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.
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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
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.
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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.
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
For the first half of the race, it seemed as though we were in for a season-long passing of the torch. Sebastian Vettel stormed away from the field in a race that quickly settled in as a procession. Then a funny thing happened. Vettel’s car fell well off the pace and Fernando Alonso charged by to win his first race in a Ferrari. Alonso may have won the day but the big winner was Felipe Massa who finished a solid second in his first race back from injury. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton finished third but the result wasn’t what folks were talking about. Continue reading
Seeing as we’re doing our WrestleMania countdown over the next couple of weeks, it’s only appropriate that we feature Stacy Keibler. The only real question is who was the hotter WWE Diva: Keibler or Stratus?
The folks at the Huffington Post would like to remind you that if your views don’t line up with their (or presumably their advertisers), they’ll pull your post. Even if you’re the former Governor of Minnesota and smarter than 99% of Washington. (Gawker)
They may not be favourites to host the Olympics any time soon but the professional athletes of the world love visiting Toronto. The drinking age has something to do with it. (Wall Street Journal)
They finally found Crosby’s gold medal winning stick and glove. The bad news is that the Commies have it. This means war! (Deadspin)
After the jump, Zamboni fail, sports stars having fun, and Gorilla and The Brain. Continue reading
This Sunday marks the debut of the highly anticipated WWII drama The Pacific on HBO. With a price tag of over $150M (US), the miniseries has established itself as the most expensive TV production to ever take place in Australia. I normally enjoy watching war epics, so I was planning to check it out, but since Isabel Lucas is in it, there’s more incentive to tune in!
After the jump, some Tron Legacy stuff, a look at TV shows on the bubble, an excess of Youtube videos and a few links that will make people go “WTF!” Continue reading
It’s time for the third and final part of our Formula One season preview. With the examination of the teams, drivers, and new rules out of the way, it’s time to put all of the information we have together for predictions for the 2010 season. Of course, the combination of the new rules, the new points system, and testing times not necessarily being an accurate portrayal of who’s fast make predicting the season an difficult proposition. However, as we like to say around here: We’re ambitious but rubbish. Continue reading
Welcome to Part 2 of our preview of the 2010 Formula One World Championship. Today, it’s a look at the rule changes for this season. There aren’t as many new regulations going into effect this year as last year but they’re just as big. Cost reductions and safety are the reasons behind most of the rules changes but that doesn’t mean that the racing will be less interesting. Continue reading
In a little over two weeks, WrestleMania 26 will take place from the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. This year’s event will be 25 years after the original WrestleMania emanated from Madison Square Garden in front of a capacity crowd and a closed circuit television audience around America. 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 start with #25 and count down to #16. Continue reading
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