Starting Five
1. Peyton Manning equals l’il bro’s number of interceptions tossed in Week Two (3), but throws for less than half as many yards (240 to 510) in Denver’s 27-21 loss at Atlanta.
2. On the first anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement, America gets a new inflammatory percentage: 47%.
3. French magazine Closer in court is a Loser. (For the record, Will and Kate departed the South Pacific by receiving flower garlands presented by topless women.)
4. So, do we have this right: Mitt Romney is Thurston Howell, President Obama is the Professor, Paul Ryan is Gilligan and Joe Biden is the Skipper? Maryann in 2016!
Your 2012 presidential and vice-presidential candidates.
5. Speaking of Ginger — were we? — Shaun White went all, “Bro, this party in Nashville is lame and Taylor Swift isn’t even here so let’s shred this joint, and by joint I mean hotel room, because who would ever shred a joint, that would just be wasteful” at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel. If he had only done this back in London, those stilted segments in the studio with Costas might have been worth viewing.
Reserves
Our A. Dickey lowers his E.R.A. to a National League-best 2.67, but the New York Mess lose to Philadelphia, 3-1. The feel-good-story of the summer Cy Young award candidate has now lost six times this season (18-6) and in those half-dozen defeats the Mess have scored a total of nine runs for him.
Apparently, this photo of Mika Brzezkinski and Joe Scarborough upset some people. What’s so wrong with two people in their forties reenacting a musical number from “The Producers?”
Hotty Toddy! Ole Miss may finish in 8th place in the seven-team SEC West, but who cares? This promotional poster of linebacker Mike Marry is just so badass. We’re not even going to bother to link it. Enjoy! (thanks to Jay Christensen at The Wiz of Odds)
“And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger…”
So, the Today show thought it would be a good idea to demonstrate how a paparazzi was able to snap those boob shots of Duchess Kate. We wonder how Stephanie Gosk felt about playing the role of the voyee (is that a word?). MH is a 100% vetted member of the Stephanie Gosk Fan Club, it should be noted.
Atlanta Falcon Michael Turner’s numbers last night: 17 carries, 42 yards, one DUI.
Listen: We at IAH know that we kvetch and rant on Twitter entirely too much (sometimes our tweets are “not elegantly stated”) but yesterday offered two cautionary tales about tweeting-before-thinking. First, Stephen A. Smith ranted at an article that claimed he had a nine year-old son without realizing that it appeared on The Onion (or without realizing what The Onion is). Later, our friend at CBS Sports, Gregg Doyel, ridiculed Nebraska coach Bo Pelini for being taken to the hospital in an ambulance during a game because of “a tummy ache.” To both men’s credit, they each recanted their rants on Twitter.
We could pretty much watch Bomani Jones discuss any topic, but this commentary in which he compares a school whose namesake is the Virgin Mary to a “player” is terrific. Someone get this man a real TV show!
Bomani, rhymes with “mo’ money!”
On CollegeFootballNews.com Pete Fiutak counts down his top ten Heisman picks — the season is 25% over, after all — and his No. 1? Alabama quarterback A.J. McCarron. Really, Pete? Really? When did Lee Corso hijack your laptop?
Police in Madison apprehend the three men who assaulted Wisconsin Heisman Trophy contender running back Montee Ball (We are already sorry… here’s the real link).
University of North Carolina chancellor whose name is so literary that he was practically compelled to become a college professor announces that he is stepping down.
Twitter profiles are receiving a makeover.
The first clue that something was amiss occurred when the warden noticed the poster of Raquel Welch on one prisoner’s wall.
Did this poster play a role in a Mexican jailbreak?
Iceland has a band that we cannot mock for being overly quirky. Of Monsters and Men are the proud authors of “Little Talks”, which is now playing in a restaurant near you.
We had the video of Max Rice (which sounds delicious!) and his appearance on Fox & Friends up yesterday. Here’s the background on Rice, a film student at Columbia College in Chicago. His final quote is quite caffeinated.
Push or Pull, Bush or Redd: USC running backs are definitely difficult to stop near the goal line (thanks once again to The Wiz of Odds).