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more about #rip more comments → FlakJack: Per his wishes, Albano's remains will be encased in the world's largest rubber-band ball and bounced off a cliff into the sea. more » WhoDoYouKnowHere: he'll just pop back up when the ref isn't looking more » Rainbow Bright: Well, Bowser finally killed off Mario. It's up to you, Luigi. more » UpstateUnderdog: He's gone to join Classy Freddie Blassie in the great wrestling ring in the sky. more » UkraineNotWeak: In tribute: [www.youtube.com] more » UkraineNotWeak: Thank you, Mr. Acavano!!!! more » Civil Negligence: Well that's a weird nickname. For one, he holds no military rank; and as far as I can tell his pigmentation is normal. more » Bobby Big Wheel: Does Wario have an alibi? more » MarkKelsosMigraine: This just in: Stephen Jackson has no interest in taking over whatever the hell Lou Albano was captain of. more » VTBen: Nice work Craggs. Couldn't agree more. /Also, Brand fired Bob Knight //Looking forward to Calipari walking away from UK right before they get stripped... more » Clarence Rosario: The NCAA is a nonprofit member organization. Those TV rights and corporate sponsorships for the men's tournament also allow them to stage stuff like... more » Karlifornia: Whenever he traveled to Europe, he went by the name "Kylometers Brand" more » MarkKelsosMigraine: Leave aside the obnoxious paternalism Yeah! Leave that to obnoxious fathers like Richard Williams or my dad. more » dont-forget-where-you-came-from-cheese mac: there are billions of skin cells on my body and just about all of them "went pro" in something other than pigment. more » Hatey McLife: Now I have to track down his daughter, at her bar in Nepal, and retrieve that medallion. more » -
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Oh, Daddy, Dear. You Know You're Still Number One
Captain Lou Albano, pro wrestling manager and incongruous star of weird TV shows and several Cyndi Lauper music videos, died at home this morning. He was 76 and under hospice care. [PWTorch] -
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The NCAA's Last True Believer
Myles Brand, the career academic who shitcanned Bobby Knight and became the NCAA's fourth president and maybe its last true believer, was the perfect salesman for an organization that pretends, against all evidence, not to be selling anything. More » -
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Jim Carroll: The Bard Of The Hardwood
Carroll — junkie, author, schoolboy basketball star — died Friday of a heart attack while working at his desk. He was a hopped-up Holden Caulfield with a jump shot, and the closest thing basketball ever had to a poet laureate. More » -
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It's Been A Rough Week For The Birds
Those damn birdies. When will they learn to stay away from sporting events? This just in: Ahn Shi-hyun, a golfer at the LPGA Championship, smacked a drive into a robin, which immediately burst into "a puff of feathers." [The Guardian]
