Sunday Link-Off: The Great Debates

In our ongoing mission to bring more beautiful Canadians to your attention, here’s Canadian model Rachelle Goulding.

Forbes put together its annual list of the richest athletes in the world. To no one’s surprise, boxing biggest big fight dodger is #1. He might be the champ here but, just like his boxing titles, he’s just a paper champ until he faces Pacquiao. (Forbes)

Whether intentional or not, the WWE is creating a 21st Century version of Miss Elizabeth with AJ. (Grantland)

Steroids as a means of doping horses is no longer the only way to make horses run faster. Now, horses are licking frogs. No, that’s not a typo. (New York Times)

After the jump, ESPN is trying to kill us all, Sorkin on Sorkin and a collection of supercut videos.

Mark Cuban took Skip Bayless up on his offer of a live debate on First Take. Much to everyone’s enjoyment, Cuban absolutely demolishes Bayless. (SB Nation)

And on to something that will make us all miserable. ESPN will let Chris Berman try his hand at play-by-play during the MNF doubleheader. (Awful Announcing) He has trouble keeping up with the action at the US Open golf tournament. How could he possibly manage football?

Terrell Owens’ attempted comeback in the Indoor Football League didn’t go as planned. Here’s a look at his short-lived tenure as a member of the Allen Wranglers. (Grantland)

Kim Kardashian is the sort of person who could do anything and I’d assume that she’d have some sort of ulterior motive. For example, what could be going through her mind when she was enamoured with meeting Robert Griffin III. (Sportress of Blogitude)

Sweden might hand over the keys to its Twitter account to Stephen Colbert. After making the Maxim Hot 100, this was the logical next step. (SplitSider)

Parks and Rec showrunner Michael Schur is doing a multi-part interview about the fourth season of P&R. Here’s part one. (The AV Club)

Patrick Goldstein thinks that Adam Sandler has jumped the shark as a result of That’s My Boy. He’s wrong. It happened years ago. (Los Angeles Times)

The Newsroom premieres tonight. Here’s Aaron Sorkin on how to write an Aaron Sorkin monologue. (GQ)

CBS is planning to turn Draw Something into a TV game show. It’s not like shows like Pictionary and Win, Lose or Draw ever existed. Oh wait… (Variety)

Today in inexplicable TV decisions, TNT passed on a show starring Tricia Helfer and a golden retriever. What is wrong with them? (Warming Glow)

Let’s do some quote-unquote supercuts to close out. First, it’s a collection of classic pre-mortem one-liners (with extra mortem for fun).

Here’s a collection of almost all of Alison Brie’s Annie gasps on Community.

And finally, a collection of all the times the Daleks said “Exterminate!” on Doctor Who.

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