Posted on 26 July 2010. Tags: Brasil, brazil, economy, fans, Party, samba, World Cup 2010
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (GlossySports) -– While almost every Brazilian is saddened by the stunning loss of their team to the Netherlands in the quarter-final match, economists in Brazil are celebrating unabashedly, claiming that the loss has a decidedly silver lining. Continue Reading
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Posted on 25 February 2010. Tags: colbert nation, olympics 2010, regina, snow, speedskating, tundra, winter, winter olympics
The Winter Olympics in Vancouver have obviously taught us all some important lessons about bobsled safety and 40 million dollar opening ceremonies. However, some Americans are learning more than they ever expected from the Olympic coverage. Americans, globally renowned for a complete ignorance of geography, have discovered countries they didn’t know existed at all. Continue Reading
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Posted on 13 February 2010. Tags: Bobby Brown, crack, drug use, marijuana, performance enhancement, snowboarding, X Games
ASPEN, Colorado — R&B sensation Bobby Brown left a successful stint with New Edition in 1987 to pursue a solo career, which garnered him a string of Top 10 Billboard hits and a Grammy Award. But Brown’s increasingly bizarre behavior throughout the 1990s and early 2000s began to overshadow his past glory. Continue Reading
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Posted on 31 January 2010. Tags: 2010 Winter Olympics, canada, Officially Sponsored Olympic Products, Olympic Commitee, Peruvian Bobsled Team, toboggan, Vancouver
This scene was captured by one of our authors last week, but we can’t publish it under her name because she was subsequently disqualified for using performance enhancing substances. We will still publish it, but we can’t give her credit, and our thanks to Roger Freed for picking up the torch where she passed out, even if he didn’t edit the text for length, readability or any sort of journalistic integrity. Continue Reading
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Posted on 23 January 2010. Tags: all-white American, white Americans, white snacks, white sports venues, white white white, whites snacking
With the advent of all white, American-only teams in the near future, many sports venues have followed suit by removing any snacks that originated in any country other than America. That means, hamburgers, originally from Hamburg, Germany and hot dogs, or frankfurters, originally from Frankfurt, Germany, will no longer be served. Nachos, a Mexican treat, and, of course, pizza, an Italian staple, will also not find their way onto the snack menu. Continue Reading
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Posted on 02 December 2009. Tags: life-depriving, sporting, Sports, super fun Sony, water board, water boarding, waterboarding
IOC Headquarters, Switzerland – In a little-known press conference outside the offices of the International Olympics, The President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge, announced that after long consideration and research with the UN and throughout the world, waterboarding would be added to the roster of competitions for the Beijing Games in August. Continue Reading
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Posted on 21 November 2009. Tags: arena, Basketball, Notre Dame, pom-pom, South Bend, sporting venue, Sports
The Women of Notre Dame officially opened their basketball season on the 15th against unranked University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff at the newly renovated Purcell Pavilion of the Joyce Athletic and Convocation Center. The 102 to 57 rout of UAPB was overshadowed by the shortcomings of the new facility, despite the stellar performance of freshman sensation Skyhook Digme, including her dive into the stands to save a ball. Continue Reading
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Posted on 04 November 2009. Tags: baseball tickets, front row tickets, Phillies vs Yankees, prostitution, sex work, Sex-for-favours, World Series
An American woman charged with offering sex in exchange for World Series baseball tickets maintains she has committed no crime nor done anything wrong by flogging her golly on the internet.
“I’m not embarrassed about my actions but I’m effin’ furious about how I was set up and then arrested,” Fellattia Wankerstein, from the Slutborough Heights area of Philadelphia, told Fux News. “I mean, even career hookers are allowed to ply their trade and wares on the public streets but when I try to get tickets for the Phillies-Yankees game I get targeted by the local Gestapo’s dodgy deviant Vice Squad.” Continue Reading
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Posted on 28 October 2009. Tags: airbus, airplane race, corn maze, dogsled, palin, todd palin, wisconsin
Minneapolis, MN — An Airbus A320 jet flown by a Northwest Airlines pilot and co-pilot have won the 23rd Annual Eau Claire—St. Cloud Corn Maze Run. The oldest airplane corn maze in the western world announced NWA Flight 188 were the winners by almost 28 minutes over the second place winner, 3-time Maze Grand Prize winner, Todd Palin from Alaska. Mr Palin used a dog team and sled in each of the 4 years he has entered the race. Continue Reading
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Posted on 24 August 2008. Tags: canada, frigid, hockey, nhl, tundra, ugly women, wnhl
Perhaps you’ve heard of Canada, it’s the nation inconveniently separating the contiguous United States from the industrious state of Alaska. Despite their reputation as a nation “not having a reputation,” marketing executives have come up with a product that will finally put Canada on the map, which currently, at least on maps printed in the United States, it is not. Continue Reading
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