George Thorogood just gave “Bad to the Bone” a whole new meaning when he took Cubbies fans out to “the old ba-ba-ba-ba-ball game.”
Okay, so Thorogood wasn’t completely horrid; it could have been a whole lot worse. He could have gone Eddie Vedder on us.
“Buy me some peanuts and crack”??????
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[Can’t Stop The Bleeding]: (Very) Bad To The Bone: Thorogood’s Disloyalty To The Wilmington Blue Rocks
If you’ve ever ventured to the local swimming hole during the hot days of summer, there’s a really good chance that you’ve shown off your cannonball skills. You know what? Cannonballs suck! If you really want to give your friends a chuckle and show off your manliness then you gotta have a respectable belly flop in your arsenal. But what’s even better than showing off a highly honed BF is the completely unexpected one. Especially when you get to watch the stinging splashdown in slow motion.
Of course, things could be a heck of a lot worse. At least in America we have water.
It’s hard to believe any of the reports that you hear about Kobe Bryant anymore. One minute he wants this, the next minute he wants that; but the one thing we do know is that Bryant has a dirty potty mouth.
We know that L.A. is still trying to keep their cornerstone, but now that the Kevin Garnett trade has fallen through and the Lakers have reportedly turned their attention toward an injury prone Jermaine O’Neal, there’s only one way to make Bryant a winner again: “Ship his ass out!”
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[Our Book of Scrap]: The Full “Kobe Rips The Lakers” video
So, we’re always looking for ways to the fill the void that encompasses the normal sports fan during the long, hot days of summer. First, we discovered the newest sensation sweeping the nation which is commonly referred to as “backjumping”. Now, we’ve discovered that our regular Saturday night behavior was actually a bona fide sport. Well, it’s considered a sport in England. At least, it’s a start.
So, there we were, thumbing through the online edition of The Salt Lake Tribune (a regular read of ours) when the headline “Jazz prospect is `very tall, and very Romanian’” caught our eyes. We were kind of taken back by the comment until we read the article and were pleasantly surprised that our Salt Lake source wasn’t reduced to merely evaluating players based solely on the criteria of their height and nationality. Unfortunately, we were somewhat preoccupied during the entire read because after that headline, we just couldn’t get this broadcasting blunder out of our heads:
There was also a comment in the second paragraph about how nothing causes more anxiety than the phrase “Benoit for three!” We’re going to assume that he means the former Jazz player and not the former lowlife, family killing wrestler.
Gilbert Arenas is a great talent on the court, but it’s pretty well known that he’s a bit cuckoo in the head. And Kevin Durant is a superstar in the waiting who is a human sponge waiting for the proper teacher. Basically what we are saying is that if we were the GM at Portland or Seattle, we would get our cornerstone of the future the hell away from Agent 0.
In other news…
[USA Today]: Jockey gets a slap on the wrist for kicking a horse.
[SI.com]: It’s up and down for Chicago Bears fans.
[ESPN]: Chris Benoit murdered his wife and son; the ugly truth unfolds.
[ABC13.com]: Yao Ming is getting married!
[AZCentral.com]: Stephen Jackson is gone but the Pacers are still going to court.
And finally, Tank Johnson, Pacman Jones, Michael Vick and a slew of other might be on the outside looking in at the moment, but we think that we might have found a kid who is working on filling those empty NFL holes one day. He definitely has the off-field behavior down.
Well, here we go again. It’s another day and another black eye to the sport of soccer as another riot broke out during a soccer match, this time in Buenos Aires. Fans rushed the field during the final moments of the game and began brawling with opposing fans. It was an ugly, ugly scene as the “fans” beat each other with metal pipes, rocks and chairs until 78 people were arrested, 14 were injured and one was killed.
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[WCBSTV.com]: Soccer Fan Killed When Game Turns To Brawl
This year marked the first time in Tim Duncan’s stellar career that he didn’t win the NBA Finals MVP after guiding the Spurs to a championship; instead, it was Tony Parker who stole the show and the trophy. Now, we thought something stunk about the lil’ Frenchman snatching up the award and now we have the video evidence to back up what we suspected all along: Parker was poisoning Duncan’s Gatorade in order to become the best player on the floor!
Sacre bleu!!
Sometimes you wake up and you can just tell that it is going to be one hell of a day. Those are the mornings that we usually just crawl back in bed and unplug the alarm clock. Unfortunately, the chump in this clip we stumbled across wasn’t so smart and he got completely bulldozed by life.
“And boom goes the dynamite” might be totally lame, but it’s still on par with the SportsCenter crew. And at least he didn’t do this.
Of course, for every sucker that clams up on camera, you have one who just loves to talk and talk and talk…
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[Basketbawful]: Not that there’s anything wrong with that…
There’s only one thing we love more than sports and that’s crazy ass extreme sports. And with the long days of summer upon us, there is no better time to turn our attention to the fringe sports of the world. So, while you’re waiting for football to kick off in the fall, you might want to start working on your backjumping techniques. Oh, you haven’t heard of backjumping? Well, we’ll allow the innovators to explain:
When we first heard the term “freebacking” we thought that it was going to be something totally different, but we’re still down. And if skateboarding has a chance to make it in the Olympics, then we can totally see backjumping going global as well.