Roundup: David Letterman Announces Retirement; Alex Trebek Dissed; World's Worst FedEx Driver
By Mike Cardillo
The U.S. built a “Cuban Twitter” to stir unrest. [AP]
Contestant catches Alex Trebek waaaaay off guard during the usually mundane Jeopardy! interview segment. [Hyper Vocal]
How Disney movies helped one author communicate with his autistic son. [NYT]
Chad Curtis: Grade A Scumbag. [Sports On Earth]
If you’re interested, here’s Jason Whitlock writing about DeSean Jackson. [ESPN]
A really good lo0k back at the Michigan/Seton Hall NCAA championship game. [SI]
Solid profile of Kevin Ollie, NBA journeyman turned Final Four coach. [WSJ]
A useful Buzzfeed list: why your iPhone battery keeps running out. [Buzzfeed]
RIP Marcus Henry. (Sad story and a reminder that not every sportswriter is a ‘hot-take’ manufacturing blowhard.) [Newsday]
“A Creepy Floating Orb That Captures and Replays Ambient Noise” [Wired]
A fun rundown of classic WrestleMania matches (my favorite is this one). [SB Nation]
Just what everyone needs, to memorialize their best tweets on a block of wood. [Yahoo! Tech]
Game of Thrones Actors look completely different in real life. (Hodor, face tat?!?) [Hollywood Gossip]
“The Greatest Novelty Blunts on Instagram.” [Noisey]
The best thing you’ll read today about Don Baylor and crippling sports injuries. [700 Level]
Oooooooooops.
“She’s gone already chief.”
The Trailer Park Boys will be back, soon.
Anna Kendrick will host SNL this weekend. Aca-citing? (On the subject of SNL, this clip never gets old or less timely.)
Live it up while you can, college kids. The crippling reality of the real world rears its ugly head soon enough.
Here’s competitive eating legend Kobayashi pranking the New York Cosmos at a Buffalo Wild Wings.
The Men wrote the best Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band song of 2014. (That’s a compliment … I think, whatever that sax riff is indomitable.)
