Big Bag O' Fun

We've been off our game lately here at the Right Wing.
Once upon a time we brought you the lamest political and sports coverage available on ye olde intarweb.

Well, we probably won't regain our old form this time...

The Olympics:

I've watched more of the Olympic Games this time than any before. The opening ceremony was fantastic, but it didn't take long for controversy to begin a-brewin'.

Michael Phelps (read: He's better than the rest of the world, get over it) took eight gold medals in eight events, a perfect record. But his drive has been slightly marred by the close finish in one race. The margin of victory for Phelps was a mere one-thousandth of a second. It takes longer to blink. So the rest of the world began to cry foul.

Then, the fun began with the Chinese Olympic gymnasts. I'm not going to pretend that everyone ages at the same rate, because we just don't. But if you've seen some of the girls that the Chinese brought out for gymnastics, you'd understand the outrage. Seriously, these girls look like they're 13 at best, not the IOC mandated 15. (Olympic competitors may be 15 so long as they turn 16 in the same calendar year, or so I've been told by NBC).

Now, interesting evidence has come to light that one of the girls was born in 1994, not 1992 as China says. Yup, 1994... you do the math.

Politics:

Obama and McCain are both poised to announce their running mates before the end of the month. Obama's "short list" includes names like Sam Nunn, Evan Bayh, Joe Biden, and a couplf of others. My money is on Evan Bayh.

McCain's list looks like this: Mitt Romney, Nike Huckabee, Joe Lieberman. Romney and Huckabee are both bad choices, I think. Lieberman could bring in more of the independent vote.

Sports:

NFL Player's Association head Gene Upshaw passed away at the age of 63. Upshaw was daignosed last Sunday with pancreatic cancer, and he died Thursday. Now the NFLPA mourns it's fallen leader, and begins the search for a new head.

Georgia has claimed the number one spot in both the Coach's Poll and the AP Poll.