Sports
One of these things is not like the other
Front row at the Team USA / Team Canada pre-Olympics-why-would-anyone-even-go game in Vegas. From left to right: Warren Buffett, William Gates, and Christopher Bridges
Computer Malpunction
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is this supposed to be a reference to the flux capacitor, the fictional invention said to make time travel possible, as described in the 1985 film Back to the Future? If so, what the hell is it doing serving as the headline for an article about the psychological affect [...]
ESPN on your coffee table
In an effort to follow-up on the disaster that was the ESPN MVP phone, ESPN has decided to release the ultimate remote control. What are they calling it? ESPN The Ultimate Remote. Catchy. From the press release:
ESPN The Ultimate Remote manages home theater components, set top boxes
and IP equipment with intuitive “location-free” setup and one-handed
operation, [...]
1 + 1 = 3
Wii. Tons of fun. Easy to pick up and learn. Social.
Beerpong. Ditto.
Wii + Beerpong? Winner.
Featuring two distinct competitive games, Frat Party Games™ – Beer Pong will offer a traditional tournament-style game of Beer Pong for one to four players and Speed Pong, during which two to three players compete at the same time, each trying [...]
But what are the hitters thinking?
Jon Lester just wrapped up the first no hitter of his career, and the 13th at Fenway Park. (Ellsbury’s no-hitter-saving play can be found here.) It’s a pretty fantastic achievement, but the question I found myself asking as I watched the top of the 9th is not what was going through Jon’s head, but what [...]
Yipes
Apparently, Jason Giambi has a trick for getting himself out of hitting slumps, and (surprise!) it’s not more PEDs and HGH!
The slugger-turned-average-hitter admitted (for no good reason) that when he’s having trouble at the plate, he busts out a golden thong. He claims it always works, and has even lent the magical banana hammock to [...]
MLB '08 features in-game boredom!
Okay this is going to far. MLB ‘08: The Show has added detailed animations for player boredom. Seems like a stupid idea, but then you remember that some players are always worth watching:
There you go folks. $600 for a video game system that can photo-realistically show a guy taking a nap in left field. Next year’s [...]
Guess who will never get laid? Yep, 12-year-old David Witthoft
This f*cking kid.
Finally took off his stupid f*cking Favre jersey.
After FOUR f*cking years.
ESPN The Awkward Headline
I’ve cut way back on my ESPN intake recently. There are a bunch of reasons (e.g. “All I wanna do is race daddy,” “Who’s Now?” and “Jake ‘Daylight Come and I Wanna’ Delhomme”), but that is not the point of this post. Even if I was still a big ESPN junkie, I still [...]
Beerpong as sport
Note: I originally wrote this back in October of 2005 while at a terribly boring internship. It has been slightly revised and recreated below. As is the trend among writers recycling material, I have included footnotes to create an entirely new reading experience.
If poker and NASCAR are sports, than so too is beerpong/beirut. [...]