Howard Stern producer Gary Dell'Abate tossed the first pitch at Saturday's Mets-Pirates game. While I admire him doing this in order to raise awareness about autism, I definitely do not admire his actual terrible throw. More coverage here. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMI83E_7MIs&fmt=18]
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The sheer athleticism of this athlete makes for a strong argument for pole dancing to be introduced as an Olympic sport. I'm just saying. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUppVDO-fmQ&fmt=18]
To the tune of Mariah Carey's "We Belong Together," Shaq tries to resist the temptress of Krispy Kreme. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YduO8-ALReA&fmt=18]
Some necessary apparel for any Manny Pacquiao fan. First, the hype t-shirt (with a solid pun).
Then the hype shoes.
And lastly, the hype jacket.
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New Zealand's international rugby team, the All Blacks perform the traditional Māori dance, the haka, prior to the start of their matches as seen in the video below. Fast forward to 0:35 for the good stuff.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuXmk4tVoSE&fmt=18]
More details on this here.
An interesting article about LeBron James dual role in high school at St. Vincent-St. Mary as a basketball phenom who wasn't too shabby on the football field either:
During his junior year, he caught 61 passes for 1,245 yards and 16 touchdowns. As a sophomore, he had 42 receptions — 7 went for touchdowns — for 820 yards.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdMPNIgeuoQ]
Sunday night's Red Sox victory against the Yankees, a three game sweep by Boston, included a successful steal home by Red Sox Jacoby Ellsbury in the fifth inning against lefty Andy Pettitte. You don't see that play too often. Exciting stuff. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LyIU9LaXEc&fmt=18]
Longer version of the play. Man, the crowd understandably went nuts!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q_dI4BSe_E&fmt=18]
Mitchell High pitcher Patrick Schuster, a 6-foot-3, 175-pound senior left-hander, has thrown four straight no-hitters. Along with his 0.73 ERA, Schuster has a .424 batting average. Not bad, kid. [Via]
Some of the Washington Nationals' jerseys at a recent game had a typo. If they really wanted to save some money by shortening their name, they can get rid of a whole buncha letters and just go with the "Washington Nots."
