It took Kate Winslett and a role as a creepy guy who exposes himself to a minor to bring Jackie Earle Haley back from obscurity. Haley has done little in the way of acting since playing Kelly Leak in the original Bad News Bears, despite the iconic status he earned with that role. Instead, he "drove limos, delivered pizzas, worked as a security guard. He moved to Texas. He got into making corporate videos. He came to terms with what he had lost." Now he's nominated for an Oscar as best supporting actor for his role in Little Children, and he's rocking blue-tinted glasses on the red carpet.
I love that Portis has no problem putting himself in the same league as everyone's favorite whacked-out hype man, Flava Flav. He's been seen "cozying up" to Deelishus, Flav's pick in the latest season of his Bachelor-style reality show, Flava of Love.
THEY DON'T GET IT! Chad Johnson sets the Internet on fire with his Ocho Cinco antics, and the NFL squashes it at their earliest occasion. Ridiculous. Spanglish mangling aside, this sh@t was hilarious, and the league didn't realize how much people liked it. Though I guess one way to look at it is that, by only fining Johnson $5k, they're implicitly endorsing his behavior. We'll see how much they fine him next time he does it.
Thanks to Jim Rome for the heads up on this one -- check out this interview with a guy who runs a clinic for addicted professional athletes. He says that footballers are becomming increasingly addicted to gambling and porn sites: "Players are going to their hotel rooms with their laptops and logging on to gambling websites. After losing a fortune, they then go on to porn websites to make themselves feel better. This might take them through to 5 or 6am and has obvious consequences for their performance on the pitch."
Wow, England sounds fun. Locked in hotel rooms til the wee hours of the morning with LonelyGirl15? What happened to hitting the town? YOU'RE A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE!
This is some refreshing audio. Check out these MP3s of two awesome calls by University of Washington radio voice Bob Rondeau, from last Saturday's UW game against Cal. The band-on-the-field reference is pretty cool, but I love the Hail Mary call: "Hello Mary, thanks for answering the phone again!" Awesome.
Remember when you were in college and you and your fraternity brothers did really stupid stuff like make ridiculous bets and punch each other in the face? If YouTube had been around when you were in college, you'd have this to show your kids. Apparently, "Stephan" punched "a guy" in the face after the guy said that "If the cardinals win game one of the world series, he can get hit in the face." Stephan delivered. Sort of.
Leave it to the smarties at Slate to give us a rundown of how -- and why -- pitchers use pinetar, scuffs, and lubes. Turns out pinetar is a pretty minor offense in the realm of "ballterations," (I just made that word up), but it gives pitchers a tigher grip so they can get more spin on the ball. Ironically, some people think a tarred ball helps hitters...
Before reading this article I told myself that Willie Mays Hayes had better be on this list, or I wouldn't post it to Yardbarker. Rivalfish doesn't disappoint, and throws in a couple that you wouldn't have guessed.
Just in time to pump you up for this NBA season, I give you this video to remind you that even though players don't even break a sweat until the playoffs, there is some excitement in the league. Robinson + Iguodola + Tupac = magic.
Leave it to Mr. Irrelevant to post something, well, irrelevant to his sports site. Leave it to me, TheDoggy, to do the same on Yardbarker. Leave it to you to practice unhinging your jaw. Eat like snake.
Dude, Scott Spiezio has his hot wife tattooed on his left arm. I mean, she's hot in real life (link has a real photo of her too), but in the tat she looks like a chubby transvestite who's pulling down her pants to cop a squat.
Helmuts and crutches as weapons, a brutal piledriver... this was an unnecessarily rough college football game. Conventional wisdom seems to be that FIU -- a crappy little Sun Belt Conference school 9 miles away from U of Miami, which doesn't even show up in the Yardbarker database -- started it. Their athletic director, who was the associate AD at Miami a week ago, was very apologetic, to the point of kissing his former employer's ass. I doubt Miami will be hosting this game in the future.
Fox has fired Steve Lyons for "making a racially insensitive comment" on-air, during yesterday's Tigers-A's game. The exact nature of the comment is a little tough to identify as racist at first, but it definitely is. He basically said that he doesn't like sitting next to Spanish-speaking people because he worries that they'll steal his wallet. Or something.
Leave it to kids in Montana to screw up this otherwise perfect hazing event:
"The incident reportedly involved a boy being taped to the inside roof of a school bus. The hazing allegedly took place on a football road trip, while school officials were present. According to sources, the parents of the boy found pictures, or video of their son as he was taped to the roof, and are now considering a lawsuit against the school."
Again, somebody please find this video. Or the photos, I'll settle for the photos.
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