Morning Link Dump - 09/01/10
Obligatory Sports Babe
Yesterday the cast of the next season of Dancing With the Stars was announced, and it's a real collection of winners-- though, actually, I guess I mean that literally when it comes to Kurt Warner and Rick Fox, who will represent the world of sports. And there's also Audrina Patridge here, who is (was?) on The Hills (is that even still a show?), and will do just nicely for our purposes this morning.
Quote of the Day
"Look, I coach, I'm not Harry Potter. He is magical, but in reality there is no magic. I do not think so. The magic is fiction and I live football, which is real." - Read Madrid manager Jose Mourinho calming fans after a draw with Mallorca-- and, according to Dirty Tackle, not making a Harry Potter reference in an interview for the first time.
Manchester City's Expensive Waste
"More compelling than Manchester City's lavish buys were the crashingly expensive errors they tried to correct in this transfer window: chiefly, that deadline-day thespian, Robinho, who has bounced between Real Madrid, City and now Milan inside two years, and left no pool of perspiration at Eastlands when he moved to Italy," writes Paul Hayward in a great piece for the Guardian.
That Golfer's On Fire!
"'Fire!' was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California," explains an AP report via ESPN. "The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday. On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze and eventually attracted 150 firefighters to the scene.
Just Manny Being Manny Forgetting English
"Manny Ramirez's dreadlocks were intact, but his English-speaking skills had apparently abandoned him," says an MLB.com report of the Dominican-American slugger, and newest member of the Chicago White Sox, who went to high school in Manhattan and whose English isn't great, but most certainly exists. "Through an interpreter, the newest acquisition of the White Sox said he felt 'like a 25-year-old.'"
Quote of the Day II
"Ideally, if I was to play football, I'd sign for my favorite team -- Manchester United. People say it's not realistic but nobody has seen me play so you never know. If Alex Ferguson saw me in one of those charity matches he might think I could replace Ryan Giggs." - 100m World Record holder Usain Bolt, who is apparently completely serious about pursuing soccer... after the 2012 Olympics, according to Dirty Tackle.
Quickly
If you haven't yet seen Aroldis Chapman's debut last night for the Reds against the Milwaukee Brewers and you love hearing old men use the world "electric," you're probably going to want to check out this link.
The Guardian report that England have called up Arsenal's 19-year-old fifth-choice goalkeeper "to help make up numbers at the squad's first training session ahead of the Euro 2012 qualifiers against Bulgaria and Switzerland." Oh, they're gonna be just fine.
Jalopnik shows off Austin's new bong-shaped F1 track.
The man with the longest name in MLB history, we hardly knew ye. Out Of Bounds reports on the death of Calvin Coolidge Julius Caesar Tuskahoma McLish.
I hesitate to use the word "heroically" too often, but WhatthefuckisgoingonwithRevis.com heroically answers the question: What the fuck is going on with Revis?
The Socialist Worker rants about corporate crime in Major League Baseball, so why not try to read the article and see how many eye rolls it takes you to get through!
Hipster Dinosaurs are pretty OK, but I really prefer their early stuff.
Cat Getting Vacuumed? Cat Getting Vacuumed.
I have absolutely no idea why this showed up in the sports category on Buzz Feed yesterday, but... um... I'll go with it.
