I guess trying to be playful and get in the head of your opponent isn’t always the best tactic. Take for example this boxer who I think immediately regrets kissing his foe.
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29
Sep
08
He Was Just Being Friendly
I am very excited by the Tampa Bay Abbadon Rays finally entering the playoffs, and as a divison champ no less! If they weren’t in the AL East I would be a HUGE Rays fan. I lOVE the Rays. But alas, they play my friendly Red Sox and so must be crushed in our wake. For the Sox, a team accustomed to celebrating regular and then post-season success, the celebrations have become expected, and if not for Jonathan Papelbon would be almost stale. The Rays, unsure of how to properly celebrate their moment made some mistakes but hey, they’re new to this so we’ll give them a break. Then again, here they are drinking Bud Light out of a protective cup so…
So, Johnny Gomes likes to drink in the sweat of his teammates’ junk, which is special and I guess helps foster the true spirit of comradery. Also the team managed to persuade the hipster manager, Joe Maddon into taking a healthy swig too, which is all the more impressive since Maddon is such a big oenophile. That means he likes wine a lot smart guys!
29
Sep
08
F1 Turns on the Lights
I guess F1 racing at night is a super big deal, mostly since before now it has never happened. Enter Singapore who has been prepping for some time now for this historic race. Thanks to a
floodlight system comprising 1,500 light projectors attached to 246 pylons, each 33ft tall, placed at 350-yard intervals around the circuit.
This makes it four times brighter than a floodlit football stadium and so dazzling that the drivers will need to wear special sunglasses.
Power for the lights, linked by 67 miles of cable, is provided by 48 generators churning out 3,180,000 watts – enough to provide electricity for 2,400 apartments.
Anyways the pictures of the course look pretty dope. Like an awesome videogame level that I would love to crash my virtual car into over and over.
Check out the images below and for larger versions go to the original story here and for even nicer and higher-res images, as ever, my favorite picture blog, The Big Picture has a bunch.
29
Sep
08
Who is Excited for the PLAYOFFS!
I know Prince Fielder is! What is it with the Brewers and the money shot, it’s like, as a team, they have the exact same fetishes. Maybe that’s taking team chemistry a little too far guys.
Anyways it’s PLAYOFFS TIME BABY! I’ll have my full predictions up tomorrow (I know you can’t WAIT) when we finally know who wins the AL Central, so long choking White Sox!
26
Sep
08
Rajon Rondo Wasn’t Very Friendly
So last night I was at a media event and Kevin Garnett and Rajon Rondo where there amongst other people, hence why I was there. Kevin Garnett couldn’t have been nicer, he was totally down. However, I am VERY VERY disappointed with Rajon Rondo who was a total dbag to me. I first went up to him and tried to introduce myself as a Celtics fan and he blew me off. Fine, whateves, it’s a party. Then later when he was standing alone off to the side, I approached him again and asked if I could get a photo with him. He reluctantly agreed and then when I took my phone out of my pocket to take the picture he refused, saying “NO camera phones,” and then turned his back on me. It wasn’t like I was trying to take a video of him nailing 6 hookers or something, I just wanted a picture of me and him. Needless to say I am GREATLY disappointed. First off, Rondo was barely bigger than I am, and I ain’t the biggest tree in the forest, and second, BE NICE TO THE FANS! Especially since I used to be a minority owner of the Celtics. I once was VERY very tertiarily involved in the paying of salaries! So, here’s the worst camera phone picture of Rondo that I got last night. This one DEFINITELY makes him look like an alien.
Sports reporters often ask stupid question to coaches, fortunately Celtic manager Gordon Strachan has a bit of wit about him and is able to make some fun out of their asinine questions. Check out some of these one-liners that The Sun assembled for us:
Reporter: “Gordon, can we have a quick word please?”
Strachan: “Velocity.”
Reporter: “Bang, there goes your unbeaten run. Can you take it?”
Strachan: “No, I’m going to crumble like a wreck. I’ll go home, become an alcoholic and maybe jump off a bridge. Umm, I think I can take it, yeah.”
Reporter: “There’s no negative vibes or negative feelings here?”
Strachan: “Apart from yourself, we’re all quite positive round here. I’m going to whack you over the head with a big stick — down, negative man, down.”
Reporter: “Gordon, do you think James Beattie deserves to be in the England squad?”
Strachan: “I don’t care, I’m Scottish.”
Reporter: “Gordon, if you were English?”
Strachan: “I’d top myself.”
Strachan after a defeat: “I tried to get the disappointment out of my system by going for a walk.
“I ended up 17 miles from home and I had to phone my wife Lesley to come and pick me up.”
Reporter: “Welcome to Southampton. Do you think you are the right man to turn things around?”
Strachan: “No. I was asked if I thought I was the right man for the job and I said, ‘No, I think they should have got George Graham because I’m useless.’ ”
Strachan on Wayne Rooney: “It’s an incredible rise to stardom.
“At 17 you’re more likely to get a call from Michael Jackson than Sven Goran Eriksson.”
Reporter: “You must be delighted with the result?”
Strachan: “You’re spot on! You can read me like a book.”
Reporter: “So, Gordon, in what areas do you think Middlesbrough were better than you today?”
Strachan: “What areas? Mainly that big green one out there.”
25
Sep
08
Yertle Doppelganger
This one is a little bit pushing it, but the picture of Torre was just too good for me to pass up. So, here is a Joe Torre, Yertle the Turtle doppelganger mashup. Lemme know what you think in the comments section below. And, as ever, go here for all my doppelgangers.
25
Sep
08
The Curling Event of the Decade
At long last curling is back in the news. Enough with these boring baseball and football stories, now it’s time to get back into the thick of the most exciting game on ice. That’s because The Curling News is releasing their 2009 calendar featuring some of the finest ladies in the curling game these days. Featured on the cover is Italy’s Sonia DiBona whose risque shot makes me want to throw her my Bona. Get it! HI-OOOOOOOOOOOO! Yes! The controversy sparking calendar, which took a year off last year includes nude or near-nude curlers posing with their sporting implements.
Intended as a fundraiser for the women involved and their training, as well as other curling related causes the calendar features Denmark’s Camilla Jensen, the Toth sisters, Claudia and Karina, of Austria, Giorgia Apollonio and Sonia Dibona of Itala, Germany’s Anna Hartelt and Daniella Jentsch, Fabienne Fuerbringer of Switzerland, Kasia Selwant of Poland, Kim Brewster of Scotland and former world junior champ Linn Githmark of Norway. Also Canadiens Christine Keshen, who won an Olympic bronze medal throwing lead rocks at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin and Chrissy Cadorin are featured in the calendar as well.
Unfortunately despite the provactive cover, there aren’t other released images available online, as yet, but when they are I will get them your way. Among the big reasons to buy the calendar is that it includes all the KEY CURLING DATES for 2009. YES! Now I’ll never miss an important event again! Make sure you go out and get yours today!
25
Sep
08
Snapshots Poll
So, one of my readers emailed me and I want to take his feedback and see if it is a general consensus. So in the interest of making this a more interesting and better looking website, what do you the readers think. So please vote in the poll below and let me know what you think. Nows your chance to make your voice heard as we undergo a series of big changes in the site’s design over the next few weeks. Thanks!
25
Sep
08
I Still HATE Derek Jeter
Leave my Minka ALONE!
It’s simply not fair.
25
Sep
08
BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNS!
Former Patriots middle linebacker and noted romance novel enthusiast Ted Johnson was forced into early retirement from the multiple concussions he suffered during his playing career. Since his retirement Johnson has suffered debilitating depressions and memory issues, as well as a domestic dispute where he and his wife were both arrested for hitting one another.
Yesterday he announced that he was going to be donating his brain when he dies to the Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a joint program between the Boston University School of Medicine and Sports Legacy Institute. The center, which is trying to become one of the foremost experts in concussions has already received agreements from 16 athletes from such varied sports as soccer, football, hockey and swimming to examine their brains after their deaths. Continue reading ‘BRAAAAAAIIIIINNNNS!’
25
Sep
08
From The Allison Stokke Files
Now some of these photos are of her when she was like 15 so keep that in mind and keep your scuzzy thoughts to only those photos wherein she is over 18, but Coed Magazine assembled a collection of Allison Stokke pictures; they claim it is everything that is out there, we’ll see…
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