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"A book? It's more like Playmakers with interviews."

Last night Ichiro Suzuki stroked his 200th hit of the season, the first man to have eight straight 200-hit seasons since a fella named Willer Keeler did it 107 years ago, which is, yes, pre-Taft. The cool thing about Ichiro is if you ever look at a hitting chart on the guy, it looks like our map up top. Little blips all over the place. You never know where the ball is headed. Same with our news; it comes from everywhere. Like Ichiro's style, we think it's a good way to go about things.

They Were Young Once, and Crazy
So we're not ones to normally write about Sports Days Gone By, but we would be remiss for not saying, definitively, that the Dallas Cowboys of the early 1990s were some crazy mofos. In Jeff Pearlman's new book, he describes (on page 1, mind you) how Michael Irvin once stabbed a teammate in the neck with a pair of scissors for not getting out of his barber chair. He describes an au natural Charles Haley attending a tape session in nothing but a towel, and then "entertaining himself" through the proceedings. So that's why he's not in the Hall.

Statue Sponsored by Phil Knight
Ernie Davis never wore Nikes, until now. A new statue of the first black player to win the Heisman Trophy depicts him in modern-day football gear—including Nike cleats. The problem is that Davis led Syracuse to the national title in 1959 and won the Heisman two years later, before Nike was formed. The university unveiled the Davis statue last Saturday, a day after The Express—a movie about Davis' life—had its world premiere at the Landmark Theatre in downtown Syracuse.

Trend Spotted. When Will it Die?
We're not completely sure why we find this important, but here and there a reputable publication is willing to toss 700 words in the direction of a trend, and sort of legitamize it, and perhaps even suddenly make it uncool. We'd like to believe that's what happens to the ubiquitious wristband movement once its participants realize the NYT just acknowledged them. Let's track the end of the trend, starting … now!

Ryder Cup Fly-By
With the Ryder Cup starting this weekend, it never hurts to check out the course beforehand, and we sort of dig this aerial tour of Valhalla, which still sounds like a funny name for a course in Kentucky. Check it out, and then read some of our coverage, one of our people is predicting a big upset.

Hungry for Soccer, and Just Plain Hungry
We like food. Eat it every day, three times a day. Which is why it's amazing what's happening right now, well, throughout the world really, with Ramadan. And okay, we realize it happens every year, but this story, about Senegalese soccer players practicing in the full heat of an African afternoon, with nothing to drink, and having had nothing to eat, both fascinates and appalls. What dedication! But really haven't enough athletes died of heat stroke?

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