Sunday Link-Off: Performance Enhancement

brooklyn-decker-si09-02Brooklyn Decker may be in the latest GQ but her SI swimsuit photos are better.

It turns out that it’s not just your normal athletes who are believed to be using performance enhancing drugs. Senior athletes are too. And I’m not just talking about Viagra. (Deadspin)

The NCAA’s rules are absolutely ridiculous. Teams are allowed to feed their players bagels but they aren’t allowed to give them cream cheese or butter to go with the bagel. Hell, even those cheap bastards at Timmy’s give you butter for free. (Sports By Brooks)

Good news: There will be damage in Gran Turismo 5. Bad news: It likely won’t be on all cars. (Top Gear)

After the jump, the best TV intros, all sorts of football links, and money can’t buy you a high enough video board.

A list of the 100 greatest TV show intros of all-time. I like #1 but I think Night Court should have been in the Top 10. (Super Tremendous)

In this year’s Sears Christmas Catalogue, there’s a special section with gifts for the cannibal in your family. (TMZ)

I may not be a big fan of Alex Ovechkin but we have one thing in common. The word we say most often starts with an F. (Gunaxin)

Interested in placing some prop bets on Michael Vick’s return to the NFL? I’d try to parlay some of these for big money. (Busted Coverage)

I mentioned it in Friday’s The Humanoids column but here’s a history of the loving relationship between SI’s Peter King and Packers/Jets/Vikings QB Brett Favre. (Slate)

And if you plan on taking Favre in your fantasy football league, you may want to consider getting fantasy football insurance. (Wall Street Journal)

One more WSJ link for you: Budweiser is now making cans in your college’s team colours. I’m glad that I didn’t see any when I was in Lansing because I may have smashed State coloured cans in an outburst of maize and blue pride. Though I am a bit disappointed that I won’t see any purple and white cans of Blue in London. (Wall Street Journal)

These types of folks exist in every town. In the Soo, it’s a guy with a flute that knows only one song that you can hear from a couple blocks away. (Daily Telegraph)

Today’s photo gallery has failures from an unexpected source. It’s a look at some of the worst or most inappropriate ads that Google has run. (Business Insider)

The Dallas Cowboys opened their $1.2 billion stadium with an exhibition win. What they found out is that $1.2 billion doesn’t buy you properly designed stadium. Punters seem to be hitting the bottom of the 160 foot long video board with alarming frequency. (ESPN)

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