Ryan Wilson Posts

This is surprising: a guy has a few pops at a bachelor party golf outing, decides to "Happy Gilmore" his tee shot, and ends up hitting his playing partner. Never would have guessed.

The Legal Watch Blog writes that the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia is now involved. After 15 holes of golf that included "dozens of beers, a bottle of tequila, several marijuana joints smoked 'before the third hole, 'power slides' in the golf carts and clubs smashed against trees," things somehow got worse.

In today's Wall Street Journal Elizabeth Williamson writes about one of the great mysteries of our time: "Why has Barack Obama forsaken basketball for the links?"

During the campaign we were constantly reminded of the then-Illinois senator's basketball-playing prowess (there's even this play-by-play of a pick-up game from the official Obama-Biden YouTube channel). But now that he's in office Williamson points out that golf has become his sport of choice.

Vince Young continues to revive a career once thought dead. The third-overall pick in the 2006 draft had a fantastic rookie season, suffered through injuries and inconsistent play the next two years, and finally got a second chance after head coach Jeff Fisher begrudgingly benched 36-year-old Kerry Collins last month.

Nyrel Sevilla is six years old. And he plays football. And I don't mean he puts on his uniform and tiptoes around the field jumping on the pile after the play is over. He's a one-man tackling machine, wreaking havoc on other six-year-olds unlucky enough to have the ball when he shows up.

Video lunacy after the jump:

Here's a fun story of an obsessive, overbearing parent desperately trying to live vicariously through his high school basketball-playing son. John Lekas, unhappy with his son's playing time, hired private investigator Debra Hennessee to dig up dirt on head coach David Adelman in an attempt to get him fired.

Hennessee would eventually call police after Adelman had a few adult beverages (depending on who you believe, it was either five or ten beers) and decided to drive to Taco Bell. (Because, really, nothing goes better with a buzz than a passenger seat full of 89-cent burritos.)

Adelman, who blew a .14, was arrested for driving drunk, and now his lawyer is hoping to get the case dismissed on the grounds that police didn't have probable cause to stop the coach in the first place.

Via The Oregonian:

This seems like a bad idea at every stage of the process: some enterprising soul sent threatening letters to Giants head coach Tom Coughlin in an effort to make a few bucks.

Via the Associated Press:

Browns quarterback Brady Quinn has a thing for athletes. First it was soccer players and now it's gymnast Alicia Sacramone.

During the 2007 NFL Draft, as Quinn waited for nearly six hours in the Aaron Rodgers Memorial Green Room to hear his name called, then-girlfriend and former Miami of Ohio soccer player Lindy Singler loyally sat by his side as one team after another passed on the Notre Dame quarterback.

During a recent chat on the USA Gymnastics' official Web site, Sacramone openly talked about her relationship with Quinn. (Via SportsbyBrooks and Larry Brown Sports):

The abundance of high school touchdown videos now on the internet lessens their impact (sorta like how you feel after watching a dunk contest for more than 10 minutes -- at first you're blown away by the athleticism, but after seeing some variation of the same dunk, you quickly get bored), so you're relegated to looking for absurdities within the absurdities.

And in the case of the 2009 Oregon 6A playoffs, I think we've found it.

Word on the street is that the Steelers will be holding open tryouts for Charlie Batch's job now that he's on the shelf for six weeks. And much like last year's Byron Leftwich-Daunte Culpepper Face Off for Chaz's gig, Pittsburgh has assembled an all-star cast to assume the role of Big Ben's backup. In all likliehood, come Tuesday afternoon, the Steelers will have signed either Jeff Garcia or Cleo Lemon.

(And this, folks, will be the exact moment when we can say, without hesitation, that Pittsburgh's hopes of returning to the Super Bowl went right down the Thomas Crapper.)

Other possible (and not-so-possible) candidates after the jump.

It was two years ago that then-Jets head coach Eric Mangini ratted out the Patriots for what would become Spygate. The NFL slapped Bill Belichick with a $500,000 fine, took away one of their first-round picks, and kindly asked us to move on.

Eventually we did, but not before accusing the Patriots of cheating their way to three Super Bowl titles this decade before karma intervened by way of David Tyree.

New England became an afterthought when Tom Brady went down 15 minutes into the 2008 season, football gods and Pats-hating fans finally mollified. But it was only a matter of time before the Dark Lord found new ways to gain an advantage over opponents. And now, after some time off to regroup, Belichick is back, this time with psychological warfare. Or as the liberals would call it: subtle forms of torture.

Read on in mock incredulity: