Hype Video - USC Football Is 9 (Read: Juju) Days Away

Hype videos are the best this time of year, and this one is no different.  Adoree Jackson is going to be really fun to watch.  Selecting my football season desktop wallpaper has been tougher than usual this season.  Historically I have gone with the media guide rendition on the top, but I think I like the bottom one more this year.  The dates are easier to remember.

Virginia Tech List Of Fines For Football Players

Virginia Tech coaches have resorted to fining players for any sort of infractions, as if the measly allowance the players are receiving needs to be reined in for some reason.  The Virginia Tech AD immediately discontinued the policy today, especially after the NCAA attorneys realized that such a policy treated players exactly like employees.  Can't have that.  Beamer Ball might take a hit in recruiting because of this, or at least it should.  And $50 for a dirty locker versus $30 for missed class is a bad look.

Salt In The Wound - Kobe & Shaq Talk "What Could Have Been"

For Lakers fans into S&M, head over to Bleacher Report for a breakdown of The BIG podcast with Shaq featuring Kobe Bryant yesterday.  Normally people wait for retirement to reminisce about what could've been, but we all know Kobe isn't normal.  I hope this sort of conversation shows maturity - the type of maturity where he knows to take the veteran's minimum if/when he decides to come back for 2016-2017.  The alley-oop against the Blazers is my favorite Kobe/Shaq moment of all time.

 
PS - I'm ashamed I forgot that it was Scottie Pippen who Kobe embarrassed on this play.

$900 Flamethrower Available For Everyone Not In The People's Republic Of California

Supposedly there is talk of some sort of legislation outlawing flamethrowers now that they are commercially available, and the owner says the prospect of prohibition has only driven sales higher for his company.  With 3D Printing capabilities jumping forward by leaps & bounds, I don't understand the point in banning almost anything anymore.  I saw the topic of gun control come up again today, and my argument is always the same.  Why not make cocaine, heroin, and meth illegal too?  That will finally get guns and drugs off the streets.

The Oregon Duck Remakes Alabama Alpha Phi Rush Video

Anything that pokes fun at the faux internet outrage police is A okay in my book.  I'm still in shock the recruitment video below even made headlines.  It's basically a C+ effort, even though it has all the prerequisites: Slow motion, glitter blowing, bubbles, pop song with techno chorus - check, check, check, check.  The Stanford band only wishes they could come up with something half as funny.  Or as a cross-faded Sarkisian so eloquently put it, "They all suck."

This is still the Oregon Duck's finest work.

The Karate Kid - Daniel Is The REAL Bully

I could watch hilarious internet perspectives on classic movies all day.  The hardest I laughed was when the narrator points out that Danny doesn't even know the rules before entering the tournament.  The only problem I have is the lack of respect for one of the greatest movie villains of all time.

 

And for shits and giggles, get a load of these Roman Candle machine guns.

Gary Baba Booey Dell'Abate In Fake 30 for 30

I don't listen to enough Howard Stern.  I used to have XM Radio over the internet, but my roommate's work stopped paying for it.  You can't watch golf anymore without hearing a "Baba Booey" call after somebody's tee shot.  But claiming that Gary's first pitch was anywhere as awful as 50 Cent's atrocity is simply irresponsible.