When most Americans look back and remember when gas was under $3 a gallon.
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Frank McCourt has apparently secured funds to make the Dodgers payroll this month. Ah, for the good old days in Los Angeles when the only payroll worries for sports fans were about anyone finding out how much the players were getting paid at USC.
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Amy Winehouse checked back into rehab in London this week, but according to the British media, not before stopping at a shop to buy a small bottle of vodka that she swigged immediately. That’s like Lindsay Lohan stopping on her way to home confinement to go jewelery shopping.
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Fox News fired Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum because of their intentions to run for President. But despite similar signs from Sarah Palin, the network is keeping her on as a contributor. Translation, compared to Gingrich and Santorum, Palin has higher ratings.
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Many sports fans around the world Saturday were rivited to the Champions’ League soccer championships between Barcelona and ManU. In the U.S., however, many would just have asked “where’s Manu?”
(responded Jerry Hoffman, “with the Spurs.”)
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The world didn’t end last weekend. Although in Chicago, where the Cubs have lost two straight to the lowly Pirates, including a 10-0 shellacking, the 2011 season may be officially over.
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Amazing, Francisco Liriano of the Twins pitched a no-hitter earlier this month, and Anthony Swarzak almost pitched one today (into the 8th). What’s most amazing, these pitchers have done this without the benefit of pitching to their own lineup.
And we wonder why U.S. airlines have such lousy reputations for both service and profitability – example number 334:
Video announcement on United Airlines “We’re taking significant steps in our merger with Continental Airlines – we’ve painted our planes….” (Really, followed by all the things they are going to do. Though to be fair the two airlines have synchonized boarding procedures, and some fees, usually by raising the lower of the two.)
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From Bill Littlejohn: “Yuma Scorpions manager Jose Canseco, who is smitten with her and has proposed marriage, has declared May 30th ‘Lady Gaga Night’ at the team’s home park.Free admission will be granted to those producing a restraining order”
Left Coast Sports Babe 