-- Very sorry to hear about Robert Novak's brain tumor, so much so that I actually removed a snide comment about him from last week's Brain Shuffle. I met Novak a couple times in college, when he came to visit The Daily Illini, the newspaper at the University of Illinois where he had worked many years before I did. He may be a Republican pawn and I may disagree wholly with his politics, but he's still a D.I.'er.
-- Umm ... I get that Ken Griffey Jr. is a future Hall of Famer, but I'm not convinced that picking up a 38-year-old center fielder made of glass will improve the White Sox's ballooning ERA.
-- Kyle Farnsworth for Ivan Rodriguez. Why didn't the Cubs think of that in 2003?
-- I hear that John McCain opened up negative campaign season by trying to analogize Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. Now we know why he's always called on opponents to forego negative campaigning.
--British Gas announced profits of nearly 1 billion pounds for the first half of the year this week, one day after announcing a 35 percent price hike that will threaten some people's ability to heat their homes, particularly elderly on a pension. Just in case you thought the Brits weren't Americanized.
-- I wrote a song for Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal to make them feel better:
Baby, if you've ever wondered
Wondered whatever became of me
I lost at No. 1 in Cincinatti
Cincinatti Masters, ATP
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