After a few weeks of writing about shows me and three other people in the world like (Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers, Boy Meets World, et al.), we decided to dedicate a Sports On TV column to a show the entire UPROXX network loves — ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia,’ FX’s delightfully cruel comedy that has its own page of recaps and commenter badges on the UPROXX mothership.

The show’s use of Philadelphia is at least as comprehensive as ‘The Wire’s’ use of Baltimore, and all of the important Philly area teams and icons have made an appearance on the show … the Eagles, the Flyers, the Phillies, the Phillie Phanatic. ‘It’s Always Sunny’ also launched the worldwide popularity of GREEN MAN, who you may know as “that a-hole in the morphsuit at any sporting event.” It’s an important thing they’re doing, so we’re here to talk about it.

Things we have to apologize for in advance: crude language, situations meant for mature audiences and getting the “Flipadelphia” song stuck in your head again.

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Minnesota Timberwolves PG Ricky Rubio tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee back in March, causing the onslaught of out-of-nowhere T-Wolves viral videos to slow to a crawl. The good news today is twofold — Rubio is targeting a December return from injury, and he’s already started working on those viral videos.

His first effort: playing the classic vertical board game Connect Four with basketballs on the Spanish talk show “El Hormiguero,” aka “The Anthill”. It’s the most fun a basketball player can have with a board game without organizing a living Guess Who? “Do you wear stupid glasses with no lenses?” “Yes.” “YOU’RE DWYANE!”

Important information about the weird puppets you’re seeing, courtesy of Ball Don’t Lie:

(Those puppets you see bopping in front of Rubio at the start of the video above are ants who live in the anthill. Their names are Trancas and Barrancas, apparently taken from the Spanish expression for “in fits and starts,” and now I want them on every American talk show.)

Hell, I’d watch an entire year of daytime TV just to see Steve Harvey get upset about them.

Anyway, this looks like a hell of a lot of fun and Rubio’s shot looks solid. He should spend September through October just showing up on different talk shows and game shows to beat the hosts at basketball-themed, giant-sized board games. He could destroy ‘The Price Is Right’ with that shot. Maybe beat Ellen at a game of Massive Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Bonus: Here are a few old Connect Four commercials, because why not?

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Two weeks ago, nerds from across Great Britain gathered to compete for the national Scrabble championship, a title so monumental that women don’t even bother wearing panties around the champions lest they soak them instantly. But this year’s championship is perhaps the most unique in the event’s history, as the champion is transsexual. Thirty-two year old Mikki Nicholson has been diagnosed as a “woman trapped in a man’s body.” This is unrelated to my current lawsuit involving a “woman trapped in a man’s basement.”

Nicholson won the tournament with the word obeisant, which means respect, and for his/her efforts, he/she won £1,500 and he/she plans to use that money to travel to Malaysia in December for another Scrabble championship. That sounds like a great idea unless I’m completely missing something, Press Association…

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I never thought Twister was much of a game, and it’s probably because we don’t live in the 1950s, where sex was a sin and freebasing stuff in the garage was still gaining ground as an acceptable means of passing the time. But if I was in the 1950s, sexually frustrated, somewhat flexible, and surrounded by girls that would somehow subject themselves to my company outside of the influence of drugs or alcohol, then yeah, I would totally play Twister. –College Humor.

This is roving reporters don’t have wired microphones anymore. Although, to be fair, I can’t imagine that our protagonist would have spent his weekends doing anything else but creating an entire Leaning Tower of Pisa out of Jenga blocks. And no reporter, no matter how old and fat and stupid he is, could be dumb enough to walk around a tower like that, right? I mean, is there any way that this isn’t fake? I’m still waiting for some Canadian kids to lead me through the hallways while lip-syncing to a Black Eyed Peas song.