Roundup: Brook Lopez, Lance Stephenson Trade Rumblings?; NFL Body Doubles Making Good Money; Crazy Hippo Video
By Mike Cardillo
The Packers spend countless hours playing Settlers of Catan, a board game. [WSJ]
Are Brook Lopez and Lance Stephenson about to headline a big three-way NBA trade? [USAT]
Good read: ex-players finding work as body doubles for NFL stars like Russell Wilson for commercials. [MMQB]
The top 75 TV theme songs of the 1980s and 1990s. (Hey Dude should be in the Top 10, IMHO. Glad Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego gets some recognition.). [Thunder Treats]
San Diego gets the 2016 MLB All-Star Game. [U-T]
Parents let 10 and six year old walk a mile to the park, then CPS began investigating them. [Washington Post]
Details on how that Blue Jackets player’s parents screwed him out of so much money. [Deadspin]
The IZod Center (née Brendan Bryne Arena) is set to close this year. [North Jersey]
A wholly arbitrary (how couldn’t it be) list of the 10 best sitcom episodes of the last 25 years. (Internet lists to foster discontent and debate? Well I never!) [AV Club]
“People forgot that Vic Braden did more than anyone to make tennis big in America. He taught countless players, from world no. 1s like Tracy Austin to hopeless hackers to Hollywood stars.” [Grantland]
An existential query: when you come across a person viewing porn on a commuter train, what do you do? [BroBible]
Sports broadcasters still take standard-definition viewers into consideration, but make most filming decisions in 16:7 ration vs. 4:3. [Newsday]
Group-by-group breakdown of the African Cup of Nations, which begins this weekend. [Guardian]
One man’s lament on CD player-less cars of the future. [Los Angeles Times]
Pitch clocks in baseball aren’t a great idea, perhaps. [SI.com]
An amusing, light-hearted take on the Packers from a Philly perspective. [700 Level]
This crazy hippopotamus video from a safari in Botswana made the Internet rounds yesterday.
A behind-the-scenes video about viral videos or something. Shrug.
A name from yesteryear: Paulina Porizkova.
MLB Network is airing a special about the 1990 Cincinnati Reds (The Nasty Boys) Tuesday night at 9.
1-15-15 … the day “Dick Poop” trended across America all day. We’ve come a long way, baby!
Posting “Sailing” by Christopher Cross this morning for two reasons. First, it’s a song I personally enjoy every time I hear it. (Who cares?) Second, a discussion with Lisk yesterday got me thinking about classic NFL uniforms. In the video Cross wears a terrific powder blue Oilers Earl Campbell jersey. I tweeted my top two yesterday, a couple mainstay commenters chimed in, so … there’ something else to argue about this fine Friday morning in January.