[Posted Sunday p.m. before the NCAA’s ruling on Penn State]
Summer Olympics Quiz: Name the sites since 1952. Answer below.
Heartbreak at Royal Lytham
Ernie Els -7
Adam Scott -6
Every single golf fan in the world had the exact same thought as Adam Scott did when his putt on No. 18 slid by the cup for his fourth straight bogey… “Wow.”
It was a shocking ending to the Open Championship at Royal Lytham & St. Annes as 42-year-old Ernie Els, in winning his fourth major and second British Open, put on one of the more gutty performances in recent memory, while Scott bogeyed the last four holes in blowing a four-shot lead with four to go to lose to Els by one. Golf fans can’t help but feel for Scott, a good man whose first major title seemed to be a lock.
Ernie shot 68 as Scott ballooned to 75. We’ll remember this one a long, long time. Unfortunately, so will Scott.
So much for the experience of Steve Williams on Scott’s bag being a key factor in the final round. It was tough to tell definitively but from what I observed, Williams wasn’t exactly trying to buck Scott up as Adam hopped on the bogey train.
With Tiger Woods’ disappointing performance, his strange year continues. Yes, he’s won three tournaments but he’s also come up very small in the big ones and both his short irons and putting blow. And that mental gaffe in not taking an unplayable and instead ending up with a triple bogey was uncharacteristic. I also have to believe he hurt his knee on that same hole more than what we might have seen by the end of the round.
Phil Mickelson missed the cut badly after making it in 18 straight majors. His game is a mess.
Tom Watson extended his record for being the oldest to make the cut since the Open went to a 36-hole one, Watson being 62.
And 52-year-old Mark Calcavecchia not only made the cut but finished T-9. As Ronald Reagan would have said, not bad, not bad at all.
Rory McIlroy had another poor performance, finishing 8-over, but you’ve gotta love this anecdote from the New York Post’s Mark Cannizzaro:
“Rory McIlroy didn’t just sign a glove for the teenager he hit in the head with this tee shot on the 15th hole Thursday. When McIlory found out Jason Blue, 16, of Bristol, England, was camping out this week, he put him up in a hotel on Thursday night.
“ ‘I thought it was the least I could do,’ McIlroy said. ‘I didn’t want him sleeping the night in a tent when he’s got a massive gash in the side of his head. I put him and his mate up for the night and gave them a bit of cash to go for a bit of food. I actually tried to get them into the hotel for a couple more nights, but they were just fully booked, so last night was the only night they got to spend.
“ ‘It was the least I could do. If someone gave me a big hole in my head, I wouldn’t be too happy.’”
For this we place Rory McIlroy’s name in the December file for yearend consideration in the “Good Guy” category.
–On a totally different issue, the situation with luxury golf communities in the U.S., the Wall Street Journal’s Nancy Keates described the carnage.
For starters, “From 1990 to 2003, some 3,000 new courses were built in the U.S., swelling the total number of courses nationally by 19% and costing about $20 billion, according to the National Golf Foundation.
“Many of these new courses were inextricably linked to the luxury-real-estate market. About 40% of the courses built during the 1990s were tied to real-estate communities…The golf courses were the lure to get people to buy houses….
“(But) soon after, the sport started to lose its allure. The percentage of the overall population in the U.S. that plays golf is down over the past 10 years, from 11.1% in 2000 to 9.2% in 2010, according to the National Golf Foundation.”
Then the real-estate market crashed. Compounding the problem, many of the courses designed by top-notch architects were way too difficult for the average golfer, plus they were expensive to maintain and the annual dues shot up.
The result is that lots and home prices at many of these golf communities have collapsed. Some lots are going for $1 because the seller can’t afford the club initiation fee and annual membership dues.
A few examples (purposefully omitting name of development):
“Several lots that initially sold for at least $150,000 are now on sale for $1 apiece.”
“A lakefront home with five bedrooms, a pool and a spa is asking $795,000. It sold for $1.6 million in 2007.”
One couple paid $500,000 for a lot in Bend, Oregon at a gated community with Tom Fazio and Jack Nicklaus-designed courses. Today a similar-size lot sold for $10,000.
A friend of mine from Wake Forest is mentioned in the article for recently buying a golf community in Naples, Fla. for $30 million after the previous owner had pumped over $200 million into it. Good job, Syd K. [One of the better people on the planet, as well.]
Penn State
Shortly before dawn on Sunday in State College, Pa., workers removed the Joe Paterno statue from its pedestal outside Beaver Stadium, to be stored in an unnamed “secure location” as announced by Penn State president Rodney Erickson. Erickson said the Paterno name will remain on the university’s library.
“I now believe that, contrary to its original intention, Coach Paterno’s statue has become a source of division and an obstacle to healing in our university and beyond,” Erickson said. “For that reason, I have decided that it is in the best interest of our university and public safety to remove the statue and store it in a secure location.”
Had it remained in its current location, Erickson said he believed it would “be a recurring wound to the multitude of individuals across the nation and beyond who have been the victims of child abuse.”
Regarding the Paterno name on the library, Erickson said:
“The library remains a tribute to Joe and Sue Paterno’s commitment to Penn State’s student body and academic success, and it highlights the positive impacts Coach Paterno had on the university. Thus I feel strongly that the library’s name should remain unchanged.”
You might recall I favored both moves that Erickson ended up taking.
As for penalties to be leveled against the program, the NCAA announced it would take “corrective and punitive measures” against the school on Monday. ESPN reports that the NCAA will take away a significant number of scholarships and loss of multiple bowls, but will not give the football program the “death penalty” that would suspend it for at least one year. A source told the network, however, that the penalties will be so severe, the death penalty may have been preferable.
The NCAA is taking unprecedented measures in opting to penalize Penn State without going through a Committee on Infractions hearing. Normally after issuing a notice of allegations, it allows the university 90 days to respond before a hearing is scheduled. But this is obviously a special situation and with the school year, and start of football but five or so weeks away, speed was of the essence.
I’ll make an early call and say if these rumors are true and Penn State is at least allowed to keep playing, the Nittany Lions will actually pick up some major sympathy.
As for shutting the football program down, if it yet comes to that, Bloomberg News estimates it would cost the school and surrounding community more than $70 million.
“In the fiscal year ending in 2011, the athletic department generated $116.1 million in operating revenue and posted a $14.8 million operating profit. The surplus helped pay for maintenance and building projects within the department.
“If football’s revenue and expenses were eliminated from the budget, the university would have posted a loss of $29.1 million on $57.2 million of revenue, according to the school’s records. Penn State, with an undergraduate student population of about 37,000, would have to make up the difference or cut programs to pare its expenses.”
Gerry Callahan / Boston Herald…from last Tuesday but wanted to get this in for the archives.
“At the very latest, Sandusky should have been locked up in 2001 after Mike McQueary saw him in the shower with Victim No. 2, but according to (Louis) Freeh, Paterno put the fix in. The vice president and athletic director wanted to go to child services. They talked to Joe. They changed their minds. They let Joe handle it, and Joe, as usual, did nothing.
“Sandusky remained free to rape for another decade. Sorry, kids. Joe just couldn’t afford to get anything on him. A pedophilia scandal? Are you kidding? That might have spelled the end for Paterno, and no nameless, faceless orphan was going to get in the way of Paterno’s march toward immortality. Too bad for the 336. Joe Pa was chasing 409. He was – try not to laugh here – winning with honor. And any down years, well, they were inevitable. You know, it’s tough when you’re going up against all those outlaw programs.
“In 2000, Penn State was 5-7, tied for sixth in the Big Ten. In 2001, the Nittany Lions were 5-6, and Joe was on the ropes. It is not a stretch to say he wouldn’t have survived a Sandusky scandal 10 years ago. He was like the warden in ‘Shawshank Redemption.’ Instead of putting Andy back in the hot box to protect his criminal enterprise, he put those poor boys back in Sandusky’s basement.
“You want to know the next shoe to drop? Sandusky was arrested on Nov. 5, 2011, six days after Paterno won his 409th game, breaking Eddie Robinson’s all-time Div. I record.
“Nice of the authorities to wait for old Joe to have his day, Sandusky appreciated it. He watched the record-breaking game from school president Graham Spanier’s luxury box. And Spanier knew Sandusky was about to be arrested when he invited him in.”
Lastly, on the tearing down of the statue, the Paterno family said in a statement:
“Tearing (it) down…does not serve the victims of Jerry Sandusky’s horrible crimes or help heal the Penn State community. We believe the only way to help the victims is to uncover the full truth.”
So now we await 9:00 a.m. ET on Monday to learn Penn State’s fate.
UNC…one of the other scandals
As Phil W. wrote me the other day, when is the UNC-Chapel Hill scandal going to get its deserved press?
Dan Kane and Andrew Carter / News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)…July 18
“The NCAA and UNC-Chapel Hill spent countless hours investigating the improper money, perks and tutoring football players received, eventually levying sanctions that will cost the team a bowl opportunity and athletic scholarships.
“But there’s little indication the NCAA is investigating another scandal that arguably paints a much darker picture: dozens of bogus classes largely attended by athletes that were offered by the longtime chairman of the Department of African and Afro-American studies.
“The NCAA has said practically nothing about the academic fraud. UNC officials have said it does not constitute an NCAA violation because non-athletes had also been enrolled in the bogus classes and were not treated differently. They have consistently said the bogus classes were not hatched to keep athletes eligible to play.”
The thing is the NCAA doesn’t have to deem these violations of its own policy. For example, the NCAA didn’t get involved the Univ. of Michigan case of the psychology professor who had taught 294 independent studies classes over a three-year period, with athletes taking up 85% of those courses.
“But the association hit Florida State University hard five years ago after learning a specialist and a tutor who worked with athletes had given them improper help, particularly in providing quiz answers for an online music course….The NCAA investigation cost the football team athletic scholarships and coach Bobby Bowden a dozen wins.”
J. Andrew Curliss and Andrew Carter / News & Observer…July 20
“Hakeem Nicks, one of the all-time great football players at UNC-Chapel Hill, played his final season in 2008 while ineligible to be on the field, the university acknowledged Thursday.
“NCAA documents show that Nicks received improper academic help in the spring of 2008 from a tutor implicated in the NCAA scandal at UNC. The NCAA called what happened ‘academic fraud.’
“Nicks’ ineligibility has not been widely known and was not previously acknowledged by the university.”
So now Nicks’ career and single-season records at the school will be marked with an asterisk in media guides.
All of the Tar Heels’ wins for 2008 and 2009 (16 total) are being vacated from the record books as well and Carolina isn’t eligible for the ACC championship game or a bowl game this coming season.
Meanwhile, the University of Miami is under investigation for a second straight year amid new accusations of rule breaking. Yahoo Sports first reported that a former Miami football employee is linked to one-time booster and now convicted Ponzi scheme architect Nevin Shapiro, last year’s target.
It turns out that Shapiro supposedly gave Sean Allen more than $200,000, most of this spent on players and recruits, as well as a luxury car. Miami has been aware of the second investigation and Yahoo Sports says Allen was heavily involved in the recruiting game. It’s very ugly…visits to strip clubs for recruits, you name it.
Eight Miami players missed at least one game last year as a result of sanctions the NCAA imposed over Shapiro’s claims. This second round could be far worse though it will take the NCAA awhile to sort it all out.
Ball Bits
–So like I was saying…it really sucks being a Mets fan.
That, my friends, is the definition of blowdom. It doesn’t help that since his no-hitter, Johan Santana is 3-5, 6.54 ERA, and now on the disabled list.
I’ve showed you before our pathetic post-All-Star break record in prior years. This season promises to be far worse.
–Selected standings thru Sunday.
A.L. Central
Detroit 52-44
Chicago 50-45
Here are Detroit’s splits…three distinct seasons thus far.
9-3 start
25-31 [16-28 skid]
52-44 [27-13 run]
N.L. Central
Cincinnati 55-40
Pittsburgh 54-40
N.L. West
San Francisco 53-42
Los Angeles 52-44
–Some interesting ballgames over the weekend, including Washington blowing a franchise record 9-0 lead in eventually losing to Atlanta, 11-10, in 11 innings.
And the St. Louis Cardinals scored all 12 of their runs in a single inning, the seventh, on Saturday in a 12-0 win over Chicago. In that inning, the Cards tied a major league record with 7 doubles, as well as tying the franchise mark for most runs in a single frame.
–Having watched a few Yankees-A’s games the past few days, two thoughts. Oakland has had an amazing turnaround from 26-35 to 51-44 after sweeping the Yankees in a four-game set. It’s safe to say Billy Ball is back. I mean if I lived near the park I’d be there. They have some exciting young talent.
Second, the DH truly sucks. Absolutely hate it all over again. There is no strategy in the game. An A.L. manager just posts the lineup and then drinks domestic alllll night. [Or am I confusing A.L. managers with Red Sox pitchers….]
–With Barry Larkin and Ron Santo being inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend, Bert Blyleven said the first thing he did when he pulled into Cooperstown was to check that his plaque was still there.
“I just wanted to make sure Reggie didn’t take it down or anything.”
Blyleven said he didn’t place too much stock in what Reggie Jackson said about him not belonging in the Hall.
“God gives us many holes in our body and he just spoke out of the wrong one.”
Fellow Hall member Rollie Fingers said of his former teammate Jackson’s disputing Blyleven’s credentials for Cooperstown, “I guarantee you (Blyleven) got Reggie out more than Reggie got him.”
And sure enough, in 131 at bats against Blyleven, Jackson hit .214 with six homers and 49 strikeouts.
Reggie did rejoin the Yankees as the team was in Oakland but opted not to go to Cooperstown to face the music from his compatriots.
—Tim McCarver received the annual Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting and he discussed his 32-year career in the business with the New York Times’ Richard Sandomir. McCarver spent 16 seasons with the Mets, “the most exciting years of my professional life” as he describes it, teaming with Ralph Kiner, he of the malaprops, mispronunciations and memory lapses. As Sandomir writes:
“Kiner called McCarver ‘Sid,’ ‘Ted’ and ‘Jim,’ and ‘Tim MacArthur,’ too. Sometimes, Kiner simply forgot his friend’s name (and his own).
“Kiner once had to describe the entrance of a San Diego Padres reliever while satisfying a sponsor, American Cyanamid. McCarver had checked the sponsor lineup beforehand, saw the company’s name and said, ‘Oh boy, that’s tough to pronounce.’ And he added, ‘Sure enough, Ralph said, ‘The Padres make a pitching change, and this is brought to you by American Cyanide.’”
Us Mets fans love Ralph. Imagine, an original Mets broadcaster, 1962, and at age 89 he still does a few games when they are home.
–I see the postal service is issuing “All Stars Forever” stamps featuring Joe DiMaggio, Ted Williams, Larry Doby and Willie Stargell. That’s pretty cool. I’d like to see stamps for Mays, Mantle and Seaver, myself. Dave Kingman, too.
Jeremy Lin, continued…
I never thought I’d be writing so much about the NBA this time of year, and I apologize this is so parochial, but it is an interesting sports story in light of Linsanity last season.
With Lin going to Houston because the Knicks refused to pay him$14.8 million in the third year of his amended offer sheet, Lin told Sports Illustrated, “Honestly, I preferred New York. But my main goal in free agency was to go to a team that had plans for me and wanted me. I wanted to have fun playing basketball…Now I’m definitely relieved.”
Lin then told SI that he’d never considered the idea that the Knicks wouldn’t match his offer until the team traded for point guard Raymond Felton.
But that’s not accurate. The Knicks opted to bring back Felton after Lin reworked the deal with Houston! I mean originally the Rockets offered Lin four years and $28.8 million, with the third and fourth years at $9.3 million each. Yes, the Knicks most likely would have matched that.
But then it became three years with the huge third year and the Knicks and owner Jim Dolan did the right thing.
And now the story has emerged that Lin declared himself “85 percent” healthy before Game 5 of the Knicks-Heat playoff series but did not suit up, which caused friction in the locker room.
“Other guys were hurt, playing at less than 85 percent, so some of them didn’t like that,” said a source to ESPN.com. But Lin told SI:
“Every single vet on our team that has been in the league longer than five years pulled me aside and told me that I shouldn’t play,” Lin said. “And I had arguments with them about why I should.”
Lin also said Knicks owner Dolan supported Lin’s decision not to play.
“I have plans for you in the future,” Lin remembers Dolan saying, according to SI. “This is a long-term investment. Don’t rush back.”
“(Linsanity) had its bad moments, as well, and there was none worse for Lin than when he had to play Wade and LeBron James and Mario Chalmers on a night in Miami where it was a case of five men vs. a boy.
“That night, on the eve of All-Star weekend, Linsanity officially ended when he showed he didn’t belong on the same court with professional basketball players.
“As Lin later admitted, ‘I can’t remember another game where it was hard just to take dribbles.’
“That was the night he learned he wasn’t at Harvard anymore.
“And that night stuck in Lin’s head for weeks, providing the best explanation for why he didn’t want any part of the Heat in the playoffs. No rational individual would ever want to return from knee surgery against that same salivating, athletic, riled-up defense…with playoff stakes on the line, to boot.
“Anyone who saw Miami in that series and all the way through James’ first title recognized that fact. But now, with the help of an old friend who writes for Sports Illustrated, Lin says that his story about his knee being 85%, and he thereby being unable to play, was misunderstood by the media.
“Even with the Knicks losing Iman Shumpert to injury in Game 1, he didn’t want to play and he did not play. His choice.
“But he hasn’t just changed his story. He also is trying to implicate his former teammates, some of whom clearly did not want the team to match the Rockets’ $25 million offer sheet. We all know how Carmelo Anthony and J.R. Smith felt. For those Knicks and any others who have wisely kept their anti-Lin feelings private during free agency, Lin left a parting gift on his first day as a Houston Rocket. Anthony and Smith and everyone else who was in Miami for the playoffs will have to answer Lin’s contention that he wanted to play but teammates advised against it. …
“So they’re the bad guys and all of a sudden he’s the good guy.
“Lin’s problem, as he’s found over time, is that the 85% figure was too high. Still new to the NBA, he has learned that 85% is the level many players find themselves at by the time the postseason rolls around. But they still go and play….
“On his way to Houston, Lin is changing his story. He says he was not 85% healthy, but – get this – still 15% away from the absolute minimum threshold to play.
Gregg Doyel / CBSSports.com…on why the Knicks are screwing up in letting Lin go.
“Jeremy Lin is the most remarkable, most marketable thing to happen to the NBA since LeBron James. Other than the rise, fall and rise again of LeBron, this league and the nation – no, the world – of NBA fans haven’t been captivated by anything the way we were last season by Jeremy Lin.
“Other than the various iterations of LeBron, nothing in the last decade moved the NBA meter like that. Well, nothing positive. The Tim Donaghy scandal moved it. The lockout moved it. But good news? No, nothing but LeBron has moved it like Jeremy Lin moved it.
“The Knicks are stupid, but we knew that. Whoever’s calling the shots for the Knicks is a buffoon, and I really hope it’s owner James Dolan, because I’m comfortable calling him a buffoon. Dolan has an inexplicable infatuation with Isiah Thomas, which tells me all I need to know. Dolan is a total buffoon, the organic definition of Einstein’s theory of insanity, a guy who does the same crap over and over and expects different results.
“The Knicks had to keep Lin on every level I can think of, but since I know what level lots of you are thinking about, I’ll address that one immediately: The Knicks had to keep Lin for business reasons.
“That’s not what the salary-cap argument is saying, but the salary-cap argument is intellectually lazy….
“Jeremy Lin will be 26. And the Knicks chose all those guys – a core that has demonstrated it can’t win – over a young point guard who went 16-10 in his magical 26-game run last season? So stupid, I can’t make sense of it.
“Especially since Jeremy Lin has already generated enough money to have offset whatever the Knicks would have lost – in theory – in 2014-15.
“The Knicks sold tens of millions more in tickets and merchandise in the fiscal quarter after Linsanity began last season, and MSG stock rose several percentage points. Is it fair to say that was entirely due to Lin? Yes, actually. What’s more, the demand for Lin in New York was such that Dolan was able to end his team’s impasse with Time-Warner – meaning many millions more in cable fees for the Knicks….
“People don’t like the Knicks. People love Jeremy Lin.
Bloomberg News had a story on how the Knicks are already losing with Lin gone.
“One-year sponsorships with Taiwan-based Maxxis International, a tire manufacturer, and Acer Inc., the fourth-largest computer maker [Ed. #3, actually], ended after a season in which Mr. Lin averaged 14.6 points and 6.2 assists in 35 NBA games with the Knicks….
“ ‘We are definitely interested in a sponsorship with the Houston Rockets,’ said Matt Clark, marketing manager for Maxxis International, USA. ‘We are a Taiwanese-based company and not only are we excited about Jeremy Lin and the exposure he is getting throughout the U.S., but he is huge over in Asia.’”
—Bradley Wiggins became the first Briton to win the Tour de France.
–Good for Bob Costas. He plans to make a statement during the opening ceremonies of the London Olympics, calling out the International Olympic Committee for denying Israel’s request for a moment of silence to acknowledge the massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.
“Many people find that denial more than puzzling but insensitive. Here’s a minute of silence right now,” Costas said, in describing what he plans to do on Friday.
As Ankie Spitzer, whose husband was Israel’s murdered fencing coach, put it, “(The) IOC’s refusal is pure discrimination.” Equal parts “greed and anti-Semitism.”
–I’ve said my piece on the New Orleans Saints’ bountygate and the Jonathan Vilma suspension, but in the interest of full disclosure, I note that teammate Drew Brees filed an affidavit on behalf of Vilma and his motion to dismiss the year-long suspension imposed by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
“I have no knowledge of a pay to injure program existing, and yet to personally see any evidence that would substantiate these allegations. In my four years as a teammate with Jonathan, I have found that he is a man of integrity who passionately plays the game of football within the framework of the rules and has respect for his opponents.”
–New York Jets coach Rex Ryan has lost more than 100 pounds thanks in part to lap-band surgery. Just win, Coach. Just win.
—Kobe Bryant said that if the U.S. doesn’t bring home the men’s basketball gold medal, the players’ citizenship should be revoked.
–This is funny. It’s been a tough stretch for Wake Forest on the athletics front, but a friend passed along a website ‘hercampus.com’ that lists the 10 “Most Attractive” schools in the country. [Ed. the editor of this site wrote ‘county’ but we’ll cut her a break.] Unfortunately for us guys, this is a list of schools with the best-looking males but Wake Forest has nonetheless come out No. 1.
“ ‘I’m pretty sure that Wake Forest is the smallest school with the highest model population,’ one student told Her Campus. ‘The guys are typically well-dressed, preppy southern gents with ambitions.’”
Now when I was in school there, 1976-80, we had our share of preppy southern gents, some of whom are my friends, but I was a northern transplant who dressed awful and had zero ambition.
Just this week, before getting this ranking, I was talking to an old friend I hadn’t communicated with in some time, a guy I went to Wake with who also hailed from New Jersey, and we were talking about how we would have never gotten into the school these days.
“Delhi sent out an emergency plea for help last week after coming under siege from up to 10,000 stray monkeys attacking residents and stealing their food.”
“Anecdotes of monkey business are rife. Ben Sheppard, a British journalist, was snoozing on his sofa wearing a sleep mask when he awoke to hear scratching on his table. He lifted the mask to see a large monkey standing on its hind legs and fiddling with a chocolate wrapper.
“ ‘I threw a pillow at it and started bellowing but it looked at me dismissively and walked slowly to the door,’ he said. ‘Then it looked me straight in the face, like it was going to attack. So I threw a chair.’
“Members of a Bollywood film crew complained last week of being bitten by monkeys that invaded their set as they were shooting a wedding scene.”
The problem is exacerbated by a shortage of catchers. Of course you can’t just kill them because they are thought to be the living representatives of the Hindu god Hanuman, who needs to set his disciples straight or he could be an “A-Hole of the Year” candidate, the first time a god has ever captured that hardware.
–This one is depressing. The “okapi” is thought to be the fabled forest “unicorn,” or “forest donkey” as first described by Sir Henry Stanley on his expedition to the Congo. It’s like a cross between a zebra (it has striped legs) and a giraffe.
But it also remains one of the least-known animals on the planet and a sanctuary was set up for them in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Alas, the other day, as reported by Jerome Starkey of the London Times, “14 okapi, part of a captive breeding program, and six people were killed when Mai Mai rebels took revenge against rangers’ efforts to curb poaching and illegal mining in the surrounding forests.”
Two of the people were burnt alive. A conservationist said it was the work of a notorious poacher known as Morgan, who has been repeatedly arrested by the rangers but obviously wasn’t held very long. As the conservationist put it, “This incident is one of the darkest days of my life.”
Oh, and when the Congolese army arrived to restore order, the soldiers looted what was left of the Okapi project’s offices. “Man” falls further on the All-Species List, below the cane toad at No. 209.
Top 3 songs for the week 7/24/65: #1 “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” (The Rolling Stones) #2 “I’m Henry VIII, I Am” (Herman’s Hermits) #3 “I Can’t Help Myself” (Four Tops)…and…#4 “What’s New Pussycat?” (Tom Jones…heard this on the radio the other day and it was a good reminder that this was truly a great tune) #5 “Cara, Mia” (Jay & The Americans…ah yes, Jay Black…the stories he could tell…but he’d have to kill you if you then said anything…think “Sopranos”) #6 “Yes, I’m Ready” (Barbara Mason) #7 “What The World Needs Now Is Love” (Jackie DeShannon…probably the most popular song in those first weeks after 9/11) #8 “Seventh Son” (Johnny Rivers…incredibly underrated artist) #9 “Mr. Tambourine Man” (The Byrds) #10 “You Turn Me On” (Ian Whitcomb…as good a week as you’ll find in any era)
Summer Olympics Quiz Answer: Sites since 1952:
52 – Helsinki
56 – Melbourne
60 – Rome
64 – Tokyo
68 – Mexico City
72 – Munich
76 – Montreal
80 – Moscow
84 – Los Angeles
88 – Seoul
92 – Barcelona
96 – Atlanta
00 – Sydney
04 – Athens
08 – Beijing
12 – someplace across the pond
