Sunday links/baseball on the way

Story links, baseball, football stories on the way

     I will have a short football story up for Monday detailing some things to watch for in preseason camps in the upcoming weeks, so keep an eye out for that.
    Also, I will be catching up with some former Shore baseball standouts at the Jersey Shore Baseball League championship today, so I will keep you updated on the future plans/current whereabouts of some notable names. I also will have a story involving some of the Shore’s returning high school hardball stars coming this week.
    Finally, it was nice to see someone from my alma mater, Northwestern QB Brett Basanez, a former Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year who is now trying to latch on with the Carolina Panthers, sling an 85-yard touchdown pass against the Giants on Saturday night.
    Instead of going into a full-on rant about how the Mets’ bullpen meltdown has coincided with the Yankees being unbeatable, plus the potential disappearance of the Mets’ home run apple in the new stadium, here are some story links:

Former Ocean offensive lineman Lou Eliades could be a starter as a redshirt freshman for my brother’s alma mater, Penn State, this year.
Another former Shore Conference offensive lineman, Matawan’s Anthony Grosso (scroll to bottom of story), whose chops I bust at any opportunity for decommitting from Northwestern to go to Florida State, has impressed in the weight room as a freshman. Although, I guess not everybody is fired up about the Seminoles’ freshman class.
Long Branch’s Jerett Sanderson looks like he will start as a sophomore at safety for Bowling Green. Another Long Branch product, Darius Morris, looks to be in the mix as a reserve offensive lineman for Temple.
My old roommate in college, who was a ******** gambler, would love this story. However, not even he bet on tennis. If you are betting on obscure ATP events, a tire iron to the kneecaps might not be too far down the line in your future because you are out of your mind. My roommate definitely had a few nights of handing me an NBA schedule in a cold sweat and begging me to pick a few winners, or the time we almost got thrown out of a restaurant when he started howling at the TV in agony when Lionel Simmons stepped back and hit what looked like a meaningless 3-pointer instead of a two-pointer in a double-digit loss by the Sacramento Kings to the Seattle Sonics in the playoffs that actually screwed the spread. Oh, the good old days.
Every sportswriter in America tired of writing about Barry Bonds (and his good buddy/jailbird Greg Anderson), is loving this Rick Ankiel thing.
They’re making a movie out of Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild, which is a quick, but riveting read about a guy who ventured into the wilderness to get away from the world and for adventure but ending up dying in Alaska. I knocked it out on a plane flight a few years back and it’s good. Krakauer is better known for “Into Thin Air” about a disastrous ascent of Mount Everest, but this one is good, too. They’re promoting the **** out of it, too, with stories in Esquire, Men’s Journal and the cover of Outside magazine.