"Go Green!" Is Now a Double Entendre

As Booman notes, the brouhaha over President Obama praising Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie for giving Michael Vick a second chance obscures the conversion about Lincoln Financial Field to self-generated renewable energy.

First post

Just to have some real content, here's a list of sports-related experience and links for current US Senators, as mentioned in articles about them at Wikipedia.  Obviously, it's not an exhaustive list.

• John McCain  (R-AZ) - lightweight boxer at the US Naval Academy
• Mark Udall (D-CO) Avid outdoorsman who has climbed all 54 mountains in Colorado 14,000 feet or higher
• Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) Claimed a deferment from Vietnam due to football knee injury
•  Jim Bunning (R-KY) Hall of Fame pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Los Angeles Dodgers
• John Kerry (D-MA) Member of hockey, soccer, lacrosse, and fencing teams at Yale
• Al Franken (D-MN) High school wrestler
• Max Baucus (D-MT) Once completed a 50-mile ulta-marathon
• Harry Reid (D-NV) Amateur boxer and high school football player
• Richard Burr (R-NC) Lettered for two football seasons at Wake Forest University
• Kent Conrad (D-ND) Married to Major League Baseball lobbyist Lucy Calautti
• Ron Wyden (D-OR) Attended UC-Santa Barbera on a basketball scholarship before transferring to Stanford
• Bob Casey, Jr. (D-PA) Coached basketball at an inner city Philadelphia school during his stint teaching 5th grade as a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps
• Jim Webb (D-VA) Boxer at the US Naval Academy
• Joe Manchin (D-WV) Attended West Virginia on a football scholarship, but had his playing career ended by a practice injury
• Herb Kohl (D-WI) Owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks
• John Barasso (R-WY) Rodeo physician for the Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association

Welcome

I can't see how anyone is reading this yet, but this is a blog intending to look at the intersection of politics and sports.  Posting should be light while I get things started up and figure out how I want to do this.