The Entire World of Sports Has Gone Crazy
Cats and dogs! Living together...mass hysteria!
So...some weird shit happened this week. We've avoided commenting on most of it - intentionally. Some of it was tragic, some of it was boring, none of it was particularly good. This is what happens in mid July - when it's hot as balls, baseball is in that boring, who cares, still half a season to play lull and countless 24 hour sports networks, websites and blogs run out of things to talk about. I'm hoping we'll all wake up Monday and all this shit will be gone. Without further ado, here's this week in sports retold through marginally humorous pictures:
“Thunder” Gatti Was Boxing’s Last Great Showman
Arturo "Thunder" Gatti 1972-2009
Arturo "Thunder" Gatti - the Canadian born New Jersey Brawler who went the distance in three epic fights with "Irish" Mickey Ward - passed away Saturday at age 37.
Didn’t Even Have To Use Our AK
"It Was a Good Day" - Ice Cube
Alright Bombers. That was exciting. We got a shout out from TWWL. We must really be somebody! Either way I think we can all agree: "It was a good day". ...
Jesus Christmas! We Fry Good Eggs!
Every little leaguer dreams of being featured on SportsCenter one day... and even though my day has yet to come, the overarching website of which I am apart of is here! haHAAA
Sean Hef received his 2nd nod on the SportsCenter Blog Buzz. This time for his thoughts on Carlos Boozer's possibly coming to to the Bulls via a 3 team trade.
Congratulations, Big Guy... even though you clearly illustrated yourself as a meathead for asking John Paxson (not Gar Forman) to pull the trigger and somehow counting an 11-man starting lineup for a basketball team. Small oversights indeed.
He's a meathead, but he's OUR Meathead.
Wild Bill is Back – What I learned on my Summer Vacation
Wild Bill on Vacation
So, you may (or may not) have noticed I took a little time off the past few weeks to sit around and watch Sopranos DVD's after work focus on work. We'll call this my summer vacation - and like any good vacation taker I decided to write about it. So here's your list:
“Rescue Me” Quote of the Week
"No strings...These are women Tom. They got more strings than a baseball." - Lou
Oh Taylor Swift, You Just Keep Getting Hotter and Hotter
Our friends over at BroBible uncovered this gem. Awesome.
How cool is this chick?
But seriously Taylor, marry me. Please.
“Rescue Me” Quote of the Week
"Eat. Pray. Love? You know that wasn't written by and Irish chick, 'cuz it'd be called 'Drink. Puke. Drink'." - Tommy Gavin
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Filmmaking
Are Times really as bad as we claim? Hollywood doesn't seem to think so. The gritty realness of the 70's has been replaced with dark comedies and depressing subject matter. When our children's children watch the films of the great recession era, they'll know we were bummed, but they won't have a clue as to why. Comic book flicks and stoner comedies fail to sum up the collective emotion of our nation the way "Mean Streets" or "Dog Day Afternoon" did in the 1970's. Ambiguous but well portrayed anti-heroes will never capture the human condition the way Travis Bickle or even Reg Dunlap did. Watching films from that era, you understand how people felt as the economy tanked, factories closed and the Bronx Burned. You get a sense of the uneasy feeling as progress turned to violent civil unrest. ...
What to Watch Tonight
All Times EDT
8PM Stanley Cup Finals, Game 6. Redwings lead series 3-2. (NBC)
8:30 Family Guy (TBS)
9PM NBA Finals, Game 3. Lakers lead series 2-0 (ABC)
9:30 Family Guy (TBS)
10PM Rescue Me (FX)
10:30 South Park (Comedy Central)
11PM Deadliest Catch (Discovery), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (Comedy Central)
11:30 The Colbert Report - Live from Baghdad (Comedy Central), The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien (NBC), The Late Show with David Letterman (CBS)
12AM South Park (Comedy Central)
-Wild