It’s a sports day today: first probably some South Carolina - LSU action mixed in with occasional checks on the Michigan - Penn State game followed by the WSU - USC game and the A’s take on Cleveland. Yea, I’m going to need some beer… lot’s of cold beer.

According to the Pam Ward Chronicles, Chris Spielman is running away with the thing with a total of 23 bad quotes to date (Awful Announcing)

You never know what you’re gonna get with a new hire; here’s one take on the fresh meat of the 2007 NFL season (Gheorghe: The Blog)

An excellently organized list of the ejections of the 2007 MLB season. Let by Bobby Cox, the Braves are way out in front, but the Mariners could seriously make a run at the title (One More Dying Quail)

What, Notre Dame do something selfish and cheap? Never (Rumors and Rants)

A very good response to the proposed asterisk ball, and if you only read one blog post today, you should probably read this one (Signal to Noise)

Earlier this week I said that I wanted to club Donovan like he was a baby seal; looks like I might not be the only one (WBRS Sports Blog)

Is St. Louis the “most injured” team in MLB history? That answer will come this week in a response post of my own but do your homework now and know the pains of being a Cardinals fan in 2007 (Doberman On The Diamond)

Marco - of Just Call Me Juice fame and fortune - has his new college basketball blog up and running (Storming The Floor)

[Editor’s note: trying to do this in the least-douchy manner, but in my sidebar you might have noticed the BlogRush widget. It seems like it’s a pretty cool new do-hicky that in less than a week has gotten the good word about Seal Clubbing to blog readers who otherwise would never have found me. It’s worth a glance if you have a blog.]