Odds & Ends

Great article in the Washington Post magazine today about Alex "Sex Bomb" Ovechkin. Some very interesting family history stuff, including an anecdote about how he couldn't skate backwards like the other boys when he was 8. Hard to imagine that now, but it helped fuel his desire to do better.

Hope the Caps can break out of this losing streak soon. At least they took Yashin down with them last night.

Finally, I figured out who's to blame for the Eagles' problems: the Fantoo Girls! Look what Carol wrote a mere 4 days before McNabb went McOut:

(Are you as surprised as I am that we are relatively unscathed at this point? That is SuWEET!)

Just kidding. When I was discussing this with Fred, he mentioned that Dave Fay made a similar assessment of the Caps- and then a few of them were injured in the next game. Why not write about the other team and how great and uninjured they are? Maybe then they'll suck (of course, it never seems to work that way either). Just never, ever say anything about your team's injuries or how well they're doing, because it automatically jinxes them.

I think that's what happened to the Redskins this year: before preseason even started, everyone was talking about how great the team looked on paper and how a Super Bowl run was in the cards. And where are they now? Sitting in the basement of the NFC East, with the same record as the Houston Texans. You just never know, but sometimes it's impossible to live up to lofty expectations- "expectations" being the key word there (especially when you're putting your faith in a bunch of overpaid free agents). Overconfidence often leads to disappointment.