Jon once again puts on the surgical gloves, grabs the scalpel and guides you through 48 hours of intense surgery also known as the weekend. Jon?

It’s Saturday yet again, meaning the obvious: it’s time for Notre Dame to get its butt kicked on national television! I must say, I’m enjoying the Charlie Weis era. Also, if it’s Saturday, it’s time for another edition of the weekend links.

*We start with this week’s winner in the uber-competitive category of “Best Parody Commercial With a Sports Theme Found on YouTube”: the Royals are finally advertising for some players. Man, if the Royals ever get good again, I don’t know what I’ll do with
myself. It’s so much fun having a team that’s so consistently awful in the division.

*I hesitate to submit a link to something I wrote, but since the list of worst Minnesota losses got RandBall airtime, it’s only fair that we present the yin to that incredibly painful yang, with the list of the best wins in our sports history.

*This article claims that, in addition to being the kind of jerk that would wear a Yankees hat to a post-season game at Jacobs Field, LeBron is also a Bulls and Cowboys fan. This is a kid from Akron, Ohio, that grew up during the mid-90s when all of these teams were incredibly successful. Before I found
this out, I tended to think of LeBron as essentially a good-natured guy from Ohio, who also happened to be an incredibly good basketball player, to the point that he was couple of rings away from “tell your grandkids about watching him” territory. After finding this out, well, I kind of hope somebody kicks LeBron in the groin while wearing a hockey skate.

*On the flip side, if Amare Stoudemire is really telling people that his name is now “amarestoudemire.com”, then frankly, we can only hope that ABC gives Amare — sorry, amarestoudemire.com — his own TV show.

*Finally, the required hockey content: the Maple Leafs have revealed their reasoning for banning mini-cameras from the team locker room: they don’t want anybody filming naked players. The best joke (”Isn’t that why Leafs TV charges so much — for stuff like that?”) has already been made, so I’ll provide the obvious disclaimer: those of you who were looking for compromising photos of Tomas Kaberle will just have to find another way.

*I’m not sure whether football is happening or not this morning, but if it did: I’m sure it looked something like this, but in touch football form.

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