One month after [Hayden Panettiere] split with Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko, a source tells Us Weekly that the 21-year-old Scream 4 star is dating New York Jets player Scotty McKnight, 23.
Earlier this month, Panettiere was mistakenly linked to mutual pal Mark Sanchez, who has been friends with McKnight since childhood.
– US Magazine.
Are you a beautiful celebrity looking to date a member of Mark Sanchez’s entourage? Just give Mark Sanchez a call, he can hook that up.
I don’t keep very close tabs on celebrity gossip unless it involves Mark Sanchez and/or fast food. So this story pertains to my interests.
According to People magazine, Sanchez was spotted eating In-n-Out Burgers with Hayden Panettiere, who recently split from Ukrainian heavyweight champion Wladimir Klitschko. But despite earlier reports of canoodling, a source insists Sanchez and Panettiere are not dating. Because there are apparently anonymous sources for stuff like this.
Happy I resisted the urge to ask, “What’s Mark Sanchez like?”
Also, fun fact from D’Brickashaw Ferguson’s Wikipedia page: He is named after Father Ralph de Bricassart, a fictional character in the 1977 novel (and on the 1983 television mini-series) The Thorn Birds.
A couple of people asked me if the amazing Tom Brady waterslide photo from yesterday might lead to an Embarrassing Things about Tom Brady sidebar on this site, since, as we know, he is the face of man-UGGs and worse yet, he almost had to sell insurance. And the good folks at Sports Pickle have even put together an embarrassing photos of Tom Brady photo gallery, which I found through SNY Why Guys today and why you should check out.
But there will be no Embarrassing Things about Tom Brady sidebar here because it would cheapen the Embarrassing Things about Cole Hamels. It’s all for you Cole:
This comes via our man @jaypot23. Tom Brady on a waterslide:
When we think of Zubaz today, “utilitarian” probably isn’t the first word that pops into our heads. However, friends Bob Truax and Dan Stock actually had a practical purpose in mind when they created the garish pants. Truax and Stock owned a Minnesota gym that was popular with bodybuilders. The bodybuilding clientele had a problem: the hardcore weightlifters couldn’t find pants or shorts that comfortably fit their massive thighs while offering the flexibility they needed in workouts.
This link comes from our man @dpecs, and man, there’s a lot here. First things first: How is it possible that the dudes responsible for Zubaz are named “Truax and Stock”? Why did they bother coming up with a name for their pants besides “Truax”? To me, the name Truax perfectly befits wide-legged, zebra-striped pants with elastic waistbands aimed at weightlifters. In fact, I think if they’d have gone with a slightly different approach, Truax and Stock could be as synonymous with competitive bodybuilding as Abercrombie and Fitch are with lacrosse. Totally failed business opportunity there, if you ask me.
You should click through and read the rest of the Mental Floss piece. It turns out the history of Zubaz is precisely as fascinating as you’d expect.
I myself owned a pair of L.A. Raiders Zubaz in the early 1990s. They had silver lightning bolts on them and they were totally sweet. I can’t find a picture online. I should note, I guess, that I played pee-wee football for the East Rockaway Raiders, so even though I was always a Jets fan I had a ton of Raiders gear when I was a little kid. I must have looked pretty badass for a fifth grader, decked out in black and silver all the time. Probably not, actually. But I sure thought I did.
Anyway I’m pretty sure I trashed the Zubaz with the rest of my sweatpants when I hit sixth grade. For some reason — and chime in here if this happened in your town too — there was some strict but unwritten rule that you were absolutely not to wear sweatpants to middle school. It sucked. Sweatpants are great, and in fifth grade I must have worn sweatpants to school every day from October to April. But apparently if you ever dared show up at middle school in anything besides jeans you’d be forever ostracized. I never took my chances.
It’s true:
But that’s cool, because rodeo kind of sucks anyway. And Chad Ochocinco is awesome in pretty much every other way, so I’m happy to give him a pass for only being able to stay on the bull for 1.5 seconds.
The ESPN guys make him out to be some sort of publicity whore, but I like to think he just knows how awesome he is and realizes that his awesomeness is the type of thing that merits publicity.
With a lockout looming, Sanchez was savvy enough to load up highlights after the season to his laptop to use precisely for this camp. He structured a plan by using concepts in an old Jets playbook before adding some new elements. He made copies for each of the 14 teammates who showed up. With no contact with teams allowed, he called agents, uncles and anybody else he could think of to make sure rookies such as Jeremy Kerley received an invitation. “He sounds like a coach in the meeting rooms, telling everybody what to do, what to expect,” said LaDainian Tomlinson. “Even watching film, he sounds like a coach.”
– Manish Mehta, N.Y. Daily News.
Well that’s pretty awesome. I think mental preparation — studying the playbook, understanding the offense and defense, analyzing film, communicating — is more important in football than in any other major sport. So good thing Mark Sanchez worked the phones this offseason.
Really looks like Rex Ryan doesn’t quite know how to handle Stephen Colbert:
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Via Brian Bassett:
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