I’ve seen people around the internet compare the WAGs of Super Bowl 45 and certain players’ hair. Now, Lil Wayne has given us another point to compare the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers: Fight songs. Yesterday, Lil Wayne dropped Green and Yellow, a Packers-centric cover of Black and Yellow by Wiz Khalifa. Black and Yellow itself is now the Steelers’ fight song. So let’s put these songs head-to-head in a fight song rap battle of Super proportions. Continue reading
NHL Power Rankings: Week 18
Alright, there’s been two whole days of action since we last did the Power Rankings last Thursday. That means we don’t have a lot of movement in the rankings. That doesn’t mean that we don’t have things to talk about thanks to the CBC/NHLPA player survey. It also doesn’t mean that I wasn’t able to move a new team to the top of the Power Rankings. Continue reading
DiPietro vs. Johnson – The First Goalie Fight of the Season
I can’t believe we’ve had to wait until February for our first goalie fight but here it is. You wouldn’t call the Islanders and the Penguins a fight-breeding rivalry but it was at the end of tonight’s game. Rick DiPietro took a shot at Pittsburgh’s Matt Cooke and Brent Johnson took exception. When ensued was what I call a two-hit fight. Johnson hit DiPietro and DiPietro hit the floor. Video and GIF after the jump. Continue reading
Lowdown Monthly – January 2011
Here’s a new monthly feature that we’re running here on The Lowdown Blog. It’s a look back at some of the best features, columns and other posts from the past month in one spot. We call it Lowdown Monthly. Think of it as the best of The Lowdown Blog in one handy post. Continue reading
Wednesday Link-Off: New Tricks
We’ve never really feature a lot of Mila Kunis so here’s a small attempt to make up for it.
Thanks to an in-depth video-based investigation by the folks to Crossing Broad, we know Chris Pronger didn’t take the Stanley Cup winning puck from June. They also revealed the shortlist of who does have it. (Crossing Broad)
Gourmet Spud has done it again. He’s dug up the original unedited script of the Just For Men ad with the two kids trying to get their dad “back on the market.” (Food Court Lunch)
The old saying goes you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But you can change yourself if you hack your brain. (Lifehacker)
After the jump, the most interesting man in the world, the most awesome jobs for men, and how the NFL is really socialist. Continue reading
Lowdown 2011 NHL All-Star Game Results
Well, we’ve been trying something special with our coverage of the new format NHL All-Star Game. Let’s cap off our coverage with a statistical analysis of who would have won if our two teams had actually faced off. Our readers thought that Team Jackie would have dominated the action and left Team Murray in their dust. But let’s dissect the teams with some fancy maths to find out whose team was most likely to win the big game. Continue reading
SI Swimsuit 2011 Cover Odds
One of the great perks that comes with a Sports Illustrated subscription is getting the mid-winter classic known as the SI Swimsuit Issue. Last summer, models were secretly whisked off to tropical locales all over the world and photographed in complete secrecy… Well, at least when Twitter and Facebook didn’t give us sneak peaks of what to expect. Anyway, shrouded in even more secrecy is the identity of the magazine’s cover model. Being the SI Swimsuit cover model is probably the highest honour that can be bestowed on a model. It comes with instant celebrity, international recognition, a blogosphere presence for life and a blown-up copy of your cover in the studio of a certain SI-associated nationally syndicated radio/TV show hosted from Connecticut.
So who are we tipping to be on the cover of the 49th edition of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue? Find out after the jump. Continue reading
Worst of Music: Enrique Iglesias – Tonight (I’m Lovin’ You)
Enrique Iglesias is one of the all-time great Worst of Music singers. If I gave out lifetime achievement awards, Enrique would be a front-runner to win the first one. With songs like Be With You, Bailamos, Hero and I Like It, it’s a wonder how he’s still allowed to still make music. Well, he’s back again featuring Ludacris with Tonight. Continue reading
Stan Lee’s NHL Guardians
The NHL hired legendary comic book maestro Stan Lee to help them promote the game among children by developing the NHL Guardians. These are comic book-esque superheroes based created to represent each franchise and their home cities. Each Guardian even came with his own comic book-esque back story. All 30 of the Guardians were unveiled over the last month and here they are. Continue reading
Sunday Link-Off: Star Power
Apparently folks have just discovered Swedish model Mini Anden. We’ve known about her since she was one the fourth episode of Chuck in 2007.
The gang at Bloomberg have determined the most powerful athlete in the world on and off the field. Thanks to Tiger’s last year, there’s a new sheriff in town. (Business Week)
Speaking of power in sports, there’s a hell of a lot of star power at LA Lakers games. Want to know which seats let you rub elbows with Hollywood’s elite. Here’s the star map of the Staples Center. (Hollywood Reporter)
And speaking of LA, it was 15 years ago last week that the Kings unveiled their third jersey. It’s a day that will live in infamy for some hockey fans. Here’s the story behind those jerseys. (The Royal Half)
After the jump, more NHL links, Ridley Scott’s new TV project and the Dead Space hand cannon. Continue reading
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