Roundup: Cole Hamels, the $144 Million Man; the 50 Best Looking People on Capitol Hill & Alex Rodriguez Suffers Broken Hand
By Jason McIntyre
Cole Hamels is staying in Philadelphia: 6 years, $144 million. [USA Today]
The 50 Best Looking People on Capitol Hill. [The Hill]
A-Rod got his hand broken on a pitch by King Felix. The guess here is he’ll be back in early September. [NYDN] Here’s video of the plunking, via @JimmyTraina.
Olympic medal projections, anyone? [Sports Myriad]
Columnist panicking about the Bulls because Asik, Korver and Watson are gone. Yes, really. [Sun-Times]
What life is like for North Carolina’s newest assistant coach, Hubert Davis. [CBS Sports]
Creative: What LeBron’s gmail inbox looks like. [Grantland]
Boy did MLB’s twitter account botch the Ryan Dempster trade. [Chicago Sports Media Watch]
The secret to Olympic gymnasts sticking? Honey, among other things. [WSJ]
Remember when everyone loved the Marlins in Spring Training? [Herald]
The Pirates traded for pitcher Wandy Rodriguez. But they also lost their 2nd straight game to fall 2.5 back of the Reds in the Central. Sixty-eight games left! [Post-Gazette]
Why Batman was disarmed in 1939. [New Yorker]
Not the best “trick shot” ever, but certainly not the worst.
Shark scares the heck out of human. [via Salty Shores]
Gotta have a cool wife to pull this off. [via Hot Clicks]
Just-released video footage from 2006 of a killer whale dragging its trainer underwater.