MLB Suspensions, British Open, and a man blaming a dog

First Major Suspensions in MLB Drug Case
- Major League Baseball suspended Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun 65 games, or the rest of the season. This is the second time the 2011 NL MVP has fallen under suspicion for steroid use. After his 2011 campaign Braun tested positive for Performance Enhancing Drugs, but was able to avoid a suspension after an arbitration court decided his test had been mishandled.
- At that time, Braun railed against the tester, MLB and the testing service. In turns out that he doth protest too much. With the new revelations Matt Kemp, who finished second to Braun in the 2011 MVP vote, says he wants the award.
- Braun decided to not fight this evidence and accept the suspension. His acceptance of the suspension leads many to believe that there may be more suspensions on the way. Braun was one of almost two dozen players named on a list MLB got from a South Florida "supplement" provider.
- The biggest name other than Braun on that list was New York Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez. A-Rod has not played in the majors this season recovering from an off-season surgery. ESPN reported that MLB has even more evidence against A-Rod. Rodriguez's potential suspension could have bigger implications because the Yankees could potentially try and void the rest of his contract, which is expensive and long.

Mickelson comes back to win British Open
- What a difference a day makes. Going into Sunday's final round, Phil Mickelson was not even among the leaders, at +2, sitting five strokes back of Lee Westwood and also behind other big names like Tiger Woods, Hunter Mahan and Adam Scott. Additionally, the venue was the British Open, where Mickelson has had little to no success historically. So naturally, he shot a scintillating 66 in the final round (he was the only player in the final 11 groups to even break 70 on Sunday).
- Mickelson (-3) ended up winning by a shocking 3 strokes after Lee Westwood self-destructed with a 75 and essentially all of the other leaders had poor rounds. He birdied 4 of his last 6 holes and by the time the crowd erupted following his birdie on 18, it was essentially over, even though there was still more than an hour until the final pairing officially finished.
- Teary-eyed afterwards, his caddy of 21 years Jim McKay said, "He played the best round of golf I've ever seen him play." - Henrik Stenson shot a 70 (his third of the tournament) to finish second.

Florida LB arrested for barking at police dog
- Apparently only dogs are allowed to bark at humans and not vice-versa after a Florida Gator football player, LB Antonio Morrison was arrested for barking at a police dog, which then caused the dog to "lose focus" and begin barking back at Morrison instead of searching the car that Morrison and some friends were in
- Morrison used the best 5th grade defense possible, claiming that he barked because the "dog barked first."
- Morrison was barking up the wrong tree apparently because the canine's partner was offended, and arrested Morrison. If these charges had held, the entire University of Georgia would be in a heap of legal trouble, but luckily for everyone involved, the DA decided that no charges would be pursued since Morrison's action did not involve malice.