It was either physicist Niels Bohr or baseball's Yogi Berra — take your pick — who declared, "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." That said, I'm going to make a prediction anyway: the Zooka Speaker Bar, priced at $99, will be a runaway hit this holiday season.

Now that you've been watching the world's top athletes compete in London, you may be inspired to go out and pursue your own sport at, um, less than an Olympic level. But even without their talent or practice regimens, you can take a lesson from what Olympians know: The mental game matters, too.

Yogi Berra said that when you come to a fork in the road, take it. When supposed-conservative Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. came to a judicial conservative-liberal fork in the road, he veered left.
Joe Girardi was frustrated. Six losses in seven games left the New York Yankees last in the AL East.

Barack Obama, now fully evolved, is once more the rage of the demimonde. All it took was for him to man up, to acknowledge what everyone already knows the president thinks about "gay sex."
Moose Skowron, a five-time World Series champion and one of only two players to hit three home runs in Game 7s, died Friday of congestive heart failure at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill. He was 81.
Jorge Posada is planning to retire after 17 seasons with the New York Yankees rather than pursue opportunities with other teams.

Jorge Posada is planning to retire after 17 seasons with the New York Yankee rather than pursue opportunities with other teams.

He's still plotting an aggressive campaign schedule across several states, but Herman Cain also has begun to outline a possible exit strategy from the race for the Republican presidential nomination.