Apr

20

MSNBC Genius of the Day: NASCAR Racers Go 500 Miles Per Hour

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NASCAR drivers, not unlike MSNBC hosts, get moving that fast by leaning forward: NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France was a guest on MSNBC on Thursday to talk about the sport’s green initiatives in advance of Earth Day. France was asked several questions about NASCAR’s environmental push by anchor Thomas Roberts, who apparently thinks race [...]

Apr

16

How Many Times Did Jose Canseco Get Hit in the Head?

Filed Under Global Warming, Moonbats, Sports | 10 Comments

That ball off the bat of Carlos Martínez in 1993 that hit Jose Canseco on the head must have really knocked some shit loose: Canseco spent the day yesterday doubling and tripling down on that. And if the science in the above Tweet was just a little above your intellectual pay grade, he made sure [...]

Feb

29

NFL Season Opener Moved Up a Day to Accommodate Obama Acceptance Speech

Filed Under Politics, Sports | 4 Comments

To be fair, the NFL also moved the 2008 season opener to a different day so it wouldn’t interfere whatsoever with John McCain’s acceptance speech. What? Oh, nevermind. From CBS News: National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Tuesday that the NFL is holding its opening game of the 2012-2013 season on Wednesday, September 5 [...]

Jan

23

John Kerry Plays Hockey, Re-Lives Results of 2004 Election

Filed Under Politics, Sports | 50 Comments

***** This is what happens if you crash the crease when Teresa’s in goal: Hockey is a rough sport; just ask Senator John Kerry, D-Mass. The senator was attending a ceremony for his hometown hockey team, the Boston Bruins, at the White House today when he publicly debuted the remnants of his own hockey injury. [...]

Jan

22

Fox Sports: Joe Paterno Has Died

Filed Under Culture, Law, Sports | 4 Comments

A sad and swift addendum to an already horrible story: Joe Paterno, the iconic former Penn State football coach whose legend was tarnished when he was fired in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal, has died, his family confirmed Sunday. He was 85. Doctors had said Saturday that Paterno’s condition had become ”serious” in [...]

Nov

21

Gee, What Voting Demographic is the White House Targeting This Month?

Filed Under Politics, Sports | 10 Comments

Yesterday, Michelle Obama participated in the “gentleman, start your engines” tradition at a NASCAR race (contrary to rumor, the crowd wasn’t booing — they were chanting “Let’s MOOOOOVE!”). On top of that, tonight is “country music night” at the White House: The Obamas will play host to a string of country stars — legendary and [...]

Nov

5

Why Didn’t Obama Call the St. Louis Cardinals After World Series Win?

Filed Under Politics, Sports, Tea Party | 9 Comments

Traditionally, the winner of the World Series can expect a congratulatory phone call from the White House. That didn’t happen this year: ST. LOUIS (KMOX) – Was President Barack Obama too busy watching the “Operation Repo” marathon or something else last Friday night? When KMOX host Charlie Brennan asked now-retired St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony [...]

Oct

13

Rangers Fan Rubs It In

Filed Under Sports | 15 Comments

The Detroit Tigers lost another 11 inning game last night to go down 3-1 in the ALCS. A reader named Pat from Texas just emailed this to rub it in: I could be really childish by responding, “Oh yeah, look at Detroit vs. Dallas in the NFL standings!” But I won’t because that would be [...]

Jul

25

Prayer of the Month, NASCAR Edition

Filed Under Religion, Sports | 11 Comments

Oh heck, let’s go ahead and make this the Prayer of the Year: Take that, Ricky Bobby!

Jun

4

Obama and Boehner to Have a ‘Golf Summit’

Filed Under Politics, Sports | 16 Comments

President Obama’s going golfing. Is it Memorial Day again already? No… but this time Obama will be playing a round with the House Speaker. No matter what agreements, if any, are reached on the golf course between Obama and Boehner, the big winner will undoubtedly be the cigarette vendor: President Barack Obama and House Speaker [...]

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