Just in case you haven’t got tired of seeing old, flabby men in sports recreate the now infamous Kim Kardashian Paper Magazine cover, ESPN personality, and former NFL player, Mike Golic has you covered. He and fellow host of ESPN radio show Mike Greenberg made a bet that Golic’s alma mater Notre Dame would beat Northwestern and if they lost, he’d recreate the photo. Well Northwestern won and now #GolicButtPhoto just might break the internet. [ESPN]
The latest from the NFL’s ongoing struggle season of 2014 took place this week with Adrian Peterson being denied reinstatement to the league this year. Peterson appealed the NFL’s decision to suspend him this season after he was indicted for disciplining his son with a switch. The Minnesota Vikings star stands to lose up to $4Million dollars this season. Rodger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, cited lack of remorse from Peterson as a main reason why he was denied a return to the league this season. In a recent USA Today article, AP has since said “I wont ever use a switch again. There’s different situations where a child needs to be disciplined…” [USA Today]
Los Angeles Lakers fans had a few reasons to celebrate this week. Aside from winning two games in an effort to make a turnaround on the season (the Lakers current record is 3-9) Kobe Bryant became just the fourth player in NBA history to score 32,000 points in his career. Bryant Joins Michael Jordan, Karl Malone and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on the Mt. Rushmore of NBA scorers. In addition to that milestone, Laker fans also got their first look at Nick Young this season. Swaggy P helped the lakers to back to back wins this week, dropping 16 points in a win in his debut against the Atlanta Hawks and 17 against Dwight Howard the Houston Rockets. [NBA]
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Snow fall in the Northeast caused all kinds of havoc. The Niagara University Women’s basketball team was stranded in a blizzard for more than 24 hours. After playing a road game in Pittsburgh, the team was retuning back to New York when they were stopped by snowfall at around 2 a.m. Purple Eagles coach Kendra Faustin, who had her 1-year-old son on board, said the team survived off of granola bars, pretzels and made drinking water from the snow. With snow reaching depths of seven feet, the NFL had to move its New York Jets at Buffalo Bills game scheduled for this Sunday to Monday in Detroit. [ABC News]