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Hot Tag: Once (Probably Twice) In A Lifetime - To get you excited for Wrestlemania weekend, listen to this podcast wherein I drink some Nyquil and end up bitching about Professor Oak from Pokémon’s credentials. [Wear The Cheese]

Win $1000 With Free Fantasy Baseball Through Us - It’s free to sign up and you’d be ridiculous not to. You’re gonna at least win five bucks. TAKE ME ON. [FanDuel]

Hall Of Fame Differences: Magic Johnson Buys Dodgers, Dennis Rodman Hits Rock Bottom - One of them suddenly has two billion dollars to blow and the other’s showing up at a wrestling convention this weekend. The road less traveled, as they say. [Smoking Section]

Shut Up, Jim Irsay - Jim Irsay has officially turned into a bridge troll. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

The 25 Most Awkward Photos In MMA History - You could probably stretch this out to 50 with 25 pics of Brock Lesnar’s penis-chestsword. [Cage Potato]

Go Greendale Hard: Levar Allen Raps About His ‘Community’ Angst - I wish he didn’t mention NBC so much so they could find a way to work this song onto the show. Annie’s Boobs photo only loosely related. [Warming Glow]

Gary Busey Gets Into A Fight Over The Design Of Heaven - But he never once had a problem with dying and being brought back in the body of a small dog. [Film Drunk]

Funny, Sexy And Awesome Cosplay Of The Week - I want you inside of me, Darkwing Duck lady. [Gamma Squad]

75 Hoodie Wearers Who Are Up To No Good - I keep wanting this case to not be so horrible, and end up revealing that the guy shot him because he really hates Arizona tea. [UPROXX]

50 Graphical Breakdowns Of Our Favorite Rap Songs - Ludacris “claiming” to have hoes in various area codes made me laugh out loud. This is solid and incredibly, incredibly uncool. [UPROXX]

Status Updates on 5 Film Sequels We Actually Want to See - District 9 has one of my favorite endings ever, and while sequels don’t ruin the original film … yeah, sometimes they do. [Pajiba]

The tracking issues make it appropriately macabre.

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McDonald’s Hamburger Left Out For a Year Remains Exactly the Same - Yeah, but it only costs a dollar! Derp derp derp /drinks gasoline [The FW]

These Ron Swanson And Other Pop Culture Hoops Deserve All The Bacon And Eggs We Have - I was about to dismiss these (“oh great job, UPROXX, more Star Wars parodies”) until I got to No-Face from Spirited Away. More productive nerds need to be into good anime. [UPROXX]

Our Long National Nightmare Is Over: Akira Production Offices Shut Down - And speaking of good anime, thank Christ this honky piece of sh*t isn’t going to exist anymore. [Gamma Squad]

Why The Heck Isn’t Gary Busey The National Spokesperson For Kia? - And while we’re at it, why isn’t ‘I’m With Busey’ on DVD somewhere? [UPROXX]

The 15 Biggest Flops of 2011 - I’ve been reading about movies on the Internet for 15 years and I still don’t understand how something that had a 75 million dollar budget and made like, 130 million at the box office is a flop. People are greedy and weird. [Film Drunk]

Goalie Tim Howard Scores From Own Half - Time to bring back all those “if our rap blog is writing about soccer, I get to write about Childish Gambino” jokes from six months ago. [Smoking Section]

Zooey Deschanel Is Quite A Catch, Financially - Also in every other field, except making Having A Good Show and/or Ukelele Avoidance. [Buzzfeed]

Shirtless Obama Plays Football, Eats Sand - After that whole “signing a bill that will get me thrown in jail for the rest of my life for trying to visit the Lincoln Memorial too close to sunset or whatever” act, I’m losing interest in watching our President be a cool guy. [Kissing Suzy Kolber]

7 Things About the ‘Justified’ Cast that You Probably Didn’t Know - One day I’m going to figure out if this show is like ‘The Wire’, where people bug me to watch it for years and it’s the best show in history, or like ‘The Shield’, where people bug me to watch it for years and I’m perfectly okay ignoring it forever. [Warming Glow]

David Beckham Bewildered About Why People Think He Is A Secret Homosexual - Spoiler alert: it’s because every male who isn’t 100% masculine is a danger to 100% masculinity. That’s a defining aspect of masculinity … being challenged by everything for no f**king reason. [FARK]

20 Suggested Names for Benedict Cumberbatch’s ‘Star Trek 2′ Villain - Zinglebert Wambledack? Englebert Slaptyback? Jerry Dorsey. [Moviefone]

Cosplay Photoshopping GIF Makes Me Sad - Photoshop is the devil, especially in situations like this where real-life accuracy is the entire point. Also, your arms looked fine before the photoshopping. [Unreality]

Yeah, I’ve Made Up Your Mind: Five 2012 Films You Might Not Know You Should Be Looking Forward To - Pajiba doesn’t know me at all, thinking I wouldn’t be excited for a Wes Anderson movie. Cloud Atlas sounds pretty goddamn hilarious, though. [Pajiba]

In between leading a crusade for truth in baseball and begging New York Mets GM Sandy Alderson to let him play first base, Jose Canseco apparently made a deal to be a contestant on the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice. And I’m shocked to have found out about this from People Magazine and not Canseco himself, who Tweets pretty much everything in his personal life. However, we still don’t know if he ever got his chandeliers back. Don’t leave us hanging, bro.

The next season of Celebrity Apprentice will start up on March 6 and Canseco will star alongside Gary Busey and I’m going to stop right there. This is a pop culture blogger’s wet dream come true. This is two types of awesome crazy and the ratings should be nothing less than “greatest ever.” So what exactly goes into the selection process, Donald Trump?

Now, they’re actually turning people away. “We turned down 35 to 40 people,” Trump says. “We really qualify people.”

The other stars who made the cut include Lil Jon, singer John Rich, Mark McGrath, Playmate Hope Dworaczyk, Marlee Matlin, Lisa Rinna, model Niki Taylor and Star Jones, whom Trump called “really, really smart.” (People Magazine)

Also on this cast are Meatloaf, LaToya Jackson, Dionne Warwick, and David Cassidy, so Trump should have added an extra “really” in there out of respect. If this is the actual cast, who the hell did they turn down? 35 to 40 people weren’t good enough because LaToya and Canseco were really qualified, so they must have been turning away people like the dude who punched Snooki and Ryan Leaf. Admittedly, those would have been awesome choices, too.

After the jump, enjoy some video of Busey, McGrath, Meatloaf and Lil Jon selling pizza for the upcoming season…

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