friendsoftheprogram.net - 3/24/2008
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Any video involving grown men playing with dolls, that doesnt involve GI Joe ( now with real ninja action! ), is more than a little creepy . But when the NCAA and CBS’s television contract exercises its gestapo-like control over game highlights, sportscasters have to resort to any means necessary in order to bring the game to the masses. Case in point, NBC17 anchor Penn Holderness (Chest ...
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Figure Skating, Mud 'Rasslin' [Blogdome]
Deadspin —
• So much controversy in men's figure skating. [Food Court Lunch]
• Beware, UCLA. [Gutty Little Bruins]
• The new Nationals stadium looks awfully pretty. [SportsWrap]
• Next year's breakout quarterbacks. [Throwing Into Traffic]
• Duke-Belmont, as played by dolls. [Friends Of The Program]
• The Church is finally cool with the NCAA Tournament. [Black Fives Blog]
• How to be an NCAA tournament genius. [Zulkey]
• Dan Shanoff's wife kicks his ass in the tournament. ...
Behold, players who fall down as easily and often as Greg Paulus
The Dagger —
... fellow named Penn
Holderness, explains why this had to happen, but I wanted to add to the
applause. That's the most creativity I've seen since someone named their child
"Penn Holderness."
And it's not only creative, it's quite accurate. Did you see the defense that
Belmont played against Gerald "The Frog" Henderson? That was exactly
how Belmont played defense in reality. Uncanny. That guy's got a future in
puppet shows.
Gracias, Friends
of the Program, via Deadspin.
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Figure Skating, Mud 'Rasslin' [Blogdome]
deadspin.com 3/24/2008 — • So much controversy in men's figure skating. [ Food Court Lunch ]
• Beware, UCLA. [ Gutty Little Bruins ]
• The new Nationals stadium looks awfully pretty. [ SportsWrap ]
• Next year's breakout quarterbacks. [ Throwing ...
Meet Penn Holderness, Coolest Sports Anchor EVAR
sportingnews.com 3/25/2008 — By Chris Mottram
Penn Holderness , NBC's sports guy in Carolina's Research Triangle area, found an incredibly hilarious, creative and wildly inaccurate way of showing the "highlights" of the Belmont-Duke game with his daughter's dolls :
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