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PSY, IT’S PSY

So yeah, here’s another Gangnam Style video (the “Gangnam State Warriors”), but this one features the Golden State Warriors cheerleaders, so that’s something. Cheerleaders, dancers, whatever. Plus, Franco Finn does a pretty excellent Psy impression. You’ll need that for this Halloween, when every fourth person you pass will be dressed as Psy.

Video is below. If you’ve got reservations about watching this, remember: it’s only like a minute and a half long, and Golden State has some pretty phenomenal-ass dancers.

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Fear the Tanner Twister.

After the success of our first Sports On TV column (Saved By The Bell’s 20 Greatest Sports Moments) I thought to myself, “How do I follow up?” The answer: find a show with more sports moments and fewer jokes.

Welcome to the 20 greatest sports moments of ‘Full House’, the 1989 John Stamos vehicle about a group of friends banding together to save a family after the death of their mother that launched Bob Saget into ‘America’s Funniest Home Videos’, Dave Coulier into ‘America’s Funniest People’, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen into a billion-dollar branding deal and Jodie Sweetin into People magazine covers with headlines like FROM METH ADDICT TO MOM. It was funny for a minute, then lasted 8 more years.

As I mentioned before, streaming episodes of ‘Full House’ are only legally available on Amazon Prime, so in lieu of videos I’ve provided the most appropriate images I could find. You can thank Alan of The Spotless Minds for those, and the wonderful Full House Reviewed for a few supplementary shots.

Now, read on and find out what Miller-Boyett Productions has to say about San Francisco Giants baseball, the Super Bowl, and everything else from rollerblading to bungee jumping. Sadly, Joey Gladstone wearing the same robe as WWE star Damien Sandow did not make the list. If you know of a moment we didn’t include, make sure to drop us a comment and let us know.

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By way of Buzzfeed comes this video of Jeremy Lin doing “The Dougie” during his rookie year at Golden State. You know why? ‘Cause all his bitches love him.

This is, of course, in direct confliction with the greatest of all Dougie instructional videos — Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kate Upton doing The Dougie at a Los Angeles Clippers game, a clip so great it topped our list of the 20 Greatest Sports Moments Of 2011.

That video (as if you haven’t seen it 200 times already) is below, followed by an important question: if you could learn to Dougie from only one master, who would you choose?

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“Well, you know I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I am homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States. So yeah, I don’t like it.”

That was Tim Hardaway four years ago, in an interview with Miami’s 790 The Ticket, talking about John Amaechi coming out of the closet. He kind of apologized the next day. “I shouldn’t have said that I hate gay people or anything like that,” he said. “I should have just said I don’t condone him being in the locker room.” He probably shouldn’t have said anything. Hardaway was my favorite player growing up, and hearing him speak out against basic human rights for basic human people made my stomach hurt. I owned a Dream Team and a Golden State Warriors jersey with Hardaway’s number, and that’s not an easy thing for a kid to do in Virginia in the 90s. Here I am stuck telling people I loved Jud Buechler. Jud Buechler.

Four years later I’m proud to say my stomach is feeling better. Hardaway could’ve moved on with his life and done one of those “that’s just who I am, I don’t condone it” acts, but he’s done us one better. He’s not only okay with gay people being in the United States, he wants them to have what most folks in the United States take for granted. He showed up in El Paso, Texas this week to support to a group of politicians who are trying to be recalled by a religious group for their stance on gay rights.

From the El Paso Times, by way of Ball Don’t Lie:

In town for a golf outing, Hardaway attended a press conference urging citizens to oppose recall efforts against Mayor John Cook and city Reps. Susie Byrd and Steve Ortega. The three are being recalled by a group of religious conservatives who are angry the three voted to restore health benefits for gay and unmarried partners of city employees — despite a ballot initiative in November that had abolished them.

That’s about as apolitical as the gay rights discussion gets. Do you want these people to be taken care of when they get sick, yes/no? Hardaway wants to the people who are angry to come to the same conclusions he did between now and so very, very long ago.

“I would say grow up and catch up with the times,” he said. “It’s all around the world.”

The two comments posted on Ball Don’t Lie about this story sum it up nicely. The first, “Sometimes what you think is right is just wrong. Takes a real man to admit that. Good for Hardaway.” The second, “sell-out stand by your rules if it aint right it aint right”. I hope one of those makes more sense to you than the other. For those of you who can’t tell the difference, you can’t be my friend. And here I am having to be friends with Jud Buechler.

Sports

Cop: The 1990-1991 Golden State Warriors T-Shirt - I mention it fairly frequently, but Tim Hardaway was my favorite basketball player when I was younger, so it’s going to take me another ten years or so to come to terms with his real life personality. This shirt is pretty cool, though, and takes me back to the days when I could shut people out at NBA Jam. [Smoking Section]

Why are Mexican Soccer Fans Boorish Animals? - In case you missed it yesterday (or skipped over it because it had “soccer” in the title), don’t miss Matt Ufford’s piece about what happens when urine bombs explode on the wrong patch of soil. In this example, “wrong patch of soil” means “any soil”. [With Leather]

Testosterone Replacement Therapy? - I’m pretty happy that I’ve gotten this far into life without learning about testosterone replacement therapy. Fighter Nate Marquardt underwent it, then immediately finished all of Brucie’s missions in Grand Theft Auto 4. [Cage Potato]

ACW Queen of Queens Review - My take was a little facetious and personal, so if you’re interested in finding out what actually happened at this weekend’s awesome Texas pro wrestling tournament, check out John Hyperion’s review at Dirty Dirty Sheets. I really need to hang out with him more, he could probably get me that mark photo with Portia Perez my life desperately needs. [Dirty Dirty Sheets]

Not Sports

T-Mobile Girl on “Powers”, Immediately Killed Off - There are few things in this world I love more than brunette Canadian actresses with mouths too big for their heads. It’s the one thing I have in common with Don Draper. [Gamma Squad]

The Official Mission Impossible 4 Trailer - Last night I went to see Cars 2, and it isn’t as bad as people are saying, but it does seem like an 8-minute short stretched out to two hours and is a complete waste of time. All I could think while watching it was “Where the hell is Pete Docter, or Andrew Stanton? Or Brad Bird?” Well, Brad Bird is here, making things explode behind Tom Cruise. [Film Drunk]

Michael Jackson Never Sang On The Simpsons - I’m totally okay with this revelation, because that episode of the Simpsons is terrible to me and I have to stop when they start singing to Lisa out of second-hand embarrassment. [Warming Glow]

The Best of My Little Pony YouTube Mash-ups - Remember when cartoons looked like they were drawn by people in an effort to sell you toys? Now they look like they were made on Newgrounds to sell you tank tops at Hot Topic. This is worth your click due because Wu Tang. [Uproxx]

Look at Charlie Bell. Doesn’t he look happy? This is the opposite of how he looked when his estranged wife Kenya jumped him in his home and stabbed him with a box cutter. According to Genesee County authorities, the former Miss Michigan assaulted the Golden State Warriors guard (trying to open him without tearing the packaging, I guess) in front of two children and spent a night in jail for her troubles. Thank goodness she didn’t try to break him down and throw him in the bailer.

The 35-year old Kenya Bell faces charges of domestic violence and assault with a dangerous weapon, which seems kind of light, as I spent about a year working at Office Max and almost accidentally ended my life with a box cutter on about 45 different occasions. She’s also our second use of the Women Be Stabbing tag in nine days, which is weird, because we’re a sports blog and not the Faces of Death website.

This is the worst thing to happen to the Warriors since Tim Hardaway opened his mouth and ruined like 15 years of me liking him.

[via Yardbarker]