Yes, from natural causes (related to destroying himself, of course).
This detail is touching:
His death came just two days after it was announced that he and rapper Kanye West had settled a federal lawsuit over the use of Knievel's trademarked image in a popular West music video.
- Hey Phoenix, how's your light rail? Didn't think so… Snap!
- Hey Phoenix, nice water restrictions – C-Ya in the apocalypse waste-oids!
- Hey how's McCain's poll numbers doin? IN. YOUR. FACE. BUSHIES!!!
Regrettably a not insignificant portion of my right center field section cheered for the Rockies star second basemen, Kazuo Matsui, as follows: Let's Go Ninja!... repeat as necessary.
Yay sports team from our area!
So, as you know, tonight is the final game that decides if the Boulder Rockeys go to the World Series of Baseball. They're playing the Tucson Longbacks and it's very exciting, enough for Geeks Who Drink to cancel a bunch of quizzes. My money is on the Rocks, because they're from my state and that's better than being from a different state.
Let's break it down: Tori Alba is awesome at doing what he does. Also, Katsuo Matsooey (catcher!) provides necessary comic relief to the squad, much like Data in Goonies. (I'd like to see him break out some "slick shoes" at the game!) With Josh Fog's (p) unerring arm and Corpus Cristi (D-IL) on closing, it should be a game to remember. Game, set and match, Longbacks!
There's a great piece in the April 16 issue of the New Yorker about parkour, or free-running, a rules-less freestyle sport founded by the Parisian David Belle.
If you remember the incredible chase scene in Casino Royale, in which a Madagascarian guy leaps from building cranes and through spaces in fences like mail slots, that's parkour. The scene was performed by a friend of Belle's, Sebastien Foucan, who has a wealth of YouTube videos online—one of which shows him leaping the divide made by the retractable roof on the Millenium Stadium in Wales as it's retracting.
The point is, parkour is amazing: It's like real-life Spider-Man. This is the best video I was able to find on YouTube, but Noel assures me there're better ones. Check it.
The minor league Sky Sox will squaring off against the Rockies in a pre-season exhibition this Friday night here in the Springs. Tickets at skysox.com are $12.00 and $10.00 and it starts at 2 p.m. It's supposed to be decentish weather (56 degrees) and the game's at 2 p.m. More info HERE.
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Slog's Bradley Steinbacher posted this earlier today, and I thought it was worth sharing. What you're looking at is the November 13, 1985 bout between a 19-year-old Mike Tyson and "Fast" Eddie Richardson.
Now, I'm not a boxing fan—I think it's ugly and barbaric and bad for a reason that I'll get to in a minute—but holy shit, does Tyson clobber. Richardson is knocked down with the first punch and knocked out within a minute.
But, as Bradley pointed out, the big difference is that Tyson jogs over to help him up. This is a sweet, green youth plucked from a New York juvey to see the big-time, not the tattooed, wife-beating, ear-eating convicted rapist he later became. And this is because boxing ruins people. Other than Foreman, every big boxer you can think of has become a gibbering idiot late in life. When your metier is violence, I would suspect it's tough to turn it off. Boo. And hiss. (This is, coincidentally, the reason I never became a professional boxer, other than the fact that I'm a big, fat weakling pacifist who smokes too much.)
Ohio State will hold a moment of silence for Schembechler before the game. A punk band based in Columbus known as the Dead Schembechlers — its name prescient and unintentionally macabre — said it would disband in honor of the coach after playing at a Hate Michigan Rally on Friday.
Full article HERE
Dead Schembechlers MySpace page HERE
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