Now, we’re not willing to crown bowling as an official sport just yet, but we have no problem admitting that it takes some skill and the guys who waste 10 hours a day at the lanes can get pretty damn good at what they do. So good, in fact, that people actually have figured out how to make bowling somewhat entertaining for the spectators by coming up with some nifty trick shots. Like this fancy way of picking up a pair of spares at once:
Of course, the only way you can ever even be in that position is if the pins fall down and actually stay down.
So, there we were, just surfing YouTube, looking for some pro wrasslin’ highlights like the dedicated fans we are, when we came across one of the sickest pieces of wrestling footage ever recorded. It was from some promotion called Xtreme Pro Wrestling (XPW) and it involved the infamous New Jack throwing Vic Grimes off a 40-foot scaffold!! If you thought that the Mick Foley fall from Hell In A Cell was insane, just get a load of these lunatics.
We were pretty disgusted that some crappy alliance would allow this suicide mission to happen at all, let alone in front of crowd of hundreds of fans, but then we came across this documentary footage of New Jack talking about the incident and we learned what sick and twisted was really all about when he admitted that his intentions were to actually kill Grimes with the stunt!
We always knew that New Jack was one brutal, mentally unstable S.O.B. from his days with ECW and TNA but, as Ron Simmons would say, … “DAMN!”
Now, we know that hurtling around a track at triple-digit speeds can be a little terrifying, but the girl in this clip might take the cake for in-car meltdowns.
But, we can’t really blame her; we’d be screaming for our lives too if we were in a car when Nick Hogan was behind the wheel. Or was that Eddie Griffin driving?
College football is just around the corner and everyone is beginning to wear their team colors proudly in anticipation of the upcoming season. But you’ve got your normal fans and then you’ve got your SUPER fans whose life’s mission is to honor their chosen university. Shawn Swick is one of those SUPER fan kinda guys.
Swick loves The Ohio State University so much that he turned one of his rooms into “The Best Damn Room In The Land” by recreating the hallowed Horseshoe with a room size mural that took 10 gallons of paint and one year to complete. The Buckeye freak says that he just loves the team and thought the idea was pretty cool.
Believe it or not, some people think that the room is completely stupid and this guy is off his rocker. No, really?
I’ve gotten responses saying this is a waste of time. This is a waste of money. I don’t really care,” Swick said.
So, really cool or really embarrassing; you be the judge:
We vote embarrassing.
Links:
[10TV.com]: Check Out `Best Damn Room In The Land’
Have you ever sat around and wondered “Who is the greatest athlete to ever wear the No. 86?” Yea, we hadn’t either until SI.com came out with their piece on “The best athletes by number.” Now, we can’t help but argue over who the better No. 34 was: Walter Payton, Shaquille O’Neal or Kirby Puckett. According to SI.com, it’s Sweetness.
Anyways, it’s a pretty interesting read and it’s a great way to kill time over the dull days of summer sports. And when we say “kill time,” we mean kill time. You have to flip through each jersey number one by one, so you really have to want to know who the greatest No. 86 of all time is to make the painful journey of mouse clicks. So, when someone makes it to No. 23, let us know who it is. We’re dying to find out.
Until then, enjoy the retirement of Kenny “The Jet” Smith’s No. 30 Houston Rockets jersey. How did SI mess that one up? They went with some guy named Nolan Ryan.
The summer is here and this is the time of year when people are supposed to get out and enjoy the weather by hopping in the local cement pond or playing your favorite outdoor sport. Some people like baseball, others like to simply toss around the old pigskin. But then there are the people who play with a Frisbee and call it an “Ultimate Frisbee” league.
Now, we’ve heard about these types of nut jobs before, but we just can’t believe they’re still around. But, apparently, we shouldn’t be surprised because the “sport” has been around for 40 years and has leagues across the nation. Who would have guessed? We know that we shouldn’t knock it until we’ve tried it, but when it comes to calling Ultimate Frisbee a sport, we just can’t do it. That would be like saying “lights out bowling” with the glow in the dark pins is a sport too. Hell, why not slap the world “extreme” in front of tetherball and make another new sport?
But we’re not going to completely blow off this 40 year Frisbee fad; if Stewie digs it then we’re willing to give it chance. It certainly beats the hell out of competitive eating as a sport.
Okay, we know that ESPN is the all-mighty sports deity and they probably have a pretty good idea by now of how to run a billion dollar, multimedia corporation, but even the great ones have their dumb moments. Like this Top 10 list for example. We know that it’s hard work to churn out a new list every day for SportsCenter, but do we really need to know the Top 10 Bird Moments?
Nine times out of ten, we would never suggest that anyone go into professional wrestling, especially with the horrible writing that is dominating the WWE these days. And then there’s the whole Chris Benoit double murder-suicide thing that’s really putting a dark cloud over the world of pro wrasslin. But we think we might have found our exception to the rule: Nick Hogan.
The Hulkster’s kid is trying to become a race car driver but he doesn’t seem to be having much luck. Well, let’s just say he didn’t fare too well at the NOPI event held in Carson, CA on Saturday when he smashed up a perfectly good Dodge Viper. And we just so happen to have found some video of the crash from the inside out.
Good thing that pops has connections with the millions of Hulkamaniacs out there. Surely, one of them owns a body shop.
The hilarious videos just keep on coming as we’ve now gotten our grubby little hands on a clip of a puppet named Stephen A. Smith giving us an inside look at the NBA’s coming out party (via the fellas at Awful Announcing). In addition to the back stage discussions with some of the league’s newest stars, S.A.S. was gracious enough to give up the commentary on, well, the actual, real life, super annoying Stephen A. Smith. Now, we never have liked the guy, but thanks to this video, we like him even less than Slava Medvedenko and Rasho Nesterovic.
Watch out Triumph, there’s a new insulting sock in town.
In other news…
[ADN.com]: What the hell is in the waters of Alaska to produce 350+ pound fish!?!?
[NBC12.com]: Danica might be going Britney Spears on us.
[The Big Lead]: Woody Paige got a vasectomy. Uh, TMI.
[Our Book of Scrap]: Red Sox fan chugs a cup of mustard. Mmmmmmm, mustard.
[WISTV.com]: Another day, another f’d up twist in the Chris Benoit story.
[WAVE3.com]: NFL Europe finally folds; now we’re just waiting on the WNBA to go under.
[OrlandoSentinel.com]: Tiger Woods’ guest house goes up in flames. Don’t worry; we’re sure he has another one somewhere.
[SI.com]: Greg Oden wants to clean up the number 52’s ugly image.
And finally, for all your drunken sports fans out there who hate drinking warm beer, we’ve got one word for ya: Hopsicle!
All right everyone, this has absolutely nothing to do sports, but we were cracking up so hard when we came across this clip on Can’t Stop The Bleeding that we just had to share it with all of you. So, sit back, kick your feet up and enjoy this musical tribute to all those cartoon hotties you grew up watching. We give to you: C.I.L.F.!
This guy is never going to win a Grammy with this kind of stuff, but if he can continue at this pace, he just might make to Weird Al Yankovic-type status one day.
I’ve gotten responses saying this is a waste of time. This is a waste of money. I don’t really care,” Swick said.