Well, we got that over with. Last night, Barry Bonds smacked his 756th dinger over the fence, breaking Hammerin' Hank's record.

There were no boycotts (Bud Selig decided to show up, Hank Aaron sent in a respectful videotaped message), there weren't any boo-birds (he jacked it out at San Fran's AT&T park, which in recent years has functioned as a giant enabler for his gargantuan, rationalizing ego).

But still, something didn't feel right. This is the kind of record that's supposed to give even the most casual baseball fan chills. It didn't. If there wasn't the stink of steroids trailing Bonds wherever he went, whole families would have stayed up late, every night, to see if Barry was gonna do it. They didn't.

In the end most people probably reacted much like I did -- they just shrugged at one of the most hallowed records in all of sports being broken by an big-headed (steroids do that), obnoxious, stunningly-talented cheater.

Early Saturday evening in San Diego, Barry Bonds finally -- finally -- hit homerun #755, tying him with homerun king Hank Aaron for baseball's all-time record in career long-bombs. Behold: the video images of that event.

The solo shot smacked against the Padres in the 2nd inning culminates with Bonds rounding the bases and embracing his son Nikolai, the San Francisco Giants' bat-boy, at home-plate.

As the video clearly shows, people, no matter how much they dislike Bonds, clearly respect the achievement of #755. Still not without controversy, of course. While, the cheers overwhelmingly drowned out the jeers, a befuddled Major League Baseball commissioner, Bud Selig (for whom Bonds has been a raging headache), clearly didn't know how to react.

Any fall you can walk away from, right? During last night's X Games, Jake Brown completed a gnarly 720 rotation on his first jump, but at the quarterpipe he lost control, beginning a fifty-foot plummet towards the hard wood below. The landing is shattering -- literally, as his shoes went flying on impact -- and the ten minutes of motionlessness that followed during the live broadcast was apparently even more heart-stopping.

Reports have come in saying that Brown is recovering nicely, but has no memory of the fall. I certainly hope that this video doesn't do anything to jog his memory.

If the headline isn't stunning enough, know this: Arguably the biggest club in any sport in all of the world signed a 9-year-old prodigy in Australia on the strength of a YouTube video that is playing, right now, to the tune of 1,000,000+ views. You may have read about it here. I had to check it out for myself and, I'll tell you what, young Rhain Davis could very well be the equal of his idol Wayne Rooney in a couple years' time. Davis will be ten (that's 10) in October.

But how can a 9-year-old play professional sports? Well, Manchester United signed forty (that's 40) kids just like him. The soccer academies don't pull any punches in Europe.

After picking my jaw up off the floor, I'm left questioning the heavens, "Why, heavens? Why couldn't his grandfather be a Liverpool fan?" Speaking of which, as a Liverpool fan, I strongly suggest you turn the sound off on your computer when you watch this. Just trust me on this one.