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Sports: That’s 4 in a row for the Rays: Tampa Bay 6, Seattle 5, and we are 1 game ahead of Baltimore again. Oakland is next, and that will be a tough 3 games.

Hawai’i: It hasn’t been a great week for students at UH-Manoa. Parking is a nightmare as usual. The university’s implementation of its Banner registration software had some gaps, including a feature that would have allowed UH administrators to see how manys tudents were on the wait-list for each class. As a result of this and an unexpected surge in enrollment, several hundred UH students have been unable to enrolll for the classes they need. Thirty new classes were added on Monday, but some classes have many more students than the recommended maximum. It reminds me of my college days, when students were lurking outside offices and classrooms, hoping that another student had dropped the course. This will cause problems with the teachers union.

At least the football season opens 11 days, although the Warriors may have trouble beating Florida Atlantic.

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Sports: If the Montreal Expos really do move to Northern Virginia or DC next season, they should rename themselves the Washington Senators. There’s too much tradition at stake. I can just see Bud Selig asking the Devil Rays to move to the NL East, too. The Rays have been bombed in the AL East, where the Yankees and Red Sox dominate. As long as Baltimore Orioles owner Peter Angelos doesn’t mind, which I admit is a streatch of the imagination, the new Sens really belong in the AL East. Putting a DC baseball team in the National League just feels wrong to me, but Angelos may insist on protecting what he considers his territory.

Sports: The Rays have won 3 straight, and are now 10 games below .500. They’re close to catching the Orioles and regaining 3rd place in the AL East. I’d settle for 70 wins this year, but the closer the Rays get to 80, the happier I will be. This Rays team is a great improvement, as Lou Piniella has given Tampa Bay baseball fans something to watch at last. The Zambrano-Kazmir trade worked out well for the Rays: Z may be out for the season with an elbow injury, while Kazmir looked great in the Rays win against the Mariners last night. The Rays have to play more consistent baseball in the next few weeks, though.

Funny: John Dvorak presents a brief list of advertising, sports and movie cliche sites. My favorite movie cliche is the fruitcart, which Roger Ebert named. Loud music in the stadium is a great sports cliche, along with hockey teams skating to a tie.