Yay for Sportsmanship!

Awwww. Maybe it’s an excess of girly hormones or something, but this article definitely made me cry. Not mist, not tear up; just flat out cry. What’s not to love about a well-to-do softball team being willing to forfeit so that they could help a disadvantaged team who’d never play learn the game? Awesomely, every adult featured in the article sounds sane, which isn’t always the case with high school sports. I salute the parenting and teaching skills of the adults in all of these kids’ lives, because they seem to be great people, too.

Knitting little nightmares

These knitting dissected-animal thingies are weird, but in the spirit of what I want to knit when I get old and crochety (that not a pun, since I don’t crochet, I just plan to be the grumpiest granny ever). (via Slightly Warped’s Curiosities)

How Disappointing

I read the headline “Sumo Ganger Ring Busted” and pictured a group of awesomely large sumo wrestlers who moonlighted as gangsters. They’d probably get whatever they wanted whenever they wanted it, because their sheer bulk would engender enough fear that they wouldn’t have to harm anybody. Who wouldn’t be afraid of massive figures of organized crime??? Alas, that’s now what happened at all. This is merely a boring article about Sumo wrestling coaches who gave ringside seats to gangsters. From the movies (and the news, to a much lesser degree) I know that Japanese gangsters are scary and lethal, and not a bit like the large and non-violent Sumo gangsters of my imagination. Pity.

Take it out on the opposition

It sounds like Mets closer K-Rod nearly got into a fight with bullpen coach Randy Niemann on Sunday night. That would be the same Sunday where K-Rod came in and struggled, and then struck out A-Rod on a 3 – 2 count to end the game. On deck was Robinson Cano, who has turned into an alarmingly (if you’re not a Yankees fan, anyway) awesome baseball player lately, although he’s not putting up the numbers he did in April and the Mets were able to shut him down this weekend. He’d slumped so much during the series that if he had come up, I’m sure he would have wanted to redeem himself by putting his team ahead. Anyways, I suggest that K-Rod spend less time getting into heated arguments with old guys and more time actually doing his damn job. Sure, K-Rod and Niemann made up later, but K-Rod has to learn control. A lot of control.

Sins of the parent (company)

Not that Jezebel is responsible for everything that happens in the Gawker universe, but their post on plagiarism would be less ironic if it didn’t occur the same day that Gawker media’s flagship blog was itself accused of plagiarizing this blogger’s content.

Awesome

Update: The video that I linked to has been removed from Youtube, but f you haven’t seen it, you can do a google search. Suggested keywords: Justin Bieber, door, glass, lolz, etc.

I will go back to ignoring his existence in a minute, but this video of Justin Bieber walking into a glass door is too funny to miss.

I know, I’m a jerk.

Capital idea

I wish that somebody would do this at the mall now.  The lanes there could be divided into “people looking for one specific thing so they can get the hell out of this zoo” and “people who move like they have all day.”

Jeez

Things I do not understand:

How could this kid have scammed so many prestigious universities and organizations? Why is it that only the Rhodes Scholarship people figured out what a bunch of BS all this was? And why did he keep doing it even after he got caught? (via Metafilter)

Also, if we ever perfect time machines, an early-20s Jake Gyllenhaal would have to be my first choice to play Young Mr. Wheeler.

Crimes against poodle-manity

People do some very bad things in the name of pet grooming.

Yikes

In the course of trying to understand the implications of the UK’s recent elections, I followed a link to a site about the British monarchy. Let’s just say that these people are not at all fans of the Windsors.