Roundup: The Fastest Man in Baseball; Weather Channel Embraces Clickbait; Happy Birthday Brett Favre
By Mike Cardillo
The Weather Channel’s website has embraced clickbait and seen traffic increase. [Business Week]
Joe Biden reminded us yesterday that politicians + ice cream cones = fun! [Washington Post]
Terrance Gore: the fastest man in baseball. [KC Star]
Former NFL GM Jerry Angelo says league covered up “hundreds” of abuse cases. [USA Today]
Kind of cool visual look at what kids eat for breakfast around the globe, albeit with a glaring lack of Pop Tarts. [NYT]
Mississippi State is getting a lot more media attention than usual, how is the school dealing with the Dak Prescott frenzy. [Scout]
Thursday Night games were the NFL’s most competitive … until this season (or last night … how about those J.J. Watt touchdowns?! ). [WSJ]
An update on the family of Lacey Holdsworth. [Lansing State Journal]
Ranking all the fake movies from Seinfeld. [Uproxx]
Jay Leno is going to do a show for CNBC … about cars. Can’t wait! [Hollywood Reporter]
“[The perception of FIFA] is not good because there is a lot of problems with corruption,” Platini told Stone. “If the report of Mr. Garcia show that Qatar’s bid was corrupt, we have to come back to the rotation, and have another rotation.” [Fox Sports]
How good are you at identifying Ben Affleck’s chin? [Vulture]
“Most comedy today, Heidecker says, is created by people who “graduated from Harvard with more money than they know what to do with. [That comedy] reflects their world, a very beautiful place.” In contrast, Heidecker says that the tone he and Wareheim construct is “showing a society that isn’t all good-looking, smart, clever people.”” [Good]
Colorado pot shops start selling “rookie cookies” for weed tourists. [BroBible]
Fallout 3 is one of my favorite video games, so I’ll link this even if it’s a month old. [Kotaku]
Don’t make Ebola jokes, especially on an airplane. [via Uproxx]
All 37 of Giancarlo Stanton’s homers this year with total distance traveled. [via Whistle Sports]
Trailer for Will Smith’s new movie, Focus.
I don’t think zambonies are street legal, even in “RangersTown.”
Was birthday boy Brett Favre wearing Wranglers during this 1998 TV appearance? (Perhaps the Hard Pass Podcast will need to investigate further at a later date.)
Genesis.