If you haven't already please check out Yardbarker's coverage of Super Bowl Week in South Florida over at our Super Bowl blog. Don't expect a lot of serious football talk, it's mostly just pictures of hot chicks.Well, we also have some fun event videos and interviews with athletes. Stay tuned, as I'll be putting up more content, even now that the Super Bowl is over.
I never noticed it before, but I definitely do love a man without armpit hair.
I'd never even heard of the 1996 movie 'Ed,' but for some reason we have a copy of the DVD at the Yardbarker offices. The back cover tells me that I'll "go bananas for baseball's funniest rookie," who I suppose is either Matt LeBlanc or the monkey. Anyway, ever since the DVD appeared at our office, we've been noticing lots of random "Ed" references. The latest comes from "The Soup" on E!
Minor League. Major friendship.
For those celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King day, please enjoy this video from 1986:
The song ("King Holiday") is a "We are the World" type collaboration, honoring the first year that MLK Day was a national holiday. It was executive produced by Dr. King's son and features a ton of big-name artists like Run DMC, Kurtis Blow, the Fat Boys, New Edition, and Whitney Houston (who was apparently too cool to actually show up to the regular video shoot). I love how you can also easily spot Menudo in there, even if you can't see Ricky Martin or you don't know any of the members at the time.
Much love to MTV Jams for playing MLK-themed videos throughout the day, including this one.
I love animals, but PETA can bite me. Their poorly-timed Gilbert Arenas campaign is just the latest example of how out-of-touch they are with sports fans. 
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Yardbarker's tip box received a message from PETA this morning sharing the story of "All Star" Gilbert Arenas and his anti-fur photo shoot. Yay, this is totally something I want to write a puff piece on! Who cares about the current criminal investigation surrounding the four guns he brought into the Wizards lockerroom!
If the PETA PR people totally missed the news about Gil's troubles, then that's just stupid. If they intentionally released this info now because he's in the news, then that's stupid and counter-productive to the goal of resonating with sports fans.
It wouldn't surprise me if this timing was intentional -- PETA's protests of anything Michael Vick-related seem to be more about exploiting Vick's news buzz than about actual substantive complaints. The Vick protests have become predictable knee-jerk reactions that have lost all meaning to me. For instance, I have no idea if Vick deserved the Courage Award his teammates gave him, but the mere fact that PETA was up in arms about it had me defending the award choice.
Dog-fighting is horrible for the dogs, and I support efforts to stop that abuse and educate the public about it. But PETA's opportunistic whining about Vick makes me question how dedicated they really are to actually helping animals. Now that they're celebrating their involvement with an NBA player who foolishly plays with guns and makes light of an issue that kills people, it makes me write them off entirely as just a flimsy PR-whoring organization.
