Reality Bites, Music From Heaven, Long May She Wave and Another PR Beaten by a PSU Woman ("WOW")

It takes me back to my days in Detroit, spent mooching off the discarded season tickets of the real doctors.  The perennial last place Red Wings drafted guys like the long-haired Petr Klima, scoring machine Steve Yzerman and tough guy Bob Probert from south across the river in Windsor, Ontario.  Back in the day when helmets were optional! The twenty-five year resurgence of the Wings started with these three guys.

Now, Bob Probert is dead at the age of 45, possibly related to a heart condition exacerbated by his long struggles with substance abuse. (Stay away from the stuff everyone!)  The discarded season tickets were so good that I once saw Bob lose one of his teeth on the ice during one of his epic brawls.  Could actually see it on the ice.  They never even looked for it, they just scraped it away with the blood.

And on a lighter note, maybe the celestial music will soothe his immortal soul, something like the music synthesized from the Hadron Collider in Switzerland.

And who could resist the bargain basement price of $1 for a 61-star American Flag?  (4 more than the states visited by our President leading up to the election!)

And, Bridget Franek came back from a so-so showing at the USATF Champs with an impressive 3000 M SC 5th place (first American) at the Prefontaine Meet this past week.  Her (6th fastest American all-time) time of  9:32.35 is also better than my PR, set in high school at an all-comers meet in front of Arthur Lydiard.  I can always claim my barriers were higher, but there goes another PR beaten by a woman from PSU!  All I can say is  "WOW".  Apparently it was the heat that slowed her down at NCAA's, not the continued at-peak season she has produced from the Fall of 2008 until now!  She is an Animal, in the most complementing and honorary sense of the word.  Good luck to her in her Nike Career.