Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you before you start your day (assuming you scored a four-day weekend, too):

• Kellen Winslow, Jr. has a youth football camp.  We’re one step closer to Michael Bay Sports Camp: Where we blow your kids up good.
• The Scream painting has returned from its thievery and damage, smudged but intact.  Now you don’t have to head down to the theater school dorm to see it.
• Why do you think Tony Parker speaks with this OUTRAGEOUS French accent?  (And why is Chris Paul dancing with his date?)
• This one’s pretty much Sussman fanservice. No apologies here.  (Well, Sussman and us; we will pretty much link to any story with Leon Durham in it.)
• Enough with baseball instant replay.  Enough with all instant replay.  We’ve already let loose with our screed on this topic.    However, we did like this bit of spiteful construction at old Yankee Stadium this week.  Very snotty and petulant.  We approve.

And the Question of the Day: When did we get so damned precious with our sports?  What’s with all this call for fairness and perfection and all that?  Was it the money?  Was it the television fame?  Was it the Black Sox?  We really have no idea here, but it’s causing us to chafe in our sitting place.  We’d love to know the answer(s).

Here’s a clear shot from the daily Ice Machine, with crystal blue linkage of stories that will refresh you before you start your day (on this inaugural Chicago bank holiday):

• Light posting day today.  Please feel free to leave red and black streamers on the site until Janitorial  Services arrives.
• The new SI cover combines two of our unnatural passions: Rays and pencils.  Please enjoy.
• Leon Theremin was a badass in a time where badasses got crushed.
• This one’s pretty much J-No fanservice.  No apologies here.
• We needed this one.  We almost fell down this rabbit hole earlier this week. 
• Please watch this brief video.  No sound necessary:

Fairly dull, right?  Just a bit of Pong-esque on YouTube, right?  What if we told you that all of this happened on a space the size of a grain of rice and that little robotic figure is six times smaller than an amoeba?  What if we then told you it’s part of a Nanosoccer tournament?

You may now breathe again.  Carry on.

And the Question of the Day: Let’s get this party started in here.  Rose or Beasley?  The thought of Simeon’s finest playing in the city makes us giddy, but Beasley’s not exactly a slouch.  Hinrich’s only the answer if the question involves increasing turnovers or bowlcuts, but Gooden’s only there because who doesn’t love Dorie?