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Army soldier selling the ad rights arm on ebay
2 days ago by
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Take it from someone who peruses frequently - there is never a shortage of asinine behavior happening on the sporting goods and sports memorabilia listings on Ebay. Take for instance, this joker, who’d ideally like you to pay $14 million dollars for an autographed pair of A-rod...
In NFL fan Hell…
4 days ago by
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Every game is this game.
And while we’re throwing some jabs the Lions way, fast forward four days in the future from their Doofus Bowl against the Browns…
This Thanksgiving marks the 5th anniversary of Detroit retiring Barry Sanders #20 - and it’s been at least...
Jon Gruden sign multiyear extension with Monday Night Football
5 days ago by
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For fans everywhere of speaking loudly for the sake of trying to make a stale point sound important, I’m sure you’ll all be real fired up to hear that Jon Gruden inked a multiyear extension with Monday Night Football today. Plus, they’re gonna let him be a part...
Dock Ellis: “It was easier to pitch with the LSD, because I was just so used to medicating myself.”
8 days ago by
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A team of crack geniuses from the blog No Mas produced an animated short about the no-hitter that Dock Ellis threw while trippin’ on acid. The audio is taken from an interview Ellis conducted with writer Donnell Alexander.
100 H/Tees to my man @AsilentFlute for sending this to...
Good for you, Devin Harris
9 days ago by
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Brett Youmark, chief executive of the in limbo New Jersey Nets, tells Richard Sandomir of the NY Times, “From Day 1, we’ve had two strategies..One, to market ourselves as if we’re staying long term in New Jersey to give people a reason to come see us. But it’...
Country music man could be heading for the Baseball Hall of Fame
10 days ago by
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If the title of this post in anyway comes off as a slight of Gene Autry, or his prowess as a baseball man, then I apologize, and concede to it being cheap humor at that.*
The OC Register and AP report that Gene Autry is amongst this year’s candidates for induction into the Baseball...
Top-5 Andre Agassi Commercials from the 90’s
12 days ago by
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Around the age of nine, I was looking to make some extra scratch. I’d just come off a failed scheme of trying to sell superballs made out of play doh - they were more ornamental than bouncy, mainly because play doh don’t bounce. For my new business venture, I decided to...
Yankee Haters, It Gets Worse…
16 days ago by
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Depressed about the prevailing of evil last night? Suggesting cockamamie like: the Phillies should have pulled Pedro with an 0-2 count on Matsui in third? Well, it gets worse.
Before you go into your no-good Yankee-loving boss’s office and try to shatter him by asserting that...
Girardi sez Mariano could throw 45 pitches, won’t rule out bringing him in during the 7th
17 days ago by
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SportsRadioInterviews.com posted the skinny from Joe Girardi’s interview with Mike Francesca on WFAN today. Couple of intriguing thoughts swirling around in the manager’s well-bic’d noggin approaching game time - he’d be willing to throw Mariano for 45 pitches...
Edward Norton crushes in the NYC marathon
18 days ago by
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I know it ended two days ago - possibly, when this guy finally crossed the finish line - but I had to follow up on Edward Norton’s running of the New York City Marathon - for I haven’t been this enthused about Norton since the first time I saw the final scene in Primal Fear.
I [...]
Edward Norton’s marathon team or… Edward Norton’s marathon dream team?
22 days ago by
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According to the website Famespy, Edward Norton will be running his first New York City Marathon this Sunday to raise awareness and funds for Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust, which works to preserve healthy ecosystems in East Africa.
Standard, right? Celebrity, seemingly insurmountable...
Collector selling 10,000+ Sports Illustrated Magazines for $2 Million Dollars
23 days ago by
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That’s Scott Smith. He looks like your average white nerd, especially posing with Muhammad Ali. He’s also the Lil Wayne of sports memorabilia collecting, because I can’t tell if he’s a genius or certifiably insane.
Found on Ebay: 10,000+ signed Sports Illustrated...
This week in music releases, circa 1994…
26 days ago by
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This week in 1994, New York City kind-of- a rap group Fu-Schnickens released their second album Nervous Breakdown. It featured the hit single What's Up Doc? (Can We Rock) w/ a guest appearance from Shaq Fu, himself.
Shaq's adeptness at inventing halfwords - like alidocious...
And now, a motivational rap song from Lil’ Jon, Snoop Dogg and NFL QB Matt Ryan…
29 days ago by
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Starts off with some motivation from that old sage, 24-year old second-year NFL QB Matt Ryan…35 seconds in Lil Jon switches themes to getting crunk at the club, obviously.
Also, I just thought of three motivational speeches in sports movie that I'd like to go back in time...
Bacon as a bowl …
October 22, 2009 by
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Because eating out of a bowl and then having to wash it - rather than savor it in your mouth - is not the soothing, poetic process some people make it out to be, bacon once again shows its willingness to adapt.
H/T to Stacey's Snacks - you rule. Check out her recipe for baked [...]
London Olympic Committee Releases Pictograms ( or awesome Twitter and AIM avatars)…
October 22, 2009 by
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Designaddict.com reveals, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games have unveiled the London Olympic pictograms which will be used during the Olympic Games in 2012. All 38 sports of competition are represented. Check out the dynamic and silhouette versions...
Whiffle Ball World Record Broken Again! (Probably, for the last time)…
October 21, 2009 by
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Multiple news sources indicate that there was a mad run on the world record for straight hours spent playing Whiffle ball this past weekend.
On Monday I passed along the report that some nerds at Duquesne law did the bare minimum (25 hours straight) to break the previous 24-hour record...
Duquesne Law Students Break Whiffle Ball World Record
October 19, 2009 by
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Law students from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh claim to have broken the world record for longest whiffle ball game. Over the weekend, they whiffed for an unprecedented 25 straight hours. The game finished with a final score of 179-170 in 126 innings. Not only did they allegedly...
This is terminally cool …
October 16, 2009 by
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Have you put an eyeball on Beck’s Record Club yet? Man, what a great idea.
Record Club: Songs Of Leonard Cohen “Suzanne” from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.
Record Club is what happens when a bunch of musicians get together - the likes of Nigel Godrich, Andrew WynGaarden...
Want to try bacon beer? It’ll cost you….
October 15, 2009 by
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The bacon beer has finally arrived in Brooklyn. For those who were anxiously awaiting it’s arrival (me), hope you saved up a small fortune. Grub Street reports:
We just about lost it when we heard Brooklyn Brewery brew master Garrett Oliver was working on a beer made from Benton’s...
Pirate Radio coming soon …
October 15, 2009 by
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The story of the motley crue that saved Rock n’ Roll, as told by Phil Hoffman in a leather vest. Does this turn into a full-blown battle on the high seas? Here’s hoping.
Pirate Radio, based on a true story - possibly, the true story that the term ‘pirate radio’...
Meet College Basketball’s Best Shooter…
October 14, 2009 by
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This guy?
That goofy looking dude’s name is Rotnei Clarke, sophomore shooting guard at Arkansas. He’s ice cold. South Florida coach Stan Heath once saw Clarke hit 94 of 100 three-pointers on a recruitment trip when he was at Arkansas.
Fox Sports’ Jeff Goodman ranked...
Sylvester Stallone, huge in Japan…
October 12, 2009 by
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What do you get when you mix Sly Stallone, bagged sausage and 17 seconds of a discarded coda to the Rocky theme redux?
Something that’s completely inexplicable to the West…
These spots with him drinking beer and riding a horse are pretty good.
H/T @ A Silent Flute. Seriously...
David Cowans, a taste for kilts and DANGER
October 08, 2009 by
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Hailing from the highlands of Kingskettle, Scotland, David Cowan is a 46-year old kilt enthusiast, who along with 135 other competitors, will take part this week in what has been called (and for my money, unequivocally is) the world’s most dangerous race - The Jungle Marathon...
The “Pain Don’t Hurt” Award (NFL Week Four)
October 07, 2009 by
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On September 14, 2009, the great Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer and passed away too young at the age of 57. Swayze had a prolific acting career, one that inspired his devoted fan base to believe that if anyone could beat this disease it was him (Swayze played...
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