With a hat-tip to our friends at Bob’s comes my new favorite follow-up story.

Remember last week when we shared with you the video of a ring girl In The Style Of Liz Vicious who didn’t realize that “this guy knocked out on the floor with people checking on him” meant the fight was over, so she sauntered around with a big Round 2 sign like a goon?

THE STORY HAS A PREQUEL.

No, we’re not making this up.

Prior to the incident involving walking by a fallen fighter with a round 2 sign, the very same inattentive round card girl came out holding a round 4 sign for a 3 round fight. The fight was over and headed to the judges scorecards, but she was ready for round 4.

Video is below. Keep shining, you crazy, stupid diamond.

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Sometime last year I made a joke about people who follow Arianny Celeste on Twitter, and how she couldn’t possibly have anything interesting to say. I was rightfully called out for it. Just because her job is to hold a piece of cardboard and walk 10 feet (like a homeless person, or that guy in a gorilla costume who stands on the side of the road outside of a Party City) doesn’t mean she’s not a person, capable of the same reason and insights as a prize-winning physicist, or whatever. I’ve tried to avoid jumping to similar, ignorant conclusions.

That said, this ring girl is dumber than a bag of f**king dog food. See that big ROUND 2 sign she’s holding? Yeah, to show that to the crowd she had to walk past a knocked out guy sprawled out on the floor with a bunch of people attending to him.

Here’s the recap, from the hilariously expository YouTube description:

An unattentive round card girl walks by an unconscious fighter being tended to by doctors with a sign indicating the start of round two….except, it’s not the start of round two. The fighter is unconscious because he got knocked out and the fight is over. The victorious fighter tells her of her erroneous ways.

Video is below. It’s worth it for her “lol like I’m supposed to know how this work” shrug when she finds out what’s up.

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Via the lovely Panger at Foul Balls, the NFL sent a memo to all teams stating where cheerleaders could warm up.  This morning on Inside the NFL, Charlie Casserly said:

No longer will [the cheerleaders] be allowed to warm up in front of the visiting team locker room or do their stretching in front of the visiting team locker room and they can't go in the tunnel!  The reason?  Some players feel they were being a little distracted.

What a bunch of amateurs.  I look at photos of NFL cheerleaders all day long here at With Leather headquarters, and I always remain on task.  Sure I don't wear pants, but that's only because it gets so hot in here.

(Photo credit: SI.com)  

The supposed two best conferences in college basketball have only advanced one team each into the Sweet Sixteen.  The Big Ten has a 6-5 record in the tournament thus far, and only has Ohio State left to represent it and the Buckeyes should have lost to Xavier.  Because I hail from Chi-town, I must constantly apologize for the Big Ten's low point totals, stilted offenses and poor field goal percentages by asserting their teams play the best defense in the country.  Nope, they're just God awful.

North Carolina is the lone ACC representative still playing, and the so-called best league went 6-6 through the first two rounds of the tourney.  Too bad Billy Packer will have no team left to champion.  However, I can guarantee this extremely overvalued conglomeration of shit will have at least seven teams in next year's dance.  Whoever believes that Eastern bias doesn't exist is an idiot or works for ESPN.

A scan of the updated brackets reveal the SEC advanced three teams, the PAC-10 three, the Big 12 two, and the Big East two.  No double digit seeds progressed to the Regional Semifinals for the first time since 1995, and typing will be very painful next week as the fingers on my left hand will be 'readjusted' because your hopeful Assistant Editor wagered heavily on underdogs.

Enjoy lovely Jennifer, the last redhead of the weekend , and look for further NCAA analysis from the Chief tomorrow. -KD       

According to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald (last item), ESPN will carry the USA Rock Paper Scissors League Championship this year.  RPS is not a sport you say?  Let's look to the With Leather Employee Handbook written by the Chief for clarification:

A "sport" meets the following criteria:

1. The event is a physical contest  and
2. The event is sponsored by an alcoholic beverage and
3. The event  is attended or supported by sexy people.

Since USARPS has a contest for 'official RPS Girls', is sponsored by Bud Light, and requires some (albeit minimal) arm motion to throw the implement of your choice, this qualifies as a sport dear reader.  Expect much more coverage of the RPS League from your ever-thorough Assistant Editor now that we have established that it is indeed a sport and because the lovely Alexandra (pictured) has catapulted to #5 on the KD Dream-Mistress List.

Happy St. Patrick's Day – that's all I've got for today as the Jameson and Redheads have put me in the mood for love.  See you in the Police Blotter. -KD

Ohio State narrowly escaped elimination by defeating #9 seed Xavier 78-71 in overtime in the South Region of the NCAA Tournament today.  If you're like me, you were rooting for the underdog, hoping Thad Motta would receive his comeuppance, wondering how old Greg Oden really is, and wishing Gus Johnson encounters a slow, painful death.  If there is a basketball god, he (she?) clearly does not believe that St. Francis Xavier should have been beatified like the Catholic God does.  Also, this hoops deity clearly favors a certain bookie in Chicago and harbors a grudge against your Assistant Editor.  O, great and powerful Naismithovah, I beseech thou to tell thee how I've offended thou's grace.

Alas, this year's tournament has produced a dearth of underdogs to applaud, and if Virginia Commonwealth and Winthrop fall in the round of 32, this tourney could become boring.  Almost, not quite.  It's still a thousand times better than spring training baseball and regular season NBA (except this).   Two Jesuit institutions face each other in Winston-Salem at 5:45 EDT when Georgetown meets Boston College.  If my hypothesis is correct, expect a natural disaster at Wake Forest. -KD