The Artist Formerly — And Currently — Known as Prince has written a theme song for the Minnesota Vikings. The Minneapolis native was at the Vikings’ 34-3 NFC Divisional Playoff rout of the Dallas Cowboys and, inspired, went home immediately after the game and wrote “Purple and Gold,” which you can listen to in its [...]
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Cristiano Ronaldo sings. Cover your ears.
I’d love to know who thought this was a good idea. Ronaldo’s manager? Ronaldo himself? Did someone tell him, “Listen, you’re cute and you’re a very good soccer player, but you can’t sing. At all.” Or did his Yes-Men just keep telling him yes? The raw footage is after the jump. Wow…
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Bad sporstmanship rules the weekend
For coaches looking to teach their athletes about the importance of sportsmanship, this weekend was a major step backward. Serena Williams lost her cool at the U.S. Open on Saturday, then on Monday Roger Federer did the same. Michael Jordan left a lasting blemish by speaking ill of former basketball players and executives in his [...]
Outsports gets Michael Jackson tickets
I registered online on Friday for the Michael Jackson Memorial Service lottery figuring I would never win. And when I heard that there were 1.6 million entries and only 8,750 were being selected for tickets (that’s a 1 in 183 chance), I forgot about it. But last night I got the email: I’d somehow been [...]
Michael Jackson is dead
Reports are coming in that Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop,” is dead. If so, the world has lost one of the greatest musical artists of all time, someone who changed the music world like only a couple other people ever have. He was also one of the most eccentric public figures in the world, [...]
Quick hits: Cowboys, Spurs, Lance
Three Dallas Cowboy offensive lineman have signed a deal to put out a heavy metal album. Good think the ‘Boys got rid of T.O. and all of those distractions!!
San Antonio Spurs trade three players (including Bruce Bowen) for Milwaukee’s Richard Jefferson.
I’m just gonna steal Fark’s headline for this one because it’s so perfect: Man who [...]
Total Eclipse of the (Homoerotic) Heart
All I remember from watching the music video for Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse of the Heart many years ago was mood lighting. But the new “literal” version of the video, in which they song’s lyrics describe what you’re seeing in the video, put front-and-center tons of homoerotic sports. Wet swimmers, a locker room, hot fencers, [...]
Mr. T and Old Glory sing at Cubs game
Mr. T is getting lots of attention for his singing of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” at the Cubs game yesterday. He did a fine job singing. Not great, but fine. But that outfit, oh that outfit! But I got a little distracted by what some of the fans were (and weren’t) wearing in [...]
‘Five Dollar Footlong,’ the dance remix
Houston Rocket Ron Artest has dabbled in rap, even releasing an album. But you have to call everything you’ve ever heard from him, including his music taste, into question with the revelation that he thinks the Subway “Five Dollar Footlong” jingle is one of the best songs he’s ever heard. Read it and weep:
Five dollar [...]
Quick hits: Utecht, Red Sox, Caps-Pens, Cavs
Ex-Red Sox player says the team taught them how to use steroids.
Cleveland Cavaliers sweep the Hawks. Ilgauskas: “We have nothing to celebrate. What is there to celebrate? We have bigger goals than this.”
Caps-Pens, the NHL’s answer to the Celts-Bulls series, is going to Game 7.
Cincinnati Benglas tight end Ben Utecht drops an album all about [...]
Stephen Curry: Worse rapper than white guys
I was ready to write about how these Davidson students were setting white rappers back even past Vanilla Ice, and then a minute into the video Stephen Curry appeared and executed the worst 12 seconds in rap history. It’s so bad, you gotta see it.
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Eminem does Tony Romo
Eminem is one of my favorite performers of all time, and his “The Marshall Mathers LP” is one of the best ever recorded. His latest album (Relapse) is following the same formula Interscope Records and Dr. Dre have for every Eminem album: Put out a pop-culture-layden single and let the media sell albums for you. [...]