Jim Irsay :: AP
Colts owner
Jim Irsay held a little contest on Twitter Sunday in which he asked his followers to predict the final score of the Ravens-Patriots game. The prize he offered was $8,500. One guy guessed it correctly (Ravens 27-13). Yesterday,
he received a FedEx package that contained $8,500 IN CASH. This is a great story, but makes me feel a little embarrassed that the prize for most Hot Clicks contests is a DVD.
You really can't make up some of the stuff the NFL does. The league prints money and we're all addicted to the game, so they can get away with anything they want. But the NFL office is a joke in so many ways.
As Hot Clicks told you yesterday, Niners running back
Frank Gore was fined $10,500 for having his socks too low. Obviously, that's pathetic in and of itself. However, the NFL made the Gore penalty look even more absurd when it later fined Patriots quarterback
Tom Brady $10,000
for an aggressive slide against
Ed Reed. Now, let me be clear. I don't think Brady's slide was dirty or egregious in any way. However, for argument's sake, let's say the slide was dirty. (Obviously, the NFL thinks the slide was dirty because they punished Brady.) In the NFL world, a dirty play that can injure someone gets you fined less than how you wear your socks. OK, got it.
All that stands between new Phillies outfielder
Delmon Young and $600,000 is eight pounds. Young's new contract with Philadelphia
has several weight clauses that require him to get down to 230 pounds. He's currently at 238 pounds.
Sonni Pacheco
Canadian model
Sonni Pacheco is in the news because of her relationship with actor
Jeremy Renner. I have no idea if the reports are true or not, but all that matters is she is more than worthy for
today's LLOD honors.
Serena Williams injured her ankle at the Australian Open and
tweeted a picture of it yesterday. To say it ballooned up would be the understatement of the year.
SI.com's
Andy Staples looks at
the best names from the 2013 college football recruiting class while It's Always Sunny In Detroit has a list of
the 30 best names in college basketball this season.
I saw this on
The Soup last night, so full credit goes to that show for this item. Giants pitcher
Barry Zito and musician
Kelley James performed a song on
Good Day L.A., last week. When they finished the tune, the host came over to do a quick interview, but had no idea which guy was Zito. (Fast-forward to the 3-minute mark for the awkwardness.)
Everyone's freaking out because it's cold in January. Who would've thunk it? It's just craziness! Anyway, in honor of this shocking development, here's a compilation of people not handling the winter weather all that well.