10 Awesome Things That Happened This Past Weekend (2/22-2/24)

10. No Fans Died After Horrific Last Lap Nationwide Crash
            For all my years of watching auto racing, I don’t recall a time when a tire got into the seats and didn’t kill at least one person. We’ll discuss this event, and the public perception of the top story on our list, later this week.

9. Caution Flag Gives Johnny Sauter Truck Series Win at Daytona

            I had planned to rip NASCAR for not letting the trucks race to the checkered flag, but arguing against safety seemed pretty ignorant after the events of Saturday.

8. Golden State Debuts Short Sleeve Jerseys

            The Warriors looked pretty stupid in their new shirts, but at least they were able to pull out an overtime win over the top team in the NBA.

7. Ryan Braun Homers in First Spring Training At-Bat

            I’d spend more time mocking Braun for all his links to potential steroid use if he wasn’t one of the pillars of my keeper league team.

6. Manti Te’o Faces the Music at the NFL Combine

            Predictably, the NFL brass wasn’t very sympathetic for Te’o getting cat-fished. He didn’t help his cause by running a 4.82 40 today either.

5. Ronda Rousey Arm Bars Liz Carmouche
            In other words, the girl with the pretty face and the big arms beat the girl with the ugly face and the big arms.

4. #2 Miami Upset By Wake Forest

            Here’s this weeks installment of “Big Time College Basketball Upset That No Credentials Doesn’t Give a Shit About”, sponsored by ACME. Although on a side note, how the hell did the Miami Hurricanes get ranked second in the nation in men’s basketball?

3. Alex Ovechkin Drops a Hat Trick on New Jersey

            It’s hard to believe that the man once regarded as the second best hockey player on Earth hadn’t netted 3 goals in a game in over two years.

2. Kobe Bryant Shows Up Mark Cuban

            After dropping 38 points, 12 boards, and 7 assists, Kobe had the right to tweet “AMNESTY THAT”.

1. Jimmie Johnson Wins 2013 Daytona 500, Danica Patrick Finishes 8th

            Some folks called this race boring, but at least a car didn’t end up in the seats.

10 Awesome Things That Happened This Weekend (1/18-1/20)

10. Hall of Famers Stan Musial, Earl Weaver Are Remembered
            A rough weekend for baseball, as we lost the most underrated superstar in MLB history, and a manager who won 1,480 games.

9. Manti Te’o Denies Involvement in Girlfriend Hoax

            The Te’o story is so bizarre No Credentials hasn’t known what to do with it. We’ll finally have a Te’o post by the end of the week.

8. Michael Vick Doesn’t Want to Play For New York Jets

            Evidently, Vick doesn’t want to risk having a picture of him tattooed on Rex Ryan’s ass.

7. Syracuse “Upsets” #1 Louisville

            This is the “Big Time College Basketball Upset That No Credentials Doesn’t Give A Shit About Of The Week”, sponsored by Dollar Tree.

6. Butler Capitalizes on Horrendous In-Bounds Pass, Stuns Gonzaga

            No Credentials managed to catch the last 45 seconds of this game live, which briefly reminded me why I used to like college basketball. Then I remembered some of the participants were born in 1995, and quickly began hating it again.

5. Durant Drops 52 on the Mavericks

            Kevin Durant has scored 150 points in the last seven days, which for those not in the know, is a lot of fucking points.
          
4. The NHL Returns
            Part of me is wondering if the league’s incompetence paid off, as the NHL put up its highest regular season television ratings in over a decade Saturday.

3. Bernard “Patriot Killer” Pollard Strikes Again
            In case you were wondering what would happen if you walked by Bernard Pollard wearing a New England Patriots jersey, here’s four videos to show it wouldn’t end well.

 

 

 

            Pollard consistently destroying Patriots year after year is one of the most underrated, bizzarre occurences of the past decade.

2. Ravens Outscore Patriots 21-0 In Second Half, Win AFC Championship

            A strange game where New England didn’t capitalize on their scoring chances in the first half, and Baltimore was flawless in the second. Improbably, the Ravens have knocked off Peyton Manning and Tom Brady in back to back weeks to ensure that Ray Lewis will end his career playing in a Super Bowl.

1. Down 17-0, 49ers Rally to Stun Falcons
            I’m 96% certain that Alex Smith wouldn’t of led San Francisco back from a 17-0 deficit to win the NFC Championship. Harbaugh’s midseason quarterback change could go down with Belichick sticking with Brady over Bledsoe as one of the greatest substitutions in NFL history.