless on the cover of Rolling Stone in 1978 (see username for link). Putting aside what's happened to him in the last 15 years, just get a load of what an All-World Running Back looked like in 1978.

Yes, he's muscular, but remarkably thin...even Cornerbacks these days look like they have 20 more pounds of muscle.

Wow, that is a fabulous article. It is astonishing that all that money is just being wasted on these bowls...especially when the original tradition (i.e., one specific conference champion versus another) has basically disappeared.

(I know it's a minor point, but...) When exactly does he show off his Hummer on "Pimp my Ride"? Is it once or twice in 50 episodes? Because I've certainly never seen it in any of the episodes I've watched.

Piedmont actually plays near the Bay Area this weekend in a playoff game...you should go check out the A-11 offense live & in person, and then report it to the masses.

Also, Thrasher, the word "lazy" did not appear in this article.

The song about the Sox is "Tessie". Great song.

My take is that she is dancing fairly well around some difficult topics. I'm not saying I agree with her points, but I think it will play pretty well. Don't underestimate these sorts of responses.

@ Xrandadu, I definitely heard him say "hands and nose". But I believe it was just him being bad with the teleprompter; he eventually said "works with her hands and knows, knows how to...".

She's Pentecostal, a member of the Assemblies of God. In other words, a fundamentalist.

Slate has an interesting article about where her campaign came from...apparently it was spearheaded by a young blogger from Colorado who goes by "Elephantman". That's probably the single funniest thing I've read today.

http://www.slate.com/id/2198949/

McCain didn't say "everyone who makes less than $5m/yr is middle class"; he said that $5m/yr makes you rich. The reason that sort of thing bugs me is OK, maybe you could argue he meant $4m/yr is middle class (as Obama is doing), but you can definitively state that McCain thinks $4.5m/yr is "not rich".

There's just no excuse for those drops in the heats. I get it if it happens in the finals, if you're being pressed by the Jamaicans or the UK and have that issue, but in the heats it just makes sense to have conservative passes.

Even if that hurts the overall time by a half-second, the aggregate speed should be good enough to at least come in second, if not win...

...is that the spoiler not be in the headline. I remember in one of the previous Olympics when I avoided SI.com, ESPN.com, etc., to miss seeing US Basketball results. I "cleverly" decided to go to NBCOlympics.com for the schedule, the *one place* that I figured wouldn't spoil the results, since after all the reason I hadn't seen it is because their tape-delayed coverage hadn't aired. No such luck.

I do recommend you tune in team handball at least once, though--it's basketball for normal people! It pales in comparison to takraw (the 'volleyball with the feet' game), but that isn't in the Olympics yet.