Roundup: Man with Down Syndrome Gets Kid Rock Birthday Surprise; Chris Christie Screams at Heckler & Two Black Bears Brawling in New Jersey
By Jason McIntyre
Royals fans, try not to let the difficult Game 7 defeat tarnish a tremendous season. [Kansas City.com]
Florida State practices in a public park in Louisville, then has staff members flip out and tell people who walk by not to take pictures. In a public park! [Courier-Journal]
How cutthroat is high school football recruiting in New Jersey? Star recruit (now at Michigan) was kicked out of the house he and his mom were renting after he transferred schools. [North Jersey.com]
Becky Hammon’s Incredible Journey from Rapid City to the NBA. [Bleacher Report]
Diego Maradona does look like a psychopath in this video where he is shown “striking [his] girlfriend.” [Mirror]
How wild is the San Francisco title? “It was a team that went eight games under .500 over its final 98 games. And it was, essentially, the 10th seed in a 10-team postseason field, the NL’s second wild card, grateful to be allowed to even make the tournament.” [ESPN]
Forgot to put this in Inside Blitz: Important read about Facebook, and its relationship with content providers. [NYT]
A couple weeks before the college basketball season and Hawaii fired its head coach and top assistant coach. [Star Advertiser]
“The breakthrough would prove that, contrary to what was generally believed, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, did not crash in the Pacific Ocean, running out of fuel somewhere near their target destination of Howland Island.” [Discovery.com]
How technology is killing NFL defenses. [WSJ]
“The National Junior College Athletic Association was tipped off to suspected transcript fraud in the Westchester Community College men’s basketball program more than a year ago through an anonymous email, which the NJCAA forwarded to WCC’s president.” [Journal News]
Despite being 6th in the playoff rankings, Alabama still has the best odds to win the National title. [The Wiz of Odds]
Gripping read about an American journalist who was held captive and tortured in Syria. [NYT Magazine]
The importance of offensive rebounding. Why do so many college basketball coaches ignore it? [John Gasaway]
Two black bears fighting in New Jersey. Was taped this summer, but for some reason, just uploaded this week.
Chris Christie, classy as ever: “Sit down and shut up.” Way to treat your constituents.
Marist senior makes a halfcourt shot for $10,000.
Very cool: Man with down syndrome turns 30, and his wish was that Kid Rock show up at his birthday. And Kid Rock showed up. At the 2:55 in the video. [via Reddit]
Dude, Aaron Donald, the St. Louis rookie, is fast.