Even Barbie loves Tebowing...

These days it seems you can’t escape the “Tim Tebow” craze. Everywhere you turn he is popping up. On the cover of your Sports Illustrated… Countless segments on SportsCenter… Taking up clips during every pregame & postgame show.

As with any craze in the twenty first century, fans have turned to the internet to spread the phenonmen. It all started with “Tebowing” & now has even taken over YouTube.

Here are a few gems from the many “Tim Tebow” tributes flying around the internet.

**Disclaimer – These videos were not choosen based on musical talent. Consider yourself warned.**

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Just because it exists, please enjoy this video of Wayne Rooney playing charades with Ryan Giggs and Johnny Evans, for some reason:

Wayne Rooney in the Big United Quiz very funny by kokoretsi

This photo is completely unrelated to this post. Completely. Unrelated.

A screenplay by Tara Franey

Sexually Transmitted Destiny

Tagline: You can’t use protection … against love.

From the second assistant to the producer of last year’s box-office smash “Clap Hitter” comes a laugh-out-loud sports comedy about love, lies, and loading the bases.

All-star outfielder Brian Rawn is facing a steroids charge, and his sleazy agent wants him to claim that he was on herpes medication to get out of it! He would never have gone along with the idea if it weren’t for his mother’s enormous medical bills. Now, the league is demanding an official VD test, and Brian needs to catch more than just a hard hit liner to left.

Desperate, he heads to an STD group counseling session, looking for someone who has a prescription for Valtrex, and is willing to share. But he never expected to meet a girl like Robin Miller, whose off-the-wall style and contagious smile begins to change Brian’s outlook on baseball, disease, and love.

Now, with the testing date just around the corner, and Robin starting to ask some uncomfortable questions, Brian’s wondering if he’ll have to choose between baseball and love. But when the truth comes out, he might just lose both.

Rated PG-13 for language, sexual situations, and Affliction T-shirts.

Come see what critics are already calling “the best baseball venereal disease rom-com of 2012.” In theaters this Valentine’s Day!

*Characters and events contained in this movie are fictional and any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.

** Movies contained in this blog post are fictional and any resemblance to real movies is purely coincidental.

Tyler Thigpen, QB of many words. (photo via J. Van Meter)

Last week, Coastal Carolina University unceremoniously fired their head football coach, David Bennett (you might remember his cats and dogs speech). Up until now, Bennett had been the first and only head coach at CCU, as their program is only nine years old. He is being reassigned to another position at the school, but many were surprised to hear that he’d been relieved of his coaching duties.

Enter Tyler Thigpen, former Chanticleers QB and current Buffalo Bill. Thigpen was a founding member of the football program at Coastal, and he’s also, apparently, an ardent supporter of Bennett. How ardent? Thigpen wrote a letter of over 6,000 words to Coastal’s Board of Trustees, informing them that, in his opinion, their decision to fire Bennett was an enormous mistake.

He cites Bennett’s devotion and dedication to the program, explaining that he spent money out of his own pocket and worked tirelessly to get the Chants program to a place of excellence. He also says that the CCU administrative body is basically a failure. He claims that they did nothing to help improve the image of or resources behind the football program, and yet expected it to be a top-tier team.

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If you haven’t been following women’s college basketball, consider this your wake up call. Ladies and gents, I introduce you to Skylar Diggins, star junior guard for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Diggins became a near-overnight sensation last season as she and Notre Dame bulldozed their way through the Women’s Final Four, past perennial powerhouses Tennessee and U.Conn (remember Maya Moore and their 90-game winning streak?), straight into the national championship game.

She trended on Twitter. Lil’ Wayne tweeted a good luck message to her, calling her his “wife.”  ESPN The Magazine published a story on her rise to fame in the college baskeball preview issue this season. This doesn’t happen in women’s basketball, right? Wrong.

» Continue reading “Monday Morning Motivation: Skylar Diggins”

This adorable pitcher is the main character. Doesn't he alone make you want to watch it?

Every so often, Steph will write reviews of sports anime and manga. Why? She likes them and she thinks you should watch them, too. If you like sports, you’ll like these series.

This is my all-time favorite show. I’m not even going to beat around the bush with that one. It’s actually taken me some time to write this review because I don’t even think I can begin to give this show the justice it deserves. It’s woefully underwatched in the United States, too. When I’m at an anime convention and somebody else knows the show, I immediately exchange online contact information with them so we can make friends – that’s how rare it is to find people who like it outside of the internet.

Anyway, let me take a few minutes to tell you all why this is the greatest show ever made and why you all need to watch it immediately, especially if you love baseball. This isn’t a cartoon. This is an extremely realistic depiction of baseball that happens to be animated. I have looked high and low for a better depiction of baseball. I have yet to find anything that captures the heart and essence of the game as well as this show.

The show’s title in Japanese is Ookiku Furikabutte, shortened to ‘Oofuri‘ by the fanbase. Its first season received an English dub and went under the somewhat painful sounding name of ‘Big Windup!’ but most fans generally choose to ignore that name because it sounds silly. You can find stuff regarding it by searching for either name, however. (In fact, if you search for a specific character on Google, I’m one of the first results to come up. But let’s not talk about that.)

» Continue reading “Review: Ookiku Furikabutte/Big Windup”

Courtesy of WikiCommons

Poor Lakers fans. Missing out on Chris Paul and losing Lamar Odom was bad enough.  Now comes the news that their superstar shooting guard Kobe Bryant is going through some personal issues.

It seems his wife Vanessa has finally had enough of his cheating ways and has filed for divorce. Well, it’s about damn time, girlfriend! What the hell took you so long?

According to TMZ, Vanessa filed the papers earlier today and cited the always popular “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split.

Sources connected with the couple tell TMZ … Vanessa — who stuck by Kobe after he was charged with sexually assaulting a Colorado woman in 2003 — decided to end the marriage because she believes Kobe has been unfaithful … again.

The soon to be former Mrs. Bryant is asking for joint custody of their two daughters, Natalia and Giana, and also according to TMZ – and this is pretty damn funny – there was no prenup, so Vanessa is entitled to half of Kobe’s massive fortune.

Oh Kobe. I think I just bruised my forehead from face palming so hard.

» Continue reading “Vanessa Bryant Files For Divorce And The Only One Shocked is Kobe”

After seeing this gem of a post by the folks at Jezebel.com on whether or not you should sleep with Tim Tebow, it got me and a few of the other Aerys ladies talking:

If you slept with Tim Tebow, what would be in his Jeter Basket?  What would other athletes put in their Jeter Baskets?  Well, this is what we came up with…

Cristiano Ronaldo (courtesy of Kayla Knapp):

1. Hair gel
2. Self-tanner
3. Signed pair of Armani underwear

Charles Barkley:

1. An IOU
2. Discount for WW

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Need a Christmas present for Sam Hurd?

Can someone send Sam Hurd The Wire: The Complete Series?  Seems he didn’t get the memo that drug dealers don’t use cellphones.  (Kids, this is why you watch TV.  You learn things.  Sheesh.)

As reported earlier this week, Bears WR Sam Hurd was arrested for trying to set up a drug distribution network in the city of Chicago.  Yeah, TRYING.  Guess it’s hard to succeed when the person you are trying to set up this whole thing with is an undercover agent.  Well done, Sam.

Not only is Hurd in trouble, he’s also bringing down his clients.  Apparently now there is a list of at least 20 NFL players who buy from Hurd.  There are probably a few nervous Dallas Cowboys out there.  Do we think this list will be released before or after the playoffs?

My favorite quote from all of this came from the criminal complaint filed against Hurd:

“…his co-conspirator is in charge of doing the majority of the deals as HURD focuses on the “higher-end” deals. HURD subsequently inquired if the UCA (undercover operative) and the CI (confidential informant involved in the case) could provide him with Mexican cellular telephones, as HURD believed that law enforcement did not have the capability of “listening” to Mexican telephones.”

I’m sure those Mexican telephones are hard to hack.  You can’t make this stuff up.

Sam, Derek Jeter thanks you for being a bigger idiot than he was this week.

While reading a few Tweets, I came to a few conclusions…

I’m not convinced Ochocinco knows how eHarmony works…or steroids…

» Continue reading “Twitter Thursday: What I Learned This Week On The Internets”