Sunday morning: Row, row, row your boat . . .

1. Welcome to jljonsn.

2. I am helping to cover the New York statew rowing championships today for the local paper. They have one reporter there, and I will be doing at least one story. I love covering things like crew, rugby, sailing, etc., because the folks are usually so happy to get the coverage, unlike mainstream coaches who ask you where you were for the last game.

3. David Brashears is going to re-tell the 1996 Everest disaster story (think "Into Thin Air") on Frontline, both online and on TV.

4. I think I am obsessive. I needed to send someone a note on a reign-related matter, and when I was done, I found myself looking at a seven-item "Liam-style" note.

5. OK, so I admit I have thought about having my ashes scattered at Napatree Point or at Pennsic. But I never realized this was a big a deal as Associated Press tells us.

Even though he’s only 37 and in good health, Nathan Davis has already made out his will. In it, he bequeaths money to the University of Alabama athletic department and his ashes to Bryant-Denny Stadium.

NEW ORLEANS -- Davis, whose heavily tattooed body is a living tribute to his beloved school, wants his remains to become an actual part of it.

"I spell it out in my will," Davis said. "My first choice is to spread my ashes at the stadium, second is on the Walk of Champions, and third is on Bear Bryant’s statue."

Davis is one of an apparently large number of people who feel there’s no better place to spend eternity than the place they cheered on the old home team or otherwise celebrated their favorite sport.

A couple of years ago Christopher Noteboom ran across the field during a Philadelphia Eagles game scattering his mother’s ashes as he went. Noteboom said Mom was a big Eagles fan and he couldn’t think of a more fitting tribute.

George Helms’ family had the urn holding his ashes strapped onto a car at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway where it rode during practice laps. Afterward they scattered some of the NASCAR fan’s ashes over the track so he could remain part of his favorite sport.

Although most people tend to look for a place of beauty or serenity to scatter ashes, said Dr. Amy Dickson, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the LSU Health Sciences Center, some have other criteria.

6. My training was fine yesterday, and I had a good time working my way home from Albany. Stopped at Flights of Fantasy, a book/game store, and a couple of other places. I get Monday off in exchange, the the local sports editor wants me to cover a baseball game Monday and a woman's soccer match next Saturday.