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SALT LAKE CITY -- Many have lived the thrill of victory. Just about all of us have lived through the agony of defeat.
And sometimes that agony comes with a little embarrassment.
Such is sports.
At the BYU Robison Invitational, BYU runner Katy Andrews had one of those embarrassing moments. The video, submitted by Andrews herself, shows her taking a tumble as she attempts to clear a steeplechase.
Andrews joked about her mishap noting on her post, "Was Justin Bieber playing? The result you get when a runner attempts diving..."
A pretty good sport considering how bad it looked.
"I was seeing stars but ran 2 more laps afterwards," she wrote. "I smacked my head and my thigh. The head bled; the thigh bruised."
Ouch.
Musical chairsThe seats are a movin' inside the Marriott Center. BYU recently announced it was moving the student section from the sideline to behind the west basket, adjacent to the visiting bench and behind the visiting basket in the second half of games.
Pictures taken by The Universe show crews tearing up the benches on the north side, which will eventually replace them with blue padded chair seating.
Still waiting for those nose-bleed seats to get padding.
I know, don't hold my breath.
New log, new unis, new jumbo-tron?Utah State's got a new logo. The Aggies have got new uniforms, now they've got a new scoreboard.
And why not? Don't all good things come in threes?
Or is that bad things?
Bird meets ball... and lives
It's not pretty, and it is pretty startling, but how amazing is it that a pitch hits a bird.
Randy Johnson's done it, and now too has a kid named Ryne Elvers, a high school pitcher in Springfield, Ill.
But unlike Johnson, Elvers' bird wasn't killed by the blow.
In fact, the bird didn't even hit the ground. It just kept flying and away it went.
I'm betting it was change up. That's the only plausible explanation.
By the way, Elvers wasn't too rattled by the incident. The sophomore gave up only four hits in his team's 3-1 victory.
Rough first impression
All rookies want to make a splash when they get a shot at show, and Washington Nationals' phenom Bryce Harper is no different.
The 19-year-old man child made quite the impression against the Dodgers in L.A. over the weekend, but he struggled to do so in a pickup softball game by the Washington Monument fields.
The kid can rake, no doubt about it, but his first hack at a soft tossed softball was a big, and I mean BIG, whiff.
No worries. The kid knows how to redeem himself and on the next pitch sent the ball skyward.
I think it landed by the Lincoln Monument.
