After a recently proposed 75,000-seat stadium was approved by state legislature to be built in the City of Industry, environmental groups in California are protesting another proposed NFL stadium that would be constructed right next to the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Both stadiums, however, will provide a great boost for the local economy as scores of fans will flock to watch all zero professional football teams in LA.

The City of Industry stadium was approved after lawmakers waived certain environmental obligations for the builders, causing major concerns that the same would happen for the downtown LA stadium. These groups have sent a letter to the same lawmakers, demanding that they investigate the stadium’s impact on traffic, noise and air pollution, to which the lawmakers responded, “Any of you ever been to Los Angeles before?”

Put a daisy in my rifle, LA Times:

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She should really wear a helmet.

Gennifer Moss, aka “Earth Friend Gen,” is a nudity-loving roller blader who has brought her unique brand of, uh, nude rollerblading to Oregon.

A California native, she’s apparently visiting Portland this month. Judging by the big grin on her face as she skated at Tom McCall Waterfront Park during one recent rush hour, she was enjoying herself immensely. So, it seems, are the people who see her glide by, sometimes fully nude, brown hair flying. When police caught up with Moss — after a call, oddly enough, from a group of construction workers — the late-afternoon crowd booed them.

“We confronted her and told her that she couldn’t expose her genitalia,” said police spokeswoman Cathe Kent. [If I had a nickel for every time I heard that... - Ed.]

But Gen fought back in the most effective way possible: with words on her MySpace page:

Actually, public nudity is NOT against the law in Portland. . . . Only if you are simulating or actually having sex. So, the police do not have the right to tell me to put on bottoms . . . But flying around in a deerskin thong bikini bottom is pretty fun too! [...] I AM the Mayan Yellow Electric Warrior and I AM transforming into a Goddess of pure Love and Light!

I know two things about this chick for sure.  One is there’s no way you could listen to her talk if she weren’t naked (NSFW nude photos of her here).  Two is she’ll blow you if she thinks it’ll save a tree.  That’s why I never leave home without my axe.  “Well, I was just gonna go chop down some trees.  Unless, of course, you have a better idea…”

[Bitten and Bound via SbB]

Premier League owners, it seems, are a lot like Hollywood executives in that they'll copy any inane or specious tactic from another club that they think might lead to success. I wonder if they'll buy my rock that keeps tigers away. Sure, it's just a stupid rock, but I don't see any tigers around here, do you?

Manchester City are hoping the positive energy of feng shui will help them in their pursuit of silverware this season.

Garry Cook, City's executive chairman, decided to explore the possibility after speaking with two of the club's Thai executives.

He has now had crystals placed under the pitch at Eastlands and symbols placed in strategic spots around the stadium, in the hope that the Far Eastern tradition will have the same success that it did for Tottenham Hotspur, the Carling Cup champions, who experimented with the idea last season.

"It is like a Catholic putting a Crucifix on a wall," a City source said. "It is common practice for Christian pastors to bless the club and Garry felt this was something worth trying."

Ruh-roh. Equating religion with an ancient Chinese spiritual practice? That's good for one smoting. I don't wish to malign feng shui, though. We've found that stacking dead hooker bodies in the east side of the room really does wonders for bolstering both our chi and bloodlust.

The Sports Point highlights the NYU student William Lopez who yesterday decided to make the school's graduation ceremony at Yankee Stadium his chance to fulfill Homer Simpson's lifelong wish of running onto the field at a baseball stadium. The most ginger Lopez ever was up to the task, despite wearing nothing but beige boxers and socks under his robe. He took a lap around the bases, before getting tackled by a baseball-savvy security guard who somehow predicted the running route he'd take.

Ignoring warnings to stay off the field, Lopez gave in to a spur of the moment impulse and, wearing just boxers, beige socks and brown laceups under his purple gown, he hopped the fence behind first base and raced across the diamond.

Lopez tagged third, hung on to his cap and chugged down the baseline toward home – cheered on by many classmates. A security guard tackled him before he reached the plate.

Aw. That kinda sucks. Let the kid have his fun, securitydocuhes. Why he's nothing but a…a…oh god no: 

Lopez, who lives off-campus in the Village, is shooting his senior thesis film in New York and then going to Ireland this summer. He is also an aspiring musician who sings and plays the drums for an indie folk rock band called TreeUnion.

According to its MySpace site, the band's focus is on "positivity, environmental and social awareness, peace, love and general silliness." The band is in the midst of recording a debut album called "Happy Moon Man Face."

Fuck, he's the Wavy Gravy for a new generation. Why do all the trigger-happy officers get assigned to the Bronx? And TreeUnion? You wanna broadcast any louder the fact you hump trees?

Video, provided by FanIQ, after the jump:

You may or may not have heard about the dirty hippies trying to save some trees in Berkeley, but the story is less likely to be under the radar now that the hippies have gotten naked.

Seventy-eight performance artists, models, protesters and their supporters stripped down for the camera in a grove of oak trees at UC Berkeley that could fall to make room for an athletic training center. The au-naturel visitors joined a half-dozen activists who have lived in the trees since December to protest Cal's plan to raze the grove near Memorial Stadium.

Ugh, "performance artists." That's what they call hippies who don't have any actual artistic talent.

Man, this is a dilemma. Like, I think trees are great and I tend to dislike the money-grubbing machinations of large universities, but… I fucking hate hippies. Isn't there some way the trees could be saved but the hippies destroyed? I would hate to see one of those animals living in my favorite grove of trees. Who made hippie-shooting illegal, anyway? Was it that pussy Carter?

Much more funniness at Deadspin and especially Every Day Should Be Saturday.