Happy Birthday America!

235 YEARS OLD!

Born (and raised) in the USA for all my years!

Speaking of Born in the USA...check out Megan Rapinoe's cover (sort of) of one of the Boss' greatest hits ever!

Nothing beats the Boss!

Be safe on this Independence Day 2011!

Bring It On!

An annual Independence Day tradition. The stars of MLE and other competitive eaters testing their stomachs to see who will come on top at the Nathan's Hot Dog eating competition at Coney Island Monday afternoon.

Joey Chestnut has won the mustard belt the last couple of years, but since his chief competitor Takeru Kobayashi out due to contract dispute with IFOCE and MLE, he has no competition. Just look at the competition. The usual suspects even some new blood. Who knows who will show up? 11am Central on ESPN LIVE later today!

An End of an Era.

After 43 years of the free-to-air network for the Championships at Wimbledon, NBC was outbid...by ESPN. Read it here.

It seems that even though NBC will retain RG's, I think it will be a sign of an improvement because everyone, even myself, are angered over their "same time zone" shit that bothers people. Today isn't really that damn important anymore (same could be said for other morning shows-network or cable-because they're all useless), and that really killed this experiment that the network has done for years.

ESPN outbid Fox and NBC for the rights, but will they relegate some of the matches to be televised live on either Tennis Channel or FTA on ABC? Who knows? NBC needs tennis because tennis is an Olympic sport and All-England will be the tennis venue for the London games next July. But I really think it hits a network hard for all the years it has brought this grand slam event to America, even though they've fucked up the last few years.

The overall story is, who gives a fuck? Radio Wimbledon all the way!

Wimbledon Now in the Rear View Mirror.

The 125th Championships at Wimbledon is complete. Congrats to all the winners including Petra Kvitova, who scored her first grand slam championship on Saturday and Novak Djokovic, who is now the world's number one, and has a grand slam to boot as well!

So with all that in mind, that marks the 3/4 mark of the grand slam in 2011. The US Open Series will begin in a few weeks, and all will lead to the final grand slam of the year at the USTA Complex at Flushing Meadows in the NYC borrough of Queens in late August!

Friday Jukebox 7.1.11

On Monday, the US of A celebrates its 235th birthday! It's appropriate that a little Lee Greenwood must be played to make it more patriotic. I am proud to be an American-for all 28 years I've been on planet Earth!

Oh, and for those of you north of the border, happy Canada Day.

And one more note, regardless of where you'll be all weekend long, PLEASE be safe. If fireworks used (where applicable, but do some research because in some areas, it's outlawed this year because of the burn bans), please be careful. Overall, just be safe.

Out With the Old, In With the New.

Thursday was the last official day as a Division I school for Centenary College of Louisiana. Today, it's the first day as Division III level and as a member of the American Southwest Conference (ASC).

Every athletic facility on campus at Centenary-from Shehee Stadium to the Gold Dome-is undergoing makeovers, so all Summit stuff are probably thrown out or set on fire.

On a related note, more Centenary athletics news-new swimming schedule is out this week, so check out the Gents and Ladies meet schedules here and here, as the swimming program will compete in Division II and in the New South Intercollegiate Swim Conference. The Gents program will start off on September 9 on the left coast in a meet at Stanford, and both Gents and Ladies programs will also have a meet at TCU on October 7. Their first home meet will be on October 22 with Austin College-Hendrix, while their final home meet will be on November 5, their conference opener with Henderson State.

Jagr Returns to North America!

Yes! After a few years off to play over in the KHL (Russia), he is back in North America months before the 2011-12 NHL season begins, but what team does he chose to come back to? The answer is here.