Obligatory Sports Babe

Marina Orlova is a philologist. She has degrees in Teaching of Russian Language and World Literature Specializing in Philology, and the Teaching of English Language Specializing in Philology. She runs HotForWords.com. You've probably already heard of her. This, of course, has nothing to do with sports, except that she recently explained the origin of "hat trick"... and she looks like this:

And On The Next Season Of The Surreal Life...

It's Phil Hellmuth and Randy "Macho Man" Savage. Ohhh yeahhh!!

At least, that's according to rumors that have been surfacing lately, based on interviews given by Hellmuth and Savage. The rest of the cast, according to some reports, will be made up of Dabney Coleman, Carrot Top, Nikki McKibben and Miss Cleo. Yes, that Miss Cleo.

All Orlovsky, All the Time

Thanks to the magical play of Dan Orlovsky, people really seem interested in the Detroit Lions again. Here the Sports Hernia takes a look back at some other memorable Lions moments from the past 20 years-- though I must admit there are a few of these I don't quite remember.

A Note On the ALCS

The wonderful thing about the Rays winning the ALCS-- which, OK, sure, they haven't done yet-- is that they don't have any fans to become insufferable a-holes, inundating other teams' ballparks and generally acting like gigantic flaming turds. Go Rays.

Leodis McKelvin Acts Circles Around Adam and Dave

If you grew up in Southern Ontario, you probably remember all the lame TV commercials that used to come out of Buffalo. I guess I just assumed that, as technology improved, it would have dragged the makers of such gems as the "rely on Buffalo MRI" jingle kicking and screaming into the 20th century. But apparently not. Apparently not...

Hat tip to Hard for the Yard