Chances are you’ve heard this week’s WoM winner before. The thing is that you may have heard this song in one of its many knock-off or reworked versions such as Blue and Yellow for the San Diego Chargers, Red and Yellow for the Kansas City Chiefs, Blue and Orange for the New York Mets, White and Navy for the New York Yankees, Black and Purple for the TCU Horned Frogs and Purp and Yellow for the Los Angeles Lakers. The original song by rapper Wiz Khalifa is a song he wants to become the fight song of the Pittsburgh Steelers and is called Black and Yellow. Continue reading
Month: January 2011
Sunday Link-Off: Technological Takeover
Erin Andrews is the first woman to endorse Reebok’s ZigTech shoes. I can see why Reebok hired her.
Yesterday, Jackie had the video of IBM’s Watson supercomputer taking down Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter in a practice game of Jeopardy to no one’s surprise. But here’s a deeper look inside how Watson works and why it will eventually lead the machine revolt against mankind. (Wired)
A random topic of conversation that’s crept up over the last week has been who you would cast in a 2011 remake of Space Jam. Experts (bloggers) were called in and here are their choices. (The Good Point)
Looking for tips to get better at Twitter? One of the sports world’s best tweeters, Darren Rovell, shares his 13 secrets to success. (CNBC)
After the jump, the most talkative NFL TV crews, active shutter 3D eyes, and we love to hear the boos. Continue reading
Entertainment Link-Off: Float Like A Butterfly, Sting Like A…
Thanks to a slight delay due to post-production 3D conversion, Michael Gondry/Seth Rogen’s collab The Green Hornet has finally hit the silver-screens in theatres. Making her film debut in The Green Hornet is former figure skater and America’s Next Top Model contestant Analeigh Tipton, so let’s kick off the link-off with her.
After the jump, a few more tidbits on the film, quasi-good news for Mortal Kombat fans, Tron Legacy sequel may be just around the corner, Harry Potter crushes kids’ dreams, Watson takes on humans in Jeopardy and a nice video showcasing ridiculously obvious product placements in film. Continue reading
Epic Meal Time: Chili Four Loko
The latest craze to sweep YouTube is mad chefs of Epic Meal Time. They come up with some of the craziest and most delicious looking meals to ever find their way to the internet. We’re fans of good food here at The Lowdown Blog so we feel compelled to share their latest culinary creations with you every week. This week, it’s a spicy, meat-filled chili that includes a dash of Four Loko for that added kick. Continue reading
Ken Block Gymkhana: The Complete Collection
If you’re a fan of cars, drifting, viral videos or all of the above, you’ve probably heard of American rally driver Ken Block. To keep in practice for rally events, he found his claim to fame. That’s something called Gymkhana. In proper gymkhana, drivers drive a course that sees them spins, handbrake turns and other spectacular maneuvers. For Block, there is no course, just the spectacular moves of his gymkhana video series. Continue reading
The History of Olympic Logos
On New Year’s Eve, the organizers of the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, unveiled their official logo. After the debacle that was the unveiling of the one-eyed monsters of London Olympic mascots, I thought I saw the height of Olympic symbol ridiculousness. Some interpretations of this include a thong, two jockstraps, an ink blot test and three hostages tied together.
So just how ridiculous have past Olympic logos been? Let’s take a walk back through time as I examine the history of Olympic logos. Continue reading
NHL Power Rankings: Week 15
Another week, another set of the NHL Power Rankings. A new team sits on top of the Power Rankings this week. The Vancouver Canucks may be the hottest team in the NHL right now but a loss on Saturday night means I get to use one of my favourite Power Rankings rules on them. While the top five might have changed around, no team moved in or out of it. Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: The Dance
Even fully clothed, Candice Swanepoel is mindbogglingly gorgeous.
Deadspin’s Dead Wrestler of the Week feature returned this week. This week, they profiled Ravishing Rick Rude. (Deadspin)
It’s not quite how it things were for me covering OUA football, but here’s a look at the job sideline reporters do. (Fanhouse)
Tiger Woods’ column in Golf Digest is no more. Jim Windolf laments the loss of Tiger’s epic columns and other contributions to print media. (Vanity Fair)
After the jump, Hedo’s new dance, all the Tostitos, and the Secretariat dance. Continue reading
Not News of the Week
If it’s not worth talking about, then it must be the Not News of the Week.
We’ve all pocket dialled at least once but it’s never really led to anything more than using up a few minutes of our phone plans. For one man in Illinois, a pocket dial led to a SWAT team to surround the school where he worked. The man, a teacher by day, was driving home with his phone in his back pocket when he butt dialled his wife. She heard the muffled sounds of hip hop music so she called 911 assuming her husband was being held hostage at work. For three hours, a SWAT team scoured the school looking for the man and his kidnappers but it wasn’t until police went to his home three hours later that they called off the search. By that time, there were three media helicopters and several dozen people watching outside the school. That would probably make it the most expensive butt dial in the history of cell phones. Continue reading
Ranking The NHL’s 2010-11 Third Jerseys
Every year, NHL teams roll out new jerseys to sell to make money from merchandise sales update the look of a franchise. Sometimes these jerseys are retro uniforms that are a throwback to the good old days of a team. Other jerseys are a completely new look for the franchise. Last year, I ranked the 23 third jerseys regularly used by NHL teams. With four new third jerseys rolled out this season, let’s take another look at the NHL’s best alternate jerseys. Continue reading
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