Have a Nice Weekend

Soooh, what are you doing this weekend, girl?

Japan Sets Up Football World Cup Final with US

In the "other football World Cup Final" (if you don't count rugby football), Japan kicks serious Swedish ass 48-0 at the 3rd IFAF World Championships semifinals, while the US beats up Germany, 33-7. Japan seeks a third straight title tomorrow in the battle of the smashmouth brawlers at the Todoroki Stadium in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, and also avenge the Tragedy in Coney Island.

I'm keeping my Saturday afternoon schedule open for a possible BBQ invite, but feel free to go without me.

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Trivia alert: Jeff Ballard, the top-string QB on the US team, was ranked as high as 17th and low as 47th in NFL mock drafts, and went to the Hula Bowl. He may not be the next Peyton Manning, but he didn't earn his chops in your typical mixed flag football league either.

Speaking of mixed leagues, Birgit Felden (Germany!) won the 1984 Nathan's Hotdog Eating Contest with 9 1/2 hot dogs consumed. Sonya "The Black Widow" Thomas placed second in 2005 with 37 to Takeru "The Tsunami" Kobayashi's 49. Ms. Thomas seems to have topped out, but still managed to finish a respectable fifth this year with 39. You've come a long way, baby, but not quite long enough.

Why Do We Watch Porn?

Why do we watch porn?
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Okay, why do I watch porn? I mean, I like food; in fact, I can go for much longer periods of time without sex than I can go without food, but do I go trolling the Internet for images of couples dining out at Paul Bocuse the way I (hypothetically, mind you) do research on physically intimate human behavior? Neither do you, right?

If someone can explain this, please post here.

Headline Says USOC Apologizes for 'Congo' Joke

In a joke that made Brazilians cringe and forced the U.S. Olympic Committee to apologize, a USOC worker scrawled "Welcome to the Congo!" on a board in the organization's Rio de Janeiro media center for the Pan American Games.

The article makes you wonder if anybody apologized to the Africans.