Thursday Blogdome: Caps can't fix blown game, can fix blown tire

* Caps Player Changes Tire For Fans After Losing Game 7. Cute story out of DC, where the Caps blew that game against Montreal to get knocked out of the Stanley Cup Playoffs: A mother and daughter driving home from the game, they hit a pothole and suffered a flat tire. The auto club was backed up, but someone else came through in the clutch, albeit about three hours late. It was Washington Capitals winger Brooks Laich. [With Leather]
* QT: New Book Exposes World Cup Chicanery. A new book is out, written by investigative journalists from South Africa and Britain, looking into the financial and political maneuvers that it took to put together the World Cup this summer… and it’s every bit as bad as you would expect. [Unprofessional Foul]

* Honey Nut Ichiros? I absolutely love this: CBS Sports.Com’s list of the 200 most frequently used team names in its 100,000 fantasy baseball leagues. Most of these names are absurdly obvious or overly familiar (Gashouse Gorillas, Chico’s Bail Bonds, Boys Of Summer, Naturals, etc.) But many of them provide tremendous insight into the nature of the rotisserian’s mind, and maybe a little bit into what’s popular in baseball and what isn’t. [Baseball Nerd]
* Add Disco Music To The List Of Things Colin Montgomerie Hates. Last weekend at the Spanish Open, disco music blaring from a nearby hospitality tent rattled Colin Montgomerie to such an extent that he ended up three-putting on the 18th hole, resulting in a bogey. This affront set off an expletive-peppered tirade by the Scottish golfer. “Is this a ****ing party or a golf tournament?,” the 46-year-old Briton fumed after signing for a one-under-par 71 which left him six strokes behind early leader Ricardo Gonzalez of Argentina. [The Sportress of Blogitude]
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