From the NY Daily News:

The White House was forced to respond Wednesday to a conspiracy theory too silly for even the birthers: Did Barack Obama appear in the video for Tag Team’s 1993 one-hit wonder “Whoomp! (There it is)”?

My friend Sarah isn’t just a wonderfully prolific blogger. She’s also pretty darn creative when it comes to making T-shirts, like this shirt she made for a bicycle-loving boss who was moving on to another job.

Be sure to bookmark and RSS feed her blog at youreamazingbut.tumblr.com.

Remember how terrible 98 percent of the Interwebs looked in 1996? I remember it taking an entire period just to download a Web page at my school’s library in 1996, but I also remember the eye-achingly abrasive colors, the ridiculous animated gifs and the MIDI files. Oh the MIDI files.

If you weren’t surfing the web back then or have successfully blocked it from your memory, this site lets you see what any site in 2010 would look like if it were on the Interwebs back in the day. Enjoy!

Like a lane violation in basketball when anyone not named Cole Aldrich is shooting free throws, a catcher misfiring on a throw back to the mound is a rarity.

But not last night in Milwaukee, thanks to some untimely muscle spasms.

Poor Gregg Zaun. He misfired not once or even twice, but three times. The video evidence Zaun is going to spend the rest of his career trying to get people to forget is HERE.

This story is not only hard to believe; it’s downright disgusting to even imagine. If you’re eating right now, I wouldn’t click on this link to Inky reporter Sam Wood’s take on the report of the Pennsylvania man who police say was attempting to bring a long dead possum to life with his intoxicated lips.

For all the talk during this tournament about where this or that guy will go in the NBA Draft and what All-American team this or that guy made, true fans of college basketball should be excited to see player profiles that do just the opposite.

A Yahoo Sports! profile on LaceDarius Dunn does just that:

LaceDarius Dunn says he doesn’t know who made the 2009-10 All-American team, and he isn’t sure where he’s projected to go in next summer’s NBA draft.

You can read the rest of Jason King’s article HERE. Perhaps you’ll better understand why I root for Baylor to win when they aren’t playing Kansas.

A tactician like big league manager Tony La Russa relies heavily on advanced scouting to look for ways to shift his outfield for a certain batter, good counts to hit and run on a particular pitcher and, according to Yahoo! Sports, the contents of a book he has no intention of reading.

St. Louis manager Tony La Russa received an advanced scouting report on the book and didn’t expect the release to disrupt the Cardinals’ camp.

“Somebody I knew read an advanced copy,” La Russa said prior to morning workouts. “He said that (Jay) said some stuff—it wasn’t really first-page-to-last-page damning stuff about Mark.”

Neither Mark McGwire nor La Russa plan to read the book.

“What’s the point?” La Russa said. “It’s stuff that’s already been gone over a bunch of times. I don’t know what it’s going to change.”

Frontline’s Digital Nation will air online and on PBS Feb. 2 at 9 p.m. Click HERE for more info.

“I enjoy and love what I do…It’s not a job, it’s a calling…. I’d do it for nothing.” -Franklin Graham

I’d say $1.2 million – what Billy Graham’s son makes double-dipping a full-time salary from Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association – is quite a bit more than nothing for a job he is “called” to do. 

I wonder how many shoe boxes he could fill for $1.2 million. 

Click HERE for more on this story.

Thanks to Bryan Allain and the boredom of the laundromat, I found myself reading a newspaper story last week about a parade in Lancaster County. Typically, this kind of stuff goes in one side of the brain and out the other, but the first few graphs struck a chord with me, a New Jersey native now living in Lancaster.

For two weeks, chairs — as well as benches, saw horses and rope attached to such items as milk jugs, oil cans or bricks — lined the streets of New Holland.

New Holland Farmers Parade chairman Barry Hofford said a couple from New Jersey stopped by his house on Saturday wondering what all the chairs were doing sitting on the sidewalks around town.

“They couldn’t understand how they’d stayed there,” Hofford said. In New Jersey, they would have been stolen, he said.

But you have to remember you’re in Lancaster County now, Hofford told the couple.

“People still trust each other and respect other people’s things here,” he said.