Left Coast Sports Babe

Today was the first day of autumn, and all around the country you can see the signs. In Chicago, fans are just starting to roll out their “Cubs World Series champs 2010′ t-shirts.

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The NBA plans to start the season with replacement referees. The players association is against the idea. If the refs aren’t experienced, how will they know who never to call fouls on?

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Zack Greinke has 15 wins for the Royals. Who knew? The Royals have 15 wins?

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Actually, the Kansas City Royals, once on pace for losing 100 games easily, are 12-3. This is the baseball equivalent of George W. Bush deciding to read books during his last weeks in office.

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A Russian billionaire wants to buy the New Jersey Nets. If the deal is approved it would be the first NBA team with foreign ownership. I guess Mark Cuban’s home planet doesn’t count.

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Glenn Beck told Katie Couric. “I think John McCain would have been worse for the country than Barack Obama.” Say what? Well, I suppose it makes sense in one way, with McCain as President, Glenn Beck wouldn’t have a show.

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Ron Artest said that fans can blame him if the Lakers don’t repeat this year. He himself, however, will stick to blaming his teammates.

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Georgetown’s baseball team was put on three years probation because some of their players were overpaid for work-study programs. Other unnamed Division 1 athletic programs were astounded, Georgetown players actually had to work to be paid?

From Bill Littlejohn, last year’s joke, but as mentioned yesterday, Pete Carroll’s Trojans have once again been knocked out of the BCS championship by their annual inexplicable loss to a mediocre-at-best Pac 10 team. “If Pete Carroll were president during the Cold War, I wouldn’t have worried about the Soviet Union – I’d have worried about Liechtenstein.'”

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