Bryce Harper is all the rage, everyone wants to get close to him and right now he can pretty much go anywhere and do anything. So, if you're a 19-year-old dude what is your plan for a Tuesday night out? Why, you take in a UFC fight of course, and being a high-profile athlete, you get to hobnob with the other beautiful people, like UFC ring girl, Playboy centerfold and owner of an incredible hot ass, Brittney Palmer.
Make sure you get those digits Bryce, being a phenom I hear is very useful in getting chicks. I should know, I was the best water-skier among Jewish teenagers in the Massachusetts summer camp scene for two years.
[Cagewriter]
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Australian Olympian Russell Mark will be attending his sixth Olympic Games this summer, and after a bet made while drunk, he might just do so looking especially sporting. The former gold and silver winner in double trap shooting reportedly agreed to wear Borat's infamous mankini to the Opening Ceremonies if his favorite Aussie Rules football team, Carlton, lost to St. Kilda. Carlton lost.
"I must have been intoxicated," Mark said, "Carlton promise so much and just deliver so little. It kills me.
"Anyway, a lot of people would think a mankini might look better than the uniform they've nominated for us, so I don't know if it's such a bad thing."
While in most countries this would result in a sharp rebuke from the national Olympic Committee, this being Australia the AOC commented saying: "Age is the problem here. Russell is no spring chicken, his days of being a model are long gone, and we don't think it would be a good look for the team to have Russell in a mankini."Besides, this will be his sixth Olympics and he has a chance to be named as flag bearer. Imagine the flag bearer out in front of our team in a mankini. And a big, butch shooter at that.
"As we all know the London weather is fickle and we would not want him to catch cold."
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Before the Icy-Hot on his balls forced him to leave the game, Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals experienced a 10-minute rain delay in the first inning. However, after the showers passed over the stadium and the game was ready to resume (with the bases loaded and Strasburg facing a 3-2 count) there was just one small problem: there was only one umpire on the field.
Home plate umpire and crew chief Brian Gorman was behind the plate, ready to work but the rest of his crew were still in their locker room...
Oops!
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Former Phoenix Suns sharpshooter (and NBA Jam superstar) Dan Majerle took in the Diamondbacks/Giants game on Saturday from the pool suite out in the outifeld. As he was making himself a plate of food the D-Backs' Gerardo Parra hit a ground-rule double. Standing in the right-place at the right-time, Majerle makes the easy grab; then he proceeds to do a bizarre robot man reaction until the cameras are off.
So that's something! Hey Dan, you're kind of a weirdo—not that there's anything wrong with that...
[SB Nation]
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I've been following the protests of the Ukrainian women's group, FEMEN, for several years now. As everyone who knows me is aware, I am deeply concerned about the plight of women in the former Soviet republics—and FEMEN protests generally feature women topless. So I stood up and took notice when 23-year-old Yulia Koypachik stripped off her shirt and grabbed the Euro-2012 trophy while it was being displayed in Kiev on Saturday.
Revealing the words "Fuck Euro 2012" on her torso, Koypachik was quickly seized by the security people before she could make off with the trophy. FEMEN is concerned that next month's Euro-2012 tournament will result in increased sex tourism—a legit concern considering the Ukraine is already a major exporter of women for prostitution—and use their topless protests to bring attention to their causes.
Well, I'm paying attention!
Koypachik was led off (under a sheet) by police and released later in the evening after being charged with "hooliganism," if convicted she could face 15 days in jail and a 800 hryvnias ($99) fine.
[Reuters]
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Korean pop starlet Jessica Jung (of "Girls' Generation" of course) was invited to throw out the first pitch at a game in South Korea recently. Despite being American-born it doesn't appear she learned how to play the National Passtime.
Definitely not the WORST first pitch ever—but it's in the running for the top-5.
[Sports Grid]
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If your spring plans included a late ski trip to Desna Mountain (above) in North Bohemia, Czech Republic, think again; in April an enterprising thief somehow stole an entire SKI LIFT off the side of a mountain.
This wasn't like shoplifting some candy from a store, the perpetrator(s) took over a kilometer of wire-rope, three posts with pulleys and the steel supporting structures. All told the police estimate the damage at 200,000 crowns ($10,000) and remain baffled by the theft. It remains unclear whether the intent was to sell the lift as scrap or if it might in fact be installed somewhere else.
I'm most impressed by these thieves, that is not an easy lift, it reminds me of some Ohio thieves a couple years ago who stole a whole boxing ring out of a gym.
[Unofficial Networks]
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Tennis great Roger Federer won his third Madrid Open title over the weekend and did so in front of Hollywood stars Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith. In a bit of cross-marketing, after being presented with his trophy for winning the tournament, Federer was given a special gift from Will Smith in front of the crowd: Smith's Men in Black suit.
Neat?
When did tennis turn into Planet Hollywood?
I AM impressed though that Smith presented the memorabilia in Spanish but unless Federer wears the suit to play in the next Grand Slam event I'm going to be VERY unhappy.
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It may be time for some geography lessons for the fans of Athletic Bilbao's soccer team after a group of 400 fans missed out on seeing their squad play in the Europa League final. The trouble started when the fans arrived in Budapest, Hungary, instead of Bucharest, Romania where the match between Athletic Bilbao and Atletico was taking place. After realizing their error the group attempted to make the several hundred mile journey to Hungary except there was one teensy little problem: they couldn't locate Budapest on a map...
The only good news is that the malapropped fans avoided seeing their favorite team lose in the final to their rival.
Getting there is only half the battle.
[Metro]
Vanity Fair and Bo Derek wanted to celebrate Lady Godiva's maybe-it-happened-maybe-it-didn't naked horseback ride to protest taxes and so they did the only reasonable thing: posing professional jockey Chantal Sutherland naked atop a retired horse.
Makes sense to me. Sutherland isn't just a pretty face though, she has legit racing cred.
But, it's Friday and I've already used the word naked so nothing else I write matters.
Enjoy the weekend!
[Vanity Fair]
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