Some of you caught wind of the bordering-on-immortal prank feud between Streeter and Amir, the two stewards over at College Humor, when we embedded video of the Yankee Stadium prank that Amir, the nerdy-looking guy, pulled over on Streeter that got him in trouble with his girlfriend. Well, Streeter hath struck back with a vengeance, with a scheme brilliant enough that I won’t risk ruining it for those that haven’t seen it yet. Spoilers and exhibits of this-is-fake evidence, however, are most welcome in the comments.

Busted Coverage is compiling the best football hits of 2008, and offers up this helmet-popping stick from a high school game. Ha ha, look at that little twerp on the ground! He’s probably a virgin, too!

Nothing, however, is as delightful as a hit so hard that it (a) knocks a player’s helmet off, AND (b) makes him vomit, as seen in the Cal-Maryland game last Saturday.
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A lot of my Jewish friends bemoan the fact that there aren't enough Jewish athletes to cheer for in sports.  Well, take heart, Chosen People, because there are plenty of mascot mensches that are reason enough to get your tuches to the arena.  Not only is Maryland's faithful turtle — sorry, terrapin – Testudo about to get his Bar Mitzvah, he's just one of many who have entered manhood at the campus Hillel.  Dan Steinberg reports:

In the fall of 2004, Syracuse's Otto the Orange was Bar Mitzvahed. " 'Otto came and tore down the house,' said Jacob Perlin, communications vice president for Hillel. 'He came in dancing and everyone went crazy.'… Otto entered and danced the horah…

In March of 2006, UNC's Ramses was Bar Mitzvahed. … That fall, Miami's Sebastian the Ibis was Bar Mitzvahed. "The party lasted three hours, but Sebastian did not read from the Torah …One thing no one was sure of was whether Sebastian actually was a member of the Jewish faith.

Sheesh.  Leave it to the mascot in Miami to be a non-practicing Jew.  I bet he still has time to guilt-trip his children about how they never visit, though.

Well, that was terrible for my heart. Fourth-seeded Maryland just survived #13 Davidson 82-70, but not before my blood pressure took a year off of my life. Davidson's Stephen Curry — who of course I had never heard of until today because I know nothing about college basketball — scored 30 points before fouling out near the end of the game, and Maryland's balanced attack survived the lights-out shooting that the Wildcats put up in the first half.

Why do I care about Maryland? Because, um, I picked them to go to the Final Four.

Hey, stop laughing! Everyone and their mother picked Florida to make it out of that region. And when everybody is absolutely certain that a team is going to make it, that's when you're supposed to go the other way, right? Right?

Oh, fuck off. I said I didn't know anything about college basketball.

Thanks goes to hunky reader Matthew, who pointed out that Timberwolves' rookie Randy Foye was cited for disorderly conduct early this morning after fighting with three other men at a gas station.

When police arrived, they found four people fighting near a parked SUV. Police said all four people knew each other and it appears all four arrived at the gas station in the same SUV.

Foye and two other people were cited for disorderly conduct, police said. A fourth person was booked into Hennepin County Jail for obstructing the legal process. Police said that man refused to be seated in a squad car, kicked the door and kicked at officers.

Police claimed to not know why the men were fighting, but you don't have to be Dick Tracy to solve this one. It was 2:40 in the morning at a Minnesota gas station in the middle of winter. "Fuck you, I'm not going outside. You get the frozen burritos." That, or somebody teased Foye about his organs being backwards. Because that's just gross.

I guess this isn't a huge story, but it just creeps me the fuck out:

Wolves coach Dwane Casey said the club was aware that rookie Randy Foye has a rare condition called situs inversus, which means the guard's major internal organs are on the opposite side from their normal body positions… "They're working properly, functioning properly," Casey said. "They're just flip-flopped."

Gross, right? I mean, it's not like it matters if your right and left lungs/kidneys/balls are switched up, but what about the liver? And I guess his heart is canted to the right? Does he put his left hand on the right side of his chest during the national anthem? That's just fucked up, man. 

As of right now, you cannot convince me that Randy Foye isn't somebody's evil twin. He has to be. It's science.