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Cy Young agrees with me. It's a shame his namesake award didn't go to a Cardinal. Hell, he even played for the Cardinals for awhile! If anything, I'll bet he's even MORE pissed than I am!

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And there you have it. Read the rest of the interview with the Blues forward at InsideSTL.

Sadly, it's become an annual tradition here in St. Louis, it seems: the Blues' Slow Start. Happens every year, right around this time, when we look at the record of our beloved boys in blue and notice they aren't doing so hot. 

This soooo totally helps my plan.

​So yesterday Joe Strauss of the Post-Dispatch writes an article about Mark McGwire, the day when he will finally have to Talk About the Past, and the way the Cardinals plan on trying to handle the potential reaction of the fanbase. 

Notre Dame head coach Charlie Weis could be out at the end of the season. But who should replace him?

​As we near the end of another college football season, one of America's favorite subjects rises again: What happens to Notre Dame?

Why is this non-story a story? Yu don't have to look far -- whether in St. Louis or in any other part of the country -- Notre Dame fans, however obnoxious or uppity, are everywhere.

Since Lou Holtz left the Irish after the '96 season, the national relevance of the program has diminished almost as much as Holtz's relevance as an ESPN analyst. Notre Dame has no trouble being relevant to fans or the media because it's, well, Notre Dame. But the program isn't the problem, it's the coach. When Charlie Weis was brought in five years ago, it was because he was an alumni and he had credentials as the offensive coordinator for the Super Bowl-winning dynasty New England Patriots. It seemed like a logical choice, right?

Last night at the Scottrade Center, University of Memphis basketball fans watched the birth of the Josh Pastner Era.

Memphis played Kansas in the regular season game (and rematch of the '08 NCAA championship), with the Kansas edging the Tigers 57-55.

Kansas was supposed to crush a scorched Memphis team, which has no John Calipari as head coach, no bench-depth and no big-name talent with a no-name coach. But the end of the game, Kansas head coach Bill Self had nothing short of relief in his eyes, as his team edged out Memphis and its wonder-boy of a coach in Pastner.

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The baseball awards season is in full swing now, with Rookie of the Year just having been announced (and by the way, Andrew Bailey, who won ROY in the AL, wasn't even the best rookie on his own fucking team), and Cy Young and MVP coming in the very near future. It's always interesting each year to look at who wins the awards, because it gives you a good idea of just how divorced the awards often are from the reality of the game. 

Okay, Rams fans, now you should be excited. 

Here we see Steve Austin training for the next Olympic games. But will he be allowed to compete?

​There's an outstanding article over at Gizmodo right now everyone, and I do mean everyone, should read. It's an article by Aimee Mullins, whose name you may not be all that familiar with, but you should be. She's an athlete slash model slash public speaker slash writer who also just happens to have two prosthetic legs, and therein lies the focus of the article in question. 

Blues fans love TJ Oshie, and to satisfy their hunger for more Tiger Beat-esque facts about the 22-year-old phenom, Kevin Lorenz of InsideSTL caught up with Oshie after practice recently for a proper-sit down interview.

Here's our favorite excerpt; the player's diet:

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