Breakout Knicks guard and Harvard grad Jeremy Lin has given hope to college graduates from around the country that they too can succeed in the NBA, long seen as a place where only men who didn’t complete — or in some cases never even attended — college could flourish.
Read More“All was going well until he was told it was time to leave,” said a Disney PR spokesperson. “Eli started freaking out because he hadn’t had a chance to ride the teacups yet.”
Congrats to Jeremy B. and Pat L. who will share the inaugural prize in our monthly $100 giveaway for The Heckler’s most popular post of January. Their “Justin Tuck adds six more bars to his facemask for NFC Championship” article and image was hands-down our most popular piece of the month.
From Tebowing to Bradying, fan poses have taken the Internet by storm. Here’s a list of the other popular poses that will soon be taking the web by storm.
In the wake of signing Cuban defector, pitcher Gerardo Concepcion, the Cubs have made no bones that their willing to go after talent from the Caribbean island. In fact, recent reports have linked the Cubs to other Cuban prospects including Yoenis Cespedes and Jorge Soler.
Although somewhat of a rarity in professional team sports, the Cubs have made an announcement that they are officially endorsing Mitt Romney for president. The announcement comes on the heels of a number of speeches Romney recently made in which he outlined his plan to get people to “self-deport.”
“There simply is not enough talent, after this off-season, to remain in the major leagues,” said Selig. “One team is liable to make the playoffs with 70 wins.”
While many fans in attendance at Wednesday night’s Hornets-Bulls game enjoyed Will Ferrell’s offbeat player introductions, some of basketball’s elite minds weren’t the least bit amused.
Jeremy Lin is the first Asian-American to play in the NBA since 1947. If you were to ask some Knicks fans, that was also the last time the team was competitive.
Kendrick Perkins spent the evening in a Los Angeles hospital after Blake Griffin mounted a thunderous dunk over the entire body of the Oklahoma City center.
“I wanted the guys to see the folks who work there,” said Quenneville. “That they’re real people and not evil overlords hell-bent on our destruction. Because Kaner’s been having nightmares.”
The Chicago Blackhawks are playing the Vancouver Canucks this evening. Naturally, Vancouver goalie Roberto Luongo will be on the bench.
“He wore it around Ottawa all Saturday night,” said Blackhawks teammate and fellow All-Star Marian Hossa. “And then he showed up at the Arena this morning. I bet he wears it on the flight out of here too.”
ESPN color man Dick Vitale suffered massive cranial trauma Wednesday night when his head spontaneously combusted after Duke’s Austin Rivers sunk a last-second, three-point field goal to push the Blue Devils past North Carolina.
After falling to .500 in the Big Ten, the Indiana men’s basketball team has been declared an official choking hazard by the United States Food and Drug Administration.
The writing was on the wall that the 2011 college football season would be full of catastrophes the minute the Terrapins walked out onto the field to play Miami back in September in uniforms that could be best described as shockingly hideous.
