Great Article On Katie Ledecky; The Russian Bear -- Russia And The Ukraine -- September 19, 2014

This really is some good writing (the language initially turned me off; I thought it was going to be a different perspective; I was wrong; I'm glad I kept reading).

This is really some good writing on Katie Ledecky. It really is a must-read. And when you get to the part about the video at the 2012 London Olympics ... stop, go to YouTube and view the video (the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHbNKX3VkIM). 

I would write more but I want to show the video to my older granddaughter who is currently making / baking banana bread / muffins with their grandmother.

Huge thanks to the reader who sent me this link. I never would have seen it. Grantland really is a great site; I don't visit it enough.
 
Search the blog for other stories on Katie Ledecky if you are unfamiliar with why I would post this
story.

Ledecky was the power player of the week, September 7, 2014, on Chris Wallace Fox News. A second clip of the same.

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The Russian Bear

In this international game of chess, Putin vs the World, I'm not sure if this means anything, but today it was announced that a Russian company just bought Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. USA Today is reporting:

Pabst Blue Ribbon — a sub-premium beer brand that embraced savvy marketing to stay relevant in a craft beer age — has been sold, along with its parent, Pabst Brewing Co., to Russian company Oasis Beverages.

The companies declined to disclose the sale price, but beverage industry analysts estimate the sale at nearly $750 million — a figure nearly three times the estimated $250 million that C. Dean Metropoulos & Co. paid for it in 2010. Oasis Beverages' partner in the purchase is TSC Consumer Partners, a consumer products company that will take a minority stake Pabst.

Besides the familiar Pabst Blue Ribbon label, Pabst Brewing Co. makes Colt 45, Old Milwaukee and Schlitz. It also makes regional brews such as Lone Star, Rainier and Old Style.

Lone Star! Okay, that does it. This is a win for Putin. 

And the gall to call PBR a "sub-premium" beer. Ha.

By the way, I use PBR when making beer-can chicken. 

All I can say is this: thank goodness Hamm's beer is no longer around -- the Hamm's mascot going to Moscow would be too much to bear. But talk about a perfect fit. [Update: a reader informs me that Hamm's is still around.]

Hamm's