Roundup: Remembering Nelson Mandela; WWE Network Sounds Amazing & Paulie Walnuts on Sesame Street
By Mike Cardillo
Nelson Mandela, a life in photos. [National Geographic]
15 of Nelson Mandela’s best quotes. [USA Today]
The 12 worst parents of the year, in Vines. [Hyper Vocal]
“If Cano signs with the Mariners, it will be the dumbest move by a free agent since (Alex) Rodriguez signed with the Rangers.” [Fox Sports]
Historic disparity in NBA conferences. [SI.com]
Grant Hill is now, apparently, a financial whiz. [Bloomberg]
Buy a nude cheerleader calendar, get a date. (England obviously isn’t under the NCAA purview.) [Guysim]
Floridians and synthetic weed are mixing about as well as you’d expect. [Vice]
Interview with Zahir Belounis, French soccer player freed from Qatar. [BBC]
Story detailing Max Headroom’s pirate broadcast of a Chicago TV station in 1987. [Motherboard]
Bruce Arena wrote about today’s World Cup Draw. [LA Times]
A look back at Rajon Rondo in high school. [USAT]
“Speedy” outfielders hold their value fairly long. [FanGraphs]
The late Frank Zappa proposed a streaming/digital music service back in 1983. [Zappa]
19 GIFs of animals (including a kangaroo) attacking children. [Funny Or Die]
Breaking down the Heisman field. [700 Level]
Another Spiderman movie trailer. This one looks … amazing? (Beats me didn’t see the last one.)
Sopranos + Sesame Street.
So … you can do this with an iPad. Impressive. (Via @SM_Mulroy)
I’m including this video in order to shamelessly plug a post written by me from last Friday that nobody saw due to turkey-induced hangovers. If you enjoy the tenor of the Friday Roundup, it’s worth two minute of your time. /End groveling.
Agree wholeheartedly with Twitter super-user @Michael_Necci, Will Ferrell as Robert Goulet >>> Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy.
Andrew WK