I really have to do a better job of this!
Last Saturday night Wladimir Klitschko added the lightly regarded WBO belt to his IBF heavyweight title in a lopsided,unanimous yet dull win over Sultan Ibragimov.
We figured Wlad would win and he did,but rarely threw his powerful right hand and instead settled for using his dominant jab for his mode of victory.
We scored the fight 118-110 for Klitschko.
Winning is the most important thing and he did just that,but Klitschko gained few fans in his win.
"Dr.Steelhammer" should be going after the winner of next weekends WBC title fight between Oleg Maskaev and Samuel Peter,but instead it appears that oft-injured brother Vitali has the family endorsement for that fight.
Add to that the problem that WBA champ Ruslan Chagaev is not a name in the USA and has a rematch of his own against the giant Nikolai Valuev and you do not have a recipe for further unification or even a decent next opponent for Klitschko.
Battlin Bob sends us a mail on the "struggles" for poor Sam Zell.
Zell is the new owner of the Chicago Cubs by virtue of his buying the Chicago Tribune company and instead of selling the Cubs and Wrigley Field as a unit,he is trying to sell them separately and therefore make more coin for himself.
The problem with this is that the process has been slowed down considerably by Zell's insistence and the deal may have to wait until 2009 to be completed.
I feel so bad for Zell.
No,I don't.
Thanks to those of you in cyber space that made last Saturday our all time highest day for visitors.
Another cap tip to our friends over at Wooden's world of baseball for mentioning us in their latest post.
Wooden does great stuff over there and I would encourage anyone to visit his blog often.
For those of you minor league fans out there,I just finished my minor league fantasy baseball draft and I will be looking at the players in my system here on a slow day.
If anyone wants to look at the draft (which is still going on) click here.
The lovely Cherie sends us a few non-sports items to opine on.
This talks about a rubber-like substance that is self mending and would be a help in things like easily broken toys,utensils in the kitchen etc.
I would imagine using it in a medical purpose down the road.
Think about a possible benefit using this in a Tommy John patient?
That is years away,but think about those possibilities!
In the Norwegian mountains,a chamber is being dug 400 feet in
to a frozen mountain and reserving seeds in the event of a catastrophic disaster.88 Countries are participating in the project and the vault can hold up to 4.5 million species of seeds to be housed there.
This is a tremendous idea and is the type of thinking that is needed as so many things on our planet change.
Never a bad thing to have a "Planetary Pantry"for the worst of all bad days!!
And finally,Cherie in another search stumbled upon this.
This is something that you likely will never see this blogger attend for more reasons than you can think of!!!!
Photo Credits
Boxing-Alexander Hassenstein-Getty Images
Vault-John McConnico-AP Photo
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