Categories
General Sports

Be very afraid: Scientology is coming to NASCAR

Dear redneck… er… racing fan,

Do you suffer from addictions, arthritis, depression, learning disabilities, mental illness, cancer, or homosexuality? Well, then come on out to the racetrack this SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Dianetics will be there to give you a FREE personality test!

While watching cars zoom by and going round and round in circles, we’ll make sure your head spins in circles with all the crap we’re going to brainwash you with! Did you know that driver Kenton Gray credits L. Ron Hubbard’s teachings with making him a good driver? Did you know that through `Dianetics’ he’s handled stress and increased his performance and ability to compete–both on the track and in his life? Well, we can help you too!

First, watch the “Ignite Your Potential” car make a left turn, then another left turn, and another left turn… and if you are still with us, then congratulations! You’re ready for step 2, the assist. We’ll have our helpers around to give you a massage to take the stress off from all that neck craning and exhaust fume inhalation! Before you know it, you’ll be privy to the SECRET TEACHINGS where you’ll learn how the Lord Xenu came to earth 75 million years ago, brought billions of people and put them in volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their wayward souls are the reason so much is wrong with your life! It’s not because you don’t have your high school diploma and don’t wake up before 2:00 PM. It’s not that at all. It’s because of the DARK LORD XENU’S evil souls!

But that’s not all! You know those 8 children you plan on having in the double-wide? Well you can learn how to have them during SILENT BIRTH! Just like Tom and Katie did! So, what do you have to lose? (We require a small donation for each level of Scientology that you achieve.) Come join the SCIENTOLOGY/NASCAR event TODAY!

[MSNBC]: Scientology revs up to join NASCAR circuit
[You Tube]: South Park – the history of Xenu

[Wikipedia]: Scientology

Categories
General Sports

June’s Woman We Love nominations

After intense voting, Maria Sharapova is the latest Woman We Love. What more can we say about Sharapova than she’s hot, she’s good, and did we mention she’s hot?

Here are this month’s nominees. Vote early. Vote often.

Katharine McPhee

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Jennie Finch

Natalie Portman

Charlize Theron

Christina Aguilera

Vote Now

Categories
General Sports

May 30 2006 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

Welcome to another episode of the Sportscolumn podcast. We’ve renamed it Poor Man’s PTI because…well… it is. A very poor man.  If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) or you want to suggest a topic, drop us a line at [email protected].

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 35 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

This week’s topics include:

  • Ripping the media
  • Dynasties
  • Gilbert Arenas and Santonio Holmes get arrested
  • The AL playoff race
  • Pistons and Flip Saunders
  • Chad Ford sucks / NBA Draft / Adam Morrison
  • Women we love nominations

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating below so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.

Categories
General Sports

Odds and Ends for Wed May 24 2006: Motivation

Thanks to The Hater Nation for pointing us to MotivationalBuck.com where you can create your own motivational poster spoofs. You know, those lame ass “Success” and “Teamwork” posters you find in offices of people who lack any actual skills. We couldn’t resist creating one. Send us any that you create and we’ll post the best ones.

In other news…

[Miami Herald]: Dolphins still cockblocking the Toronto Argonauts

[Raptor Blog]: Who will the Raptors take with the #1 pick?

[USA Today]: College Football fans: Paul Maguire is ready to ruin your Saturdays

[ESPN]: Duke womens lacrosse team will wear “innocent” bands to support the mens lacrosse team. No truth to the rumor they bought them from OJ Simpson.

Categories
General Sports

Apple and Nike take over the world

We spend most of our time camped out on the couch watching sports but once in a while, we’ll actually lace up the old asics and go for a run. But if Apple and Nike have their way, no run would be complete without an ipod nano and a pair of Nike+ shoes.

The two companies (along with spokesman Lance Armstrong) announced the Nike+Apple Sport Kit today at a news conference in New York. The $29 kit includes a sensor that fits into custom Nike+ shoes (The $100 Nike+ Air Zoom Moire will be the first Sport Kit compatible shoes released.) and a wireless receiver that plugs into the bottom of the nano. The nano displays and stores a bunch of data during your run and when you’re done, will automatically upload your data to nikeplus.com.

The iPod will also have a “Power Song” feature that plays your designated song when you need that extra boost at the end. Is there any question it should be David Hasselhoff’s Looking for Freedom?

Links:
[Business Week]: Nike, Apple team up on iPod running gear

[Apple.com]: Nike+Apple Sport Kit product page

Categories
General Sports

The Weekly Sports Roundup Podcast for May 24 2006

Welcome to another episode of the Sportscolumn podcast.  If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) or you want to suggest a topic, drop me a line at [email protected].

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 38 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

This week’s topics include:

  • NBA playoffs
  • NBA Draft
  • Preakness and Barbaro
  • Britney vs Christina
  • Stephen A. Smith sucks

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating below so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.

Categories
General Sports

The Weekly Sports Roundup Podcast for May 17 2006

Welcome to another episode of the Sportscolumn podcast. If you’d like to be a guest on the podcast (which is recorded Tuesday nights) or you want to suggest a topic, drop me a line at [email protected].

You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 40 mins) or subscribe to the feed.  

If you use iTunes, just click here and then click subscribe and iTunes will take care of the rest.

This week’s topics include:

  • NBA playoffs
  • Sharks blow it
  • waaaay too early NFL discussion
  • college hazing
  • American League discussion

Hope you guys enjoy the podcast.  If you did enjoy it, please give us a good rating below so we can rise up in the rankings. If you didn’t, send us an email ([email protected]) and give us some suggestions. Thanks for listening.

Categories
General Sports

Three more colleges investigating hazing photos

Badjocks.com posted photos from 12 college team initiations and now the fun is over for everyone. Three more colleges, Quinnipiac, Kenyon, and Catholic University are investigating whether the photos are evidence of hazing taking place.

We don’t promote or condone making people do things against their will but a little underaged drinking and strippers isn’t really that bad. As long as there’s no sticking fingers in players rectums, what’s the harm in a little team bonding?

We have to give credit to Quinnipiac for not overreacting in the wake of the Duke lacrosse scandal.

John Morgan, a spokesman for Quinnipiac — which had pictures purporting to be of some baseball team members dressed in women’s underwear posted — said: “We’ve seen some pictures that have come to our attention, but it’s not clear to us that our baseball players are involved in anything that raises concerns. We’re looking into it.

Links:

[USA Today]: More colleges investigating alleged hazing
[SI]: Catholic U looks into lacrosse party

Categories
General Sports

OJ Simpson plays Ashton Kutcher


For the low low price of $9.95 you can watch OJ selling the infamous white Bronco, dressed up as an Elvis impersonator, or selling oranges as a bum in his new pay-per-special called Juiced. It pretty much has the same “car wreck” appeal of the Simpson trial itself but, hell for $10, we’ll pretty much watch anything. Could Juiced be any worse than Benchwarmers? And plenty of people paid $10 to see that turd in the theaters.

OJ still owes a bunch of money to the Brown and Goldman families as a result of the civil suit so he’s not getting “paid” for his part. The producer of Juiced said, “Basically O.J. Simpson has decided to do this because he wants to do it, and he wanted to have fun with it.” And if you believe that, then you must believe the pranks were an elaborate scheme for OJ to track down the real killers. We’ll wager there’s an offshore account that recently got a bunch of dough deposited somewhere.

Links:
[ESPN]: Simpson pretends to sell the Bronco at a used car lot

Categories
General Sports

Does Bristol U teach a course in ripping people off?

Remember when Colin Cowherd ripped off the M-Zone and then belittled them when they call him out? Well, this time, Bill Simmons is ripping off Jenn Sterger of all people. Since hundreds of people have ripped off the Sposts Guy over the years, he probably thinks turnabout is fair play. But really, the FSU Cowgirl? For shame. (Although it’s a good excuse for us to post a pic of her…)

In other news…

[MSNBC]: Jimmy Smith calls it a career.

[SI.com]: Preview of World Cup activities: prostitution crackdown in Germany.

[Reuters]: Sharapova is fighting for equal rights

[Flyers Fan Central]: As if getting bounced by the Sabres wasn’t enough, Flyers could lose Forsberg until Jan 07.

[Mets Walkoffs]: The rules for attending a ball game.

[College Humor]: Bobby Knight’s c*%@%^*@ing motherf@#!ing bull$#%@ golf show