I know you will all be watching Monday Night Raw on the heels of last week’s “Not terrible” show, especially since The Rock will be appearing tonight to say witty things that people repeat in unison. I’ll probably be watching, too, since post-NFL season Monday nights are boring as hell. However, there’s a very good chance that I’m going to be watching ESPN Classic during the commercials, as the WWL’s throwback channel will be airing an episode of Battle of the Network Stars.

The original celebrity competition reality TV, Battle of the Network Stars should still be around today, especially on ABC. Just thinking about Manny from Modern Family being shot into the sky as a human cannonball and all of the things that could possibly go wrong just makes me smile. It’s so much better than J-Woww belly-flopping into a pool.

Please bring back Battle of the Network Stars, ABC. Or at least let TLC have the rights so they can load their show casts up with anthrax.

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Okay, well technically it was the easiest joke of 2012, because Olivia Wilde attended the Kansas Jayhawks’ 89-57 drubbing of American University this past Saturday night. So why was the most amazingly GIF-worthy woman in the world at the Allen Fieldhouse, torturing all of those Jayhawks men and their sucked-in guts? According to her Twitter, it was because she wanted to give the team… *ahem* some pointers.

I’ll bet she did. Take it away, rimshot monkey!

In reality, she was there to support her boyfriend and delightful comedic actor, Jason Sudeikis, who, as we have pointed out previously, is quite the awesome Kansas sports fan. Sure, he’s no Jon Hamm in a Cardinals hat, but I’ll still give credit where it’s due. And I imagine that the Jayhawks fans were pretty excited about this, so let’s see what kind of response Olivia drew on Twitter, shall we?

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