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1. DeSean Jackson will probably wipe the floor with your basketball pickup game as well [TMZ Sports]
DeSean Jackson met up with his old teammate, Eagles running back LeSean McCoy, to participate in McCoy’s celebrity basketball game to benefit ALS research. And by “participate”, I mean dominate. Jackson apparently put up 42 points against McCoy and most importantly, he impressed Bobby Valentino:
“DeSean went HAM,” Bobby says … “He was unguardable. His basketball game is serious.”
McCoy may have lost the game but he did get to plow through Jackson on the way to the hoop. Shady has some power to go with his elusiveness.
2. Marvel reveals what Ultron will look like in the next Avengers movie [Comics Alliance]
That evil-looking robot behind Iron Man and Captain America is Ultron, the main villain in Marvel’s next plot to garner billions of dollars from people worldwide. SPOILERS: The origin of Ultron will revolve around Tony Stark creating Ultron to be a superhero robot so that Stark can stop being Iron Man. Unfortunately, the creation’s artificial intelligence starts to believe that the best way to save the planet is to wipe out humanity. Oh, Tony Stark. You and your hilarious hi-jinx.
3. Seth McFarlane is now being accused of copying other people’s ideas, not merely his own [EW]
Years before Seth McFarlane unleashed Ted on the world, there was a teddy bear named Charlie. Or rather, there was a screenplay entitled Acting School Academy which featured a teddy bear named Charlie who was described as a foul-mouthed bear living among humans who “has a penchant for drinking, smoking, prostitutes.” Charlie went on to have his own web-series in 2009 called Charlie the Abusive Teddy Bear which was available through Youtube and other channels. The similarities between the two bears has caused Bengal Mangle Productions to sue Seth McFarlane for allegedly stealing their totally original idea:
“Defendants’ Ted character is strikingly similar to Plaintiff’s Charlie character. Defendants had access to Charlie because Acting School Academy was available and widely disseminated on websites including YouTube.com, Facebook.com, iTunes, FunnyorDie.com, Vimeo.com, Metacafe.com, Koldcast.tv, and Blip.tv from on or around July 31, 2009 to November 30, 2010.”
4. You could win a chance to eat a plate of ribs with Kevin Spacey [AV Club]
Kevin Spacey is holding a raffle to win a chance to eat a plate of ribs with Kevin Spacey (much like he does as Frank Underwood in House of Cards). The proceeds of the raffle will go towards the Geffen Playhouse and The Old Vic Theater Company, where Spacey is the artistic director. $5,000 gets you 1,000 raffle tickets and a lot of House of Cards shit. Oddly enough, you can enter for free by mailing in a request for one raffle ticket to the address on the website.
5. Honest Trailers does Green Lantern [Youtube]
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Admit it. You forgot that this existed.
6. Shabazz Napier stopped following LeBron on Twitter, claims to not know how Twitter works [FTW]
Shabazz Napier responded to claims that he unfollowed LeBron James on Twitter after LeBron decided to return to Cleveland by stating that it would have been impossible for him to unfollow LeBron because Shabazz doesn’t know how to operate Twitter.
“The whole thing about that is I don’t know how to work Twitter yet and I’m not on my Twitter, so I don’t know where that came from,” Napier said.
As of now, Shabazz follows 35 people, none of whom are LeBron James.
7. Patty Mills and Aron Baynes videobomb an Australian reporter while holding the Larry O’Brien Trophy [Bleacher Report]
To be fair to FOX Sports News reporter Julian De Stoop, he had no idea that he had shoved newly made national heroes Patty Mills and Aron Baynes when he was reporting from outside AFL club Collingwood. De Stoop later stated that he was “highly embarrassed” about his behavior.
