Second thoughts

Nothing says I am sorry like cupcakes

NBA star LeBron James poses with his fans during a basketball clinic in Hong Kong as part of his China tour Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Earlier this month, James left the Miami Heat after four seasons and four trips to the NBA Finals and re-signed with the Cavaliers, where his career began. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
NBA star LeBron James poses with his fans during a basketball clinic in Hong Kong as part of his China tour Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Earlier this month, James left the Miami Heat after four seasons and four trips to the NBA Finals and re-signed with the Cavaliers, where his career began. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

LeBron James wants to make sure he's in the good graces of his neighbors now that he's back in Ohio.

The neighborhood had been besieged by media of late as James worked on making his career-altering free agent decision. James wanted to thank his neighbors for their patience in dealing with the media and rabid fans that came out to take pictures of houses that did not have LeBron James in them.

So, on Tuesday night, James sent a team from a Fairlawn, Ohio, bakery around his immediate neighborhood in Bath Township to deliver cupcakes to apologize for the traffic jams caused by the interest in James' return earlier this month.

David Galehouse lives on Fryman Drive, a street away from LeBron's, and was really appreciative of the gesture.

"I thought it was really great of him to do that," Galehouse said. "He's never done anything like that in the past."

Galehouse wasn't home when the cupcakes were delivered but his cousin Laura Basford and her boyfriend Jon Cheyney were stopping by to see Galehouse's mom when they first spotted the delivery.

"At first we were laughing at it because we had no idea what was going on," Basford said. "Initially we were thinking they were trying to sell something from door to door, but then we found out they were from LeBron. I think it was a really neat gesture."

A bird call

The Audubon Society of Minnesota is asking the Minnesota Vikings to do more to protect birds from fatal collisions with the massive glass walls of its new stadium.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the team recently told the society they wouldn't use glazing techniques and lighting that could warn birds away from the building.

The Vikings and the authority overseeing the stadium told Audubon last year they would turn off stadium lights at night to lower risk to birds. But Audubon says that's only a partial solution. They say using a safer glass wouldn't cost that much more for a billion-dollar stadium that's getting hundreds of millions of public dollars.

Rockin' Bills

The prospective ownership group led by rock star Jon Bon Jovi says it is committed to keeping the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo if it acquires the team.

"That's smart," wrote Reggie Hayes of The News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. "If Bon Jovi buys the team, then moves it, fans will be shot through the heart, and he'll be blamed."

Paper or plastic

Checking the promotional calendar, Saturday's Mariners-Orioles game in Seattle is being billed as Reusable Grocery Bag Day.

Wrote Dwight Perry of The Seattle Times: "In other words, they'll be hitting for the recycle."

Sports quiz

LeBron James attended this high school in Akron, Ohio.

Answer

St. Vincent-St. Mary High School

TIM COOPER

Sports on 07/24/2014

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