Roundup: Nicki Minaj Talks Orgasms; Scary Circus Acrobat Fall & 'Single Ladies' Set to Ducktales
By Jason McIntyre
Elle Johnson, a model … Nicki Minaj wants all women to demand more orgasms … after 46 years at CBS News, Bob Schieffer signed off for the final time last night … TIME Inc is going the paywall route, starting with Entertainment Weekly … … 82-year old man arrested for slashing someone’s tires over a bingo game … Hawaiian man dies after being impaled by swordfish … Jerry Seinfeld is still making a lot of money being funny … the St. Louis Rams cheerleaders took a trip to Mexico .. 85-year old man accidentally drives his truck off the 2nd story of a parking garage … Gary Matthews Jr is selling his Corona Del Mar house for $15.5 million … someone actually watched a Komodo Dragon autopsy … “Dennis Hastert made payments to conceal sexual misconduct” … off-duty cop accidentally shoots himself in a hospital … “Spanish police seize cocaine inside hollowed-out pineapples” … Nikki Finke is banned from writing about the entertainment industry for 10 years, so she’s going the fiction route … RIP Beau Biden, the son of Vice President Joe Biden … Tracy Morgan spoke this morning for the first time in public since his accident last year …
How did a 14-year old Italian boy survive being underwater for 42 minutes after jumping off a bridge with friends? [TIME]
Dan LeBatard has some thoughts into the developing Dwyane Wade-Pat Riley situation. [Miami Herald]
A Notre Dame lacrosse player is joining the … football team? Nick Ossello is 6-foot-1, 185 pounds might play cornerback. [247 Sports]
The Sporting News is hiring an army of part-time writers. Must be nice to have that budget! [Charlotte Agenda]
Not a shocker: Point spreads play a key role in TV ratings. [ESPN]
Sounds like Fred Hoiberg will be the new Chicago Bulls coach by Wednesday, and he’s likely to ink a 5-year, $25 million deal. [Tribune]
What’s the trade market like for Cole Hamels? [Philly.com]
Yes, you are nuts if you graduate High School and want to be a journalist. [The Awl]
Interesting read about Scott Ferrall and the art of Sports Radio. It’s strange – I host a sports radio show and I knew none of this background on Ferrall, who I’ve only heard Howard Stern mention in passing a few times. [Grantland]
Your scoop doesn’t matter. [Gawker]
Why Baltimore blew up. [Rolling Stone]
Longtime Arizona baseball coach Andy Lopez has retired. [Tucson Citizen]
Single Ladies set to … Ducktales! [via Uproxx]
Circus acrobat loses her grip, falls into the crowd. Didn’t get seriously injured, thankfully.
Here’s a UCF football commit Donald Delahaye making two neat field goals. [via Football Scoop]
If your daughter was high on meth and you find the guy who got her on the drug, you might do this, too. [via BroBible]
The Gatorade dump misses Josh Hamilton, drills reporter Emily Jones.