Handoffs

Handoffs is a weekly roundup of sports stories and blog posts gathered from around the interwebs that we find interesting, informative, and entertaining.

It's been a slow week here at TNIB, probably because we're terrible people (except not really, I promise). Anyway, we'll try to make it up to you with a huge boatload of Handoffs here. Lots of fun, informative, super duper crazy awesome reading material here.

Jeff Pearlman's Sports Illustrated article from 1999 about Josh Hamilton is a good read, especially considering what's happened to Hamilton between then and now.

This headline says it all: BCS is still rigged after all these years.

The NBA banned some newfangled jumpyshoes because they make people jump higher.

But check out the Athletic Propulsion Labs' website. Their marketing method seems to be, "Our newfangled jumpyshoes are too awesome for the NBA!"

New awesome NBA podcast alert: Voice on the Floor!

The UFL has decided to be really really stupid by not allowing an NFL team to sign a UFL player.

Bleacher Report editors sent a kindly worded memorandum to Bleacher Report writers, gently urging them to learn how to write. - via Deadspin

According to the New York Times wonderful baseball blog, Mark Teixeira says the field in that new, ultra expensive Yankee Stadium sucks.

Jelisa Castrodale brings us the story of two young cheerleaders—one six years old, the other eleven—who were kicked off their cheerleading team for refusing to shake their butts.

Again from the New York Times, for once I can agree with a Yankee fan: “If you leave early, you are not a real fan.”

Yet again from the New York Times—this time from their pro football blog—a very long, very informative story about helmet safety in football.

A sad, shady, story involving a football player, cops, violence, and guns.

Finally, The No Look Pass provides us a picture of Paul Pierce's new huge tattoo.