Obligatory Sports Babe
For no particular reason, except I guess that a couple weeks ago her husband, Mike Modano, said that he wouldn’t be retiring, and also that I’m pretty sure she’s never been featured in this space before, let’s go with Willa Ford—and subsequently marvel at how well Modano has done for himself.
What Is Hip?
The New York Times examines the “jarring” anecdotal evidence that hip injuries among athletes have increased at alarming rates in recent years—Alex Rodriguez, Carlos Delgado and Chase Utley being prominent victims. Are workouts changing? Are diagnostics better? Is there a steroid link? Nobody can seem to agree.
Flopping
Ian Thomsen of Sports Illustrated tells us everything we need to know about flopping in the NBA, including some great stuff from Mavs guard Jason Terry:
On one hand, “It's all part of the craft,” he says. “Shaq's one that you might want to fall down before the contact. Because if you get hit by Shaq, then you'll probably be out for the next couple of games. Keeping that in mind, you definitely want to flop.”
However, “Flopping is the art of the charge, also. You're talking to the No. 1 guy in the league right now -- I've dunked on more centers than probably any guard under 6-2 in the history of the game, by putting a knee in their chest, using it as a springboard and dunking it."
Yeah, Seriously, Fuck Kickball
“Bar owner cannot fucking believe he actually sponsored an adult kickball team,” is the title of the Onion’s latest gem. “When asked what possessed him to connect his bar to a team of college-educated adults who play kickball, a game normally enjoyed by second-graders, Trimble responded by saying that he had obviously lost his fucking mind.” Bahahahahaha!
Because Baltimore’s Really Got Nothing…
People are really excited about this Matt Wieters kid the Orioles just called up. Case in point: the Chuck Norris-style Matt Wieters Facts, which includes mythical (and annoyingly capitalized) facts like this nugget: “The Day Matt Wieters Was Called Up To The Majors Every Pitching Record In History Was Given An Asterisk, Because They'd Never Had To Face Matt Wieters.” (Um… Don’t get ahead of yourselves guys. Trust me.)
Quickly
Filmdrunk would like to let us know that Michael Caine don’t blink.
Apparently there’s another one of those Auto Tune the News things, but I have no clue why I’m mentioning it, because I officially can’t stand that shit.
Jose Canseco getting dummied by the gigantic Hong Man Choi was hardly the first: Cage Potato lists MMA’s 10 best freak show fights.
Hat tip to Deadspin for pointing to this excellent MSNBC interview with Moneyball author Michael Lewis.
Happy Birthday, Gary!
I don’t know what kind of drugs you need to be on to make a video like this one of “Gary Bettman” trying to stop some kind of metaphorical runaway team—or, for that matter, whatever the hell original thing this was—but it’s shittiness seemed an appropriate way to give a nod to everybody’s favourite commissioner on his birthday.