A real good reason to root for your football team

[Hardbopjazz]

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1. Kitten update: Last week, the 10 Spot detailed a Lexington, Ky., radio station's promotion in which an on-air personality named Kitten will have one piece of her clothing removed from a billboard after each University of Kentucky football victory. With the Wildcats' 41-29 win last Saturday against Idaho State, Kitten has doffed her shirt. As it turns out, though, she was modestly wearing a T-shirt under her white button-down oxford. UK visits another perennially lousy football school, Indiana, this Saturday in another winnable game.

2. A Colorado arrest warrant was issued on Wednesday for ex-NBA star Dennis Rodman after he missed a court appearance stemming from July charges of speeding and reckless driving. Rodman accepted the news happily, though, saying it's the most wanted he's felt in years.

3. Shaquille O'Neal helped Miami Beach police make an arrest over the weekend. The Heat center first trailed the car of a man who allegedly assaulted a gay couple, and then alerted an arresting officer. The alleged assailant said that he wasn't expecting the double-team.

4. A Rams executive will be disciplined by the team for leaving a threatening message on the voice mail of a sports columnist. As punishment, the exec will serve as liaison to Rams alumni, starting with Kyle Turley.

5. Many readers wrote in to suggest a successor to Mark Messier for the title of Greatest Head in Sports, though most interpreted the category as Greatest Bald Head. Shaq garnered the most support, with votes also cast for Andre Agassi, Kevin Garnett, Evander Holyfield, Michael Jordan, Larry Walker, Jay Buhner and soccer ref Pierluigi Colina. Dave of Atlanta suggested that no vote for the best bald head in sports could be complete until readers get a chance to look at what is (or is not) lying underneath the 10 Spot's hat. (For the record, I am not bald, though that likely won't be true forever.) In the end, I have to agree with Chad from Honolulu's suggestion of Grizzlies forward Shane Battier's curiously furrowed noggin. As Chad puts it, "What other cranium allows science to track the lobes of the brain without actual brain surgery?"

6. One of the world's top stallions, Dubai Excellence, was supposed to be shipped from England to Australia in February for the upcoming breeding season, but an apparent mix-up caused an Irish-bred horse to be sent in his place. It was several months before anyone noticed the switcheroo. On a darker note, though, some equine activists believe that Dubai Excellence's travel was disrupted by ethnic profiling.

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7. Injury report: Fellas, you might want to turn away before reading the next two sentences. Our Injury of the Week comes from German soccer, where Chavdar Yankow sustained a three-inch cut in his penis from a hard tackle. Incredibly, Yankow stayed in the game after receiving six stitches and later scored a goal in a 2-0 win for Hamburg 96 over Frankfurt. Down under, meanwhile, Australian rules football player Brett Backwell had one of his fingers amputated on Tuesday in an attempt to improve his game. Backwell has suffered pain and restricted movement in his left ring finger since breaking it three years ago, and much like former 49ers tough guy Ronnie Lott, decided it would be better just to lop the digit off. Fortunately, Yankow should avoid any amputation of his injured body part.

8. A strange play in Wednesday night's Red Sox-Blue Jays game highlighted an obscure and, to our thinking, bizarre rule. With Boston's Gabe Kapler on first and one man out in the fifth inning, Tony Graffanino homered over the left field wall. Kapler, who was busting hard in case the ball didn't clear the wall, collapsed after rounding second with a ruptured left Achilles' tendon. After five minutes on the turf, Kapler was carted off the field. Pinch runner Alejandro Machado was allowed to replace Kapler at second base and trot home in front of Graffanino. According to the story on mlb.com, baseball's rule book includes this provision: "If an accident to a runner is such as to prevent him from proceeding to a base to which he is entitled, as on a home run hit out of the playing field, or an award of one or more bases, a substitute runner shall be permitted to complete the play." That just seems odd. When two outfielders collide and fall to the ground injured, for instance, the defense can't call timeout. A freak injury that occurs during a live play should be accepted as part of the game, albeit an unusual and unlucky part. I'd allow Kapler to be replaced, but Machado would have to stay on second.

9. The University of Southern California will no longer sell alcohol during home football games at the L.A. Coliseum. Students will now have to smuggle it in like everywhere else.

10. Reader submission from Scott of Pittsburgh: "Lance Armstrong recently announced his engagement to Sheryl Crow and shortly after revealed that he would resume training with his Discovery cycling team in December. What some guys will do to avoid choosing china patterns."

Thanks as always for all your entries, though we have decided to hold off on the next all-reader-submission edition until Friday, Oct. 7.

[Bright Moments]

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1. Kitten update: Last week, the 10 Spot detailed a Lexington, Ky., radio station's promotion in which an on-air personality named Kitten will have one piece of her clothing removed from a billboard after each University of Kentucky football victory. With the Wildcats' 41-29 win last Saturday against Idaho State, Kitten has doffed her shirt. As it turns out, though, she was modestly wearing a T-shirt under her white button-down oxford. UK visits another perennially lousy football school, Indiana, this Saturday in another winnable game.

don't you just hate this sexist BS!!

[PHILLYQ]

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8. A strange play in Wednesday night's Red Sox-Blue Jays game highlighted an obscure and, to our thinking, bizarre rule. With Boston's Gabe Kapler on first and one man out in the fifth inning, Tony Graffanino homered over the left field wall. Kapler, who was busting hard in case the ball didn't clear the wall, collapsed after rounding second with a ruptured left Achilles' tendon. After five minutes on the turf, Kapler was carted off the field. Pinch runner Alejandro Machado was allowed to replace Kapler at second base and trot home in front of Graffanino. According to the story on mlb.com, baseball's rule book includes this provision: "If an accident to a runner is such as to prevent him from proceeding to a base to which he is entitled, as on a home run hit out of the playing field, or an award of one or more bases, a substitute runner shall be permitted to complete the play." That just seems odd. When two outfielders collide and fall to the ground injured, for instance, the defense can't call timeout. A freak injury that occurs during a live play should be accepted as part of the game, albeit an unusual and unlucky part. I'd allow Kapler to be replaced, but Machado would have to stay on second.

He's completely wrong here- a home run is really a dead ball once it clears the fence.