Minnesota seems to get the craziest basketball stories. There was the high-school kid who made a game-winning shot while lying on his back, and now there's the tale of Angela Ramey and her daughter Grace.
Grace, 9, attends Bethany Academy in Bloomington, and raised the most donations in the school's Kids Against Hunger campaign, which serves local food shelves. Her prize was a few cracks at a halfcourt shot–if she made it, she'd win half a year of tuition. After a couple of attempts fell short, Angela tried the ol' granny-style heave ho. She missed badly, but the ball had enough momentum that it bounced on the floor and ended up going in. The reaction is priceless. Check it out above. Way to go, Rameys.
I'm a big fan of not having a ton of things in my pocket. But between wallet, phone, home and car keys, the occasional original iPod (yes, I am an old coot), and whatever other chapstick/sunscreen/Offspring CD from the mid-90s I want to keep in there, my pants get bulky super fast. And just the other day, the clip on my wallet broke, so what am I going to do with all of my extra cards and cash?
Enter CardNinja. This essentially serves as a pocket that fits snugly on your phone. The good folks from CardNinja sent me a sample to test out, and it's pretty wonderful. It's a spandex sleeve, so it can expand if you have some chunkier cards or wads of cash, and unless you're cramming in everything you own (CardNinja claims to hold up to eight cards and cash), you should be good to go. I've never had an issue with anything falling out, and I'm one of the most slovenly, unorganized people I know.
Of course, you'll need a smartphone to do this, but in this day and age, that's probably not even a concern for most people. And theoretically if you didn't have a smartphone, you could slap CardNinja on anything vaguely iPhone shaped and it would probably work just as well. Though I don't condone that, because why risk not following directions? If I ever decide to start running again, CardNinja's a good thing to have for when I invariably buy like six Gatorades after a brief two minutes in the Austin heat.
CardNinja retails for $9.99, and you can pick it up from a ton of places, including CVS and Amazon. Check it out!
The Western Michigan Broncos have their season right around the corner, and they wanted to make sure one player was a part of the squad.
Walk-on Trevor Sweeney, who's spent most of his time as a practice squad and special teams player, fielded what he thought was a fairly typical onside kick during a practice recently. Little did he know that attached to the football was a scholarship offering a full ride to the university. Pretty amazing stuff. Let's see Sweeney kick some butt this year.
Rihanna seems to be embracing some kind of psycho alter ego lately with her radio singles. It started with "FourFiveSeconds," an acoustic trio with Kanye West and Paul McCartney about wilin' on some folk. That tune was very catchy and featured quite the awkward Grammy performance.
A more recent release is "Bitch Better Have My Money," a song that is insanely easy to get stuck in your head, even though the premise is ridiculous. But hey, Ri Ri didn't get rich by handing out loans everywhere, so you may as well pay her.
Anyway, a genius named Mylo the Cat released a remix of this song for Vulture Remix, which apparently has four episodes now. It features Miss Piggy as Rihanna, and the matchup of lyrics with Piggy's flapping gums is quite magical. To both queens, we salute the search for money.
Joseph Currency just dropped the first single from his third album, The Album Drop, due out on May 12. And it is QUITE fantastic. Tap your toes and nod your head, and enjoy.
Sometimes you just need a nice feel-good video. BigDawsTV has made a nice "prank" where he poses as a homeless man, then gives money to people that give him some spare change. The ending is very touching, as well. Nice to know there's still a little decent humanity out there in the world.
