I'll watch this show

Shaquille O'Neal is way past his prime when it comes to basketball, but when it comes to being the center of attention, he's still among the best there is.

And Shaq's new TV show shows just that:

"Shaq Vs.", which is set to premiere Aug. 18 at 9 p.m. ET, begins filming Wednesday in Pittsburgh, where Shaq will take on Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger in football.

Future episodes of the hour-long show will feature Shaq against Olympic swimming sensation Michael Phelps, boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya, St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols, tennis star Serena Williams and beach volleyball Olympians Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh.

What, no Chuck Liddell?

What do you do when you mix Nirvana with Rick Astley?

A grunge Rick Roll! OK, it's not the best of mashups, but it is still good. And I still think that Kurt Cobain is the most overrated musical figure of the past twenty years.

Via Mashable.

Best Line of the Day

All apologies to Ken...

It’s hard to believe some of these rock formations are almost 6000 years old!

Bad Astronmer Phill Plait making fun of those who believe the earth is only 6,000 years old.

Supreme Court to hear what could be "the most significant sports law decision ever."

A court case between the NFL and a American Needle, Inc. could reshape the sports landscape in America forever, according to ESPN.

What is the case?

The legal doctrine at the center of the case is known as "single entity." If the NFL manages to persuade the Supreme Court that the league is a single entity competing with other providers of entertainment rather than a group of 32 separate businesses competing with each other, the landscape of the sports industry will be transformed, according to law professors and experts contacted by ESPN.com.

If it is a single unit and not 32 separate, competing teams, any violation of American antitrust law would be impossible to establish. A violation of the Sherman Act begins with a "combination, contract or conspiracy" that restrains competition and hurts consumers. If the NFL is a single unit, it cannot be in combination, contract or conspiracy. It would be immune to the antitrust cases that have allowed player unions to establish and to protect free agency and other benefits.

In other words, teams agreeing to sign players or coaches only at a certain salary wouldn't be considered collusion -- because it would be within a single company, the NFL.

There wouldn't be 32 teams competing with eachother, but rather one entertainment company competing with... well, no one.

And what makes this particularly significant is that if the NFL gets its way, the ruling would also apply to the other major sports leagues in the United States as well. Roger Goodell would suddenly be the man atop one of the biggest business empires in all of the world.

Or, as the ESPN column calls it, "one of the most powerful cartels ever."

There would be no recourse in antitrust cases, as the NFL players union successfully used to create free agency in the 80s and 90s.

So what will the effect be for the fans?

Leagues will enjoy unfettered monopoly powers.

Salaries for players and coaches will drop.

Free agency will wither away.

Sponsors will pay more.

Fans will pay more for tickets, television and Internet broadcasts and for paraphernalia.

And owners' profits will soar.

Pictures of the moon landing site

NASA has released their first pictures of the Apollo Landing Sites from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.



That's the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, left behind when the first people to land on the moon came back to Earth.

Can't see much? Don't worry, NASA announced, "Future LROC images from these sites will have two to three times greater resolution."

Also more images at that last link from NASA.

This is 40 years and a day after man first set foot on the moon.

Guy still proud of beating up first base coach with his dad

From Deadspin:

Few moments in sports history were as truly stunning as the sight fans saw on September 19, 2002, when two shirtless buffoons charged onto the field during a Chicago-Kansas City game and began pummeling the Royals' 54-year-old first base coach Tom Gamboa. It turned out to be a father and son team—William Ligue Jr. and his loyal 15-year-old boy—who were hauled off, surly and unrepentant, into baseball history. And also jail.

The younger Ligue apparently brags about beating up the unsuspecting first base coach whose only crime was to be a first-base coach for the Kansas City Royals and in the path of a drunk dad and his "loyal" son.

Phelps shows Rick Reilly what it takes to be an Olympic swimmer

Well, at least putting the swimsuit on in front of a group of people.



Reilly is still one of my least favorite writers out there, for the record.

The Big Picture: Apollo 11

The first manned moon exploration, in pictures. Wow.

Forty years ago.

Time lapse of airplane flights around the world...

World Air Traffic Over 24 Hours - More amazing video clips are a click away

Worst person ever..

A heartless kitty killer hissed angrily at animal rights activists Wednesday, grinning widely as she took credit for stuffing the helpless pet into a 500-degree oven.

"It's dead, bitch!" snapped an unrepentant Cheyenne Cherry, sticking her tongue out after a plea bargain that will put her behind bars for a year in the May 6 killing of tiny Tiger Lily.

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