Swedish insurance company Folksam has brought together two of my favorite things: R. Kelly, and skydiving cats. And okay, as one of the comments points out, it’s less “skydiving cats” and more “putting cats in front of a green screen and turning on a fan,” but still, skydiving cats. (via The Daily What)

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Mitt Romney saw Twilight with his wife |Film Drunk|

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Remembering Better Times: 10 Pictures That Prove George Lucas Used To Be One Cool Dude |Gamma Squad|

The Five Marvel NOW! Books We Can’t Wait To Read |Smoking Section|

A.J. Green Is Good At Awesome Touchdown Catches |Kissing Suzy Kolber|

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It’s not as low-rent as the Oklahoma City Thunder shilling Jeeps, but here are the San Antonio Spurs in a commercial for steaks from Texas supermarket chain H-E-B because, hey, I have that grocery store!

Fun fact: They say H-E-B stands for “here everything’s better,” but it actually stands for “Howard Edward Butt”. BUY YOUR GROCERIES AT BUTT. (via Bush League Chronicle)

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Big Boi And Andre 3000 Speak On Outkast’s Future … Separately |Smoking Section|

Tiki Barber Is Hilariously Desperate For Money |Kissing Suzy Kolber|

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Get ready for the analytical insight that brought you to a comedy sports blog for your opinions: Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving is really good at basketball.

The real question (because otherwise I won’t have much of a blog post) is whether or not the Fictional Kyrie Irving is better than the real one. Take, for example, the comparison of real and fictional Shawn Bradley. In fiction, he once had his “basketball playing ability” stolen by some aliens. In real life, he never had any basketball playing ability. Clearly, the fictional one is better.

Kyrie helped us out this week by providing two key examples, one from each side of the argument. Representing Fictional Kyrie Irving is ‘Foot Locker Week of Greatness ft Kyrie Irving: 60,’ a commercial where he dunks in slow motion and has time to do everything from gargle mouthwash to read a book and clip his fingernails. Representing Non-Fiction Kyrie Irving is a clip of him dropping a ridiculous behind-the-back bounce pass assist to Anderson Varejao. I can’t decide which one I like more, so I’m leaving it up to you.

Both contestants are below.

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I don’t know why I forgot to write about it a few weeks ago, but I didn’t hate the Ryan Lochte cameo on 30 Rock. In fact, I laughed rather amply at it, because Tina Fey, that glorious goddess of comedy writing, created a character that was perfect for the guy who spent his birthday hanging out with The Situation – “Sex Idiot”. In case you missed the episode, Lochte played one of Sbarro heiress Pizzarina Sbarro’s boyfriends, as she explained to Jack Donaghy that different guys provide different aspects of relationships for her.

Basically, Lochte played a dipshit who likes having sex. And that just seemed perfect. In fact, if he wants to play that same character in anything he appears in – 90210, The Bachelor, the 2016 Summer Olympics – I’m all for it. But I really hope that people actually liking his performance on 30 Rock doesn’t encourage him to think that he is hilarious. Just kidding, too late.

Nissan has created a new web series called “Date Better with Sentra” with a man identified only as “suave narrator”, and in a new commercial, he’s joined by Lochte, who is as packed with personality as ever.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder popped up in a local ad for Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge, and it’s the stuff awkward public access dreams are made of. I feel you, Kendrick Perkins. Their next ad should just be Serge Ibaka saying “if you don’t buy a car from Norman Chrysler Jeep Dodge I will rip off your arms”. (via Last Angry Fan)

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I woke up to give-or-take 30 e-mails this morning. A third of them started with HI JOSH because people want links but don’t actually read the site, a third of them were “inspirational photos” from Hurricane Sandy where somebody superimposes an angel face on a storm cloud and the final third, the third I can’t get enough of, were clips of Blake Griffin being funny. Nay, hilarious.

He does this a lot. He’s sorta cornered the market on being the “funny basketball player,” assuming Metta World Peace is doing this all by accident. So far on With Leather we’ve written about Blake being stalked by a puppet version of himself, dunking in the nude, hanging out with Elmo and talking with television’s Dwight Schrute about his fear of Chinese people.

Because I can’t devote a single post to every Blake Griffin video I get, I’ve decided to lump them all together. Inside you will find:

1. Blake Griffin making INTENSE DUNK FACES.
2. Creating Conan O’Brien in NBA 2K13, then taking alley-oops from him.
3. Time traveling back to 1995 in a Kia to shoot free throws.
4. Time traveling back to 1997 to play football with himself.
5. A really concerning appearance in a Brazzers video.

Okay, almost all of those things are inside.

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