Quite the day

I usually leave the political section to Peter but since we had a merger of the two topics over the last day, I think it's ok for me to venture off a little from the usual sports beat path.

Winning a basketball game is a just another day for Team USA guard Kirk Hinrich, but little did we know how good he is in solving international crises. Between games against China and Brazil, Kirk headed over to the Middle East to try to figure out what all the fuss was about. By getting together the leaders of Israel and Hezbollah, Kirk negotiated a peace between the two sides. Kirk then hopped on a plane and let Brazil know that the World Cup is over by dropping 14 points on them in a USA win. Kirk was not available for interview after the game seeing that he is now headed to North Korea to talk to their leader, Byung-Hyun Kim.