Sports notes

This time last year I wrote that the Cubs should hire Joe Girardi. They didn’t, but made the playoffs anyway. BTW, whenever I saw Lou Pinella in the dugout he looked like he’d just come off a three day bender. Anyway, Joe now has responsibility for the Yankees (sans A-Rod). Good luck to him.

The Redskins got pounded by the Patriots on Sunday. The score was 52-7 and it wasn’t even that close. Ugly, but I couldn’t stop watching. Joe Gibbs should have stayed away and kept his Hall of Fame image intact.

Kimi Raikkonen is the F1 champion, at least until McLaren’s appeal. It seems out of character for me, but I can’t help but like Ferrari.

The Hurricanes are off to a great start. It’s a long season (too long) but they’ve already been challenged by injuries and have still managed to win.

This upcoming Saturday holds an ironic pair of NCAA football games. The SEC East leading UT Vols play the Ragin’ Cajuns of LA-Lafayette, while the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles visit No. 22 Auburn. This is so wrong.

YouTube to iTunes

I found these simple instructions and needed a place to store them, so here they are:

Use Safari.
Open the page with the video you want.
Open the ‘activity’ menu.
This lists all the items on this page, locate the entry for the video file (it will be the largest file size).
Double click on this line, it will download.
Rename it, no need to put a file extension on it.
Convert this file to ‘iPod’ format using the free application ‘iSquint’
http://www.isquint.org/.
You’re good to go.
A bit more long winded, but at least it’s free.