This at my lovely alma mater, the University of Washington...
Pique does not appear to be the next Babe Ruth.
[Thanks to Kickette for the find]

In a follow-up piece to our discussion on whether soccer to have more statistics to thrive in the States, Josh Crockett looks at the history of American sports culture and concludes it's the stories behind the numbers that matter.

[America has] had, after all, a century of the most extraordinary and compelling sporting stories to savor and reflect upon.

Guarantees just aren't what they used to be. Back in the day a guarantee was something extraordinarily, spectacular: A sacred declaration of one team's predicted dominance over another. It was something that got fans to pay close attention to an event even if the game didn't fascinate them.