Eat My Sports: The three-feat

This week I’m feeling scatterbrained, when it comes to sports and pop-culture as a whole, this week basically exploded with things to hit on, which is why I’m going to focus on the three that I thought were the biggest.

1. Aaron Hernandez
I don’t know why this story has captivated me so much, but all signs point to to this man has played his last down in the NFL, and that in all likelihood, has numbered free days left. Maybe Hernandez was in the wrong spot at the wrong time, but destroying his cell phone and home surveillance equipment don’t exactly add up to the actions of an innocent man. The details keep getting more and more dark, along with Hernandez’ past, all of which add up to the wrong kind of offseason news for Hernandez and the Pats Continue reading Eat My Sports: The three-feat

Jonathan Simkins and the Towering Waspferno

"So the people of central Florida gave me this medal afterwards. And they were all, 'This is our highest honor; we don't even give it to Wookies.' And I was all, 'Thanks.'"
“So the people of central Florida gave me this medal afterwards. And they were all, ‘This is our highest honor; we don’t even give it to Wookies.’ And I was all, ‘Thanks.'”

Most of us, when faced with two or three wasps building a nest, emit a scream only dogs can hear while ducking and spraying it. Entomologist Jonathan Simkins, however, took out the Death Star of yellow jacket nests — 6 feet tall, 8 feet wide — all on his lonesome and lived to tell the tale.

And, if he hadn’t lived to tell it, then at least he caught it all on video:

Source: WFLA-TV News Channel 8

Simkins estimates that he faced thousands of queens and millions of drones and, ultimately, defeated both with spray and his own secret technique. We can’t say that this involved firing two torpedoes at a small thermal exhaust port less than two meters wide, triggering a chain reaction to the reactor core … but since it’s a trade secret, then yes, that’s absolutely what he did.

Eat it, Wedge.