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Olympic Logo ‘Porn’ Could Lead to Prosecution
If you’re a British citizen with a vivid imagination, a glance at the 2012 London Olympic festivities could have you branded a trafficker of child pornography. This week, her majesty’s lawmen passed...
View ArticleBill Maher on the Dunder-headed Media
Crank with access, Bill Maher, made a remarkably redemptive appearance on Jay Leno last night. For more on the absurdist theater that is the American news media, check out this phenomenal piece on...
View ArticlePuducherry Cockfighter
Despite its inappropriate-sounding title, this is a surprisingly engaging short film directed by John Hoag Haanes. Also, vastly superior to Rocky Balboa, for my money.
View ArticleDrew Brees – Marvel of Modern Science
For you football/physicists out there, here’s a fascinating evaluation of New Orleans Saints’ QB Drew Brees. The host of ‘Sports Science‘ clearly considers Brees to be a short-haired Legolas incarnate....
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Special Sauce
Mark McGwire: Hall of Famer or Hall of Shamer? Let’s discuss… When I first got into baseball, the Oakland Athletics were my team. It’s hard to admit as a loyal baseball fan that I had a team before...
View ArticlePain!
Here’s a little ditty that perfectly encapsulates this last week — whether one is referencing the markets, the economy at large, the craptastic weather, the Activist Supreme Court trying to bring about...
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Seeking Baseball Fanatics
In Mep land, the post-Superbowl week is heralded not for parades and fanfare and All-American splendor. It is, instead, the highly anticipated (if unofficial) start of the baseball season. And while...
View ArticleThe Pageantry of Awkwardness
Compelling video of Canadian sports heroes holding their doobie torches aloft while they wait for something… anything to happen.
View ArticleWhy Most Meppers Love March
I know Russ has a pronounced preference for watching millionaires play basketball, but it’s stories like this about amateur students that make March so exciting for us: Perhaps more amazing than the...
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Time for Madness
Hey Everybody! Come join our bracket pick-em… Click here to join the Meppers in the fun… Then join League ID 71211 with password lettheemusoar.
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Little Klaus, Big Run
I spent Sunday amongst a pulsing throng of humanity attending the 2010 LA Marathon. While there, I happened upon Internet Celeb Klaus Pierre, who had recently crossed the finish line. Marathon days...
View ArticleJuuuust a Bit Outside
It’s Opening Day today across Major League Baseball. Spring is in the air. And an air of hope and anticipation in every baseball fan’s step. Even our President is getting into the spirit, by openly...
View ArticleChan Oh Krap!
Here’s newest Yankee reliever, and Korean team national hero, Chan Ho Park, describing why he wasn’t pitching up to his best in the Yankee opener.
View ArticleESPN’s 30 for 30 Conjures Fantasy Baseball Mythology
This week, ESPN’s groundbreaking “30 for 30″ series explored the origins of one of the most popular internet activities – outside of Facebook and LOLcats. It attempted to re-enact the conditions under...
View ArticleWill Ferrell is King of All He Surveys
Here’s Will Ferrell posing as a minor league baseball pitcher for the semi-pro Round Rock Express. In my opinion, he could have done a lot more with this opportunity – like break out a few eephus...
View ArticleArizona
Yet another reason to root for Los Suns, in the Western Conference Championship.
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Fear not, Earthlings!
We come in peace? Okay. Obviously Olympic mascots aren’t something to which people pay a lot of attention. But if you’re hosting the Olympics in, say, 2012, and you’ve already had a few issues with...
View ArticleWrigley Field in a Nutshell
I’ve been there for a game once, many years ago. Wrigley is one of the few ballparks where drinking, hooliganism, and good cheer always outweigh the events of that day’s ballgame.
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Tiger Woods Misses Cut at Humanity Invitational (Mep Report #120)
Greatness: Bought or Bred?, Tiger’s Scruples vs. Big Mac’s Deltoids, Philandering Ad Campaigns, Glorifying the A-Political, and Uplifting the Downtrodden One Category at a Time. Download Mep Report #120
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You know, there’s this cool gadget they’ve got called a video camera…
In case you’re not as into sports as we here at The Mep Report are, you might have missed this little gem from last night: the worst call in the history of professional baseball. Not that we ever...
View ArticleIt’s Soccer Time!
The world’s eyes will be on the 2010 World Cup for the next month. I will be celebrating by playing a bunch of FIFA video games, and even more when I visit Russ later this month and we play our chosen...
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Boooooooooo!
It is now halftime in Game 7 of the “most anticipated” NBA Finals in years. The score is 40-34. Boston is winning, but that doesn’t matter. What does matter is that the Lakers and Celtics, the two...
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The Tea Baggers Riseth (Mep Report #121)
The Greatest American Five Fingers, The Teabag Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree for Rand Paul, We Like Ice Cream Because It’s ICE CREAM!, What if We Just Lightly Sear Them?, Lakers Fail at Immigration,...
View ArticleGooooooooooal!
Not only thrilled this morning with the group-clinching goal by US Soccer Poster Boy, Landon Donovan, but also of the internet for almost instantaneously spawning this amazing video montage to its...
View ArticleMartin Solveig – Hello
I keep telling you that the French are internet video geniuses that operate beyond our understanding. And you still don’t believe me?
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Lay Off LeBron
And so, the ravenous sports media culture finds itself T +24 hours past their biggest scoop of the summer. The anointed one, the most finely tuned athlete/behemoth ever to come out of Ohio has left...
View ArticlePitch Perfect
This movie would have been exponentially better than “Angels in the Outfield.” You’re telling me no one wants to front $20 million to get it done? Do it. Get it done. By the way, if you’re wondering...
View ArticleKool and the Gang’s got nothing.
Sure, the World Cup is over, but that doesn’t mean the soccer/football fun has to stop. And if you’re Icelandic and spending your time watching your country try to avert bankruptcy, I guess you’ve got...
View ArticleLouisville Slugger Fiddle
Glenn Donnellan, a fiddler for the National Symphony Orchestra, crafted an electric fiddle out of a Derek Jeter-model baseball bat. His fiddling rendition of the national anthem on July 4, at a...
View ArticleMLB Cardinals Go Evangelical
The following is a video of MLB Superstar Albert Pujols and his manager, Tony La Russa speaking at Glenn Beck’s Tea Party rally in DC today. While I realize that they got Pujols under the auspices of...
View ArticleIndy Film Packs Quite a Punch
It’s been a tough few months for me personally (hence my distance from the land of the Emu), but there is catharsis to be found in this film, written and directed by Mep fan and friend Pete Lee: This...
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Fight the Power for Profit
Apparently the 1968 gold medalist, Tommie Smith, is selling his 1968 gold medal which he protested as pictured above. I raise this issue in part because of its relevance to Mep lore: my senior year,...
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He’s Two of a Kind
Did anyone else know that Rex Ryan, the outspoken, self-effacing, boisterous, former defensive-coordinator now coach of the Jets has an outspoken, self-effacing, boisterous, twin brother, Rob Ryan,...
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Best. Photo. Ever.
And--scene. Admittedly, my non-Celtic fan Mep friends may disagree…but this picture, taken right after Paul Pierce’s game winning shot against the resurgent but still not rival New York Knicks, is...
View ArticlePutt of the Gods
Ok, things here have been a bit dark lately, I’ll grant you that. But good omens are to be found on the internets as well. I bring to you now, the GREATEST MINI-GOLF PUTT IN THE HISTORY OF THE...
View ArticleCinderella Story
Kudos to Bill Murray who just won his first official Pro-Am golf tournament this weekend. Does it matter? You tell us, Bill.
View ArticleIt’s Called Defense
To the best NBA analyst on the planet, go the spoils of Cool & Dre.
View ArticleBaseball Chicanery
Call me crazy, but there is something about the leisurely pace of baseball that lends itself to a profound level of goofiness. Yet another reason why it is the finest sport ever invented.
View ArticleTwitter Pitcher
If you haven’t caught on – Rangers pitcher CJ Wilson is set to dominate not only the AL West, but the Twitterverse, as well.
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Odell Breaks the Internet
Odell Beckham Jr, son of a track star and a football player, broke the internet tonight by making a physics-defying catch in the Giants-Cowboys Sunday Night NFL game. The fine-pointed concentration...
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Mep Report #134: Emu Jumps Shark
We lost several emus practicing for this shot. Download Mep Report #134 http://mepreport.com/MepRep1343Feb15.mp3 Snowpocalgeddon Jumps the Shark…Again, Finland the Permanent Frozen Wasteland, Russia is...
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Mep Report #136: Ronald Reagan, King of the Star-Murderers
Download Mep Report #136 http://mepreport.com/MepRep13631Mar15.mp3 Remembering how Ronald Reagan forgot, Russ takes performance-enhancing drugs… for life, Russ embraces Hemingway and runs with the...
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Mep Report #137: Meta-Meta-Meta-Meta-Video Gaming
Download Mep Report #137 http://mepreport.com/MepRep1371May15.mp3 Deal or No Deal, Sportsageddon, Russ Fought the 4DX and the 4DX Won, Ruining the World with New Technology!, Demographic Bingo, The...
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Mep Report #139: Russ Dances with The Donald
Download Mep Report #139 http://mepreport.com/MepRep13930Aug15.mp3 Stealin’ Steelers and the Fantasy Draft, Draft Picks?! We Don’t Need No Stinking Draft Picks!, Twitchers and Tweakers and the Men Who...
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Mep Report #141: The World War III Will Not Be Facebooked
Download Mep Report #141 http://mepreport.com/MepRep1415Oct15.mp3 Don’t Empty the Trash!, the Benefits of Binge-Watching, Ichiro and the Technical Difficulties, It’s World War III You Guys, I Learned...
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Mep Report #146: Bernie vs. Hillary
Download Mep Report #146 http://mepreport.com/MepRep14618Jan16.mp3 Very Early Sports Video Games Fear and Boredom: the Great Motivators The New York Times Hates Tetris Dreaming of Chess Complementary...
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Mep Report #147: CornGuns for President!
Download Mep Report #146 http://mepreport.com/MepRep1472Feb16.mp3 Iowa’s Outsized Influence President CornGuns Russ Offensively Tries to Solve World Politics Mep Reports 126 and 127: a Russ Horror...
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Mep Report #149: The Sportsisode
Download Mep Report #149 http://mepreport.com/MepRep14911May16.mp3 Mourning the Original Mep Report 149 Storey Quits His Job and Actually Applies for Other Jobs Clouds for Dinner 6th Grader 3-D Prints...
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Live from Hollywood, it’s the Gooberman Wedding!
Download Mep Report #156 Listen Now!http://www.mepreport.com/MepRep156Apr152018.mp3 | Open Player in New Window Three Meppers Randomly Walk into a Ballroom in Hollywood Mep Marriages The Muppets Take...
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TMR #162 – The Emergency Episode!
Download Mep Report #162 Listen Now!http://www.mepreport.com/MepRep16229Jan20.mp3 | Open Player in New Window EMERGENCY: Russ Fires Up the Conch Shell Emergency the First: My Corona (Virus) Russ’...
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