Roundup: Chinese Zoo Shenanigans; People on Facebook Remain Easily Duped; Miley Cyrus Can't Stop Twerking
By Mike Cardillo
Inside the double life of Aaron Hernandez. [Boston Globe]
Miley Cyrus Twerking in a classy photoshoot by that Terry Richardson guy. [BroBible]
Baseball’s replay explained in further detail (there won’t be challenge flags). [USA Today]
A controversy-free, awesome Robert Griffin III story we all can enjoy. [Washington Post]
Jonathan Toews says it’s “naive” to think nobody in the NHL uses steroids. [Toronto Sun]
Hey remember Jonny Flynn? The lottery pick Jonny Flynn. [Grantland]
A history of bad sports writing. [Pacific Standard]
If you (somehow) haven’t picked a EPL team by now, Joe Posnanski has you covered! [NBC Sports]
Pro tip: don’t commit a crime in El Salvador. Ever. [Vice]
Scientists discover a new species of mammal, the olinguito, living in South America. [Smithsonian]
Watching a EPL game through the eyes of a keeper for 90 minutes. [WSJ]
People are still interviewing Ted Nugent for some reason. [Noisy]
Louis CK and Jon Stewart looked a lot different in the 90s. [Comic’s Comic]
My favorite blog writes about Breaking Bad. Fun. [TVMWW]
Sleepy Russian kid at the airport will make you laugh, cry and think about life. [H/T Slade]
The best case you could ever make for steroids being a good thing, brother.
If you need help getting through August dog days of television, “The Inbetweeners” is on Netflix and brings the laughs, albeit of a highly sophomoric variety. Fair warning. (Have you picked up on the Anglophile theme of this roundup yet?)
This U.S. Soccer goals audio-supercut is very fun. Jack Edwards is on his own level of patriotic nightmare fuel insanity … and we’re all better for it.
Erlend Øye