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Will the real Ryan Miller please stand up?!

Our friends at Olympic Updates found this fantastic clip. Team USA heads into the 2010 Winter Olympics with a chance to win the Gold Medal thanks to the terrific effort of their goalie Ryan Miller. Team USA will match up against the Canadians tonight [3pm Eastern] and hopefully the idiots at NBC will not try to tape delay/time delay the big game.

Just for the record, NBC’s coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics is just embarassing.

That being said, here is their crappy cable channel MSNBC interviewing Ryan Miller before the game. Turns out the NBC standard of excellence is held high once again as this interview is actually with some dude pretending to be Miller. The cocky prankster doesn’t go too far over the edge but does call Canada and Russia overrated (he’s actually right on the Russian judgment) and then all but guarantees a victory.

Fun stuff but the best part is the last few minutes where MSNBC later breaks into their own programming to air an apology and allow the real Ryan Miller to politely point out that any idiot could have seen this was not real.

Athletes strive for perfection, but at times they are prone to accidents — just like the rest of us. Whether it’s a ball bouncing off someone’s head for a home run, a goalie letting a puck slip past from center ice, an injury-inducing sneeze or a wardrobe malfunction, there are plenty of accidents that plague the pros.

We just hope this list doesn’t jinx the Olympics.

We do not want Team USA to make any mistakes when they beat Canada for the Gold Medal in Vancouver.  And what’s up with NBC using tape delay for the Winter Olympics?  Is this 1984?  At least in 1984 you didn’t have Twitter, Google News, and anyone with a mobile phone to read you the results before you watched the events.

NBC, you suck.  Oh, and here’s the Top 10 Own Goals in Sports list.

Benny the Bull decided to do the ‘Single Ladies’ dance in front of Jaz-Z at the recent NBA All-Star Game. Judging by the reaction we think Jay-Z and his pal Diddy didn’t find it quite as funny as we did. [source]

A few years back there was a video intro created for the UAF Nanooks that was so epic only Michael Bay could have made it.  Turns out there a new offical video out for the Nanooks that is just as fantastic and with just as many explosions.  They even took it up a notch with a great soundtrack and a polar bear flying a fighter jet.

We only wished the 2010 Winter Olympics would have used videos like these for their events.  How epic would that be?!

The 2010 Winter Olympics are scheduled to have their Opening Ceremonies tonight in Vancouver to kick off 2 weeks of events. However, tragedy struck the Games that has cast a cloud over the entire city.

21-year old Luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili, from the Republic of Georgia, fatally crashed into a steel support beam while doing a training run at the nearby Whistler tracks.

Georgian luge Olympic athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili fatal crash

Nodar lost control of his sled during a hard curve and slide up over the concrete barrier and into a steel beam. People immediately surround the fallen athlete and after about a minute started CPR before taking Kumaritashvili to the hospital where he was later declared dead.

The horrific events have cast doubts about safety on the course even after several athletes have claimed it was designed to be too fast. For the sake of speed records, the engineers may have created a situation where the course may be shut down until safety concerns for the athletes are resolved.

Further training runs on the course have been suspended while the IOC [International Olympic Committee] further investigates the situation.

photo source : Vancouver Sun/Getty Images

Don’t adjust your speakers. There’s no sound on this video but you don’t need audio to know when someone FAILs big time.

Brady Morningstar of Kansas is just trying to shoot a free throw. We say ‘trying’ because he screws up in a funny, funny way. It’s not successful in any way, shape, or form. His free throw shots are about as graceful and effective as our pickup lines at Toddy’s Backdoor Tavern on a Saturday night during last call. Yeah, it’s that bad.

Snap into a Slim Jim! A classic video of “Macho Man” Randy Savage being interviewed and its so obvious that he is extremely high on coke or something.

Of course, we have never seen a bad interview with Randy but he makes a little less sense than usual here which is no easy task!

There were two loud sounds coming out of Rocky Top this week.  The first is when the collective jaws of Knoxville  hit the floor when Vols coach Lane Kiffin flipped us all the bird and headed out of town faster than anyone we’ve ever seen. 

Seriously. That dude gave a 1 minute press conference with one foot in the plane.

The second sound was a gasp that came out of Rocky Top when UT hired a relative unknown coach by the name of Derek Dooley to replace Kiffin.  People around here do not really know Dooley so naturally we are skeptical. 

But after the Kiffin fiasco we are all just looking to move on at this point.

Sweet Lord! Look at that beautiful head of hair!

The more we look into the life of Derek Dooley the more relaxed we become.  This week has been hectic as Lane Kiffin’s Beverly Hillbillies routine left us going “WTF!”

But now the Vols have an identity in the form of Derek Dooley.  And yes, he spells his first name just like the fashion model so that’s a plus. We hope that Dooley works out and here are five reasons we believe he will:

5) He is the son of Vince Dooley, legendary coach at Georgia.  That s%*t looks good on a resume.

1)The Hair!  Look at that hair.  Folks, we have a winner!

It is official.  Lane Kiffin has pulled the biggest dick move in the history of the SEC.

Our little town of Knoxville let out a collective “WTF?!” as news of Kiffin and most of his staff leaving the Vols to head to Southern Cal. Some fans are happy with the decision as Kiffin’s abrasive attitude just didn’t fit in with the program.

For the rest of Vol Nation it was a monumental move that left people angry and confused.  Kiffin sold his program to the Vols and just like that, *poof*, he is gone. Kinda like Keyser Soze if Keyser Soze was a prick instead of a mobster.

5.  Named his last son Knox after Knoxville. Wanted to be able to name his next boy Richard

4.  His mentor, Bobby Petrino, recommended the move.

3.  Really heading to Los Angeles to be new host of “The Tonight Show”

2.  Wanted another challenge. Couldn’t get Vols on probation fast enough; USC much closer to that goal

1.  Wanted to prove to Al Davis that he wasn’t a punk-ass, crybaby with no loyalty and zero professional who was just looking for his next job.

Edit: came across this great picture of the Rock on UT campus which accurately depicts how Vols fans are feeling right now. Via Losers With Socks.

Lane Kiffin during First Vol Walk

Wow.

If the news reports are to be true, it looks like our Tennessee Vols just got shafted harder than any team

Lane Kiffin is uprooting most of his coaching staff from UT to rejoin the USC Trojans in replacement of the departing Pete Carroll.  This news has of course floored Vol Nation who stood by Kiffin as he continually mouthed off during the year.

In the end, Kiffin was able to slightly resurrect the Vol program by making them competitve and giving UT some great recruiting classes in his short time here.

Numerous reports including ESPN and the L.A. Times claim Kiffin will strip the Vols of most of their coaching staff and head out West.  Kiffin has scheduled a news report for later this evening and we are still flabergasted by the developments.

Could Kiffin show such lack of professionalism and seriously make the biggest Dick Move in SEC history?  Guess we’ll know in about an hour when Kiffin gives his press conference.  More later…

• USC appears to have hired Lane Kiffin - LA Times
• Kiffin hired by Southern Cal – Go Vols Xtra

Edit: video added of Lane’s press conference. He couldn’t get out of town fast enough…[via Sports by Brooks]