If they make a law tomorrow in which there can be only one sports blog, I pray that they choose Name of the Year. Get your popcorn ready, it’s almost here!
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Who Will Be the Next Mingo? So we’ll do the painful job that we are charged with doing: whittling the field down to the most most worthy 64. Will photographer Coke Wisdom O’Neal — nominee No. 1 on our list — make the cut? How about No. 22 Nohjay Simpson, a track and fielder at St. Joe’s? Is No. 66 Spontaneous Gordon, whose car crashed into a bus in Delaware, an instantaneous No. 1 seed? Might she (yes, Spontaneous is a she) encounter the wrath of Mississippi high-school football player Furious Bradley, No. 105? What of highly touted nominee No. 115, Florida h.s. defensive end God’s Power Offor? He told NOTY friend Andy Staples of SI.com that “this name has done everything for me.” Everything, that is, except win NOTY. So far. [Name of the Year]
More items following the jump.
* Mike Bernhard and Ariel Gandulla star in ‘Rumble at the Rock II Disgrace’. Probably one of the most embarrassing Mixed Martial Arts moments happened at Rumble at the Rock II event, on March 5th. The referee had to stop the fight and disqualify the 5-5 Ariel Gandulla, who performed some illegal groin and eye-gouging moves on Mike Bernhard. The real piece of action happened after the referee stopped the fight, when Bernhard and Gandulla tried to fight each other, with some cornermen involved. Finally, the police entered the cage to calm down the combatants. [Lowkick]
* Merlin Olsen: NFL’s Greatest DT Ever? “He was way ahead of his time,” said Gil Brandt, who in those days was in the first decade of a 30-year career as personnel director of the Dallas Cowboys. “He was strong, he was fast, he was like the athlete of today back in 1962. He was as good as I’ve ever seen at that position. If there’s someone better, I don’t know who it is.” [NFL Fanhouse]
* Video: Minnesota high school player wipes out in opening intros. There are a lot of eyes on the MSHSL Tourney … which means plenty of puckheads witnessed Alexandria defenseman Zach Van Orsdel stumble into one of the most memorable pregame intros we’ve seen. But the dude was a very good sport about it. Watch and wince: [Puck Daddy]
* Cute Little Phillies Fan Gets Tosh.0 Treatment On Comedy Central. Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 gives the now infamous little girl who threw the ball back at a game at CBP last season the Web Redemption treatment last night. [The 700 Level]
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