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May 12, 2012

Rangers-Caps Game 7: 2-0 Rangers After 2

Playoff hockey is a world of its own. Game 7 playoff hockey – out of its own world.

• Here’s the NHL “ice-tracker.”

• Live blog from WaPo. And from Hockey Inside/Out.

• Live Blog from USA Today looks good. Bleacher Report too.

• If you’re into this sort of thing: Here’s the Twitter feeds of the Rangers…and of the Caps.

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• Rangers score, 1:32 of the first period.

1P 18:00 First goal has won each game in the series

by Mike Boone 9:44 AM

• After 2 periods Rangers are up in shots 20-19.

* 11:25 in third – have to go! Yikes! What a game!

Posted by Thom

Tags: Sports

May 4, 2012

RIP, Adam Yauch

New York Times:

Adam Yauch, one of the founders of the seminal hip-hop group the Beastie Boys, has died of cancer at the age of 47, his mother, Frances Yauch, said in a phone conversation.

Interview Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, the Beastie Boys.

Beastie Boys in Glasgow, 1999. (The whole show.)

RIP, Adam Yauch.

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Posted by Thom

Tags: Music, Sports

April 29, 2012

Fans Moon Phenom’s First MLB Hit [updated]

They just made your first hit unforgettable, Bryce.

Update: Someone yanked that last video – so here’s a new one. (You can run – but you can’t hide, Baseball Moon Shot!):

Bet those guys are friends of Harper. (Update: Maybe not.)

Hockey Bon Jovi Sings Bob Dylan

Wo.

If you’re watching the Rangers-Senators Game 5 tonight, look behind the Rangers bench for the big, blond-haired dude. That’s Jim Schoenfeld, Rangers assistant general manager. Schoenfeld was an NHL defenseman in the 1970s and 1980s, most of those years with the Buffalo Sabres. He was known for brutal hits, lots of penalty minutes, and a willingness to lie down in front of the wickedest, hardest, nastiest slapshots anybody threw at him. The dude was tough. (He also went on to coach several NHL teams until the late 1990s.)

Jim Schoenfeld also made a rock and roll album in 1971.

We did not know this. (How? How did we not know this?)

Check this out:

He actually kinda look like Jon Bon Jovi there, doesn’t he? Hey – let’s call him “Hockey Bon Jovi”! That’s Jim Schoenfeld’s new nickname, as decreed by the BRI!

Now let’s listen to the opening track:

“Schony” finishes up with “Hey Bulldog.” Gotta say one thing: Hockey Bon Jovi has good taste!

You can listen to the entire album here.

(Thanks to Jeff K. in Buffalo for pointing this out to us. Thanks, Jeff!)

Posted by Thom

Tags: Music, Sports, Weird

April 6, 2012

Dog Eats Four PGA Masters Tickets

The only paragraph we need, really:

“It bubbles in their stomach; it’s very safe, and they puke in about 10 minutes,” he said. “About 10 minutes later she did what she was supposed to, which was puke up the Masters tickets.”

Rough!

And a weirdly related story, from Uncle John’s SLIGHTLY IRREGULAR Bathroom Reader, page 307:

BIRDIE DOG
Mike Wardrop, a bar manager at the Didsbury Golf Club in Manchester, England, liked to take his German Shepherd, Libby, for walks on the golf course, where Libby liked to pick up stray golf balls and bring them to Wardrop. When one day Libby lost her appetite and began coughing up blood, Wardrop never suspected that Libby might have swallowed some of the golf balls. But when Wardrop took Libby to the vet, “they didn’t even have to do an X-ray; they could hear the balls rattling around,” he says. “They were betting how many would be in there. I think the highest bet was 11, so they were shocked when 28 came out.” $1,100 worth of veterinary and surgery bills later, Libby is back to normal and Wardrop is trying to break her golf ball habit. “I bought her two footballs,” he says. “She can’t swallow them.”

Posted by Thom

Tags: Animals, Sports

March 30, 2012

12yo Does “First Ever” 1080 on Skateboard

Not sure about the “first ever” (ESPN says it is), but this is pretty darn cool. A 1080 is 1080° – three complete revolutions in the air.

The first “uh” when he lands it, before the general shouts of triumph, is too cool. Congrats, Tom Schaar.

The 900 used to be the thing. Not anymore, apparently.

Tony Hawk tweets about it.

Cool time-lapse image of it.

Someone at Gizmodo (Australia) has this to say about it:

Megaramps. Giant wooden launch pads that professional aerialists like Danny Way and Bob Burnquist make their livings off of. As a long-time skateboarder, I have always resented the megaramp trend. Why? It reduces the subtleties and variety of skateboarding to mere spectacle. Who can launch the farthest from the biggest roll in? It turns skateboarders into mere stuntmen. Xtreme Action Sportz Broooo! But despite what Fox Sports and Mountain Dew would have you believe, skateboarding is about more than just the adrenaline rush.

Unless we’re talking about 12 year-old Tom Schaar landing the first ever 1080 on a skateboard. That is. That one made me smile. And made me glad he had a megaramp to launch from.

Posted by Thom

Tags: Sports

March 23, 2012

Borat Wins Again

Ohhhhhhh, dear:

Wo-wo-wee-wah! Kazakh athletes were left enraged after a parody of their national anthem from the spoof film “Borat” was played for a gold medallist at a competition in Kuwait.

Mariya Dmitriyenko won a gold medal in the 75 target event at the 10th Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait, when the offending anthem was played. Instead of hearing “My Kazakhstan”, (you can listen to a excerpt here), she was forced to endure a song that mocked her country.

Aww. She stood through the whole song! Probably wondering what the hoo-yah was going on!

Mqny thanks to BRI fan Joshua for the tip!

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Posted by Thom

Tags: Funny, Oops, Sports

March 6, 2012

Baseball Paragraphs We Cannot Get Enough Of

Not sure if a “Baseball Paragraph” is an actual recognized entity of any kind – but it is now, dang it! Because this paragraph, concerning one Dock Phillip Ellis, Jr., that we just read at Wikipedia, makes us snicker inside ourselves in a way that brings us right back to kid-dom and a hundred gazillion baseball-related memories:

Ellis attempted to hit every batter in the Cincinnati Reds lineup on May 1, 1974, as retaliation for the macing incident in Cincinnati two years earlier. Ellis hit Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, and Dan Driessen in the top of the first inning. Cleanup batter Tony Perez avoided Ellis’s attempts—instead, drawing a walk; and, after two pitches that he aimed at the head of Johnny Bench, Ellis was removed from the game by manager Danny Murtaugh. Ellis’s box score for the game reads as follows: 0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 0 K.

GAH. So funny.

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And it honestly is a coincidence that we have a baseball book. Honestly. We weren’t working on a baseball article or anything. We just came across that paragraph the way you do when you’re using the internet as your personal junk yard/treasure-hunting-ground. But we have to mention the baseball book now, don’t we? I mean it would be dumb not to at this point, right? (And it really is quite good, we must say – humbly, of course!) Pretty sure we have to. Okay.

P.S. Wow. This happened. Wow.

Posted by Thom

Tags: Funny, Sports

February 29, 2012

Oral History of NBA’s Worst Brawl Ever

Jonathan Abrams at ESPN.com’s Grantland has one heck of a read about “The Malice at the Palace,” the 2004 brawl between the Indiana Pacers and Detroit Pistons – and fans – with comments from many of the people involved, including the guy at the very center of the action, Metta World Peace himself.

Excerpt:

Donaghy: It was just mayhem, to the point where you actually feared for your life. We didn’t know at that point if somebody was going to pull a gun or a knife. Fans were coming out onto the floor and challenging players to fights right out on the floor. It was at a level that I’ve never seen before.

It’s a long read – but gripping, and worth every second.

If you didn’t see it, or need a refresher – yowza.