Well -- waking up from the Olympics to see that the Yankees are 9.5 games out of first raises the prospect that this might be a rather pleasant fall sports season (i.e. without them in the playoffs for the first time since 1722). 

 

All eleven Big Ten volleyball teams open this Friday -- good luck to all, let's do some whuppin'.  Here's the schedule ... of course this means the beginning of my annual four weekends of figuring out exactly what conferences the likes of UTSA and USF play in ... (yes, I know that Rich Kern has a nice list).