Page 2 Pieces of Wisdom

Every month in ESPN the Magazine, they have a few pages called Page 2 with miscellaneous bits of information from the sporting world that are interesting even to the non-sports fans. This month's were excellent and had a few worth sharing...

- Bonds Breaks Through: Next decision for Bud Selig: is it better to recognize Sadaharu Oh's 868 career home runs or to count each of A-Rod's twice going forward?

- Had Barry Bonds hit his 756th home run an additional 198,002 feet, Greg Anderson would have had a chance to catch it in the prison yard of FCI Dublin.

- Turtle from Entourage is working on a comedy script for a movie about an adult Wiffle ball league.

- David Beckham cancelled his Simpsons appearance because an earlier episode poked fun at his alleged affair.

- 84 year old grandma becomes Poland's oldest parachutest.

- From their "occasional poll of approximately a decent number of sports enthusiasts, called randomly at the most inconvenient times," a survey on College Football '07...
30% think Rutgers will be this year's Rutgers.
2% wonder how long it will take until USC's audibles are referred to as "Booty Calls"
1% say they'd "buy tickets to see Temple v. Duke in the Technically Somebody Has to Win Bowl."

- EA is working on tetherball, dodgeball and slot car racing for Wii.

- Current Major Leaguers with the Most Outs (as of 8.7.07):
1) Craig Biggio, 8,157
2) Omar Vizquel, 7,409
3) Steve Finley, 7,285
4) Barry Bonds, 7,253
5) Sammy Sosa, 6,749
6) Luis Gonzalez, 6,621
7) Julio Franco, 6,606
8) Ken Griffey Jr., 6,491
9) Gary Sheffield, 6,339
10) Ivan Rodriguez, 6,060

- 10 Tour de France riders were fined $83 for "satisfying nature's need in front of the public."

- "Frisbee sports are in," says Wham-O's Dave Waisblum. "Everybody's coming to the realization that they've taken over." Of course, your old roomie's known that for years.

- Scott Niedermayer, an NHL Hockey player for the Anaheim Mighty Ducks, in a letter to the Chicago City Council to support its ban on foie gras: "As an Anaheim Duck, I hate to see real ducks tortured so that a handful of wealthy chefs can serve their diseased organs. Please uphold this compassionate law."

- Thirty-three Texas high school cheerleaders brawl at summer camp.

- Health inspectors logged 188 rat violations at Angel Stadium over the past 2.5 years.

- The inventor of the Segway has created a new Segway that can pull a golf bag for golfers on the course.