Sell Your Berries, Petersburg

Random:

• Man survives off ONLY BEER for lent (loses 22lbs)
• Guy makes swim from Alcatraz across the San Francisco Bay... for fun.
• Seattle teen fakes pregnancy (for 6 1/2 months) at high school for school project
• SLIDESHOW: The Gulf oil spill, one year later
• Viagra-infused beer being released in the UK
• The best resume EVER
• A $6,400 toilet! (Features include: heated seat, feet warmers & touch-screen remote

Sports:

• Another excellent column on The Hoops Whisperer (Idan Ravin) who trains players such as LeBron, Chris Paul, Carmelo Anthony, & Amar'e
• The Office Chair Racing Championships (in Germany) !!
• High school pitcher strikes out EVERY batter he faces in complete game shutout
• Fan offers CAM NEWTON $1 million to take a lie detector test
• Audio from this weekend's Brandon Marshall 911 call

Budweiser invented a new game/sport (in Argentina) called Poolball

Mortal Kombat "fatalities" are getting a little more violent these days

Video Games | Mortal Kombat | Fatalities Montage

Xbox 360 | PlayStation 3 | Nintendo Wii | PC Games

Behind the Bananas

Do you like cupcakes or vinegar? Well, I like salt.

The truth behind the name of the blog: I have a dog named Midnight. Seen below:

However, she has brands (The Gurl, Dude), she has aliases (The Wassup Dude, Numbers (or Nums)), & pseudonyms (Toad Z. Cool, Lewis) However, her spanish-american name is Nanas Bananas! [long story short, that's how I cam up with the blog title]

Here is a picture of the human version of Nanas Bananas (and also my created player on EA Sport's Tiger Woods '12):

BONUS: Thanks to US Weekly, we see that movie stars are JUST LIKE US!! They even TICKLE their dogs bellies!!!

Photo courtesy of US Weekly Magazine

Chime or Thyme?

Photo of fighter jet crashing in Jerusalem (photo courtesy of Boston.com)

CRAZIEST UFO VIDEO YOU HAVE EVER SEEN (via Clint Bullin)

Sports:

• A golf ball made out of lobster shells? (Huff Post)
• How two white guys wound up in Kendrick Perkin's family photo (Deadspin)
• The 200 highest paying sports teams in the world (ESPN)

Random:

• Why am I scared of bees? Because they do stuff like this!

Video:

How brave is this guy? Just casually watches a tornado stroll by him.

WARNING (graphic) - Video of three people being run over in McDonald's parking lot (fast forward to :48 seconds in)

The First Front Flip

Hey all you wild spurs out there! Just wanted to introduce you to my new blog, Bananas or Bandanas? I won't write much, probably will just post cool links to click on, articles to read, videos to watch or links to listen to. At the end of each post I will post "an old favorite" article of mine. While I like to keep the articles I link to semi-fresh, the "old favorite" can be written last week or last century. The frequency with which I post will be random. Please FEEL FREE to comment and let me know what you like/dislike and what you want to see more/less of. Hot nickels!

FIRST OFF: BEST VIDEO OF THE WEEK...

Random:

• Radiohead playing Neil Young songs... sure
• The latest photos from Mexico's drug war (Boston.com's, Big Picture)
• What global warming has done to Yellowstone National Park (Men's Journal)

Sports:

• These days, with social media, how hard is it to recruit?
• Peyton Hillis or Michael Vick, who will be on the Madden 2012 cover?
• Putting Malcom Gladwell's "10,000 hour theory" to the test. A novice golfer plans on playing for 10,000 in hopes of becoming an expert
• An in-depth look (from the sports biz side) of the Arizona State Sun Devils rebranding

Video:

Hot Like A Sun Devil (G6 parody via Sam Pfleg)

Want to see a wild indian do a never-done-before backflip on BMX bike

How many flips does this guy do?

Listen [to me!]:

NPR podcast (runtime 21 minutes)- A former crack dealer, Freeway Rick Ross, on the economics of drugs:

An Old Favorite:

• ESPN's Wright Thompson on fathers & sons at Augusta National Golf Course