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18
May
09

She Can Captain My Vessel

Leg Seven (to Galway, Ireland) of the Volvo Ocean Race began over the weekend; the 70.5 foot long, 11 man crewed tall ships took back to the sea from Boston Harbor for the next segment of the 37,000 nautical mile race due to end in St. Petersburg in June. Among the teeming crowds on hand to support the ships were French billionaire Francois-Henri Pinault and his new wife, Salma Hayek. Aboard the Il Mostro, the representative of the Puma Ocean Racing Team in the race, Salma and her hubby took a spin at the wheel, and hopefully will bring the vessel some good luck.

“Salma christened Il Mostro in Boston Harbor a year ago to the day,” skipper Ken Read said, “It’s great to have our boat’s godmother with us as we leave Boston and I hope she’ll bring us good luck in this leg.”

If you want to see some more photos of these totally awesome ships, check out this excellent hi-res gallery here.

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18
May
09

You Forgot Something!

Tony Stewart is supposed to be good at this driving a car around a track thing, but over the weekend when he went in to pit and get new tires he jumped the gun a little. Thinking he was only getting two, not 4 new tires, he drives off suddenly, nearly killing one of his crew men in the process. He only gets about a hundred feet before realizing his error, “I’ll be right back!” he tells his crew chief. Ooops.

18
May
09

Subtle Guys…

mr_bel10 BRUSSELS (AP) – The Belgian bodybuilding championship has been canceled after doping officials showed up and all the competitors fled. A doping official says bodybuilders just grabbed their gear and ran off when he came into the room.

“I have never seen anything like it and hope never to see anything like it again,” doping official Hans Cooman said Monday.

Twenty bodybuilders were entered in the weekend competition.

Cooman says the sport has a history of doping “and this incident didn’t do its reputation any good.”

During testing of bodybuilding events last year, doping authorities of northern Belgium’s Flanders region found that three-quarters of the competitors tested positive.

[Breitbart]

18
May
09

We Have a New, Old Chess Champion!

hikarunakamuraAt age 16, Hikaru Nakamaru took home the championship title at the US Chess Championships, in the process becoming the second youngest winner next to 14 year old Bobby Fischer in 1957. Five years later, now 21, Nakamaru yesterday took home his second title.

“I was very happy with my play throughout and relieved to have won the title again. Winning the second title feels better to me than the first,” he said after winning his 9th straight match, besting some of the top 24 players in the country.

As you can see from this photo of Nakamaru, the world of top-level chess moves fast. The prize for claiming the championship was a robust $40,000 which I can only imagine will be immediately squandered on more of those AWESOME sunglasses.

[LoHud]

15
May
09

In this Case the Injury Came AFTER the Egg

broadfoot_174319tBecause athletes never cease to injure themselves in unique and interesting manners, here is the latest bizarre injury from the world of soccer. Kirk Broadstreet, who plays for Rangers in the Scottish Premier League was treated at a hospital on Sunday after an egg exploded in his face. It seems that Broadstreet was inspecting one of the two eggs he was poaching in the microwave when it blew up, throwing scalding water at his face.

Rangers manager Walter Smith said: “He’s got some facial burns but he should be okay.”

This is why I never eat eggs.

[The Independent]

11
May
09

They Always Destroy Those We Love Most

Sad news today; those pictures from the Panamanian cricket game that seemed too good to be true were just that. Careful investigation by The Rap Up has discovered that the initial doubts were justified, these photos were photoshopped. Why must the world conspire to take away the best among us? Here is the ORIGINAL photo prior to being altered; still nice, but not out of this world.

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[The Rap Up]

11
May
09

Without Boner Ads I Wouldn’t Know About Priapism

MassiveErectionYou may — or may not — have heard that America is waist-deep in a recession; that we are currently engaged in two wars, neither of which show signs of letting up anytime soon and those are just some of the many issues facing our elected representatives in Congress.

So, with all these big issues on the table, I’m glad to hear that Congressman Bill Brady from Pennsylvania is making strides to fix the things that are truly wrong in this country. Brady has introduced a bill that would ban all Viagra, Cialis, and male sexual enhancement product adds on TV and radio from 6 am to 10 pm. FINALLY!

The reason for this piece of legislation?

I’m watching TV with my two granddaughters and it was a little embarrassing and I think it was bad that they asked me, ‘What is erectile dysfunction?’ And I stumble along and they’re too young to understand it and they’re much too young to learn about the birds and the bees yet….If they’re on a show and you don’t want your kids to see a certain show, you don’t put that show on, but you can’t control when the commercials come on. I think that it’s the wrong place, on a Saturday afternoon and a Sunday afternoon, these shows are dominated [by these commercials].

Brady knows, of course, that this isn’t the most important issue facing the nation right now but at the same time, children are hearing words like “ERECTILE” on TELEVISION!

I’m worried about other things too but we can do more than one thing at a time. It isn’t like Viagra is all I’m worried about. This is another thing that I think will help the family get back together, where you can sit down and watch a TV show or watch a sporting event with your children, with your family on a Sunday afternoon and not have to put up with explaining what a male enhancement is or what is an erectile dysfunction.

Want to explain things to your grandkids? Tell them that the pharmaceutical companies discovered that they could make more money by making adults have more “happy time” rather than providing cures, preventions or vaccinations that the public as a whole needs. Tell them that the profit margin in making Grampa’s boner go “boing” is much better than helping the millions of people who have come to rely on the overly-exorbitant priced prescription pills despite there being the exact same pills for a quarter of the price located just over the Canadian border. Tell the kids its about greed and avarice. They’ll understand that. It’s the American way!

If we didn’t have boner pill ads we wouldn’t hear about Priapism, which I love because it is named after the Greek god Priapus from the myth that he was punished by the other gods for attempting to rape a goddess, by being given a huge, but useless, set of wooden genitals. Now that’s something I can get behind!

[Sports Radio Interviews]

08
May
09

It’s a Sport if You Do it Vigorously

It is little surprise that an event like 9th annual Masturbate-a-thon is held in a city like San Francisco; anything goes there! But, at the Center for Sex and Culture on Mission Street that’s exactly what happened last weekend. Among the luminaries in attendance was World Champion Masanobu Sato (right) who flew in from Japan for the event, where he attempted to beat his own record from last year of 9 hours and 33 minutes. 9 HOURS! Yowza.

After the jump some NSFW pics from inside the event and of course, you can see the full set HERE courtesy of the SF Weekly.

[SF Weekly via With Leather]

Continue reading ‘It’s a Sport if You Do it Vigorously’

08
May
09

And Your Next American Idol IS…!

Mike Tyson, in Vegas, sings Phil Collins. Need I say more? The video below requires you to put your (or someone else’s) age in because of some swear words in the clip. But seriously, see that first sentence and tell me it isn’t worth it.

Vodpod videos no longer available.

[Fan IQ]

08
May
09

This I Cannot Do

If you’re going to be good at something, Parkour isn’t a bad thing to be proficient in. Here’s Levi Meeuwenberg, an actual professional parkourist’s reel featuring some of his better stuff. Enjoy!

[With Leather]

08
May
09

Who Knew Sailing is so Exciting

In case you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to watch some people sailing from the vantage point of the rudder while listening to a rock cover of Rocket Man than today is your lucky day!

I want someone to explain to me how these boats work.

06
May
09

I’ve Lost My Train of Thought

A few weeks ago, distraught about my utter failings so far in fantasy baseball, I wrote a piece entitled “Forget Baseball, I’m Switching to Cricket,” for my good friend Garnold’s fantasy baseball related-site, I Truly Have No Life. It looks like that was a smart decision.

These photos are from a cricket game in Panama, and I’m booking my ticket as I type this…

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[The Smoking Section]




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