Thursday, August 14th, 2008 - Made in China

China is using 7 year olds, allegedly, to compete in gymnastics, well under the 16 year minumum age. Well, at least they'll know who made their Nike gear, if they didn't do so themselves...Jason Kidd said that had the U.S. players posed like Spain did, they'd have been thrown out of the Olympics. That might not be exactly right, but they'd be getting killed a lot more than Spain has. Mike Wilbon at Pardon the Interruption raised an interesting idea: The NBA should suspend Jose Calderon, Paut Gasol et al. I haven't been a big fan of the push by leagues to wade into off their playing field stuff and add suspensions, but this would at least be consistent. This piece is a must read on the subject top to bottom. You can view Wilbon's take below...Brett Favre's arm is "tired" after less than a week in camp. I'm guessing this has less to do with football and more to do with all the text messages he was hammering out to every media member in the western world the past months...Bryan McCabe: Florida Panther? It could happen..so about Greece repeating their big win over the U.S. hoops team? Nevermind. 92-69 U.S....what happens first, Canada wins a medal in the Olympics or we get a day minus rain in Ontario this summer? Not sure where my vote is...the L.A. Dodgers are in first place. Wonder if Derek Jeter and Joe Torre had a bet as to who would have the longer playoff streak? For the record, they'd be tied now if results hold - Jeter's first year was managed by Buck Showalter and he's never missed the playoffs since. The Yankees have never won since he was named captain, by the by...the New York Mets have blown leads in which Johan Santana led six times, five in the 9th inning. In four of his losses, he's given up two runs or fewer and he's averaging 6 2/3 innings per start. Don't let the record fool you, he's have a fantastic year...a head's up that you'll be seeing a somewhat scaled back version of RandoMango next week as yours truly is on holidays. Fortunately, the BlackBerry lets me post remotely. You just won't see the boldface and links necessarily...have a great Thursday.