Sun-Times sports columnist Telander is on the mark today.  It’s in his discussion of Finger-heavenward Sox catcher Pierzynski, who got Cub pitcher Zambrano’s cork without half trying yesterday, doing a Z-imitation on a home-run trot — chest-pound-lips-touch-finger-up to that Great Umpire in the Sky Who Got It Right This Time.

Was imitating no one, says P, innocent as always.  It was about something “you don’t know anything about” that happened “off the field a few days ago,” he tells Telander, who takes the occasion to say:

Personally, I’m waiting for the first athlete in any sport to point downward after his big moment.

Me too, but we have a long wait.

In his victory speech late Saturday night, [New O. Mayor Nagin] praised President Bush.

“You and I have probably been the most vilified politicians in the country. But I want to thank you for moving that promise that you made in Jackson Square forward,” Nagin said.

Say wha’?  This after Howard Dean tried to sink Nagin?  (Thus Drudge)  Out-of-state white Dem money was part of Nagin opponent’s Landrieu’s $3.3 million raised (vs. Nagin’s to $541,980), per “preliminary campaign finance reports.” 

ALSO:  Rove indicted?  Not so sure, says TruthOut.org, which asserted same 5/13.  (Did this blog report that?  No.)  TruthOut got “too far out in front of the news-cycle” and now takes a “wait and see approach.” 

Yes.  But it’s churlish to blame the sluggish news cycle, which as inanimate object can’t hit back.