All apologies for the late links … we were over at the Metrodome all morning and part of the afternoon, where the interweb access (and e-mail access) is, to put it kindly, unpredictable. In any event, the hardest working blogger in show business has these links for you:

I spent 16 hours at the Metrodome yesterday, counting the half-hour I spent sitting outside Gate B, waiting for RandBall to show up. (True story: he tried to blame the whole thing on the pug.) [Proprietor note: We have no shame]. As a matter of fact, right now I’m at the Dome, too, though this was written last night. I had planned to go home and crash in about fifteen seconds, but the Cretin-Derham Hall-Blaine game was so unbelievably good, I ended up wired and unable to sleep.

Plus, since I was on the Blaine side of the field, it was hard to sleep over the ringing in my ears anyway. There’s no sound quite like the roar that greets a big play in a high-school game — it’s like a jet engine, with an upper register of a thousand screaming girls. It’s like having your head inside the amplifier while the Beatles play Shea Stadium.

Anyway, a few links to get you through the Saturday, while I watch six more football games:

*Tony Oliva can still rake - even if he has to do it with a Wii controller. (via Aaron Gleeman)

*Texas Tech coach Mike Leach is in the news a lot lately… so we might as well go back to this New York Times magazine profile, which gave us the first inkling that he’s completely insane.

*Kind of a fun series of posts from four guys who drove a beat-up old police car from New York to San Francisco. The catch: the whole trip, including the price of the car, had to cost less than $2,904. (Read the posts in reverse order for the full effect.)

*And finally: seems like former University of Arizona basketball players just can’t help moving to Europe and punching people. I’m so proud of the ol’ alma mater — (singing) Bear down, Arizona … bear down, red and blue…

That’ll do it for me - head over to the Preps blog and hang out with us there, or just enjoy your Saturday.

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