Category: General Sports (Page 29 of 112)

Will Smith brings “And boom goes the dynamite” to Oscars

Remember this kid?

Well, Will Smith paid tribute to him at the Oscars Sunday night:

Few in the crowd probably understood what Smith was referring to, but it was hilarious nonetheless.

I’ve never seen a person get famous after completely butchering a sports segment like this kid did.

SI airbrushes out Danica Patrick’s tattoo in photo shoot

As SPORTSbyBROOKS.com points out, apparently Sports Illustrated wasn’t a big fan of Danica Patrick’s back tattoo, because the mag decided to airbrush it out of a recent photo shoot.

It seems that in the most recent issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED’s swimsuit issue, the folks at SI decided to give part-time race care driver and full-time media darling Danica Patrick the Allen Iverson treatment. The folks over at GUNAXIN were kind enough to point out that the tattoo you can see on the small of her back in the photo above, from Danica’s first SI shoot, has magically disappeared.

Danica Patrick

Danica Patrick

The question is why SPORTS ILLUSTRATED feels the need to edit the tattoo out all of a sudden, as it’s not like it’s grossly oversized or anything offensive. It’s just an American flag morphing into a checkered flag. Whatever the case is, I’m sure you guys will enjoy investigating.

Well, aren’t we all high and mighty after outing A-Rod for steroids?

SI to have models appear in the buff for swimsuit issue?

That’s what the guys from SPORTSbyBROOKS.com are wondering:

With the progression of Sports Illustrated’s racy content, that can only mean one thing. I fully expect that we will see nudity in future Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issues™.

When that will happen, no one knows, but I have great confidence in the folks at Time, Inc. They’ve proven they can mass market what would otherwise be regarded as softcore adult content to mainstream consumers and advertisers.

It’s an astonishing feat, and I have great admiration for anyone who can convince Southwest Airlines to display images of SI models, who are pictured as (implied) nude and wearing thongs in innumerable SI photo layouts, on its planes. Bravo!

SI has made hundreds of millions of dollars off its Swimsuit™ franchise, and you have to believe that the company wants to continue to up the financial return on the product.

I’m guessing at some point we’ll see an “uncensored” version of the annual feature, which will be accessible through a password-protected subscription service on SI.com.

But would that scare off those mainstream advertisers and users? Or increase market share?
Good question. I have a tendency to think that SI could get away with it. Much like you see PPV porn on hotel televisions and cable and satellite TV systems.

Don’t underestimate the folks at Time, Inc.!

Considering the mag has had the models in paint only for the past couple years, I wouldn’t put it past SI/Time, Inc. either.

Wrestler Chris Jericho punches woman in the face

SPORTSbyBROOKS.com has the insane video of wrestler Chris Jericho punching a woman in the face after leaving a WWE show in Victoria on Saturday.

An eye-witness describes the incident after the video.

He spat in the girl’s face, and called her a “f—ing bitch.” The woman spat in Jericho’s face. Jericho started cursing out the woman some more, and was getting ready to go back into his vehicle (as all of this is still happening in the middle of the road). While he was turning to go into his vehicle, one of the guys he was fighting shoved Jericho against his car. Another guy then shoved Jericho, and that time he bumped his head on the top of his vehicle. This was where Jericho seriously snapped.

After bumping his head, Jericho went into a sh*t storm, throwing and swinging at everybody around him. He knocked one guy to the ground, told another fan that he was going to “f—ing kill you.” The woman who got spit on was still yelling at Jericho, so he pie-faced her away from him (because the arena security couldn’t keep them separated). As soon as he put his hands on the woman, another fan jumped in and started swinging at Jericho. Jericho grabbed the guy and started throwing him to the ground, and at this point I had to yank my girlfriend out of the way and into some other people because Jericho had literally thrown himself and the other guy into our direction and we would of been knocked down by the scuffle.

The arena security try again at this point to regain order, and two of them grabbed Jericho and started yelling at him to calm down. Jericho responded by taking a swing at one of the security guards and yelling at them to “do your f—ing job and get the f—ing police here.” Then he shoved the second guard to the ground and told him to “stay the f— off me”.

Well, as that happens, the chick lunged at Jericho AGAIN, and this time Jericho actually punched the woman in the face, and shoved her to the ground. This stunned everyone, and the girl’s friends ended up jumping in trying to fight Jericho, to which he fought all of them off, then stormed into his vehicle swearing and sped off, running through a stop sign in the process.

Apparently these fans were upset at Jericho for making statements on the WWE show and decided to attack him in mob-like fashion. Let’s rewind. Jericho’s character made remarks on the show that pissed fans off, so they decided to attack him.

Punching a woman in the face is unacceptable in any circumstance. But these security guards clearly offered him zero help in getting him off the premise and Jericho took matters into his own hands. This looks like a case of complete self-defense.

A note to wrestling fans: IT’S NOT REAL. What these characters say on the show isn’t real – they’re acting. Get a grip.

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