Roundup: San Diego Fireworks Fail, Jack Reacher Trailer & Andy Murray’s Balls Pop Out
Sara Jean Underwood … deadbeat dad flees to Philippines … Uruguay is totally cool man … 50 Cent got $80 million from Reebok … mountain lion attacks hiker … runaway dog … runaway dog 2 … Ohio Senate candidate dressed in drag for high school yearbook photo … some women see 100 million colors … “Principal accused of using daughter to plant camera in locker room” … lifeguard fired for saving man … man wheeling dead body around in shopping cart …
Robin Van Persie wants to leave Arsenal. [ESPN]
Despite looking horrible, the Spider-Man reboot had a big opening day. [LA Times]
Singer Frank Ocean had a relationship with a man. [MTV]
Extreme sports writer, Michael J. Ybarra killed while rock climbing. [Wall Street Journal]
“Adidas gives Andy Murray new shorts after balls pop out.” [Brand Republic]
Steve Nash is going to the Lakers so the Knicks are left holding their Charles Oakley. [New York Times]
Sacramento Kings cheerleader auditions. [Unathletic Mag]
Steve Nash may be gone, but Phoenix is getting a soccer team. Too late. [AZ Central]
10 best vacations for beer lovers. [Yahoo!]
Carlos Gomez’s play of the year candidate. [Bob's Blitz]
San Diego saw the greatest fireworks show of all-time last night as all 17 minutes of their fireworks show accidentally went off in about 30 seconds.
Happy 4th of July from Epic Meal Time.
Chael Sonnen explains what it was like to grow up on the mean streets of West Linn, Oregon. Graphic.
The trailer for Tom Cruise’s ‘Jack Reacher’ movie.

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July 5th, 2012 at 8:52 AM
That means it lasted about 20 seconds, when you take into account the ‘victim overestimation’
July 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
Tough to rock climb with one hand on your laptop, huh?
July 5th, 2012 at 8:53 AM
i’ll still see it despite Cruise being more than a foot shorter and probably 70lbs lighter than the character in the book.
July 5th, 2012 at 8:56 AM
“He leaves when he wants! He leaves when he wants! RVP, he leaves when he wants!”
July 5th, 2012 at 8:58 AM
I’m not sure which is worse… the Bleacher Report style presentation, or the Bleacher Report style stupidity, which include New Glarus as part of Milwaukee brewing.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
Nice to see there are other people stuck at work and not on vacation today and tomorrow…
July 5th, 2012 at 9:03 AM
It was entertaining enough but completely unnecessary…nowhere near as good as the first two Raimi ones in this reporter’s opinion
July 5th, 2012 at 9:05 AM
The trailer for Tom Cruise’s ‘Jack Reacher’ movie.
More like Jack Reacheround, amirite?
July 5th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
Mountain lion attacks hiker
Ummm, b/c it’s a wild animal and that’s what they do, maybe?
July 5th, 2012 at 9:07 AM
John Travolta is now jealous he didn’t get that part.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:08 AM
July 5th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
exactly. sure, you could get The Rock or someone similar, but it immediately becomes about the fight scenes and less about the story (which is actually pretty good in this one). odd that cruise does fit the type of stories Lee Child writes, but not the physical build of the character.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:11 AM
Neeson?
Happy day after the 4th!
July 5th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Pretty good suggestion. Just looked him up, had no idea he was 6’4. He’s done well in Taken and other action movies, this probably would have suited him well.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:14 AM
Sara Jean Underwood? There was a Sarah Underwood doing TV news in Boston that was much more attractive.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
too old for it i think, then it would be Taken 3: Taken Another Time.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Sara Jean Underwood
Zero idea what her claim to fame is but she looks consistently hot as she seems to be featured a lot.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:17 AM
Misery loves cmopany. What a horrible day to be at work.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Josh Mandel is an evil, evil person. Basically the worst form of “send me a huge check to support my campaign and I’ll vote for your bill, in fact write it for me and I’ll take it to the legislature”. He terrifies me.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Sara Jean Underwood
Yes. Yes I wood. Again and again.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
What a terrible night to have a curse….
July 5th, 2012 at 9:19 AM
Got naked for money a few times and now I think just lives to Twitpic herself in various states of undress…naturally she’s one of my personal heroes
July 5th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
I find him more believable as an action star than Cruise. Though, damn I just looked it up and he is 60. Wow. I thought he was around the same age as Cruise.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Josh Mandel[insert 95% of all politician's names here] is an evil, evil person. Basically the worst form of “send me a huge check to support my campaign and I’ll vote for your bill, in fact write it for me and I’ll take it to the legislature”. He terrifies me.Fixed.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
You wouldn’t think there would be a lot of traffic on the roads coming into work today, but it was actually busier than I anticipated.
I’d be pretty good with letting go of that whole “4th of July” thing and just making “Independence Day” a Friday or Monday during the 1st week of July.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
+ 1 Bloody Tear
July 5th, 2012 at 9:24 AM
So who are actors you judt wouldn’t fuck with? Guys like the rock dont count. Eastwood connery cage….big dudes
July 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
50 is doing a great Diddy impression. I remember when he used to be a good rapper though, even if it was only for 4 years, that’s about 3 years and 340 days more than Diddy has been in his whole life.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Am I the only one that thinks the Epic Meal guys are a bunch of douchebags?
July 5th, 2012 at 9:26 AM
Says the guy who didn’t understand Prometheus, breathlessly hails the work of Kevin Smith and enjoyed Project X.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:27 AM
Why I didn’t just take today and tomorrow off and make it a 5 day weekend is beyond me.
/throws pen across desk
July 5th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
I hear Cage can be taken down easily if you have some bees.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:28 AM
What was there to misunderstand? They had a good idea for a movie and fucked it up thanks to a bad script and underdeveloped characters whose actions and mindsets changed depending on what the scene at the time needed from them
July 5th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Am I the only one that thinks the Epic Meal guys are a bunch of douchebags?
No. Gluttony is pathetic. I loathe them.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
i think they are both believable as action stars, but star in almost completely different action movies (Mission Impossible series versus Taken, Unknown and The Grey)
a couple years ago Neeson could have pulled it off I think
July 5th, 2012 at 9:29 AM
Stallone, Arnold
Thought you might enjoy that reference
July 5th, 2012 at 9:30 AM
Crispin Glover…crazy can do anything at any time
July 5th, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Betty White
July 5th, 2012 at 9:32 AM
So who are actors you judt wouldn’t fuck with?
Jet Li, Chow Yun Fat, and based on Pulp Fiction alone, Samuel L. Jackson.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Jason Statham, easily on the top of the list
July 5th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Says the guy who felt the need to say that SciFi clearly isn’t taking its movies seriously.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Wesley Snipes
Michael Jae White
and of course, Chuck Norris.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Christopher Lee is number one at the top of that list until he is dead.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
If they were going to include a brewery that’s 2 hours away from the main city in their article, they could have used Denver instead of Fort Collins and covered all of the craft brewers from Colorado Springs through Denver to Fort Collins.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:34 AM
I don’t they’re funny, but I kind of wrote that off to me being old. I have younger cousins that think those guys are hilarious. I don’t see it.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:35 AM
Tom Hardy looks like he can kick some ass.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:40 AM
Could have included Chicago with Milwaukee if we’re going with the 2 hour away rule.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
daniel day-lewis.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:42 AM
Wish I was playing Castlevania instead of working
July 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
/taps glass eye with knife.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Seriously guys, Christopher Lee was a spy and desert raider in WWII, Statham and those other guys are just dancers.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:44 AM
Good point, Reacher is a brooding, stoic, loner type where Cruise usually plays a more charismatic action star.
The real question is how are they going to fit in a running scene for Cruise b/c Reacher doesn’t get in a hurry much.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
All of this. Nice job, CRM.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:46 AM
he’s also 90
July 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Been a good beer week for me. I enjoyed some bombers of torpedo extra ipa and hop stoopid yesterday. The Torpedo was better than I remember. Can’t compete with hop stoopid but it’s pretty darn good.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
holy shit…long range desert group and in the SOE. precursor to SAS. dude must’ve been a badass.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Peter Dinklage
July 5th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Carla Gugina? Dunno aren’t all actors midgets? Remember the theatre kids in highschool? I would fight 99%.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:48 AM
Oh good, now he’s got even less fear of death, GREAT.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Absolutely love the hop stoopid. A whole foods near me mistakenly sold bombers of hop stoopid for $3.99 for about six months.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:51 AM
Poor Daryl Morey. Nobody wants to play for his team. Signing Jeremy Lin over Dragic is a terrible move. Smells like an owner meddling for another China cash grab.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Harvey Keitel.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:53 AM
Hop Stoopid is seriously good
/Team IBU’s
July 5th, 2012 at 9:54 AM
all-time “don’t fuck with” entry…sonny landham.
from the predator extras…
July 5th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
When you’re dealing with a store like this, they’re insured up the ass. They’re not supposed to give you any resistance whatsoever. If you get a customer, or an employee, who thinks he’s Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. Everybody jumps. He falls down screaming, blood squirts out of his nose, nobody says fucking shit after that. You might get some bitch talk shit to you, but give her a look like you’re gonna smash her in the face next, watch her shut the fuck up. Now if it’s a manager, that’s a different story. Managers know better than to fuck around, so if you get one that’s giving you static, he probably thinks he’s a real cowboy, so you gotta break that son of a bitch in two. If you wanna know something and he won’t tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Then tell him his thumb’s next. After that he’ll tell you if he wears ladies underwear. I’m hungry. Let’s get a taco.
July 5th, 2012 at 9:57 AM
cool
July 5th, 2012 at 9:58 AM
Harvey Fierstein.
/coop’d
July 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
david carradine…right steven seagal?
July 5th, 2012 at 10:00 AM
Cruise would probably do better than you’d think in a fight. His unblinding CO$-driven self-belief might make him like one of those dudes on LSD that need 8 cops to take him down. The downside he’s as big as Dinklage.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
The guy who played Elaine Benes dad in Seinfield.
Tierney had numerous arrests for drunken fights over the years, and served jail terms. His run-ins with the law took a toll on his career.He was an admitted alcoholic who gave up drinking in 1982 after having a stroke, and once said that he “threw away about seven careers through drink.”
Between 1944 and 1951, Tierney had been arrested a dozen times for brawling, frequently for drunkenness. His legal troubles included a 90-day jail sentence for breaking a college student’s jaw.
At the time of his arrest for brawling with two policemen outside a Manhattan bar in 1958, the New York Times reported that he had been arrested six times in California and five times in New York on similar charges. In 1973 he was stabbed in a bar fight on the west side of Manhattan.
In June 1975, Tierney was questioned by New York City police in connection with the apparent suicide of a 24-year old woman, who jumped from the window of her apartment. Tierney told police that he had come to visit the woman, “had just gotten there, and she just went out the window”.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:01 AM
Been a good beer week for me. I enjoyed some bombers of torpedo extra ipa and hop stoopid yesterday. The Torpedo was better than I remember. Can’t compete with hop stoopid but it’s pretty darn good.
Hop Stoopid is seriously good
/Team IBU’s
Pliny the Elder and Younger, Green Flash West Coast IPA, Stone Ruination, Bell’s Hopslam, and Sculpin IPA.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:02 AM
wouldn’t fuck with michael jai white…dude’s a) enormous b) a black belt in something or other.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:03 AM
ok, let me clarify….actors we;ve heard of, and those martial arts dudes don;t count. actors first, people
chris lee in the lead
July 5th, 2012 at 10:04 AM
dude, michael jai white’s a pretty well known actor. he was spawn. and he was the crime boss that the joker set up in TDK with the whole “dead…alive…smiles!” thing.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:05 AM
Let me put it this way, if there’s a beer from Russian River Brewing, I’m buying it without question. They make some seriously awesome beers.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
This is a good starting point. Samuel L is a legit badass.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
Wasting a vacation day having guys crawl around my attic replacing the AC.
I should be out playing 36.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:06 AM
dude, michael jai white’s a pretty well known actor. he was spawn. and he was the crime boss that the joker set up in TDK with the whole “dead…alive…smiles!” thing.
didn’t mean him. we crossed comments, as it were
July 5th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Oh man I didn’t realize that was him in TDK.
I saw Spawn in theatres and have no regrets.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:07 AM
Also was in Reservior Dogs.
/tying the thread together
July 5th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
im down…when you wanna tee off?
/practiced so much the past 36 hours i was too stiff to get comfortable enough to sleep last night
//legs went first, then back, then forearms, then hands
///great practice sesh’s tho…really hitting it well
July 5th, 2012 at 10:09 AM
Also was in Reservior Dogs.
/tying the thread together
I ear you
July 5th, 2012 at 10:10 AM
me neither…that said, spawn desperately needs a modern update.
/DEADPOOL MOVIE PLZ…ANYTIME NOW
July 5th, 2012 at 10:11 AM
Lawrence Tierney did the voice of Don Brodka (that’s right, Don Brodka) in the Simpsons Christmas episode where Bart steals the video game. In the DVD commentary they talk about how he scared the shit out of all the writers and would yell at them for making noise during the table-read.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
from this am’s barstool wake-up…sexy pose, hun. what is that pose called…drunk piss in public?
/i kid…helluva toilet
//questionably sfw
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Green Flash is excellent. Ruination I just had for first a couple weeks ago. That’s some good stuff. Also, Bells Two Herted is seriously good. Any IBU-lover needs to become familiar with 3 Floyds.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Best part of that Jack Reacher trailer is the Black Angels song playing in the background.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:12 AM
Slideshows … coming soon to a TBL near you!
July 5th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
Joe Rogan. Douche-but badass.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:13 AM
You guys need to get down with some Ballast Point Big Eye IPA or Scurpin IPA.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:14 AM
I’m with ya. Guess I’ll plow through some chipping and a 1hr 9 after work.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
HTF can you walk 9 in an hour? Must not be a suburban course. An hour of a walking round for me is just going between holes.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
wasted opportunity to sleep in yesterday to mow the lawn, only to discover the riding mower died. again. not happy about having to spend $1600 for a new one.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:17 AM
Nah, he’s a pansy. You just need to tickle him in the right place.
/ Matthew Brock’d
July 5th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Sculpin is pretty excellent. Comment #71
July 5th, 2012 at 10:18 AM
Nice to see liability trumping common sense. Jesus Christ, this makes the commenter who wanted a grocery store to pay for a fucking lost iPhone look reasonable.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:19 AM
As for beer, I’ve recently developed a taste for Belgian-style sour ales. Love Monk’s Cafe, but Timmermans Bourgogne de Flandres is top of the line.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:25 AM
Lawrence Tierney had the all-time classic, “How about a remy martin?” line in Reservoir Dogs, as you pulls his hands into double fists.
/Random stupid fact that forever will stay planted in brain, like many others.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
How bit a yard do you have?
July 5th, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Tried them both – Hopslam was good, found Ruination disappointing (bad bottle?)
July 5th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
*big
July 5th, 2012 at 10:29 AM
Beer wise I’ve been drinking Yanjing which tastes like the sweaty tears of the Asian slaves who brew it but at $2.00 for 500ml at 5% abv I run to it like a Foxconn employee runs off a 20th floor balcony.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:31 AM
FWIW, I think Duchesse De Bourgogne is even better – like an oaked red wine in a beer bottle.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
tried a guatemalan beer last night. playa de la cruz. why? becasue i didn;t know it existed. next up, a beer from the Ivory Coast
/it was a summer beer, light, crisp, notes of flies on kids’ faces and rusty machetes
July 5th, 2012 at 10:33 AM
Green Flash is good, but stay away from their Palate Wrecker. Just too overpowering.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:34 AM
Nope. Joined the club for the ease of walking. Won’t be anybody out at 6, just me. Putting and chipping drills for 45 minutes, followed by a blisteringly quick 9. Less than 2 hours total.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:35 AM
I just don’t enjoy beer as much as I used to.
Had 2 Sweetwater 420s yesterday and meh – good beer but it wasn’t bourbon or a nice Italian style vodka martini (my version).
I’m going to start carrying a flask.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
A little Wild Turkey always makes the meeting better.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:38 AM
1.25 acres, flat, but oddly shaped with lots of obstacles.
the tractor i have came with the house, so i can’t complain too much, but i’ve lot all patience for it and it’s a small 32″ deck
July 5th, 2012 at 10:39 AM
Too much vermouth, I just want pure vodka in a glass with the pretension of respectability.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:40 AM
rock climbing is crazy, especially free climbing. pics of it make me feel funny
July 5th, 2012 at 10:47 AM
I’ll see it too but Cruise just makes it have a very “UnReacher-like” feel to the whole thing. Problem is, a buddy and I tried to think who would be a better choice for the role and couldn’t come up with a good enough actor with that size (6’5, 250lbs in the book)
Clive Owen? (if he can shed the accent). Certainly has the do-not-f-with-me thing down.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Thanks for reminding me to make a trip to the liquor store later today. I’ll need a flask for tomorrow PM’s throwaway round with a buddy that never golfs.
It’ll give me a chance to practice golf photography at least.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:50 AM
That’s really great. I can’t get in 9 in less than 1:30 walking on my course… that’s if I’m playing lights out.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:55 AM
Just the opposite here. I’m fully on board with craft beers. Only time I have liquor these days is if I’m at an event where the beer offered is crap, i.e., Miller/Bud.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:56 AM
deadbeat dad flees to Philippines
CRAZY story. That ex wife should seems terrible as well. She really screwed that up.
July 5th, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Hell, I just drink whatever is available…. Natty Light, Coors, Sweetwater, Stella, Southern Magnolia, Crown, Woodford, vodka, rum, whatever. I like all of it. I don’t discriminate.
July 5th, 2012 at 11:04 AM
Vodka?
/Team Gin