50,000 Football Fans Screaming 'Vagina'

from Deadspin

Fans of the Oregon Ducks football team like to form an 'O' shape with their hands, indicating the letter of the alphabet that adorns their team's helmets.

The American Sign Language teacher at the university loves to point out that if your hands are not arranged in a rounded enough formation, you may be trying to say "Go Oregon" but really you're saying "vagina."

Little Engine with Wings

from Slate

One could even argue that [Michael] Lewis, having fallen in love with one story, missed a second, possibly more interesting one, in which the Little Engine That Could grows wings and flies too close to the sun (or something).

I like this description of a faux-underdog from a Moneyball review. Or maybe it's an underdog that becomes an overdog. Icarus turns up in funny places.