Month: March 2010

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Not News of the Week

If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the Not News of the Week.

A Scottish man was fined £600 for assaulting a police officer. Police were called to hid home because he was very, very drunk. When police got there, the man dropped his pants, whipped out his penis and thrust it in the face of a policewoman. According to the police report, she ducked out of the way of the flailing penis just before it hit her. How they got into a position where the man could almost hit the officer in the face with his penis, no one will ever know. However, the guy must be disappointed. His reputation could have gotten a huge boost from a conviction for assault with a deadly weapon. Continue reading →

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Formula One: Solving the Absense of Racing

In the week since the Bahrain Grand Prix, everyone has floated their own theory as to why the race was such a dull and dreary affair. The track, deservedly, gets much of the blame. The new refuelling ban and its effect on race strategy takes some of the blame, as well. However, as has been the focus for the last few years, the aerodynamics of the cars is at the centre of the firestorm. Not surprisingly, the advanced aero packages on the cars are being blamed for the lack of quality racing. However, there is already a solution being floated for another open-wheel series that should give F1 an idea of a way forward. Continue reading →

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Sunday Link-Off: Texting Always Ends Badly

Kicking off today’s post is Katherine Heigl who has decided to go brunette. Well, it’s not like this can push her any farther off the radar.

This week we’ve seen two best actress winners return to bachelorettehood. So why are these high-profile celebrity marriages going pear-shaped? (Daily Telegraph)

Of course, it’s not just the ladies with marriage trouble. The infamous Tiger Woods texts to Joslyn James were released. But Joslyn didn’t release her messages to Tiger. Don’t worry. Slate has them. (Slate)

And Tiger’s not the only golfer in a text message scandal. John Daly is too. (Food Court Lunch)

After the jump, fixing MLB, future Lindsay Lohan lawsuits, and let’s run down bicyclists. Continue reading →

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Entertainment Link-Off: An Epic of Epic Epicness

G’day everyone! It’s time for another edition of the ELO and this week, let’s kick it off with the newly single Cheryl Cole. Might as well introduce all the folks in North America to her now. If Simon Cowell gets his way, she’ll be in front of your TV screens very soon.

After the jump, Agent John Casey gets the Chuck Norris treatment, a small rivalry going on between Kick Ass and Clash of the Titans, the new Scott Pilgrim one-sheet, some Glee news, a TV theme songs medley and Hugh Jackman sings in Chinese! Continue reading →

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The Humanoids: Madness

The whole world has gone mad! Not just March Mad but generally mad. People doing ridiculous things that would be extremely newsworthy if it wasn’t for a little basketball tournament that was known as March Madness. Celebrities have gone mad. Sport organization management has gone mad. Governments have gone made. And Gus Johnson has gone mad. Oh, Gus is always that amped up? Well, that’s why we love him.

Speaking of madness, cheap radio show/podcast plug: Our 50th show to air on radio is coming up on March 30th. That’s going to display our complete and utter madness. Continue reading →

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The Best of Texts From Last Night

Everyone has a website that they like to click on to take a break from the daily grind. (My personal favourite is a little place called The Lowdown Blog.) One place that has taken my 9-to-5 by storm is a little corner of the internet that’s called Texts From Last Night. If you haven’t been, it’s a collection of hilarious text messages that often involve drugs, alcohol, or debauchery and they’re even better if more than one is included in the message.

So just for fun, here’s a look some of my favourite Texts From Last Night. Continue reading →

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WrestleMania: 25 Years, 25 Greatest Matches (Part 2)

We’re a little over a week from WrestleMania 26 from the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. Despite what the WWE told you last year, this year’s event will be 25 years after the first WrestleMania that took place at Madison Square Garden. To celebrate the real silver anniversary of the biggest wrestling show on the planet, we are counting down the 25 best matches to grace the squared circle at the granddaddy of them all.

Today, we count down from #15 to #6. Continue reading →

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Wednesday Link-Off: Get Your Drink On

It’s St. Patty’s Day so go out and get drunk on green beer (and assorted other green drinks). Maybe you’ll drink so much that you’ll convince yourself to see Alice Eve in that new movie with the small advertising budget.

Mike Tyson is building off his recently rediscovered popularity from The Hangover and will try his hand at TV. Except he won’t be acting. He’ll be the host of a reality TV show about pigeon racing. (Bad Left Hook)

It’s a sad day in the world of insane/extreme sports. The 183-year-old British tradition of rolling a wheel of cheese down a hill and chasing it has been shelved because of concern about neighbouring people’s fences. In other words, it costs too much to patch these lunatics up. Such a nanny state… (Deadspin)

You may not have heard but Greece is in the midst of a small financial crisis. So what’s their solution? Not souvlaki sales but selling a new sex tape. (Daily Telegraph)

After the jump, March Madness links, ladies brackets, and Agassi vs. Sampras. Continue reading →

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Lowdown Radio: March 16, 2010

Episode #49 of The Lowdown radio show hit the airwaves earlier tonight. As always with the boys, it was a mix of stuff to make you laugh and make you think. The show starts with a look at the Conservatives plan to change the lyrics of Oh Canada and includes a singing of the fully-revised lyrics. Steve does a quick breakdown of the 2010 Federal Budget. In the news, the boys discuss how silicone breast implants that saved a woman’s life and how they can help society as a whole. Jackie taps a free download as his single of the week and Steve does the same for It Came From YouTube. After the break, basketball, hockey, boxing, and wrestling are topics for a game of Toss Up. It’s all that Lowdown fun and insanity you love condensed into an easy to handle 28 minute package.

Click here to download the 10 MB podcast version.
Click here to download the 26 MB high-quality version.

On the Extra, there’s more talk about the anthem and the budget with most of that focused on trying to figure out what the government was thinking and trying to hide. Two strange animal stories are added to the news. The guys discuss this Justin Bieber guy that seems to have taken over Twitter. Trey Songz wins the coveted Worst of Music prize after Steve discovers that he’s already bestowed the honour on the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100 already. After the break, there’s a couple of trademark Steve rants and another Jackie story from Australia. More banter is added to sports that had to be cut from the radio version due to time constraints. In all, it’s an added 38 minutes of Extra content this week. As always, the action comes to you uncut and uncensored.

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Not News of the Week

Another week, another dose of all the news that’s not fit for print. It’s the Not News of the Week.

There are lots of ways to piss off your dealer but making him look like an idiot is probably the worst way of doing it. A man in Wichita, Kansas, bought a couple hundred dollars worth of cocaine from his dealer with Monopoly money. It took the dealer a couple of weeks to realize that he had been duped in the worst possible way. The dealer invited his client over and his posse laid a beatdown. The man got away but ran into the cops to whom he told his story. Now, it looks like everyone involved in this escapade will be arrested because the police say that the unusual circumstances doesn’t make it a get out of jail free card. Continue reading →