Jeremy Taylor
Would You Rather Have Higher Pay or Job Security? — Survey of the Day
In this economy, people are lucky just to have a job.
Which is perhaps why the majority of Americans would pick job security over higher pay, if given the choice.
What Movie Should Win Best Picture at the Academy Awards? — Survey of the Day
When the Best Picture is named Sunday at the Academy Awards it will have been selected by the 5,765 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
But would things have been different if instead the general public was tasked with awarding the Best Picture Oscar?
Jeremy Lin Gets the Inevitable ‘Teen Wolf’ Theme Song
The Jeremy Lin tale is one of a basketball player who happens to be a little different than his teammates coming out of nowhere to dominate from the point guard position. So where have we seen that story before?
Yup, ‘Teen Wolf,’ the 1985 movie in which Michael J. Fox played a much more hirsute and acrobatic version of Lin.
World’s Rarest Football Card Found In Attic of Farmhouse
The market for sports collectibles pretty much collapsed about 15 years ago which is why all the sports cards you bought when you were a kid are sitting in a box in your parents’ basement. If you wait about 100 years those cards might be worth something again.
Which Teammate Offered to Buy New York Mets’ Pitcher Jonathon Niese a Nose Job?
Ever wonder what Major League players talk about in the dugout? Well, apparently they spend a lot of time discussing each others’ facial features.
Would You Fly to Space If You Had the Chance? — Survey of the Day
Last month Virgin Galactic announced it would begin offering commercial space flights later this year.
10 Things You Need to Know About Jeremy Lin
Even if you aren’t a sports fan, you’ve probably been hearing an awful lot about this Jeremy Lin fellow. The New York Knicks point guard’s completely-out-of-nowhere run began on February 3rd when the-then obscure bench warmer came off the pine to spur the Knicks to a victory over the New Jersey Nets. He was inserted in the starting line-up after that, and since then has led the Knicks — who were p
Is ‘Linning’ the New ‘Tebowing’?
Jeremy Lin and Tim Tebow are inevitably being compared to each other because they are both athletes who have had their abilities questioned, and are both devout Christians who are open with their faith.
Now the two sensations are linked for a third reason. Just like folks started to imitate Tebow’s signature kneel — which become the internet meme Tebowing – fans of Lin have taken to replicating a
Alabama Basketball Fan Distracts Rival Team With Giant Face
Part of what makes college basketball so entertaining is the lengths to which the student body section of the crowd will go to distract the opposing team. Jack Blankenship, a freshman at the University of Alabama, has come up with the most clever twist on this tradition we’ve seen in some time.
Yankees Kick A.J. Burnett Out The Door with Hilariously Awkward Press Release
When the New York Yankees shipped A.J. Burnett to Pittsburgh last week they actually paid the Pirates $18 million of the $31 million left on his contract so they would agree to take the underachieving pitcher off of their hands.
If that wasn’t insult enough, the Yanks took a final jab at Burnett in this hysterically awkward press release announcing the trade:
Burnett, 35, was signed by the Yankees
Can Online Relationships Be Considered Cheating? — Survey of the Day
A good amount of time and energy on the internet is spent by folks trying to make some sort of romantic connection.
Many of these relationship never make it offline, but they can be intense, nonetheless.
Lightsaber Training School
Even if there was such a thing as a Jedi Knight, you wouldn’t officially be one, no matter how good you are with your lightsaber. And no, that’s not a euphemism.