Guest Post (And non football-related): The falling apart of the Yankees

This is from the much-aggrieved View From North America, who’s writing this about the falling apart of his favorite baseball team. As a sympathy note, we let him post it here. Sorry it’s not about college football. But it might save him. Any Yankees fan worth their salt could have told you that this was going to happen sooner or later. There had been enough miracle seasons, where the Yankees had scraped their pinstriped behinds into the play-offs, and done just enough to scrape through a AL Central team and then lose in the ALCS. The team hadn’t been World Series standard for years, and everyone knew it. And although New York Yankees fans are burning rage at the moment

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Georgia loses Marshall and Scott-Wesley for the year

Georgia’s news after the Tennessee was as bad as feared: star running back Keith Marshall and star wide receiver Justin Scott-Wesley are both out for the year. Both players were injured during the breathless win at Tennessee, and left the game immediately. Both players tore their ACLs. Wide receiver Michael Bennett- Georgia’s safest pair of hands when it comes to catching a throw from Aaron Murray – also left Neyland with a knee injury, and he’s getting ‘scoped’ later this week and will be out for the Missouri game, coach Mark Richt said. It’s now emerged that Bennett has a torn meniscus and will undergo surgery tomorrow, and will be out 3-6 weeks. That will mean he’s definitely not playing

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