Thursday, May 3, 2012
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Two Blonde Blow-Up Dolls Got Motorcycle Rides On The Arkansas Campus Today
This statement from a couple of U. of Arkansas students has the Eyeball Liberty Seal of Approval.
Subtle genius.....
Source: Deadspin Two Blonde Blow-Up Dolls Got Motorcycle Rides On The Arkansas Campus Today
Monday, April 9, 2012
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
The Marlins Opened Their New Stadium In The Saddest, Most Awkward Way Possible
Very sad video of Ali. Why did they have to cart him in all the way from centerfield? Watch the video. Like the article states, very awkward and sad.
The Marlins Opened Their New Stadium In The Saddest, Most Awkward Way Possible
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Excerpts From The Long-Lost Script For Monday Night Football: The Cartoon
So
total at the time was Cosell's saturation of culture that Irwin Weiner,
an ABC Sports vice president for twenty years, once came up with a
concept for a Saturday morning kids' series called "Monday Night
Football: The Cartoon", one that would turn Cosell, Gifford and Meredith
into animated characters.
This isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, given the success of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and the animation of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" and "The Harlem Globetrotters."
Weiner was told the first person he needed to get approval from was Cosell. Having never met him, Weiner swallowed hard and set up a meeting at Cosell's office. But he had barely begun to pitch the project when he was silenced.
"Young man," he was asked, "do you know whom you're speaking to? I am the biggest name in show business today. And you want to make a cartoon character out of me?"
This isn't as bad an idea as it sounds, given the success of the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" and the animation of Bill Cosby's "Fat Albert" and "The Harlem Globetrotters."
Weiner was told the first person he needed to get approval from was Cosell. Having never met him, Weiner swallowed hard and set up a meeting at Cosell's office. But he had barely begun to pitch the project when he was silenced.
"Young man," he was asked, "do you know whom you're speaking to? I am the biggest name in show business today. And you want to make a cartoon character out of me?"
Continue Reading.....Excerpts From The Long-Lost Script For Monday Night Football: The Cartoon
Friday, March 2, 2012
50 years ago today, a few thousand saw Wilt hit 100 | jacksonville.com
Associated Press
Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign to celebrate his 100-point effort on March 2, 1962.
By
PHILADELPHIA -- Wilt Chamberlain didn’t just tower over his peers, he left records that endured for decades. And for 50 years, one mighty number has stood as the Mount Everest of sport’s magic numbers.
100 points.
At 25, Chamberlain had already crafted a career built on steady, sustained and spectacular excellence. Playing at 7-foot-1 and 260 pounds for the Philadelphia Warriors, he held the single-game record of 78 points (in three overtimes) and the regulation mark of 73 in January 1962.
One hundred points was no flash of momentary greatness. It was a fireball of scoring unlikely ever to be topped — and put Chamberlain everywhere from the record book to “The Ed Sullivan Show” to an unmatched spot in the short list of sport’s all-time unbelievable performances.
But on March 2, 1962 at the Hershey Sports Arena, hardly anyone noticed.
There were no TV cameras. Sports writers were scarce — and so were the fans. Only 4,124 (at $2.50 a ticket) attended the game, in fact, between the Warriors and the New York Knicks as the 1961-62 season dwindled down. Untold numbers of people claimed they were there to witness history, however.
And why not? The milestone, after all, changed the game forever.
“The 100-point game was a hyperbolic announcement of the rise of the black athlete in basketball,” said author Gary Pomerantz, who wrote the complete narrative of that game in the 2005 book, “WILT, 1962: The Night of 100 Points and the Dawn of a New Era.
No NBA star has really come close to scoring 100 points. Los Angeles Lakers star Kobe Bryant had the luxury of the 3-point shot (he hit seven) when he scored 81 on Jan. 22, 2006. Michael Jordan never topped 69. Allen Iverson hit 60. David Robinson scored 10 fewer field goals than Chamberlain made in the 100-point game when he scored 71 in 1994.
“I’d hate to try and break it myself,” Chamberlain said, according to Pomerantz’s book.
Chamberlain played all 48 minutes in Philadelphia’s 169-147 win over the Knicks. He shot 36 of 63 from the floor and an un-Wilt-like 28 of 32 from the free-throw line.
“I personally don’t think it will ever happen again,” said Chamberlain’s Warriors teammate, Al Attles.
Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points a game that season.
“I played one game where he got 78 points, and we lost,” Attles said.
At least not through the first three quarters, when Chamberlain scored 69.
“Wilt tried to come out of the game before he got the 100 points. But [coach] Frank McGuire would not take him out,” Attles said. “Wilt wasn’t the kind of guy to say, ‘OK, I’m tired, take me out.’ He’d listen to the coach. And Frank McGuire acted like he couldn’t hear him. He just turned. But unbeknownst to us, he had made a pact with Wilt when Wilt first got there that Wilt was going to average 50 points a game and one day score 100. And he averaged 50. And, of course, a 100-point game was absolutely incredible.”
The Wilton Norman Chamberlain Postal Stamp Committee is holding a luncheon to continue its push to put Chamberlain on a stamp. “Wilt 100,” an NBA TV original film narrated by Chamberlain’s chief rival and good friend, Hall of Famer Bill Russell, premieres at 7 p.m. today.
The Sixers recently purchased the court that was stored in Hershey. The Sixers donated part of the court to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and all fans at tonight’s game vs. the Warriors will receive a mounted 2-by-2-inch piece.
Sixers CEO Adam Aron said part of the floor will be given to Chamberlain’s three sisters at halftime.
“It’s going to be all Wilt, all night long,” Aron said.
Chamberlain still looms large in the NBA — no matter there’s no video of his feat or he can’t be around to celebrate the mark at 50. “You can’t see him scoring 100 points,” Pomerantz said, “but you feel his presence.”
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/sports/basketball/nba/2012-03-02/story/50-years-ago-today-few-thousand-saw-wilt-hit-100#ixzz1o0kxmn9L
Friday, February 10, 2012
Super Bowl XLVI Gigapan - Sports Illustrated photographer David Bergman and Josh Lehrer created this Gigapan during the New York Giants 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. - NFL - SI.com
Super Bowl XLVI Gigapan
Sports Illustrated photographer David Bergman and Josh Lehrer created this Gigapan during the New York Giants 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. - NFL - SI.com
Sports Illustrated photographer David Bergman and Josh Lehrer created this Gigapan during the New York Giants 21-17 victory over the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLVI at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. - NFL - SI.com
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