A 31-year-old woman died from heart failure due to drinking Coca-Cola says a coroner in New Zealand. However it took six to ten liters a day to do her in. Ten liters of Coke provides 970 mg of caffeine, twice the level of daily consumption that is considered toxic. Also 1 kg of sugar, though the deceased was of normal weight, apparently due to not eating or drinking anything other than Coke. So Coke will kill you if you drink two gallons a day and use it as your only form of nourishment. (more…)

I spent most of Saturday in a high school gym taking in an end-of-season JV county wrestling tournament, and I wondered if there will be such a tournament in twenty years. Dozens of colleges have dropped wrestling programs, and though only a fraction of the couple hundred boys I watched would be expected to go on to compete with a college team, even if all the programs from twenty years ago still existed, cutting down the prospects for the best has a way of percolating down to diminish the possibilities for everyone.

This morning we learn that wrestling will no longer be an Olympic sport, which is a bit dumbfounding. Can you really borrow the word “Olympic” for a sports festival and not have wrestling? (more…)