No, this is not a PR ploy by the WNBA to put women’s basketball back on the American tongue… but the sports world is a-buzz today with reports that American born, point guard Becky Hammon has opted to play for the Russian National Basketball team in the 2008 Olympic Games.

From Newsday:

That’s right. Becky Hammon, the WNBA point guard from America’s heartland, is going to march into National Stadium in Beijing under a Russian flag, wearing a Russian uniform. And perhaps the biggest irony of all is that Russia, a country that for years represented the antithesis of a free market, bought her services - fast tracking her to Russian citizenship after she signed a four-year contract for more than $2 million to play for CSKA, a Russian professional team, last winter.

If we could only talk the Ruskies into taking Kobe…

Check out Becky Hammon’s photo gallery after the jump. Read More »

There are very few things you can guarantee in the this world.

1. Death

2. Taxes

3. The French will screw things up when given the opportunity

We ALL know the Chinese are evil. The concept of the current protest is to make everyone aware of how the Chinese are brutally murdering anything in Tibet that is not a Yak. Unfortunately, their brutality has been going on for a while. No matter how many times you try to put out the Olympic torch, they are going to continue killing Tibetans. Read More »

Tom Cruise asks the eternal question: “Who farted?” (AZ Central)

UK fitness levels for women are “At an all-time low.” Who cares? I say let it all hang out, ladies - oh, you are? Gross. Pack it back in. (Sky News)

Irony alert: candy given away by a teenager at an “alternative school” presumably laced with drugs. The candy? Mary Jane. (News Leader)

Super Irony alert: woman turned away from Kokoamos Island Bar and Grill for sporting dreadlocks. Sorry ma’am, we don’t like them island hairdos at our Island Bar…? (Richmond Times)

China bans “sexual sounds” on airwaves. TAKE IT OFF…the air. (Yahoo)

Why are foreign people so damn weird? I’ve never been abroad to China, very Eastern Europe, South America or Africa but after looking at the photos in this gallery I can tell you I won’t be visiting anytime soon.

Just before you pass out drunk tonight remember to thank your lucky stars that:

#1 You will never have to carry around a bushel of hay with a 1 speed bike.

#2 You will never have to drive around in your 1977 mini cooper with your cow in the back seat.

Check out what I’m talking about after the jump… Read More »

Last night three rescue workers were killed in Utah as they were searching for the six miners trapped from a cave in over 10 days ago. This most recent tragedy only adds to the laundry list of terrible events that have made the last week pretty rough.

To keep you up to date on the impending apocalypse I will break down all the other things that went down this week. Read More »