Sunday links and musings

Clyde lost to Columbus St. Francis DeSales in the state semi-finals Friday night. It was a good run while it lasted. Good luck next year.

Today the Browns face a Minnesota Vikings team that has won their last four games. However, I feel good about the Browns chances to day considering how they played last week and the fact that the Vikings played on Monday night. Take the Browns and the points as this should be a close fairly low scoring game.

Longtime writer and presidential historian, Hugh Sidey died this week. Gerald Ford, the 38th President, wrote a nice tribute to Sidey.

It wasn't supposed to be this way. Like most men my age, I have given a thought or two to my funeral. Each presidential family is solicited for personal touches. Among these is a choice of eulogists. Thus it was, a few months ago, that I called Hugh Sidey.

We'd known each other forever, Hugh coming to Washington just a few years after the voters of Michigan's 5th Congressional District sent me there. Maybe it was our shared Midwestern background, his transparent decency or the tough but fair coverage he accorded me and nine other American presidents; in any event, I had always regarded Hugh as a friend. So I asked him if he would do me the honor of speaking at Washington's National Cathedral when the time came.

Read the rest. (H/T Betsy's Page for the link)

Terry Pluto concurs with my assessment of the Thome trade. The White Sox got fleeced. Thome was one of my favorite Indians of the 90's, but he is coming of a season shortened by injury and I wouldn't have wanted to take on that salary for a player who may not be able to contribute at his previous levels. Pluto also has some insightful comments about the Browns comparing the Dilfer/Frye situation to Danielson/Kosar in 1985.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said Friday he would consider granting clemency to convicted killer Stanley Tookie Williams, the Crips gang founder. Don't do it, Arnold.

If it is Sunday, we have to have an article about a senator hoping to be president. Today it is Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI). Apparently, his main qualification is he is from Wisconsin.

He put his chances of seeking for the nomination in 2008 at "probably higher" than one in 100 while saying it was too early to commit to the race. "But I do think one thing we can all agree on is that this country is overdue for a cheesehead president. We've never had one," he told ABC's "This Week."

The Akron Beacon-Journal could use a new fact checker.

Coming to Cleveland March 30 in a trade with the Denver Nuggets for defensive linemen Ebenezer Ekuban and Michael Myers, Droughns was deemed expendable because the Broncos crank out an endless stream of 1,000-yard rushers.

So, did the Browns get Droughns from the Nuggets or the Broncos?