Roundup: Kanye West Gave a Terrible Speech & Nicki Minaj vs. Miley Cyrus
By Jason McIntyre
Did troubled Seattle rookie Frank Clark “attack” Philip Rivers at the bottom of the pile during a preseason game? [Union Tribune]
Jake Arrieta of the Cubs no-hit the Dodgers Sunday night. [Sun-Times]
People can’t stop talking about UCLA’s true freshman QB, Josh Rosen. [OC Register]
Larry King has called ISIS “Iris” on TV accidentally because, “Iris Siegel was every boy at Lafayette High School’s masturbatory fantasy.” [NYT Magazine]
Apparently there is a lot of anger at the Red Sox because it got NESN to dump announcer Don Orsillo. [Boston Herald]
Marshawn Lynch gave an entire interview without getting angry and huffy! [American Way Magazine]
Hopefully you were already aware of t his: Continue betting against the public when it comes to the NFL. [Sports Insights]
Arkansas’s punter, freshman Blake Johnson, drank too much and was busted by police urinating on a light pole. Then Johnson was arrested. [News 5]
University in Maryland is removing textbooks to help the students save money. [US News & World Report]
Bernie Miklasz has left print to be a full-time radio guy on ESPN. [St. Louis Magazine]
Here’s a story about Sugar Daddies, who are using the internet a lot to find “girlfriends.” [GQ]
Japan rallied from an early 8-0 deficit to win the Little League World Series. I’m so glad that I was on vacation and missed it all. But did I also miss the social media outrage about it? [AP]
This Kanye West speech … an adjective for awful works for me.
Nicki Minji vs. Miley Cyrus seems staged. Still, this was fun.
Michigan State lost to the Georgian National team, 71-70. A good-look 30-footer at the buzzer missed.
Hammerhead shark hanging out with some kayakers in La Jolla, California. [via]