Recently, CBS Sports analyst and GREAT DAD Seth Davis came under fire when he said he wouldn’t want his kids watching mixed martial arts because (and I’m paraphrasing here) two men are near each other and that means gay. From his Twitter:

“Looking on news sites showing picture of two muscular bloody men in homoerotic fighting pose….Sorry, I’ll never get this UFC thing.”

“Maybe I’m a prude on this but I’m also a dad. I don’t mind my sons watching boxing, but I wouldn’t want them watching a UFC bout.”

Davis quickly realized that he wanted to keep his job his mistake and apologized for the offending tweets, but the always progressive UFC was reading, and took it to heart.

Since Seth Davis’ Gay Kids-Gate, UFC President Dana White has worked tirelessly to clear up any worries about homoeroticism in man-on-man combat, making sure all fighters wear full, baggy bodysuits and only touch each other with fully extended arms and legs. He’s also named Corn Nuts the “official nut sack” of Ultimate Fighting and makes sure the announcer tells everybody about their nut sacks before a fight. Okay, one of those two sentences is true. Corn Nuts! They’re corn, all the way to the core. THE CORE OF YOU.

I hope Mr. Davis enjoyed this clip. More importantly, I hope Mr. Davis enjoys the great taste of Corn Nuts.

[h/t to Cage Potato]

Let’s face the facts, guys and dolls – if you’re short a Y chromosome, there’s just no way you can like baseball for the right reasons. At least that’s what I’m taking away from the blogosphere’s website of hatred du jour, Baseball Boyfriend, which asks the question: “Who’s your Baseball Boyfriend?” Basically, while the men are off at work, earning the total household income, the ladies at home – nursing, cleaning and preparing food – can have their own fantasy baseball fun by “dating” a baseball player of their choice. I pick Steve Garvey!

If you’re unfamiliar with this Baseball Boyfriend idea, here’s the basic gist from what seems to be a Dan Gilbert-designed website:

Baseball Boyfriend doesn’t replace your current fantasy baseball experience or simplify it in any way. It’s a side game that you can play at the same time. While you are playing in your normal league, can have a Baseball Boyfriend off to the side. To play, you’ll need to be a part of a CBSSports fantasy baseball league.

In fairness, I’m just poking fun at yesterday’s Twitter rage, as the public response to this idea has just been hilarious. Women think it’s sexist and guys who consider themselves modern and progressive-minded also think it’s the online equivalent of clubbing a girl over the head and dragging her back to a cave. But I just don’t see the big deal, because almost all of us know a girl who has filled out a March Madness pool sheet based solely on cute uniforms or players. Hell, I’m surprised this isn’t coming straight from MLB.com.

In fact, I see this as a relationship builder, if anything. As the description states, a girl has to be in a CBS Sports Fantasy Baseball League, too, so her man is going to have to help her create a league. Haha, what’s that, honey? Your desired screen name is already taken? Well I’m sure you can live with I’mASamanthaXOXO143~I<3Pinterest2. Now quiet down, the game is on.

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On Saturday night, while most of the cool kids were out smoking cigarettes in the Taco Bell parking lot, news broke that Penn State coach Joe Paterno had passed away due to complications from lung cancer. Specifically, the first report was published by Onward State, a student newspaper at PSU. The paper claimed that Nittany Lions players received emails informing them that Paterno had passed away, and thus the news was born.

But since nobody outside of Happy Valley is really familiar with Onward State, the news didn’t really get out until CBS Sports picked up the story and ran with it. That’s when all Twitter hell broke loose. You see, as it turned out, Paterno wasn’t dead on Saturday night. As we know, he passed away on Sunday morning. But almost immediately after the CBS story hit and then other major media outlets began picking it up, Paterno’s family came forward and said that JoePa wasn’t dead.

Whoops.

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