Lolo Jones still has yet to win a gold medal in the Olympics, but today, she added a new and extra random addition to her small pile of world championship medals—she now has two golds for 60m hurdles, and one for the combined bobsled-skeleton team event at the Swiss winter world championships. She was the brakewoman…

2012 was a big year for athletes appearing on the little screen. Below are notes and grades for these 25 guest turns:

If you're a hockey fan looking to escape the pain of the lockout at the movies this holiday season, be sure to skip the certifiably mediocre This Is 40. Four then-Philadelphia Flyers make a cameo in the above scene. From left to right: Scott Hartnell, James van Riemsdyk (now of the Toronto Maple Leafs), Ian…

I'd love to know the backstory behind this inspired bit of casting. Who is it that looks at a script calling for a corrupt Miami judge and says, "Get me Bill Russell on the phone now!" Indeed, in a second-season episode of Miami Vice, Russell makes a star turn as a crooked judge who pays off gambling debts by taking…