WBRS Sports Blog

Today is perhaps the slowest day in sports, with not much going on. If you were living in a cave yesterday, the AL beat the NL 3-2, with Michael Young getting a 2-run triple in the bottom of the 9th with two outs. Young was awarded the All-Star game MVP, as seen in the picture above.

Some news on a slow day...

Aubrey Huff was traded to the Houston Astros. It is going to take more than that to improve the abysmal Houston offense.

An 83 year old dude got an at bat in a minor league game. The man, Jim Eriotes, insists if he got four at bats in a Major League game he would get at least one hit. Interesting, considering he struck out on four pitches in his only minor league at bat.

New FIFA rankings were released today, with the U.S. coming in at 16. That seems more accurate than the #4 spot they once held this April. I think they are somewhere in between 4 and 16, probably at 8 or 9.