I still don't quite understand the concept of "rooting" for a team ever since my college Physiology professor posed the question "If the Gators win or if they lose how does that make a bit of difference to you?" (My response even in 1992 was sassy enough: "We pay for them to play so they might as well win!") Rooting is hard not to do when it's your kid on the field playing I have learned. For all other sports it's predicated on the magical belief that wanting your team to win could improve the actual outcome of the game.

NYT runs an interesting story today on a new form of therapy to heal ligaments and tendons: injection of platelet rich plasma into injured joints. I was making platelet rich plasma in high school--the hardest part is getting the subject to sit still while you draw the blood! The charge of $2 000 is a joke--the whole process takes an hour to make the stuff from the patient's own blood. Apparently you just inject the stuff into the joint and watch as ligaments and tendons heal up.