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Morning Head: You were better than Kevin Na, at least for one hole

Larissa Riquelme, who for a month last summer, reminded us that how much you love your country and its soccer team, the promise of a naked run by a model with boobs like that is enough to make us all root for Paraguay. Of course, then we all found out that she's already posed naked, and we didn't need Paraguay to win to see them, after all.

Yesterday, Kevin Na made us all feel better about our golf games by shooting a 16 on a par-4 in a PGA event. Now, I'm not a good golfer, by any means, but I don't think I've ever shot a 16 on a hole. Sure, I normally just pick my ball up at 10 or just kick the ball out of the woods after enough frustration. He took it remarkably well, which is awesome. I would have been pissed off for a day, and I don't play professionally. He still shot an 80, which is about 10 strokes better than I've ever done on a course not near as tough as the one he was playing. (The Big Lead)

Phil Coke was outstanding last night in a 3-0 win against Coco Crisp's afro. This game reminded me that I'm getting old, as I fell asleep in the fifth inning, so I don't really have anything to tell you about it, other than the recliner in my living room is super comfortable. (Freep)

Two higher seeds were shutout Thursday night, while the other needed overtime to come up with a win in an interesting night of playoff hockey. Ryan Miller went all Olympic style on the Flyers in a 1-0 win; Carey Price apparently can only win playoff games against the Boston Bruins, and did so in a 2-0 win for the Canadiens; and the Kings gave the Sharks more trouble than I think anyone -- including the players in the Kings locker room -- thought they would before losing on a Joe Pavelski (of course) goal in overtime. This after the Sharks scored 28 seconds into the game, prompting Kurtenblog to tweet what we all were thinking.

I'm really only linking to this because of the picture, but there is some interesting news in this Deadspin piece. If higher courts continue to rule in favor of the plaintiffs in cases like this one, it could not only kill tabloid journalism (not that that's a bad thing), but could create a fuzzy privacy law about things that publications are allowed to print (that's a bad thing). (Deadspin)

In a bit of shocking news, Joe Mauer has been put on the 15-day DL. He has leg weakness, and it once again intent on destroying your fantasy baseball season. Seriously, other than Greg Oden, has there ever been a player so promising with so many injury issues? But leg weakness? Really, Joe? (Twin Cities)

If there was a freshman in college basketball this year that wound up being as disappointing as Kyrie Irving -- albeit for different reasons -- it was Josh Selby. So, of course, Selby is joining Irving in declaring for the NBA Draft. Can we just drop the "you have to go to college for one year" rule, please? (SI.com)

The first test of the new Emergency Financial Manager law is going to be in the Detroit schools, where they've had an EFM for the past couple years in Robert Bobb. Now, he essentially has unlimited power, and on top of the district laying off about 5,500 people, he's also going to modify union contracts, which are null and void under the new law. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that this won't help education in Detroit. Side note: I love it when people use the word "bamboozled" and they're not joking. (Freep)

I'm not a sitcom guy -- the only show that's sucked me in over the past few years has been "Lost" -- so I've never consistently watched "The Office." I appreciate it, and I loved the British version, but I've never made it a point to watch the show. I did watch this clip, however, and I'm excited about the possibilities. (Huffington Post)

There is an astronaut tweeting from space. It's official, Twitter has taken over the world. By the way, I bet he gets amazing cell service up there, being that close to the satellites and all. (Twitter)

Today's Amazingness is just in time for lunch:

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