The story of the motley crue that saved Rock n’ Roll, as told by Phil Hoffman in a leather vest. Does this turn into a full-blown battle on the high seas? Here’s hoping.
Pirate Radio, based on a true story – possibly, the true story that the term ‘pirate radio’ emanates from when a British band of ruffians set sail with a pirate ship and started broadcasting.
See some more clips on Yahoo!
This guy?
That goofy looking dude’s name is Rotnei Clarke, sophomore shooting guard at Arkansas. He’s ice cold. South Florida coach Stan Heath once saw Clarke hit 94 of 100 three-pointers on a recruitment trip when he was at Arkansas.
Fox Sports’ Jeff Goodman ranked Clarke #1 out of his Top-50 shooters in college ball.
Cue the prep highlight reel…
God, I’m psyched for college basketball.
(H/T @ The Big Lead)
What do you get when you mix Sly Stallone, bagged sausage and 17 seconds of a discarded coda to the Rocky theme redux?
Something that’s completely inexplicable to the West…
These spots with him drinking beer and riding a horse are pretty good.
H/T @ A Silent Flute. Seriously, how can I get into starring in Japanese commercials?
Hailing from the highlands of Kingskettle, Scotland, David Cowan is a 46-year old kilt enthusiast, who along with 135 other competitors, will take part this week in what has been called (and for my money, unequivocally is) the world’s most dangerous race – The Jungle Marathon.
The Jungle Marathon takes place in the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, also it is not a marathon. It’s a 222 kilometer race that spans seven days in Jungle with competitors encountering “poisonous snakes, venomous tarantulas, hungry jaguars and even deadly plants.”
They have armed guides that are on hungry jaguar detail at night.
In the jungle, It gets down to around 80 degrees fahrenheit at night. There are swamps filled with blood sucking ticks. And finally, those jaguars – they’ll straight up digest your kilt, for serious.
Cowan told the Scot publication The Courier that he was inspired “When I watched the marathon on television I saw people having to be fitted with drips and be carried away.” That is a compelling image, if you’re a lunatic.
The race kicks off Sunday. Here’s hoping Cowan can find a nice machete holster to go with that kilt.
Fife man jets off for extreme jungle race (The Courier)
On September 14, 2009, the great Patrick Swayze lost his battle with pancreatic cancer and passed away too young at the age of 57. Swayze had a prolific acting career, one that inspired his devoted fan base to believe that if anyone could beat this disease it was him (Swayze played a bank robbing surf ninja and villainous sky diving enthusiast in Point Break. Cancer? No problem, compadre). He was diagnosed in January of 2008 with a sickness that most people will succumb to in under a year – he held on for 20+ months. During that time period, his 1989 film Road House was the most broadcast movie on American television in the past year according to Rolling Stone – airing 45 times on AMC, A&E and CMT. Maybe you were lucky enough to flip it on and catch a riveting scene like this…
In lieu of burying Swayze with Dalton’s medical dossier, each week during football season I’ll be awarding one player the “Pain Don’t Hurt” Award to honor Swayze’s memory. This week’s recipient…
If you haven’t figured it out yet, the PDH committee is heavily influenced by the fantasy implications of a player’s performance. So, save your defensive nominees, and anyone on the St. Louis Rams, for the comments.
Specifically, I’m influenced by it. And it’s primarily the players who’ve negatively impacted my 2009-10 fantasy campaign that I’m paying attention to. This week, enter Rashard Mendenhall, who one week ago was an underachieving second year running back, not to mention newly benched.
After Gore went down and I need to sure-up at RB, I made a deal to get Tim Hightower that included Mendenhall. Two weeks go by, and Mendenhall goes from sleeper pick to trade afterthought in my mind. Then, as I’m thinking that acquiring Trent Edwards was the most unfortunate occurrence of inking that deal, what does Mendenhall do? Run’s like the wind personified against the Chargers.
165 yards, 2 TDs. That’s more rushing yards than anyone else in the league this past Sunday.
Not like I could have used that to off-set the 36 points that San Francisco’s DEFENSE put up against my team or anything. If they’re at all aware of Fantasy, I bet Gore and Mike Singletary are both laughing their ass off about that. I take back every nice thing I said about your lobster bisque and Del Taco fast food eatery, San Francisco.
Here’s a link to a few nice things that were said about Mendenhall this week.
The 2010 “Pain Don’t Hurt” Awards:
Week One: Brandon Meriweather
Week Two: Frank Gore
Week Three: Mark Sanchez
No substantial amount of time for blogging today, Dr. Jones.
However, got something in the works that champions classic tunes like this…
Tag any relevant #musicmonday tweets as #slowjams also. If your tweet’s not relevant, make it relevant.
Screenshot via Olympic.org, which is streaming the vote live. It’s real riveting stuff over there – they open the vote, they close the vote. There’s a lot of deafening silence in between.
UPDATE: Tokyo, you are out! It’s down to Madrid and Rio, the election is over.
