In perhaps my frontrunner for favorite sports moment of 2013, the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ decision to let a 7-year old cancer patient named Jack Hoffman participate in last month’s Spring Game and even score a touchdown has made an amazing impact on the boy’s life. Since that day, he has already had his very own, limited edition Upper Deck trading card printed and he even met with President Obama at the White House. Because of this attention, Nebraska Sen. Deb Fischer also successfully pushed to have Jack’s birthday, September 26, declared National Pediatric Brain Cancer Awareness Day.

There was absolutely nothing negative about this heart-warming story that could seemingly help raise awareness for so many other children throughout the country, as they cope with horrible illnesses. But people are both stupid and horrible, so of course someone had to ruin the fun.

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Earlier this year, video game developer THQ Inc. – which was responsible for one of my favorite video games of all-time, WCW/nWo Revenge – auctioned off most of its studios and properties as part of its declaration of bankruptcy, but one of the first properties to go long before that included the rights to the UFC video game. UFC Undisputed 2009 and 2010 had been rather poorly received by fans, so it should have made them all very happy when EA Sports picked up the rights in June 2012.

Back in March, it was revealed that a UFC video game is still at least a year off, but it seems that it will be well worth the wait. Yesterday, the EA Sports UFC Facebook page teased us with a big news announcement today, and that just so happened to coincide with the XBox announcement of the “ultimate, all-in-one home entertainment system”, the Xbox One. That’s because EA and Microsoft announced a new partnership for the Xbox One that includes, FIFA, Madden, NBA Live and, thank jeebus, the UFC.

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It has been a little more than four months since that insane Deadspin article blew open one of the most absurd hoaxes in sports, at least in this Internet era, as it revealed that Lennay Kekua, the reported dead girlfriend of Notre Dame star Manti Te’o, was the fabrication of a man named Ronaiah Tuiasosopo. Sure, we all had a ton of additional questions and would have loved to have a little more insight into how a grown man fell for such a trick, but Te’o and Tuiasosopo sort of told their stories and were content to leave us believing that Te’o is just a big, dumb schmuck.

Of course, between that January article and today, plenty of other things happened in sports and we’ve turned our attention elsewhere, because we thought that we’d beaten this joke into oblivion. That suggests, however, that sports fans are all on the same wavelength, and obviously Te’o jokes were going to be made during and after the NFL Draft. But today? Talk about timely.

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As I mentioned in yesterday’s award-winning Watch This piece – it took home “Best Tasting Bacon Dish” at Paula Deen’s family picnic – Macho Man Randy Savage, or Randy Poffo as his family knew him, passed away two years ago after he suffered a heart attack while driving with his wife in Tampa, Florida. For a lot of children of the 80s like myself, Macho Man was obviously one of the WWF’s biggest icons, alongside Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant and, of course, Koko B. Ware.

But he was also a family man, and as all of his fans celebrated his legacy yesterday, his brother and mother also honored his memory in their own special way – with a lunch at Olive Garden.

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If you call something “the worst MMA fight ever,” you’ve got to mean it.

There’s so much to choose from. You’ve got Tank Abbott fighting people in the middle of a neighborhood barbecue, people who lost fights via vomit, a guy who knocked himself out with a kick and anything Bob Sapp has ever done. But yes, what you’re about to watch is truly the worst MMA fight ever.

He taps out to a sprawl, you guys. It’s so sad that the referee is like, “really, seriously?” and the guy just shrugs and gives up. He tries a kick, bless his heart, and he goes for the most depressing takedowns you’ve ever seen before lying facedown and holding his head. You know, in case somebody tries to punch him. In the MMA fight.

Enjoy this as much I did. Please.

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Wyoming coach Dave Christensen wants his team to be fast. How fast, you ask? So fast that he’s willing to spend all day in photoshop to illustrate it.

The problem is that Dave isn’t exactly a photoshop wizard, so the 2013 Wyoming Cowboys will have to settle for being motivated by an extended gag from an Ashley Burns post. Ladies and gentlemen, behold, auteur Dave Christensen’s masterpiece FastNFurious 13: All Roads Lead To The Endzone.

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