March 11 signaled the second birthday of the Slanch Report! We've served up over 1 million pages in our time and quite literally couldn't have done it without you! So thanks!
The Vancouver Olympics may be over but that doesn't mean we should forget the hot athletes who participated in them. And just think, London is only 2 years away!
Beatriz Recari, 22, is a Spanish golfer in her rookie season on the LPGA tour. Eliza Dushku is one of the best looking women in Hollywood despite avoiding tabloid scandals. Doppelgangers? You betcha!
Sports fans everywhere are falling all over themselves about getting their brackets filled in, it's a shame all that good gambling energy is being WASTED on an event as asinine, boring and craptacular as college basketball. For those of you who can't get enough brackets, here's the ONLY one you SHOULD be filling out, the So Good Fast Food Bracket!
Last year the Meat Madness tournament pit all sorts of meats against one another in an epically delicious battle. Unfortunately, there was no celebratory BBQ afterwards with all the consumable participants, but so it goes. Hopefully this year there will be the feast to end all feasts!
Help pick your favorite chain, and let's work together to keep Panda Express down! I've never eaten at Zaxby's but the name alone makes me think there could be a huge first round upset.
Click the bracket below for a large image, and then go to put your picks in the comments below. Do it today! Do it now!
Oh, and last year I finished in SECOND, so look out, I got a gift for this.
Bee tee dubs, I'm predicting a MAJOR upset for the finals.
Looking through the lens of history, it's fun to see old photographs and how later events change the way we look at them. Who thought anything of this moment at the time but looking back with hindsight, it certainly is amusing.
That's how I feel about this photograph taken March 6, 2007. At the time it was just the Orlando Magic dancers posing with golf superstar, local resident and season ticket holder Tiger Woods, now, after revelations that Tiger banged his way through approximately 42% of the worldwide female population it takes a different meaning. He definitely banged at least two of these women right? I mean, just on the law of averages that has to be right!
It's been joked about how just touching Sidney Crosby leads to an instant penalty, there even was a flash game on this very topic during last year's Cup finals. This clip from Monday's Penguins/Rangers contest is an excellent example of just that. Crosby receives a light love tap from Marc Staal and then the Kid does his best soccer player impression flopping and slumping on the ice like he was shot. Ever eager to oblige, the refs raised their hand for a penalty.
Henrik Lundqvist, the Rangers goaltender takes exception to Crosby's acting job and gets in his face to let him know it. Ready now to show his toughness, Sid gives the goalie a little cross-check which sets off the rest of the Rangers and leads to a fun mini-brawl. Hockey!
He definitely flopped there, but hey, it worked and he got the penalty and why shouldn't he take advantage if the refs are going to just hand his team power plays?
For those of you who can't handle the action-packed heart-stopping action of golf on television, ESPN and the USGA have come up with the perfect solution. Last week the two alphabet organizations joined forces and ESPN will become the exclusive radio content provider of the US Open for the next two years. Finally!
Just picture it now, the whole family sitting around the ol' transistor as the announcer breathlessly describes Phil Mickelson making his way down the 14th fairway, man-boobs flapping, and then hits a 5 iron into the woods. It might be too much for my fragile emotions to handle.
The Orlando Magic will have a new home in the fall, courtesy of the Florida taxpayers. When they take charge of their new digs, Magic executives will find themselves surrounded by expensive designer furniture, all provided by the local citizenry.
For instance, the conference room in the private Magic area costs a mere $10,000 with 8 special $2,100 matching chairs. Those must be SUPER comfortable. It's a good thing the city purchased those for a team owned by one of the top 100 richest people in America, Richard DeVos, the founder of Amway.
"It's within the original budget," said Heather Allebaugh, press secretary for Mayor Buddy Dyer. "We are investing in making this a state-of-the-art facility, and it's important that we invest now so we don't have to replace these items in five years.
"You're investing all this money — you have to do it right."
Among the other big-ticket purchases that seems a bit unnecessary includes a Zamboni costing $87,600 despite there being NO hockey team in Orlando and there already being one in place for ice-skating. Richie Richs who pay to watch games will be able to relax atop $892 stools, 264 of them in all.
These expenses are all part of the $19 million furnishing budget, coming out of the larger $480 million needed to build the arena. Of the whole price, the Magic, who will be the only tenants of the building and the primary users of it, contributed a mere $68 million -- which in this day and age is actually decent for a team, usually they contribute nothing!
In the 90s there was no greater athletic feat that an adolescent awkward child could earn than to say that they conquered the crag on Nickelodeon's Guts. Finally, you can take home your own version of the trophy the lucky winners would earn.
Occasionally actual Agro Crag trophies make their way to eBay, but today you can buy an actual REPLICA of the real thing, home-made! Who WOULDN'T want that?
It actually glows, so there's that and at it's current bid of $99 it's almost a steal!
Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi are both retired from professional tennis but they recently participated in a charity doubles game with Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer and the two elder players showed they still have a little fire. After Agassi wrote that Sampras is a poor tipper in his autobiography, Sampras decided to have some fun at Agassi's expense during the game.
I gotta say though I love tennis players being micced up like this, like curlers, as it definitely adds more to the viewing experience.
When I was in college I once smoked some marijuana that my friend had smuggled from Hawaii in her Georgia O'Keefe. I certainly felt weird about it, especially since she didn't tell me until we were half-way through, and that she was my one of my other friend's exes, but hey, you only live once.
Robert Whaley, who very very briefly played for the Utah Jazz in 2005-06, decided to up his smuggling game with a classic, the ol' hide the weed up your butt trick. Or rather, more specifically, after getting pulled over and having outstanding warrants, Whaley put several weed baggies between his butt cheeks. Ta-da!
Arrested in Salt Lake City, Whaley has a 2008 arrest on his record for running a drug house, which apparently is a BAD thing.
Unfortunately, Whaley's creativity didn't extend onto the court where the results were far from spectacular. Then again, he did actually MAKE it to the NBA which is far more than most people can say so, he's proving the "Winners Don't Do Drugs" people aren't always right.
If you watched this week's Saturday Night Live you probably didn't laugh very often. However, they did have one really funny sketch for the "Under Under Ground Festival" and anytime in comedy you can advertise Dirk Nowitzki shooting people with a BB gun you have to make that joke.
Update: So I guess this sketch isn't new, although it was new to me, it still stands though that the best sketch on SNL last week was one that ran in the fall.
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