Obligatory Sports Babe
This morning we’ve got, via Sports Crackle Pop, ex-sham Hefner girlfriend Holly Madison throwing out the first pitch at a recent Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game.
Scott Gomez, Comedian
“Those saddled with watching the Leafs or Senators on Saturday night will have missed this gem from Scott Gomez, who was interviewed between periods on HNIC and asked about whether the so-called smurf line was going to have trouble coping with big defences like Buffalo's,” says the Globe and Mail’s new Quebec-centric French Immersion column. Quoth the Gomer: ‘Well, we've really been working a lot on our height, putting quarters underneath our beds at night and that kind of thing.’ We LOVE this guy.”
The Sad Demise of Atlanta’s First QB
“If this had been just about anyone else’s story, it would have been a one-paragraph obituary in small newspaper, and that would have been that,” says Sports By Brooks, setting up a gut-wrenching obit of the first quarterback in the history of the Atlanta Falcons, from back in the 1960s. “But Randy Johnson’s passing is worth noting because of how little it can take for any of us to fall, no matter how far we have climbed.”
Uh… I Think Jim Kelly Knows A Guy
“Sometime in the third quarter Sunday afternoon, right around the moment Miami was stretching its lead over Buffalo to an embarrassing 31-3, a former Bills' great had seen enough,” says the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. “So, while sitting in front of the television in his Orlando home, via his Twitter account, Darryl Talley ripped off a couple memorable and scathing tweets: ‘Does anyone out there have 1 billion I can borrow? I'd like to buy the Bills and give back to the good people of Buffalo the team they deserve’." (Note: He also tweeted: “One more f*****g commercial and I'm gonna bitch slap the program director @ WGR! This is unreal. I'm @ work you asses!” Hahaha.)
Quickly
According to FanHouse, Hong Man Choi has accepted Shaq’s MMA challenge.
Mental Floss tells us the origin of all 30 NHL team nicknames.
A great set of old-timey baseball photos on Flickr.
Girls just want to have fun at the Bruins game, says these pictures from Barstool Sports. And by “have fun” I mean “take their shirts off”.
Huh???
Apologies for this not being at all sports-related, but I was surfing around YouTube for a good video for this space, and was hit in the face with this: Prime Minister Stephen Harper singing the Beatles’ With A Little Help From My Friends, with Yo Yo Ma, at the National Arts Centre. Because, you know, he thinks so highly of the arts. WTF? Crazier still: he doesn’t even embarrass himself.