Al Michaels Tells DP To Go "Get Lucky"

On that note...

OJ Simpson's On A Hunger Strike

The Juice is going on a hunger strike in prison, as he is so depressed after losing his appeal against bogus kidnapping charges last year.  He's quoted, "I used to live my way, and now I'm going to die my way."  I don't normally give hunger strike stories much of a 2nd look for a couple of reasons.  In the case of Guantanamo Bay, I'm fine with all of those unfortunate souls starving to death, so good riddance.  But in the United States, especially with someone as high profile as OJ, they're going to put him on a feeding tube before anything bad actually happens anyway.  A closer reading of the article goes on to explain that his children get his pension money if he dies in jail.  If he gets paroled in 4 years, the Goldman's are still entitled to millions of dollars in restitution for a crime he clearly didn't commit.  See below.

In other news, we have moved into 2nd place in the medal count behind Norway and in front of Canada.  Two downhill skiers tied for the gold medal, yet they refuse to use thousandths of a second for no discernible reason.  Comcast & Time Warner are scissoring into the world's worst cable provider / monopoly, only furthering the cutting of cords nationwide.  My true fear of women wising up to their subsidizing of my sports programming just got one step closer to coming true.  I randomly looked up Curling shoes last night, since I have no idea how they work.  My search didn't really help.  Then I saw this.  Makes sense.

Halfpipe Evolution

I was thinking that the halfpipe had turned much more into the superpipe, but I had no idea how much the dimensions have changed since Nagano in 1998.  Double the height and 1/3 longer is quite a difference.  Supposedly the wider flat bottom is easier on the knees, but I think this is just an attempt to send Shaun White & Co. that much higher.  In other news, America's ho-hum Olympics rolls on after yesterday without medals in the halfpipe or 1000m speed skating.  And to make matters worse, we're losing to our hat.

And this is just fun to look at.

Ski Ballet Is Better Than Figure Skating

I have been fairly underwhelmed with NBC's Olympic coverage thus far, so I wish events like this could take over for night #5 of figure skating pairs.  I love curling, even though are American teams are getting curbstomped.  The Brits actually hung a 7 pointer on the US women earlier this morning.  I've played shuffleboard with my "thousand yard" blackout stare better than that.  Just disappointing.

Kentucky's New Basketball Stadium - Rupp Arena

The new Rupp Arena is scheduled to be ready for the Fall of 2017.  Deadspin just posted this video below about a 7'1" Durant-esque high school sophomore named Thon Maker.  Remember that name, because Rupp Arena is going to have a great tipoff season when he makes a pit stop there.

PS - Thon Maker is such a good name, it has to be fake.  Maybe Jonathon Maker.

Jay Cutler DOOOONNNNNTTTTT CAAAAARRRRREEEEE

H/T to Kissing Suzy Kolber - An anonymous random Bears fan sent in this hilarious Jay Cutler story that is perfectly believable.  Maybe a little too believable.

Friend is in a bar in Chicago during the off-season. He goes to the bathroom and sees Jay Cutler, hat on backwards, taking a piss at the urinal. So the guy starts going to the bathroom and says, “Hey, I’m a huge fan, also went to Vanderbilt… ”

Jay throws his head back, still pissing, eyes half-closed because he’s drunk, interrupts him with, “DOOOONNNNNTTTTT CAAAAARRRRREEEEE.”

So now I can’t stop yelling, “DOOOOONNNNNTTTTT CAAAAARRRRREEEE.”

I would apologize ahead of time to my roommates for my new catch phrase, but I DOOOOONNNNNTTTTT CAAAAARRRRREEEEE.

I Can't Stop Looking At Costas' Pinkeyes