Saturday five, 5/10/14.

Sorry this is a day late – I daytripped Indiana at Penn State yesterday, which was almost 11 hours door-to-stadium-to-door. IU’s Sam Travis is a better player than I’d realized; this was my first look and he reminded me of some very good big leaguers.

My ESPN content from the past week:

* My ranking of the top 100 draft prospects for 2014. Of course, we’ve had more injury news since then, so Fedde and Finnegan would move down.
* This week’s Klawchat.

My first projection of this year’s first round will go up on Thursday, May 15th. I’ll chat that afternoon, and I’ll be on Baseball Tonight on Wednesday and Thursday this week.

I didn’t have time to do a five-of-something segment, but I’ll make it up to you with eight links, culled from five different sources:

• Chemist Turns Software Developer After Son’s Diagnosis. When his infant son lost an eye to cancer due to late detection, this scientist decided to find a better way to catch the disease.
• A wonderful longform piece from New York on how a bad Benghazi scoop may have spelled the end of Lara Logan’s career.
• I met George Will once, and found him both personable and intelligent. I didn’t love the hagiography aspects of Men at Work, but that’s nothing compared to his outright denialism of science – not just climate change, but the whole shebang. He has gone full crackpot.
• Speaking of climate change: Less Nutritious Grains May Be in Our Future, also from NPR. Since grains are probably a key element in feeding a growing global population, this is especially bad news.
• Time is short to address antibiotic resistance. Unless you’re cool with the days when a prick from a rosebush meant a hospital stay and possibly death, that is.
• High-tech push has board games rolling again, from the New York Times. Most interesting: The rising role of crowdfunding in game development, which makes sense given how many good games are still fundamentally niche products.
• Taking notes by hand beats taking them on a laptop. You might write a lot less, but you’ll retain more.
• ESPN’s Top Draft Analysts Workshop Your Short Story. It was an honor just to lead this roundtable.