Like, who needs a trip to Greece anyway?

Mexico eliminated the U.S. under-23 men’s soccer team from the Athens Olympics with a 4-0 victory last night.

That follows by two months a victory by Mexico over the U.S. in baseball qualifying for the Olympics.

So now it’s no soccer and no baseball for the U.S. in Athens.

Listen, if Mexico wins the Olympic gold medal in basketball over the U.S., I plan to suggest some major changes.

And another thing. I know they don’t have offensive coordinators in soccer, but isn’t there someone out there who can find a way for the U.S. to score at least one goal in the Olympic qualifying match?

You’ll be happy to know about what’s going on at Vassar, Harvard and, who knows, maybe lots of other campuses.

In today’s edition of The Harvard Crimson, and reported by Romenesko of Poynteronline, there’s a story written by staff writer Ebonie D. Hazle that starts:

"After flipping through the pages of Squirm, a Vassar College erotica magazine, the Committee on College Life (CLL) voted to approve a student-run magazine that will feature nude pictures of Harvard undergraduates and articles about sexual issues…..

"Fourteen members of the CLL approved H Bomb—a magazine that will be similar to the Vassar publication—as an official Harvard publication. Two members abstained."

Hazle wrote that Katharina C. Baldegg, one of the two students who proposed the magazine, said she does not object to H Bomb being called porn.

"It’s a sex magazine that will hopefully be run by students of all orientations and backgrounds," Baldegg said.

"I read with interest your column in which you mentioned Sean Keeler of the Register.

"I came to the conclusion that he may have been fired because he once said something positive about the Hawkeyes.

"Hey, just my take, and I don’t take my take too seriously.

"Best regards, and keep writing."

[COMMENT: Well, Keeler has told friends that he’s coming back to work this week. So that means the rumors that were circulating both inside and outside the paper’s newsroom that he was fired evidently aren’t true. But he’s been out of the paper for nearly three weeks and hasn’t told his friends (at least those I’ve talked with) why].

"I had a pizza (and the required number of beers) with (two other writers) last night. (One of the guys) said the word in the newsroom is that Keeler filed a column from the Outback Bowl, but was not seen anywhere near the site of the story. In fact, the story is that he was not seen in the Outback Bowl area for some three days. Interesting.

"Incidentally, of the five people at the pizza parlor, I was the only one who admitted even starting a Keeler column."

[COMMENT: I wonder what kind of pizza those guys were eating?]

"It’s interesting that Borsellino manages to get on the record whenever some cub reporter at a TV station gets a different assignment, but there is never any mention of the Register staff."

"I have been following Iowa basketball for 60 years, and the game at Indiana Saturday ranks as one of the most entertaining, electrifying and satisfying Hawkeye victories I have witnessed.

"So I was disappointed to open Sunday’s Iowa City Gazette and see the way it was played in your sports section. Half a column on page one, while giving most of the page to the attendance decline in women’s basketball?

"As Hayden Fry might say, someone at your paper has been drinking too much sody pop. Too bad, because Jim Ecker wrote an excellent story about the game that deserved a much better play in your paper."

[COMMENT: It looks like more than a few people have given up on Iowa’s men’s team, including those at a newspaper or two. Judging by the story on the lagging attendance at the women’s games, it appears folks have all but called it quits with that Hawkeye squad, too].

"What’s with this Knight guy? Do people think he’s God? That he can do no wrong! He is everything in a coach that I would NOT want my son playing for. Why does he continually get by with all that garbage?

[COMMENT: I assume the lady is talking about Bob Knight, the former Indiana basketball coach and present Texas Tech coach. Knight can be a fine person at times and, yes, he did buy me a steak at The Lark in Tiffin long before it burned down. (By the way, I bought Knight’s lunch the next day at the Highlander in Iowa City). But the Iowa woman asks the same questions lots of other people have been asking for many years].

This test only has one question, but it’s a very important one.

Please don’t answer it without giving it some serious thought. By giving it an honest answer, you will discover where you stand morally. The test features an unlikely, completely fictional situation, in which you will have to make a decision.

Remember that your answer needs to be honest, not spontaneous.

Please scroll down slowly and consider each line. Thoughtfulness is important for this evaluation to be meaningful. Ready? Begin.

You’re in Florida. In Miami, to be exact. There is chaos around you, caused by a hurricane and severe floods. This is a flood of biblical proportions. You are a photo-journalist working for a major newspaper caught in the middle of this great disaster. The situation is nearly hopeless.

You’re trying to shoot career-making photos. There are houses and people swirling around you, some disappearing under the water. Nature is showing all its destructive fury.

You see a man in the water. He is fighting for his life, trying not to be taken away with the water and debris. You move closer. Somehow the man looks familiar.

Suddenly, you know who it is. It’s George W. Bush.

At the same time, you noticed that the raging waters are about to take him under forever. You have two options. You can save him or you can take the most dramatic photos of your life. So you can save the life of George W. Bush or you can shoot a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo, documenting the death of one of the world’s most powerful men.

Now, here’s the question. Please give an honest answer. Would you select color film or go with the classic simplicity of black-and-white?

[COMMENT: Well, I know of a number of photographers who would go with the color film so they could sell the photo to a magazine instead of giving it to their own newspaper. That way, they could make a few bucks as well as win a Pulitzer].