November 19th, 2009
You probably didn’t see it, but Roddy Piper guest hosted RAW this week and even though he was totally blotto by the end of the show, he still has spectacular stuff. I consider Piper one of the two greatest talkers in the history of wrestling, the other being Ric Flair. These top two slots are non-negotiable. But rounding out the rest of the top five is harder than I would have thought. I’d probably include Macho Man and The Rock. (Though I’m hesitant to include The Rock since his body of work is comparatively so small.) The fifth slot, then, is wide open. Galley Friend A.S. suggests Stone Cold. On the strength of this classic spot, I’m open to the idea:
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0 commentsDrilling for Amber Gold
November 18th, 2009
Galley Friend R.M. once paid $800 for a bottle of scotch salvaged from a 100-year-old British ship, but even that’s not as hardcore as this operationg:
A beverage company has asked a team to drill through Antarctica’s ice for a lost cache of some vintage Scotch whiskey that has been on the rocks since a century ago.
The drillers will be trying to reach two crates of McKinlay and Co. whiskey that were shipped to the Antarctic by British polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton as part of his abandoned 1909 expedition.
Whyte & Mackay, the drinks group that now owns McKinlay and Co., has asked for a sample of the 100-year-old scotch for a series of tests that could decide whether to relaunch the now-defunct Scotch.
Workers from New Zealand’s Antarctic Heritage Trust will use special drills to reach the crates, frozen in Antarctic ice under the Nimrod Expedition hut near Cape Royds.
I think we have the plot for the third Whiteout book . . .
0 commentsDirty New Mexico Part Deux: Dirtier
November 18th, 2009
Some of you may remember Elizabeth Lambert as the UNM soccer player who’s half Vinnie Jones and half Bill Laimbeer. Well now she’s taken it up a notch, with what might be the biggest heel-turn in sports since the Honky-Tonk Man.
In yesterday’s New York Times Lambert claimed that she’s the real victim. Victim of what? Pretty much everything. A brief summary of people who have done Lambert wrong:
* The dirty BYU players who started it.
* Fans in the stands who taunted her.
* The ref, who made a mistake in not issuing cards (to Lambert?) sooner.
* Sexism in the media for focusing on her actions.
* Sexism in the culture for turning her into a villain.
* Bloggers and emailers who’ve said mean things about/to her.
And you thought she couldn’t get any less likable!
0 commentsThe Greatest Thanksgiving Day Touch Football Game Ever
November 18th, 2009
It could have been yours.
If you and a bunch of your friends–let’s pretend there were 20 of you in total–had gotten together last week, you could have bought the Pontiac Silverdome. Former home of the Detroit Lions; the site of WrestleMania III. It sold at auction for $583,000. You read that correctly.
For that money, each of your pals would have needed to come up with just $29,000. Pretending that you could finance it like you would a vacation home (which you couldn’t, or course, but play along for a minute), that meant that each of you would have needed to put down $5,800 for the downpayment and then $125 a month for the mortgage. That doesn’t count taxes and upkeep, of course. But still.
For half the price of a used Honda Fit, you could have gone with your buddies and played your Thanksgiving football game in your very own domed stadium.
0 commentsWhen Tom Met Peyton
November 16th, 2009
I’d never heard this story before last week:
“My first start came against the Colts,” Brady said. “And Peyton came over on our field and said, ‘Hey, Peyton Manning.’ And I said, ‘no shit.””
There’s something so quintessentially American about that exchange, from both sides.
Mike Russell's Lava Tornado
November 13th, 2009
Got a little Captain in you?
November 13th, 2009
Sure the Eagles lost, but they spurred the creation of a new NFL rule.
Suck on that, Cowgirls!
0 commentsThe Death of Newspapers
November 13th, 2009
On second thought, maybe it wouldn’t be such a terrible thing. After all, some papers seem desperate to go out of business.
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