-Michelle Wie w/d's from the LPGA Tour Championship with a sprained ankle. Probably a very smart move on her part after she lost 2007 with her wrist injury. She was three under through 12 holes and went three over the next six holes - actually a bogey on 13 and then a double on 17 where her ankle gave way on her off the tee. Her ankle injury happened during the Solheim Cup - that's a pretty long time for a sprained ankle to be healing.
-Girls' basketball at the Lion House tonight: Shoals vs Loogootee. The Loogootee Tribune had a big article on the girls this week with much emphasis on the smallness of the squad (nine players, four of whom were seniors). In a separate article with a different author, the Barr-Reeve girls team was being heralded as one of the elite teams this season with the likes
-In women's basketball, the Notre Damers (Dames?) sneaked past the Spartans of MSU on the heroics of 5'9" Ashley Barlow, 68-67. Barlow snatched a rebound out of the hands of 6'9" Spartan Alyssa DeHaan off of a missed free throw, got fouled and made one of two of her own free throws in the closing seconds of the game up in East Lansing.
-Headline: Georgia's mascot Uga VII dies. Hmm.
-And as long as we're on college football: the betting odds on who will be the ND coach for next season's first game here. (via South Bend Tribune's twitter bag.) Meyer, Kelly and Harbaugh are the early favorites. Eric told me Harbaugh, a Michigan alum, might also be a prime contender for the Wolverine coaching job.
-Golf date with the boys (Lents, Butcher, Hudson) later this morning. All of us should be fresh after several days of non golf activity.
