Morning Link Dump

By Scott Lewis

Obligatory Sports Babe anna

Have you any idea how much more difficult it is to find a picture of Anna Kournikova playing tennis than it is to spot one of her half naked? Anyway, continuing on with our sports babes of the 90s theme here, we have a gander at Ms. Kournikova. While she was never much of a professional tennis star, she became one off the court by modeling and dating much more successful celebrities.

Although she played well into the 2000s and was in doubles competition as recent as 2010, Kournikova made her professional debut in the 1990s, therefore, she meets the guidelines for theScore Buzz objectification treatment.

Today's Sports Birthday

Former member of the 1990 Cincinnati Reds "Nasty Boys" bullpen, Rob Dibble, turns 47-years old today. I'm sure there's a 'making sexist comments' or 'trolling Stephen Strasburg' joke to be had here, I just can't find it this morning.

Quotable

Today we turn to Bruce Arthur of the National Post for his spot-on take of the late Joe Paterno and the legacy he leaves behind:

And when it was announced Joe Paterno had died, people gathered around the great bronze statue of him outside Beaver Stadium, a stadium that has been renovated six times under his tenure, to the point where you can just about see the whole town from the top of the thing. And behind that statue is the inscription that reads, “They ask me what I’d like written about me when I’m gone. I hope they write I made Penn State a better place, not just that I was a good football coach.”

That’s a part of it, yes. But if you had to add another line to that statue it would be the one from the statement he issued on Nov. 9, in which he wrote “In retrospect, I wish I had done more.” One cannot be told without the other, and the balance is somewhere in between. Joe Paterno was not a monster, precisely, and he was not pure. He was human, and he faltered, and it ruined what was left of his life, and what was left of a lot of other people’s lives, too. Tragedy, all around.

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