Of the 10 most expensive sports tickets, eight belong to NFL teams (including Nos. 1 and 2 the Dallas Cowboys and New England Patriots respectively), one belongs to the NBA’s L.A. Lakers (No. 4) and the Maple Leafs sit comfortably as the third most expensive game ticket in all of sports.

The Maple Leafs. The 21-33-12 Maple Leafs. The second-worst record in the league Maple Leafs. The dead-last-in-each-of-the-last-three seasons Maple Leafs.

What gives, Canada? Why are you paying an average of $114 to see what amounts to a semi-pro squad? $168 for a premium seat? $172 after it’s been converted into Canadian currency? $212 if you include the price for all the beer it would take to make a sane person enjoy watching a hockey game? As a Cubs fan, I understand about paying for the experience more than the performance, but this?

This is bizarre. Or ingenious. Or both. Probably both.

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Ray Allen, BOS Lightweight boxing champ Manny Pacquiao stopped by the C’s locker room and signed boxing gloves for everyone there. Then Pac-man lingered until halftime to explain what’s happening to his favorite team: they’re getting punched in the mouth by any and every team they come in contact with. Unlike the night before Allen shot (and made) shots, but in his last two games the man with the second-most 3-point field goals in NBA history has gone 0-for-9.

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Gerald Wallace, CHA An all-star shooting under 30 percent on the first game of back-to-backs is the equivalent of make-up sex with your significant other. It was totally worth the war one day to reap the rewards the next (28 points on 90 percent shooting).

Stephen Jackson, CHA Grinded through to his third double-double of the season. Jax missed “Third Double-Double of the Season Day” by about 24 hours.

Tyson Chandler, CHA Have I mentioned that Theo Ratliff is putting in about 15 more minutes per game than Chandler these days? No? Coming right up then.

Louis Williams, PHI 1-for-5, Lou?!? Thirty-two percent from the field in your last three games?!? You had your chance, Looey and you blewied it. He shall be known henceforth as Kablooey Louis & The Boos.

Michael Finley, BOS I bet all of Beantown was wicked happy to pick up a guy named Finley and then wicked sad when tey found out he doesn’t look lie Brian Scalabrine. Debuted with 10 points in 14 minutes. Honestly, that’s just about the best you can hope for with this guy.

Marcus Williams, MEM Had 16 points and six assists. It was the best game of his season. Should you be concerned about this? No. If this is his best game, it means he’s not having an impactful season.

Mehmet Okur, UTA He’s scored 83 points in his last four games (20.8) including 18 against his former team. MehmO is averaging six more points-per-game in March than in February, seven more points than in January.

Rasual Butler, LAC There is no Dana, only Rasual. And because it’s only him, he helped himself to six treys and 31 points. What a lovely singing voice he must have.

Chris Andersen, DEN 14 pts/ 10 rbds/ 3 blks. Mustache! Birdman looks like he likes tinkering with muscle cars.

Darko Milicic, MIN Played 27 starter’s minutes and grabbed a dozen boards. If they didn’t include other stats when tabulating doube-doubles, he’d-a had one last night.

Darren Collison, Marcus Thornton, NO Combined to shoot 7-for-27 (26 percent) for a grand total of 19 points. Hmm. Sounds like they got KO’d by OKC’s 6th-ranked defense.

David West, NO Dropped 33 last night and has scored 27+ points in five of his last 11 games.

Russell Westbrook, OKC 17/8/9. No one dances as close to triple-doubles as Russell Westbrook dances to ‘em. The school chaperon keeps making them take a half step away from one another. He’s such a square.

Shawn Marion, DAL February averages: 33 min / 10 pts / 7 rbds. March averages: 34 min / 16 pts / 8 rbds.

Al Harrington, NY Ease off the gas when you’re behind the arc, Albert (1-for-7). Wednesday marked the 22nd games in which the team’s center attempted at least seven treys. It’s also the seventh time he’s failed to make more than two of ‘em. That’s seven too many games.

Tyreke Evans, SAC Too sleepy to see ‘Reke of Nature earn his first career triple-double. Turns out my attendance was unnecessary for him to drop 19/10/10. Goshdarn my need for at least 16 hours of sleep each day. Wakey-wakey, fries and shakey.

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30 min / 50% FG / 88% FT / 27 pts / 6 rbds / 8 asts / 2 stls / 1 to

Dwyane Wade, MIA Wade did all this in the first three quarters of the game and spent the final quarter watching the Heat Dancers from the bench. I tells ya, Flash and Crash oughta play back-to-back games all the time … and then magically exclude all stats and results from each of the first games. Look, I’m just the idea man, it’s someone else’s job to see that these things get done.

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I know. I know. Curling was that bridesmaid you wanted to pass the time with for a handful of days. You never intended your relationship to get serious, the moment has passed and you wish they’d stop insinuating themselves back in your life.

I get it. Really. You don’t care about curling anymore. You never really cared about curling. You especially don’t care about Chinese curling.

But maybe you should care for just one more story, because it involves your country.

China’s curling skip Wang Fengchun was booted from the team after its pit-i-ful showing at the Vancouver Games. But this being the Chinese team we’re talking about, they didn’t just politely hand Wang a pink slip and a plane ticket home. Matter fact, they literally did neither, deploying instead a series of blatant burns to the guy.

Burn No. 1: Wang was banned from joining in on the celebratory banquet on the Olympic delegation’s return to Beijing.

Burn No. 2: Instead of doing Saki-bombs with teammates in Beijing and then taking a quick plane ride back to his home city after the celebration, his flight was revoked and replaced with a ticket for a 12-hour train ride home to Harbin.

Burn No. 3: The team manager didn’t bother to warn him that it was going to happen.

Burn No. 4: The impetus for Wang’s punishment was not his performance, but his behavior coming home after the Games ended. He was so unhappy with being benched for the final two matches in Vancouver, that he showed up in Beijing wearing a U.S. team cap along with his Chinese uniform.

To be honest, I’m not sure who this is a burn on. China, because one of their own dared to wear “another gang’s colors,” Wang because he performed so poorly he had to wear another country’s gear or the U.S. because … well, because that other country’s gear was ours.

A lot of behaviors get lost in translation between such different countries as ours and China’s, but this ain’t one of ‘em. China made themselves very clear: you do not blow the Olympic Games and sulk by supporting our enemy.

“It’ll be very helpful to heavily slap him down with pain,” team manager Li Dongyan added. “We will not give up on such a good curler. We hope he changes his attitude and we will then consider using him in future competitions.”

You get the feeling that if we could read Li’s mind immediately after this quotation it would have added, “… because if Wang doesn’t, Wang will be sorry.”

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The museum called the dismissed item “inappropriate.”

Now wait a second.

Muhammad Ali was suspended from boxing in 1967 and subsequently arrested for standing up for his beliefs against a war he thought foolish. Yet, the curators of the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History gave Muhammad Ali’s boxing gloves and robe sanctuary in its vaunted collection.

Same thing with Roger Staubach, the Hall of Fame quarterback who invented the “Hail Mary” pass, a play that has blasphemously taught generation after generation that fusing church with athletics is the same as ignoring Sunday athletics by going to church. Heretic. Yet, there’s Roger Dodger’s jersey.

All these gross dismissals of reality and yet, O.J. Simpson is the one of whom the Smithsonian Institute decides to make an example.

I ask you, what’s inappropriate about a (still!) fashionable suit worn during one of the most memorable television moments in history by one of the NFL’s best running backs (who also happened to do some other stuff)? A decision like this would lead many a cynical sports fan believing that the Smithsonian has no criteria, that decisions like these are based on nothing more than a fragile whim. Turns out, those cynics were correct.

The museum’s spokeswoman, Linda St. Thomas, said curators consider several criteria for accepting donations, including whether an item has historical significance, whether it is needed to complete a collection or is needed for research.

“In this case, they knew it was not appropriate for the collection,” she said.

Sheesh. Are you feelin’ that whim? What’s not historically significant about a mustard-yellow tie? Frankly, I can’t think of anything more significant.

If there’s a sliver of silver lining this storm cloud of humbuggery, it’s that the attorney of the suits current owner, Fred Goldman, will not rest until the suit is displayed and enjoyed by the masses somewhere.

“We’re going to hang this suit in America’s closet and there will be no lack of people who want it,” attorney David Cook said. “It’s a matter of finding the right fit.”

He said he already has some ideas including two Washington, D.C., museums: the Newseum, which has a collection on historical news events, and the Museum of Crime and Punishment.

Sweet relief. A promise of justice.

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Dwyane Wade, MIA / Gerald Wallace, CHA Wade scored 27 points, but still I say blecch. Why? Because it took Flash 26 shots to score those points (he shot 3-for-11 in the second half) and the performance came with a side of four turnovers. Easily the most blecch-inducing 27-point-performance of the night … by a Miami guard … named Dwyane. “The ball didn’t go in the basket the same [in the second half as it did in the first],” said Wade. “I ain’t giving Charlotte no credit if that’s what you’re looking for.” I love the old “there’s something different about the rim” excuse!

Wallace shot even worse than Wade (27 percent from the floor amounting to only eight points), but he grabbed 17 rebounds and got in the last word in what would amount to a rivalry for the ages if it continues. “[Wade] can say whatever he wants to say. We’re over here as a team, we know what we did. He says he doesn’t credit us. He had what, 17 in the first half? How many did he have in the second half?” That’s a kill.

The best part of the whole thing is that neither of these guys had the best games on their team Tuesday and the prize of the night is a moderately better chance at getting bounced by the Cavs in the first round.

What that means for your fantasy team is for you hoople heads to decide.

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Danny Granger, IND DNP. Busy serving a one-game suspension for swinging at Channing Frye on Saturday. Think of it as a single-serving Lent in which Danny gave up working.

Samuel Dalembert, PHI The Haitian Sensaitian blocked another four shots last night. That’s 10 in his last five games. That’s an average of two per game. Or one per half. Or half a block per quarter. What’s half a block? That’s about the farthest distance any two Starbucks are from one another. So, yeah – a ton of blocks for Sam.

Lou Williams, PHI Lou needs a nickname (nickname besides “Lou” I mean) but now’s not the time to give him one. Let’s wait until he starts shooting better than the 37 percent he’s averaged these last two games, otherwise I might be liable to name him Will.i.blow or Kablooey Louis.

Baron Davis, LAC Boom-Dizzle shocked the world by shooting better than 46 percent from the field, turning the ball over only once and circulating nine assists. He ain’t done all three in one game since December 6, 2008.

Dwight Howard, ORL 32 min / 75% FG / 100% FT / 22 pts / 15 rbds / 3 asts / 2 blks / 4 tos. At this point, it’s become clear to me that this man needs other outlets, now that he’s completely conquered the NBA. Howard for Orlando comptroller!

Jameer Nelson, ORL Nelson averaged 11.4 pts / 4.7 assists in January. Then he grew to average 13.7 pts / 6.7 asts in February. And so far in March he’s knocking down 16.4 pts / 7.4 assists. Sadly, this is the only significant growth the 5-foot-10 Nelson’s ever experienced.

Trevor Ariza, HOU Ariza came off the bench for the first time this season. For the 40th time this season, he played as if he was coming off the bench. Thirteen points off 13 shots in 28 minutes. Lucky for ol’ Trev’, they were playing in D.C., which means only 250 people were in attendance to see it.

Luis Scola, HOU He had 23 points, 10 boards, a block and a steal … with seven turnovers. It’s as if the artist sneezed during his final brush stroke.

Al Thornton, WAS Not the best Al in the league nor the best Thornton, but that didn’t stop him from coming one rebound short of his fourth double-double of the season. Two of those dub-dubs happened during his 10-game tenure as a Wizard.

Jermaine O’Neal, MIA His knee’s fine. J.O. blocked three shots last night to improve his blocks-per-game average to 1.4 this season. It’s his lowest beepeegee average since he was playing only 12 minutes as a Trailblazer a decade ago. To be fair, he’s averaging 1.7 blocks since January 1.

Raymond Felton, CHA Clearly Raymond *pinkie to mouth* felt-on last night because he banked 15 points and 11 assists. Don’t get all twitterpated with the performance, lest I remind you of late February when he went on a four-game 11-for-40 shot streak.

Deron Williams, UTA Naggin’ wrist damn near earned him the Line of the Night.  37 min / 73% FG / 75% FT / 3 3ptm / 28 pts / 1 rbd /17 asts /1 to.

Taj Gibson, CHI Played 13 minutes, didn’t take a shot, fouled out. This is what I thought Gibson’s season was going to look like every game.

Derrick Rose, CHI Did everyone earn their third double-double last night? Twenty-five points and a career-tying high in assists (13). He had six double-doubles this time last year. Jrue story.

Brad Miller, CHI 20/4/3. I’m only playing Miller against teams with lazy bigs uninterested in defending a guy 15 feet from the basket.

Carlos Delfino, MIL The Delfino Line™: Nineteen  points, five 3-pointers, nine rebounds and a pair of steals.  Delfino has had at least one trey and a steal in each of his last 12 games.

Ray Allen, BOS Ray-Ray shot the ball only three times in 34 minutes (the fewest attempts in 30+ minutes in his entire career) and none of them went through the hoop. He said after the game that he wasn’t happy with the ball movement last night. Mostly because the ball never moved anywhere near him.

Paul Pierce, BOS Uh, hmm … well, at least we can say that Pierce shot 23 percentage points better than Allen. In his last 10 games, he’s shot better than 45 percent in just two of them.

Jarret Jack, TOR He had 18/7/7 last night and is averaging 19 points and 3.5 steals in his last two games. But I’m warning you, Jack tends to go on little tears like this and then poops in your kitchen.

Hedo Turkoglu, TOR Turk scored just six points on 2-for-7 shooting. Bet you can guess why … RONSACKED!

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42 min / 56% FG / 100% FT / 25 pts / 17 rbds / 2 asts / 1 stl / 4 blks / 2 to

Andrew Bogut, MIL He’s averaging career-highs in points, rebounds, blocks and free-throw shooting this season. If you have any complaints at all, it’s that the picture shown above isn’t the first time he’s made that face and it won’t be the last. That’s his hardcore dunk-face. (“Hardcore” is Aussie slang for neat or swell).

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Bottom photo courtesy of Yahoo! Sports via the AP

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LeBron James, CLE The King is fine. Let that not go unmentioned. The Cavs say he’s fine, James says he’s fine … and, um, that’s about it.

So he rolled his ankle a little – so what? So the Bucks were on an eight-game winning streak when the Cavs decided James didn’t need to play? So he sat for the Spurs? He’s fine. Just needed a little breather. Needed to save his legs for the playoffs. So what?

Well for James owners as well as Delonte West and Mo Williams owners, the fact that this is happening now suggests it’s going to happen again before the regular season ends. It’s not insane to assume that even if James plays the remainder of the regular season, he won’t see many fourth quarters. So look for Mo and Delonte to profit the most from this. The ball will necessarily have to be in their hands more often now.

“Delonto Williamst” combined for 43/12/13 in 68 min or (23/6/7 in 36 minutes) against San Antonio on Monday.  James is averaging 27/7/8 per 36 this year. There just ain’t no replacing him.

I mention you about 16 inches below, so you might want to scroll down … and since you’rre already headin’ that way, might as well read everything in between. while you’re at it.

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Al Jefferson, MIN Back from a two-game suspension with a vengeance (36/13). Jeffer ‘n’ son apparently spent his suspension in the multiplex.  “I’m not hating on [it], but it was just a long, boring movie,” Jefferson on “The Hurt Locker” bringing home the Best Picture Oscar.

George Hill, SA Hill is more or less leading the Tony Parker-less offense these days and opposing defenses aren’t adjusting. They’re still waiting for Parker’s teardrop runner and Hill’s drilling trey after trey instead.  He’s flushed nine in his last four games and shooting 69 percent from downtown in March after averaging only 36 percent leading up to it.

Mike Bibby, ATL He’s averaging six fewer points and one fewer assist this season than last. Would more people notice this if the Hawks weren’t doing well?

Darren Collison, NO Nine dimes in the first half. Then another nine with three minutes left in Q3. He ended with 20 assists. Everything this kid does is a career-high at this point. He’s so good I’m not even going to mention his seven turnovers … any more … after this.

Marcus Thornton, NO He had 28 points on 11-for-19 shooting. He’s shooting 57 percent from the floor and averaging 25 points this month. This is the same guy that played in only four of the nine games Byron Scott coached this season and averaged only 10 minutes and six points in those games. He’s like Rachel Leigh Cook in “She’s All That,” only instead of shedding bifocals to become beautiful, he shed Byron.

David West, Emeka Okafor, NO Thornton and these two bigs combined to score 78 of the team’s 135 points on Monday. The bigs themselves grabbed 24 rebounds and made all but seven of their 28 field goal attempts.  How do you say “firing on all cylinders” in creole?

Anthony Morrow, GSW Shot 6-for-6 from downtown, 11-for-13 from all over. He’ll do it to you if you let’ im.

Stephen Curry, GSW Steph shot a sickly 5-for-13 last night to add to his 41% FG average this month. He’s averaged 46 percent shooting prior to March. Don’t bench him. Don’t even think about it. Because a) the minute you do, he’s scoring 40 and b) his assist numbers are highly underrated (7.3 in February, 7.2 in March – ranked ninth in assists in the last 31 days).

Reggie Williams, GSW Came out of nowhere to score 28 points and deal six assists in 34 minutes. This was only his fifth NBA game yet he’s already surpassed Aaron Gray in games played in which he’s made a positive impact (1).

Shawn Marion, DAL Scored 29, grabbed 13.  The Matrix took the blue pill and bent the spoon. Or was it the red pill and deja vu means there’s a glitch? Eh. Who can remember the ’90s?

Rodrigue Beaubois, DAL “Rowdy” Roddy Beaubois set career marks in scoring in each of his previous three games heading into Minnesota on Monday. First with 17, then 22, then 24 on Saturday at Chicago. In last night’s game against Minny … well, he only scored 11 on 33 percent shooting. None of us thought that’s where this story was going.

Zach Randolph, MEM DNP – lower back tightness. Z-Woe.

Courtney Lee, NJ Scored a career-high 30 points in his second game back from injury. He’s also had seven treys in his last two games. All that being said, unless his injury recovery consisted of scientists implanting futuristic cyborg parts in him,  I wouldn’t pick him up. But it’s your team and in the end, you gotta listen to whichever song your heart sings loudest.

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37 min / 52% FG / 100% FT / 7 3ptm / 38 pts / 7 rbds / 5 asts / 2 stls / 2 tos

Manu Ginobili, SA Manu looks like Balki from “Perfect Strangers,” but that’s beside the point. That’s not what we’re here to discuss. We’re here to discuss the 38 points (seven treys) he dropped, or how he hasn’t scored that many points or sank that many threes since February 21, 2008, or how he might be a key third-tier pickup in the offseason’s free agent bonanza, or how Manu might know how to do the Dance of Joy, or how he could learn it easily if he was so inclined.

Mostly we’re here to discuss Mark Lynn-Baker. If you want more tidbits about basketball, feel free to visit Tip-In Points at SportScape’s Sidelines blog … what’s that? This is SportScape’s Sidelines blog? Well then what have I been writing on my Bal-keys to Success “Perfect Strangers” fanblog?

Uh, I gotta go.

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“You.” See? I told you there was a mention.

Water consumption spiked to abnormal highs in between each period and abnormal lows during gametime action. Hockey fans across the city (and, let’s face it, country) risked permanent bladder damage by holding in uncountable amounts of LaBatt’s until the end of each period. And during the medal ceremony? Forget it. Real fans just wet where they stood.

That’s the Canadian way.

Graph below, don’tcha know.

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I’m from Chicago. A city where the echoes of Michael Jordan refuse to quiet even a decade after he swished his last United Center basket. Since M.J., Chicago has seen some bad Bulls teams.  None of them, however, were so bad that a cup of java was equivalent to a seat in the 300 level.

Enter the D.C. Wizards.

The 21-39 Wiz are amidst its “Drink 5 to Watch the Starting 5″ promotion, which along with its labored name, reduces the worth of a game ticket to merely 6.25 lbs-worth of coffee. Less than that. Technically, two Wizards nose-bleeds are worth that much.

The economics of this are about as baffling as the development of Andray Blatche being the team’s best player.

The promotion states that if you buy five large (20 oz.) cups of coffee, save the receipts and mail ‘em to the Wizards, they’ll send you two tickets for your trouble. And let’s be clear, it really isn’t much trouble. It’s not like qualifiers won’t have the energy to send in the receipts – they just drank 100 ounces of coffee!

This is $9.95 worth of bean we’re talking about )plus tax). That’s $4.98 a ticket. But it’s not $4.98 a ticket. It’s $9.95 for coffee (plus tax) and completely free tickets.

Gee-whiz, Wiz. You’re better than that (they’re not). And it’s not like the team is out there by themselves. The three worst teams the Wizards play from now until the end of the season at home are the Warriors, Nets and Pacers. You wouldn’t go see Stephen Curry, Brook Lopez or Danny Granger play for free? Not for free?!

Seriously, not for free?

Because – and I cannot reiterate this enough – if D.C. residents popped into their neighborhood Dunkin’ Donuts each morning between today and Friday, saved the receipts and mailed ‘em in – KAPOW! they’re in the building to see Monta Ellis play 45 minutes and turn the ball over six times.

And that’s worth every penny.

Also worth every penny? The damn Dunkin’ Donuts coffee itself. That’s some tasty java, Jack. So tasty, in fact, that the donut chain decided to play chicken with your senses by offering a second competing promotion.

Buy six cups of coffee, get the seventh cup free.

Imagine someone with five receipts in his back pocket standing at the Dunkin’ counter trying to decide between a) two free tickets to a professional sporting event of a team on which Michael Jordan once played or b) two cups of coffee at half price (essentially).

Take heed American cities. These are the choices you may face if your professional athletic club suspends and trades away all of its discernible talent in the span of six weeks.

Two free tickets to a game or two free cups of 1/2-priced coffee.

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Let’s cut to the chase: Jamaican bobsledder Newton Marshall will finish the Iditarod. That’s not my opinion, it’s his. We’ve all seen “Cool Runnings,” we all understand the humor of a Jamaican makin’ a run (a mush?) at a sport reliant upon a climate directly opposed to the humidity and j’orts to which Newton is accustomed.

But you got all that in the headline. What you didn’t get is how Jimmy Buffet and bicycles are involved. And that, dear readers, is far more entertaining.

The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, which started Sunday in Willow, Alaska, is a grueling 1,100-mile race that usually lasts about two weeks. The moment-to-moment race itself is not terribly complicated. The skill and will come into play when the sledders and dog team begin to tire, freeze, grow hungry, get lost, run at a pace the team hadn’t prepared for and so-on. None of these obstacles dwell exclusively in arctic regions. The story here isn’t what this Jamaican dogsledder is doing, but how.

Oh, okay. I can sense you’re really interested in the what. Here goes: The 2010 Iditarod won’t be Marshall’s first dance. The 26-year-old completed in the Yukon Quest International Sled Dog Race (think of it as the French Open to the Iditarod’s Wimbledon) and finished 13th out of 29. He was able to do that, in part, with the help of his trainer, three-time defending Iditarod champion Lance Mackey, from whom Marshall is leasing his 16-dog team.

You don’t have to be a sled snob to know that three-time defending champions don’t train any old musher.

Marshall leads his dogs, Pinky, front, and Marbles, as he drives his bicycle sled training rig on the beach in St. Ann, Jamaica.

Although Marshall’s goal to become just the third black musher to cross compete in the Iditarod isn’t a joke – it kinda was in the onset. Originally the who dog sled idea started as a way to take Jamaican tourists on tours. It was never intended to be sleds, so much as dune buggies. It wasn’t even Marshall’s idea. He was simply a dog-tour guide.

Clearly when you have a pack of dogs carrying you around on … well, anything really, at some point in the process you’re going to have to at least consider the Iditarod, right? Imagine if you were gliding around on the strength of rowdy pooches, do you think it would take you any more than five minutes for the thought of the world’s most famous dog-sled race to enter your brain? I give it 90 seconds – max.

That’s essentially what happened. A black guy from a sweltering climate entering the Iditarod would, at the very least, attract attention to the dog buggie tours back home.

Danny Melville, a partner in Chukka Caribbean Adventures, founded that tour organization in 2005. Melville saw Marshall’s enthusiasm.

“I just said, ‘Would you like to give it a try?’ ” Melville recalled. “He said, ‘Yah, mon.’ ”

I can’t believe Jamaican’s actually say “Yah, mon,” but who am I to argue?

From the AP:

Monday Do yourself a solid: Read this article before you buy that home connected to a firing range. GOLF
Tuesday Skydiving + kayaking = Skyaking. (But it also equals awesome). SKYAKING
Wednesday See? This is why we can’t ever get rid of Mississippi. GOLF
Thursday Got ‘im! Barry Zito has the memory of an elephant (or all my exes). BASEBALL
Friday Two guys who don’t know when to give up got together on a television program last night. FOOTBALL
Saturday Indy Governor’s Saints flag fetched over $6K in a charity auction. FOOTBALL
Sunday After Rashard Lewis helped his little buddy, they both went for Sno-Cones and pizza afterwards. BASKETBALL
Eighth Day Two wannabe Playmates try to get on the Bulls’ Kiss-Cam. No one told them that the cameras don’t search the cheap seats. Shoulda used a hookup like adult entertainer Samantha Ryan has at KU. BASKETBALL