Best in Cape Cod: LSU right-hander Ryan Eades was named Pitcher of the Year in the Cape Cod League, a summer wooden bat league for college baseball players. Eades, who will be a sophomore for the Tigers in the 2011-12 academic year, was 3-0 with a 0.84 earned run average in six starts, according to The Times-Picayune. He also struck out 23 batters in 32 1/3 innings and allowed 19 hits during the season.
Hurry up and wait: More than a dozen planes sat on the tarmac for more than three hours in June, the government says. It’s the second month in a row that the number of three-hour delays reached double-digits since a government rule went into effect over a year ago aimed at limiting them. The Department of Transportation says 14 planes were stuck on the tarmac for more than three hours in June; there were 16 such delays in May. There were only 20 during the full year before that. The rule threatening millions of dollars in fines for delays of three hours or more was implemented on April 29 of last year. DOT hasn’t fined an airline for violating the rule, saying that none of the delays was serious enough to justify the big penalties. Nearly all of them were caused by bad weather. The recent uptick in delays could draw fire from passenger rights advocates who first pushed for financial penalties. In June 2009, there were 268 delays of more than three hours. By June 2010 there were only three. June is one of the busiest travel months of the year and it’s also peak thunderstorm season. Most of the delays this June were at Chicago O’Hare and Washington Dulles. The longest was an American Eagle flight from New York that was stuck on the tarmac in its destination city—St. Louis—for four hours. Most flights were stranded at their origin airport. Delayed Delta and AirTran flights were held up at airports to which the planes were diverted.
