Coming to America: Iranian team in Utah for friendly exhibition games

Uniformed personnel from one of the "Axis of Evil" nations have arrived deep inside the heart of "the Great Satan" and are preparing their forces to engage foreign opposition. That's one scary, keep-clicking-on-the-Drudge-Report-for-updates way of looking at it. Another less-tense-sounding way? Iran's national basketball team is visiting the United States to play some friendly exhibition games in Utah against U.S. teams. In other words, an international crisis is not on the horizon — just some hoops. So don't turn on the cable news channels; these visitors are more likely to show up on ESPN. No need to alert the State Department, either. Officials from that U.S. government office extended the olive-branch invitation to these guests as part of a peaceful exchange program masterminded by President Bush. As part of Iran's... [read full story]