It’s your standard turducken – a turkey, stuffed with a chicken and a duck, not necessarily in that order – wrapped in bacon. It’s something special. (via Holy Taco)
A LENGTHY 96-week ban has been handed down to [John Cussen] following an incident in the west Limerick team’s county junior A hurling championship semi-final win over St. Patrick’s.
Cussen was charged with “bringing the game to disrepute” after he joined in a brawl that broke out in the final quarter of a game between Monagea and St. Patrick’s. Order was eventually restored, and the game finished with Monagea prevailing.
Kenneth Dawson, of St. Patrick’s, was also banned for 12-weeks for abusive treatment of a match official.
The Competition Control Committees of Irish Hurling do not take these incidents lightly. Last May, eight players from teams in Cork and Clare were suspended for a match following a brawl. Cussen’s ban of nearly two years was pinned on him by the Limerick Competition Control Committee. No mention if an appeal to Hurling’s Central Competition Control Committee will be sought.
The people have spoken, and an overwhelming majority (45%) believe that Johnny Depp would be best served portraying Al Davis if he chose to delve into the sports biopic genre of cinema. (good call by Isaac on the submission)
Goodman as Madden. The dude whose playing Biggie Smalls in Notorious as Art Shell. Let’s get this thing greenlit!
Feel free to make other casting suggestions in the comments. Thanks to everyone who submitted and voted in the poll, be on the lookout for another on Friday!
The New York Times posted a video report on the high school rugby team that has been called the Real All Blacks.
The team from the Hyde School, in D.C., was the first all-African American high school rugby team in the country, and remains one of the only inner city programs that exists.
The team went 0-12 their first year, and in the last four, Hyde has gone undefeated in 7-man play. They have even had one of their original members go on to represent the U.S. on the National team. And each player who completed the rugby program has gone on to college.
Check out two more news reports here from ABC (Australian Broadcasting Co.) and TV NZ….
I don’t like it anymore than you do, but let’s be honest, cold, blustery, wintery weather is imminent. Taking the bad with the good, Metro printed a round-up this morning of exotic ski locations for winter sport enthusiasts to check out this winter. Making the list, Lecht Ski Resort in the Eastern Cairngorms of Scotland – where people apparently snowboard in kilts…
If this is what you’re looking for (you crazy kook), I suggest you check out sportkilt.com – your one stop shop for the kilt to fit whatever athletic pursuit you desire to perform while skirting it up. Here are a few of the styles available…
The classic Sport Kilt (or the MacVersatile)
The Commando (it’s Khaki!)
The hiking kilt (might get you goosed)
The Women’s Sport Kilt (popular amongst fem-ruggers across the Isle of Haggis!)
Unlike this guy, Natalie Gulbis doesn’t have five career hole-in-ones (she has two), but, to borrow a line from the incomparable Mitch Hedberg, she did “hit a guy.”
The country’s top eight female roller derby squads will square off next weekend in Portland, OR, with the title of Women’s Flat Track Derby Association National Champion on the line. The tournament will include teams from Texas, Philly, Chicago, Duke City? (Albuquerque, apparently), and of course the high-powered team from NYC known as the Gotham Girls. The Portland Expo Center is expecting upwards of 3,000 fans to come out for the event.
DerbyNewsNetwork.com has the official 2008 WFTDA Championship Bracket up on there site, and you can go log-in and edit and share your own bracket.
Stay tuned, as I try to find out if they’ll be any online or TV coverage of the tournament. And good luck, ladybadasses!
