So stupid, but so funny. Thanks to my buddy Austin for turning me onto this ...

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Why? Because a lot of people can make you look terrible -- and then put you on YouTube some day.

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The Washington Post's Tracee Hamilton has a piece up today about the joke that is ice dancing. The joke, in this case, is the Olympics' theme of "country/folk" dance. Hamilton's column hits on the controversies sparked by several, um, let's call them ignorant, costumes -- specifically those worn by Russian pair Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin (pictured above).


While the column is worth a slight scanning, the best thing to do is look at the picture gallery that accompanies the article. Pure comedy.


Read the column here, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/21/AR2010022104563.html?hpid=artslot


See the gallery here, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2010/02/19/GA2010021904492.html?sid=ST2010022200139

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as told to Justin Doom

What does the NFL hold for Tim Tebow? Depends whom you ask, and GAME asked Erin Andrews.

Tim Tebow loves a challenge. He told me that even in high school people doubted he could throw the ball or be a winner at Florida, and he said, “Well, it worked out pretty well there.” When I talk to the people who’ve actually played the game, actually coached in the game, and not listen to the talking heads, the guys who’ve never put on a uniform, it’s a pretty different opinion. Steve Young has said, “He’s a rare commodity. You see so many things in Tim that guys in the NFL don’t have.” That’s Steve Young! Are you kidding me? Troy Aikman said he can do it all. Jon Gruden said, “This guy’s totally different, he’s got the makeup of Drew Brees and Rich Gannon.” Tony Dungy said he’d draft Tebow in the top 10 of the first round. I believe those people know what they’re talking about. You’ll see the big draft boards and so forth, but have those guys actually put the pads on? Do they know what goes into winning a game or leading a team? Those guys will say, “Yeah, second or third round at best” or “He’ll never work out as an NFL quarterback,” but guys that have played in the NFL are like, “This guy has it. He’s going to have to work on some things, but he’s got it.”

I think it’s sad when you have a person who wears his emotions on his sleeve and is as good as it gets with faith and charitable work and giving back to a community and wanting to please everybody yet there are so many people who love to hate him and cheer against him. I guess it’s just part of sports, but we cheer for guys who have all of these problems in their personal life or bring things into locker rooms that they shouldn’t, so why would we cheer against somebody like this? It’s just so strange to me. He’s what’s good about sports. He’s what’s exciting about sports. There are always people who want the best to fall, they want the Lakers to lose, they want LeBron not to win a championship, they didn’t want Timmy to win a national championship, but it’s sad.

With me, and I’ll always be a sports fan, but it can be very difficult to be a sports fan when you cover sports, when you believe that certain guys are great guys and then you meet guys you’ve idolized and then they’re not what you thought, it’s such a bummer, such a heartbreaker. That’s what’s so refreshing about Tim, he’s everything that he portrays himself to be. I believe that’s why so many people cheer for him. That’s also why a lot of people don’t cheer for him, and why a lot of people, I think, sadly, hope he fails. They’re sick and tired of how great the kid is.

I’ve never seen anyone in college athletics who works this hard. His mentality is, he just does not want to let people down. That’s his No. 1 focus. Sure, he wants to go in and beat Alabama, and he wanted to go in and beat Oklahoma, but he doesn’t want to let the fanbase down. He doesn’t want to let his family down. It’s something that really, really drives him. When he talks about winning the national championship, he’ll be like, “Gosh, do you know how many people just had great weekends in Miami because we won that game?” That’s how he thinks! Who else thinks like that?

I know people who are really close to him, people who cover the team and they want the guy to do well because they know how much he cares. When he gets done with games he gets so physically ill because he just puts everything he can into it. People who’ve had the opportunity to cover him, to see what he does, to see how jacked up and competitive he is and how much it means to him just can’t help but want to cheer for somebody like that. And in looking at all the stats, and the two national championships, the Heisman, his speech on the plaque at the stadium, I don’t know if he’s the greatest college football player, but I would think that he’d have to go down as one of the greatest.

Maybe more than anything, I’m really excited for what Tim can do in the NFL in terms of community service. It’s so infectious. Being a friend of his, it makes me want to go out and do stuff all the time with his charities and so forth. Last April, he hosted an event where he raised money for the cancer unit in Gainesville and an orphanage in the Philippines. And, really, he doesn’t need me, any little thing I can do to help is great, but he’s got big-time friends everywhere. Being around him makes you reevaluate your life. You think, What else could I be doing? What’s that next challenge?

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by Kevin Whipps

If it weren’t for athletes pushing the boundaries of what their bodies can do, there would never be any advancement in sports. But eventually, luck runs out and a major injury happens which can sideline the pro for months or even years. The best way to hear these stories of pain, injury and suffering is straight from the mouths of the people who went through it all, so that’s exactly what we did. Just remember, don’t try this at home.

Mike Vallely
AKA: Mike V
PROFESSION: Skateboarder, Musician
INJURY: Broken ankle & torn ligament
“I was doing a demonstration at a skate park in Westchester, Penn., and about 10 minutes into the performance I fell awkwardly, and kind of did the splits but then fell back over one of my legs as I was doing the splits. It caused my ankle to fracture in a spiral way, and also causing the big ligament on the other side of the ankle to become detached, causing my ankle to kind of flop around like a dead fish. I heard it break, I felt it. I knew it was bad, but I was so in the zone at the time �” especially when I’m doing these demos, I’m in such an aggressive mindset �” that I really thought I could get up and keep skating for another five or 10 minutes before it swelled up so bad that it caused me to stop. I broke it, I tried to get up immediately and get on my board, and my foot was twisted around behind me. I dropped to the ground and waited for the paramedics. Staying true to my character, I was bummed, but shit happens �” you accept that as a skateboarder very early on. I knew I was hurt, but I’ve been hurt before. I felt worse about the kids who had come there, paid money to see me skate and went out being ripped off from the two hours I was supposed to skate, and only seeing 10 minutes. Before the paramedics got there, I started an autograph line, and people were bending over taking photos with me, while I’m on the ground.”

Damacio
AKA: The Angel of Death
PROFESSION: World Extreme Cagefighting Mixed Martial Artist
INJURY: Broken hand
“I hit the guy and I knocked him out. He was on the floor and I gave him a couple of extra punches. Right after I did it, they pulled me off and brought me to my corner where I felt the pressure in my hand. I thought, ‘Hey, I think I broke it.’ I say to [my manager] Greg, ‘Hey, I think I broke my hand,’ and he says, ‘I think you broke it, too.’

Tony Hawk
AKA: Birdman
PROFESSION: Skateboarder, Businessman, Video game icon in Tony Hawk’s RIDE
INJURY: Broken pelvis, fractured skull, concussion
“I was doing a full, complete loop ramp, and it just didn’t go well that day. I basically fell from the top onto my hip, and I also fractured my skull and got a concussion. When I woke up, they were putting me in the ambulance, and they were kind of shifting me from the stretcher, and I felt this shooting pain through my pelvis and my leg. I said, ‘Oh wow, my hip really hurts.’ It was one of the first things I remembered when I came to. They said, ‘Oh, we’ll x-ray that,’ and we get to the hospital and they x-ray it, and they say, ‘Oh yeah, you fractured [your pelvis] all the way through.’ I really couldn’t walk for about six to eight weeks.”

Rick Thorne
AKA: Biker in Black
PROFESSION: BMX rider, Sports commentator
INJURY: Broken palate, broken eye socket, deviated septum
“I hit a loading dock, the corner of a loading dock, on this gap that went short and I broke my palate. I hit the corner of the loading dock with my face and what happened was that I had a hairline crack below my eye socket, and I broke my eye socket on my left side, then it came down and broke my palate. I had already broken my jaw before that, had it wired shut, and I thought that was a nightmare, but this thing was intense. I deviated my septum and there was this fluid leaking from my brain down through my mouth, so I was spitting out all this fluid from my brain. I deviated my septum, broke my eye socket, broke my palate and you could put your finger in my mouth and move my whole mouth up and down �” it was crazy. They cut my head from ear to ear, pulled my skin down, took some fat from my stomach and clogged this leak up between my brain and my skull, which was the fluid leaking from my nasal. I lost all sense of taste and smell, I had a tracheotomy, and I had a full-on stitch across my head. “

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