As if the sacredness of baseball couldn't be further violated, now someone dumped weedkiller on the hallowed Wrigley Field ivy:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/printedition/chi-0207160299jul16.story

The Tribune's first guess: White Sox fans did it! Since I'm a summer intern at the Trib, it would be impertinent to suggest the Tribune Co. did it to distract fans from baseball's latest woes (steroids, frozen dead stars, tie games, Bud Selig) or at least the Cubs' current punchlessness. But that's what lush ivy is supposed to do...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/printedition/chi-0207170411jul17.story
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