Day: July 17, 2012

Eat My Sports: Making sense by not making sense

The New York KNicks have not been known for making the most rational decisions over the past few years. This, of course is the same franchise that housed Isaiah Thomas as a coach and GM, and also employed Tracy McGrady, Anfernee Hardaway, Stephon Marbury and Steve Francis, roughly about five years after each of their respective primes. So when the word came down that the Knickerbockers would not match the Houston Rockets’ offer sheet on one Jeremy Lin, one word came to mind, stupid.

I mean this is stupid, right? It’s completely obvious that the Knicks, instead of signing a reliable backup point gurad (Jason Kidd) and a proven point guard that works in their system (Raymond Felton), the Knicks should give in to public pressure and give a backloaded four year deal to Lin, who broke down after all of 35 sporatic games and refused to play in the playoffs. Continue reading Eat My Sports: Making sense by not making sense

What do Jenny McCarthy and the Taliban have in common?

You know when you think you have a great idea because nobody’s doing it, and you find out it’s because the Nazis did it, giving you that oogie feeling Indiana Jones got after discovering his girlfriend was a Nazi and banging his dad? Anti-vaccine people, get ready to feel oogie: the Taliban has banned polio vaccines.

In a choice between airstrikes and polio, Taliban militants in North and South Waziristan, Pakistan, have chosen polio. They will prevent health workers and volunteers from immunizing an estimated 280,000 children until the U.S. halts drone airstrikes in the region. So, it’s not because they believe that vaccines cause illness, which is surprisingly scientific for a group of backwards religious fanatics.

But, let’s not get congratulatory here. As Taliban commander, Hafiz Gul Bahadur says, the drone strikes “are worse than polio,” which is a pretty bold statement from a guy who can probably walk. Still, we’re sure this decision won’t hurt their future recruiting at all, so long as they’re comfortable with the next generation Rascal scooter bombing infidels.

Tubing is a competitive sport

It’s the summertime, and allegedly, the living is easy. Floating down a river with some brews and some friends seems like a particularly relaxing thing to do this time of year. And yet somehow it isn’t at least in California.

About 3,000 people showed up over the weekend at the American River for the second annual Rafters Gone Wild, when inexplicably, the rafters went wild. What was supposed to be a leisurely and booze-filled trip down the river ended up in dozens of fights with oars. More so, people threw rocks at fire and rescue boats come to stop the fights.

California knows how to party.