• I'll Trade You Lincoln's Beard For Jackie O's Bush

    hair cutMeet Upper Deck's latest and, by light years, most disgusting baseball card innovation yet. What you see to the right are two extremely rare "Hair Cut Signatures" cards-- one of George Washington and another of Geronimo-- and yes, those are actual strands of their hair.

    Of course, hairs from hundreds of years old corpses are a bit too delicate to actually place in packs of cards, so apparently what you get is a card with code that you can redeem for the disgusting memento-- which, as far as anybody can tell, is real. Most of the cards come from a guy named John Reznikoff, one of the foremost collectors of corpse hair in the world. Or something.

    According to the Wall Street Journal article on this horrifying subject, "A letter accompanying a lock of hair [Reznikoff] says belonged to Lincoln, written by the son of the surgeon who attended to the dying president, reads: 'I have in my possession. ... a lock of Lincoln's hair which was presented to my father by Mrs. Lincoln.' "

    So, uh... I guess that about settles it?

    Other historical figures who have taken part in this bizarre new marketing technique include Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy, Beethoven, Charles Dickens, Marilyn Monroe, King George III, Ronald Reagan and Babe Ruth.

    Naturally, this disgusting, morbid new twist in card collecting has been brought on by the virtual collapse of the trading card industry:

    "The good old days of building a set, one 15-card pack at a time, are pretty much over," [editor of Card Trade, Scott] Kelnhofer says. While cheaper packs today go for around $2, he says, "the card makers' survival is predicated on attracting and keeping the collectors who make the big-ticket purchases."

    Big ticket purchases, that is, like famous corpse hair.


  • Morning Link Dump - Erin Andrews, Pujols, Knicks, Zaza Pachulia

    andrews Obligatory Sports Babe

    By the laws that govern all sports blogs, at least once every three months you must find a way to objectify Erin Andrews, and here at theScore.com Blog, we're not the type to run afoul of the law. So, here she last night at a UNC basketball game, doing her part to save the sweater industry.

    Albert Pujols Likes the Soccer

    The newly crowned NL MVP would like to bring an MLS team to St. Louis. Of course, the bid he's backing is throwing their hat into the same ring that Montreal and Vancouver are already in, so... if I were Albert I wouldn't hold my breath on this one.

    That's Life

    Every photo ever published in Life magazine is now available through Google in a searchable archive of awesome photos that were published in Life magazine.

    The Knicks Don't Care For Celtic Trash Talk

    "I think a few of those guys know they can't just say anything to us," a fuming Quentin Richardson told the New York Post. "I'm just real curious to see what those guys will be saying if we weren't in a basketball league and didn't have referees. It wouldn't be the same story.

    "They are the world champions, rah-rah-rah, but the tough part I don't factor. Some of those guys have a ring, but you ain't been in the league long enough to talk to people like that. I don't have a lot of respect for that."

    Zach Randolph added: "Some guys I've never heard say a word, but all of a sudden they won a championship and now they're doing a lot of talking."

    More NBA Noise

    The New York Times examines the phenomenon of NBA players screaming like they've been shot every time they drive the lane. A quick survey informs me that Zaza Pachulia of the Hawks may be the worst offender in the league when it comes to this (sounds like Screech Powers getting his leg caught in a bear trap, I believe was one quote). But frankly, I'm include to give Zaza a break for milking the refs like this because, hey, "nothing easy"-- am I right Zaza? . . .


  • Epic Forum

    Okay, So I don't post on here as much as Stoeten or Joe but when I come around I only bring the best. Behold, probably one of the best forums you will ever read in your entire life. I feel as though this qualifies as sports because it's got cars and women...okay, its got cars.

    Enjoy

    I truly recommend you spend at least 20 minutes on this. Obviously the 60+ pages would be a tough feat for anyone with actual work to do but if you can get through the first 4 pages, I guarantee you'll laugh so hard you'll cry.

    Here's a sample pic to get you revved up:


  • Craig MacTavish May Have Some Issues With Dustin Penner

     
    For those of you not in western Canada, you may not yet be aware of what a waste of a season the Oilers' Dustin Penner has been having so far. With four points through 16 games and a pair of healthy scratches in his last two, Penner-- who famously came to Edmonton as a restricted free agent, when Kevin Lowe gave him a somewhat insane five year $21.25M offer sheet, which Anaheim couldn't, or wouldn't, match-- isn't exactly living up to the expectations of his hefty contract. And, uh... "pleased" isn't exactly the word I'd use to describe coach Craig MacTavish's feelings about this. Um... "encouraging" probably doesn't quite fit either...
     
    Audio from Edmonton's iNews 880
     

  • Trading Cards - Deion Sanders, Age 22

    Oh, it's true.

    Sanders

    Prime Time had a Jheri Curl.

    By the way, it's "Jheri" Curl, not "Jeri" or "Jerry". The hairstyle is named after it's creator, Jheri Redding a legendary hair products entrepreneur. (God bless Wikipedia).

    jheri

    Yeah, that's him. Surprised?


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