"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams

I still don't have a Rambler back. I won't bore you with today's chapter but it involves one old guy who knew immediately what's causing the problem and another old guy apparently unwilling to accept a solution he didn't come up with. Unfortunately the first old guy doesn't work at the auto shop and the second old guy does.
But the manager assures me the first old guy's solution will be adopted and the car will be back to me tomorrow.

I recorded last week's episode of "30 for 30" on ESPN. I've just discovered this series that's in it's third year. The name comes from the inaugural season, ESPN's 30th year, when they commissioned 30 one hour documentaries done by outside filmakers who were told to do a film on a sports related topic in any way they saw fit. That first year was so successful that they decided to do a second. Then they let it drop. They've just revived it and I've watched the first two of this season and they were both very good.

The first documentary, "Broke," was about professional athletes who had multi-million dollar contracts and later went broke. Fascinating. It included interviews with some of those athletes, agents, financial experts, and athletes who avoided those mistakes. At the end they scrolled a list that was surprisingly long and included Dorothy Hamill.

This week's documentary, "9.79," was about Ben Johnson's record setting win at the 1988 Olympics. Shortly after the Games he lost his gold when the results of his post-race drug test came back registering Performance Enhancing Drugs. The filmmaker told the story with footage and interviews about the year or two that preceded that race and some of the key characters, including Carl Lewis, and the UCLA prof hired by the USOC to test our athletes. One of the things that prof said was that when they saw an athlete in their 20's wearing braces on their teeth they pretty much knew they were taking PED's. They never said what it is about PED's that leads to braces.
(When they took Johnson's gold medal away it went to Carl Lewis, who was almost certainly also dirty.)

This next week's documentary is about the auction of the original document written by James Nasmith, the inventor of basketball, laying out the rules for the game.

Good TV, even if you're not a sports nut. They're good stories well told that happen to be about sports. Tuesday nights. Check your local listing.