You know Jane Lynch enjoys Kate Upton as much as we do.

I’m running double duty between here and FilmDrunk today, so I apologize if I splash a little movie news over here, but this story involves Kate Upton, the 2011 With Leather Celebrity Sports Fan of the Year, so it’s entirely relevant. In this case, Upton is the target of the ire of the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue, who says that he doesn’t appreciate the way that Upton and other actors portray nuns in the Farrelly brothers’ Three Stooges, which also stars Dwight Howard and makes this doubly relevant.

“In the 1950s, Hollywood generally avoided crude fare and was respectful of religion. Today it specializes in crudity and trashes Christianity, especially Catholicism. Enter the The Three Stooges. This movie is not just another remake: it is a cultural marker of sociological significance, and what it says about the way we’ve changed is not encouraging,” wrote Donohue. “…the TV show never mocked nuns or showed infants urinating in the face of the Stooges. The film does.” (Via EW)

Donohue’s real beef seems to be with comedian Larry David, who also plays a nun in the movie, but I can’t get past the idea that he believes that Upton dressed as a nun is disrespectful to religion. If anything, Upton’s Sister Bernice makes me want to actually convert to Catholicism.

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Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow have a lot in common, if you listen to the media — they were both undervalued, they both came off the bench in their teams’ times of need and sparked a winning streak, they’re both obsessively swarmed by ESPN analysts and they’ve seen their successes instantaneously followed by intense backlash and not-necessarily-appropriate race card droppage.

I assumed the next step in the comparison would be finding out he’s secretly bagging Kendall Jenner (or Ke$ha’s parents are trying to hook her up with him), but I missed a step … please enjoy this video of Lin naming Christian musicians as Artists We’ve Got To Check Out. He listens to Hillsong. Hillsong. At one point he mentions that he’s playing basketball to glorify God, but doesn’t firstly and foremostly thank his lord and savior Jesus Christ for anything specific.

Lin hasn’t been a superstar for very long, so I hope this continues. But if he can’t play after 40 days, and his mind is crushed by the crashing waves, lift him up so high that he cannot fall. Lift him up.

[h/t to Steve Pav]

A widely-shared but not necessarily sourced poll from Sports Illustrated reveals that if the NFL season doesn’t happen, people will use their extra time on things less important than football: love, cleanliness, fun, spirituality and communication.

Half of NFL fans (47.5%) say they would watch more non-sports TV and 61.2 percent would watch more of other televised sports without the NFL season. Fans would also spend more time surfing the internet (56.1%), with significant others (45.1%), doing yard work chores (43.6%), playing video games (33.5%) and at church (13%).

Don’t you love how the answers people came up with read like the “activities” category on a 15-year old girl’s Facebook profile? I like surfing the internet, spending time with my boyfriend, hanging out and going to church! It’s also pretty revealing that football fans seriously don’t have anything better to do. The line between a sitcom husband and a vegetative state is whether or not the Browns are playing. And look, they’d rather be on the Internet (surfing it) than spend time with their families. Poll: What would you do if your wife was killed in a car accident? “I’d probably visit more websites.”

Somewhere the guys at Bleacher Report are out trying to end football and kill your wife.

Chase Hilgenbrinck, a defender for the New England Revolution, has given up his rich $36,000/year contract to instead study for the priesthood.  The 26-year-old from Illinois will study, like, the Bible and holy… stuff at Mount St. Mary's in Maryland.  He then plans to move back to central Illinois to spread God's word or whatever.

Hilgenbrinck says he is not disillusioned with the game, but waiting for his career to run its time was no longer an option. "Trust me," he told The AP, "I thought of that. I still have a great passion for the game, I wouldn't leave for just any other job, I'm moving on for the Lord." [...]

"At one time," he said, "I thought the call might be professional soccer. I found my soul is hungry for something else."

I'm guessing "something else" in this case is a feeling of closeness to God, spiritual satisfaction, improving the lives of his congregation through Christ's word, and little boys.  Lots and lots of little boys.

(thanks to Julie for the link to this actually-quite-heartwarming story) 

In this clip, a righteously inspired young filmmaker tries to pitch his new movie about Extreme Mormon missionaries who win converts with their mountain biking and BMX skillz.  Starring Mehmet Okur and Andrei Kirilenko.  Directed by Jerry Sloan.  Rated PG for fictional urban youths who entertain a willingness to learn about God.

(This video isn't particularly new, considering that John Safran vs God originally aired in 2004.  However, it aired in Australia, so I'm guessing a lot of you may have missed it.)