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In the interest of being fair and balanced, here's a trailer for Disney's new Palin movie.

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They can call it The Motherlands

The frontrunner for naming rights for the Giants and Jets new stadium is Munich based insurance company Allianz. Although ending it's name with a Z may be very 21st century, the company has been around since 1890 and provided insurance to Auschwitz under Hitler. It's CEO at the time was in Hitler's cabinet. If they're considering Allianz, I'd hate to see the companies they rejected.

A job about nothing

Imagine if an executive at a Fortune 500 company, the most a guy who brought that company back to preeminence after being irrelevant for 25 years, waffled between retirement and staying on. Under what circumstances would the company offer him $20 million to retire, except for an occasional function where he has to gladhand a few stockholders? That's almost exactly what's going on in Green Bay. Now the Packers aren't quite in the Fortune 500, but they really aren't that far off, and most importantly they are a public owned company, the only such team in American sports. I can't imagine that the stockholders want to sink $20 million into keeping Favre off the Vikings when they offered Ryan Grant a $1.75 million signing bonus on a six year deal.

It sounds like this is how Brett Favre's career is going to end: publicly bank rolled by a team with one of the lowest payrolls in the league to remain active in the Green Bay community? So is this a case of sports becoming more or less like a business? The argument for it becoming less like a business is based around how personal this dispute has become. The argument for sports becoming more like a business is how eerily similar this sounds to Dick Cheney's retirement from Halliburton, for which he received a $20 million severance package.

Number 23 in your programs, number 1 for dems

I just found this on Fanhouse and it may blow your mind. Pay special attention to number 23, our likely next President.

That's right, it's Barrack Obama from his days at Occidental.

Follow the money

Inspired by The Big Lead, I tried to track down campaign contributions from Roger Clemens, thinking perhaps that influenced the partisan line of questioning by Congress yesterday. I found none, but did notice that Clemens' attorney Rusty Hardin twice contributed the maximum to John McCain. It's worth noting, especially considering how influential Hardin was in setting up these hearings.

Stone to direct Bush biopic

This one's for real, folks. Oliver Stone is set to direct a biopic about our current two term leader of the free world, starring James Brolin. Stone has already directed to eponymous presidential movies in JFK and Nixon, both of which are decent flicks. This one will obviously have more in common with Nixon on multiple levels.

"I want a fair, true portrait of the man. How did Bush go from an alcoholic bum to the most powerful figure in the world? It's like Frank Capra territory on one hand, but I'll also cover the demons in his private life, his bouts with his dad and his conversion to Christianity, which explains a lot of where he is coming from. It includes his belief that God personally chose him to be president of the United States, and his coming into his own with the stunning, preemptive attack on Iraq. It will contain surprises for Bush supporters and his detractors."

The NBA is down with Obama, NASCAR digs Giuliani, owners like McCain and Hillary, and Mormons are devoted to Romney

Deadspin and the DC Sports Bog has gone over political donations from sports figures. The least surprising big name donation: Todd Heap (Mormon) gave the max to Mitt Romney. The most surprising: every big name in NASCAR gave heavily to Rudy Giuliani. Chairman Brian France, President Mike Helton, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, and Casey Mears were all big contributors. I always considered NASCAR to be a very non-New York sport and Giuliani to be the consummate New Yorker. I guess politics makes strange bedfellows.

The Royal Families

Think about this: if Hillary Clinton is elected President - and I consider her a slight favorite right now - then a Clinton or Bush will have been President for at least 1988-2012. Whatever you think of any of their politics, you've got to find that a little chilling.