Left Coast Sports Babe

A new study indicates that Botox may not only paralyze facial muscles, it may actually hinder “emotional processing,” because those muscles help the brain process information. Which could explain why Nancy Pelosi never seems stressed.

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Who’d a thunk it? Larry King is going to retire before Brett Favre.
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Yeah, penalty kicks after a 0-0 tie are exciting. But for a casual soccer fan in terms of payoff to total time expended watching the match, it’s kind of like being being an action movie fan who hates romantic dramas, waiting through 2 1/2 hours of Titanic to watch the boat sink.

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Silver lining to the U.S. meltdown at Wimbledon….doesn’t look like Americans will have to work on their bows and curtsies if the Queen returns for the trophy presentations.

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And let’s see, the U.S. is out of the World Cup, mostly out of Wimbledon, Tiger Woods isn’t in a major this weekend and it’s too early to think about baseball pennant races. So this Fourth of July weekend a common refrain could be “Hey, honey, you always are so accommodating about what I want to do, let’s say we go shopping.”

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Two major baserunning errors by Pablo Sandoval in two days, each costing the San Francisco Giants at least a run. This is not exactly what the Giants were hoping for in terms of Pandamonium.
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Congrats to the South Carolina Gamecocks, for winning the College World Series. Everyone at the University is thrilled, except for football coach Steve Spurrier, who is trying to figure out a way to claim part of the credit.

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Cincinnati running back Cedric Benson was arrested Tuesday and charged with misdemeanor assault after a bar altercation last month. Well, the preseason hasn’t even started yet and already the Bengals look to be in midseason form.

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Ron Artest thanked his psychiatrist after the Lakers won the championship. If the Bengals ever get it together to win a Super Bowl, wonder how many of them will thank their parole officers?

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Yet another example of why translation software is not perfect. This is an actual quote from the website of the deluxe Royal Plaza hotel in Singapore, about their award-winning dinner buffet restaurant –

“Be mesmerized by the enormous spread of seafood and expect succulent and tender flesh. ”

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A lot of the GOP’s questioning of Elena Kagan seems to revolve around whether or she can be “impartial.” Somehow I missed the part when they used this line of questioning on Justices Roberts and Alito.

(Whatever happened to “elections have consequences?”)

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