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Rick’s Cafe: Early signs of Linsanity … Jeremy Lin was something special from the very start
Feb 9, 2012, 6:08 PM EST
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Now it can be told: I was one of Jeremy Lin’s first basketball coaches … for about a week. Before lighting a fire under the New York Knicks, before the Golden State Warriors or Houston Rockets, before even Harvard, Lin was a JLS Panther. That’s Jane Lathrop Stanford Middle School, a couple of Andrew Luck…
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Throwing Frisbees, footballs, hereby banned at all Los Angeles County beaches
Feb 9, 2012, 3:42 PM EST
Controversy erupted at several schools in recent years when games such as dodgeball and kickball were banned on playgrounds for being too dangerous. And now, you can’t play Frisbee at the beach. In a 37-page ordinance passed Tuesday by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, “flying objects” such as footballs, Fisbees and soccer balls…
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Nebraska HS coach insists opponent be given technical foul for wearing pink charity uniforms
Feb 9, 2012, 3:08 PM EST
We take you now to Omaha, Neb., where the corn is tall basketball officials are sticklers for the rules. The Burke High School varsity girls team (not pictured) was assessed a technical foul in a close game, after the opposing coach protested that Burke’s pink uniforms were not legal. Burke was wearing pink, instead of…
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Site: After Super Bowl loss, Patriots fans flocked to porn — in droves
Feb 9, 2012, 2:10 PM EST
So you’re a Patriots fan, and your team just lost to the Giants in the Super Bowl … again. You can do some sad, reflective Bradying. Or you can begin drinking heavily (Bluto’s advice). Oh yes, and there’s always porn. A popular porn website reported a dramatic increase in traffic in the moments following the…
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‘At guard, his favorite movie is ‘The Notebook’, Derrick Rose!’ Will Ferrell introduces Bulls, Hornets
Feb 9, 2012, 1:20 PM EST
In New Orleans to film the movie Dog Fight, with Zach Galifinakis and Dylan McDermott, Will Ferrell stopped by to make the team introductions on ’80′s Night at the Bulls-Hornets game on Wednesday. “After basketball his dream is to become a rodeo clown, Jarret Jack!” New York Daily News: “He is filiming the movie…
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You can do a lot of things to Canada — you can mock their giant inflatable beavers, even take away the fighting in hockey. But do not mess with them in dodgeball. The University of Alberta again stands tall today, as it has reclaimed the Guinness World Record for most people participating in a game…
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‘Sanchez Girl’ from Giants Super Bowl parade explains herself (video)
Feb 9, 2012, 11:34 AM EST
The former University of Rhode Island student who yelled “Sanchez!” during the New York Giants victory parade has taken a lot of ribbing for her Super Bowl blooper, and now she has spoken out on exactly what happened. Samantha DeFalco, now a student at the Fashion Institute of Technology, says she just happened to be…
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Yes, now you can get a personalized Valentine’s Day message from Ted Williams, the ‘Golden Voice of Love’
Feb 9, 2012, 10:46 AM EST
The story of Ted Williams has been well documented here: we were among the first to bring you the original video when the man with the Golden Radio Voice was discovered panhandling on a Columbus, Ohio freeway offramp in January of last year. It’s been a long and winding road for Williams since then: Now…
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Former Patriot Rodney Harrison rips Gronkowski over dance video
Feb 9, 2012, 10:01 AM EST
Truthfully I expected a bigger backlash over the Rob Gronkowski dance video. I have no opinion on it one way or another, but I thought Patriots fans would be miffed. On the whole, they weren’t. But at least one former Patriots player was. Former safety Rodney Harrison, now an analyst for NBC, spoke out about…
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Morning Mail: Gronkowski dance video gets the Jersey Shore treatment
Feb 9, 2012, 9:00 AM EST
So we’ve all seen the Rob Gronkowski dance video by now … the Patriots tight end, despite hobbling around on an injured ankle during the Super Bowl, was filmed dancing like a maniac at a post-game party just a couple of hours following the game. So what if some enterprising person spliced that footage into…
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Wednesday Nightmare Fuel: Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom try sex swing
Feb 8, 2012, 6:02 PM EST
I’ll admit it: sometimes I doubt the existence of a loving God. This doesn’t help: according to E Online, Khloe Kardashian had a sex swing installed in the bedroom for her and husband Lamar Odom. “Having an NBA lockout, I think it really made him depressed,” Kardashian now explains. “That affected us in other areas,…
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The next Broadway musical will be about … Larry Bird and Magic Johnson?
Feb 8, 2012, 5:12 PM EST
Yep, pretty soon folks will be lining up (presumably) to purchase tickets for the next big Broadway musical: “Magic/Bird”. This is happening, people. It’s set to open in April, and Larry Bird and Magic Johnson even consulted during the production. Please not Andrew Lloyd Webber, please not Andrew Lloyd Webber, please not Andrew Lloyd Webber…
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Donald Trump defends Gisele Bundchen: ‘She’s standing up for her man’
Feb 8, 2012, 4:22 PM EST
NOW the final word has been uttered. Donald Trump, speaking today to Access Hollywood, said that people criticizing Gisele Bundchen for throwing Patriots receivers under the bus are just wrong (and should be FIRED). “She’s standing up for her man and Gisele didn’t do anything wrong,” Trump told Access Hollywood as he took part in…
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Jim Harbaugh playing golf looks a lot like Jim Harbaugh coaching football
Feb 8, 2012, 3:20 PM EST
It looks pretty good that Alex Smith will return as the 49ers starting quarterback next season: the man was, after all, caddying for Jim Harbaugh at Pepple Beach on Tuesday. Smith will carry the bag for Harbaugh during Thursday’s first round of the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, and was paired with him on Tuesday…
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Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario, who won four Grand Slams in the 1990s and is a former No. 1-ranked player, is alleging in a new book that her parents squandred all of her earnings from tournaments and endorsements over those years, amounting to about $60 million. Busted Racquet: Sanchez Vicario says her father put her on a strict…
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Super Bowl sniper’s nest? Photo of high-powered rifle aimed at field during SB causes controversy
Feb 8, 2012, 1:34 PM EST
A photo that purportedly shows an Indianapolis SWAT team member manning a Remington 700 high-powered rifle in Lucas Oil Stadium during the Super Bowl has been making the rounds the past couple of days, and some are a little freaked out about it. This photo shows the rifle on a tripod aimed at the field…
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Wait, didn’t Madonna used to be the outrageous, controversial one? Perhaps a bit miffed that a supporting performer stole the spotlight in her own show, Madonna is reportedly “livid” with British singer M.I.A. for her middle finger salute during the Super Bowl halftime performance. MSNBC Today: “M.I.A. did nothing similar in rehearsals,” an anonymous source…
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Forty-foot whale shark will not fit in man’s freezer, I’m guessing
Feb 8, 2012, 11:28 AM EST
Yep it’s real, and it’s spectacular. A 40-foot whale shark washed ashore near Karachi, Pakistan recently, and it took three cranes to haul it in, according to the Express Tribune, a Pakistani newspaper. No, it wasn’t caught by fishermen or harpooners … it was already dead when spotted floating about 90 miles offshore last week.…
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All the cool kids are doing it, and you don’t even have to have thrown an interception in the Super Bowl to participate. It’s called Bradying, and it’s the next Tebowing, apparently. All you need is enough space to sit down, and enough time to bow your head and reflect on your failures. No telling…
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Tiger Woods, Bill Murray hog Pebble Beach Pro-Am spotlight: reigning champ D.A. Points not amused
Feb 8, 2012, 10:29 AM EST
As far as I know, this is the first meeting between Tiger Woods and Bill Murray — unless you count the video below (ha … Tiger Spackler). There’s no doubt that Murray has been the face of the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament for several years: his face is even on the tickets. But…
