Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt has two great talents: being the fastest person in the world and steamrolling blondes.

By way of Fourth-Place Medal comes this clip of Bolt hitting 9.79 in the 100 meters at the international Diamond League meet, running into a flower girl who’d wandered onto the track and dragging her along with him as he tries to stop running. When asked what they thought of the clip, Yahoo! users said “FIRE CHRIS CHASE” and “HOW IS THIS NEWS”, adding “fire chris chase bleargh”.

Oddly enough, the video reminded me of this:

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I enjoy the understated nature of a heads-up play, such as Portland Trailblazers guard Andre Miller essentially faking a timeout to get an easy layup against the New Orleans Hornets en route to a 103-96 win last night at the Rose Garden. But then, with the Hornets now having lost three straight, they’re giving up quite a few easy layups of late.

Somebody wrote earlier this week that the NBA was less popular now than in years past because of The Whole Race Thing. I disagree: look at all of the fake timeouts in the NFL. If the NBA follows Miller’s example, they’ll be back in the national forefront in no time.

Via That NBA Lottery Pick.

My father no longer inhabits this corporeal dimension, but I'm sure he would have given me a lecture about the importance of being alert in the coaching box after seeing this:

Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there, and to my Pop too.  I miss you and even your lectures, but not your hoarding of the whiskey. -KD