A returning ace?

"Negotiations with [Aaron] Crow, a right-hander represented by adviser J.D. Smart of Hendricks Sports Management, have made little progress, according to a source; the team expects talks with Crow to continue until the deadline. If the Nationals fail to sign Crow -- whom they had hoped to sign quickly, so he could spend a full season in their minor league system -- the pitcher will return to Missouri for his senior year..."

While I'm here I'm gonna go ahead and add one other link that is totally unrelated to Mizzou but I found very interesting nonetheless. I mentioned earlier how I'm totally buying into the Redeem Team drama in Beijing. If you're like me then you should make sure you read Olympic basketball expert Chris Sheridan's fascinating article about all the weird intricacies of FIBA basketball. 

He touches on how poor the officiating always is in Olympic basketball games and I've always thought that was an overlooked aspect of Team USA's train wreck in Athens. The role the referees played in the '04 loss to Argentina was uncanny. They single-handedly neutralized Tim Duncan when he was probably the best basketball player in the world at that time. I remember seeing Stephon Marybury getting undercut on a  layup and landing on his head and there being no whistle (the single worst call or no-call I've ever seen). Team USA probably wasn't going to win gold either way and rightfully so but with those officials they didn't stand a chance. Don't think for a second the referees won't play a role in this year's games as well.