Via Deadspin come this Rolling Stone story about the dark side of relationships between teachers and students. Getting it on with a high school teacher sounds like every guy's porn fantasy. But reality is not like porn. For one thing, porn has better lighting. For another, people in the real world have emotions attached to sex and things get messy in a hurry when you play with people's feelings.AOL FanHouse picks up the story that Kobe Bryant, showing sensitivity to the economic climate, is charging a $49.99 subscription fee to access premium content on his website, KB24.com. Our first thought was that Kobe Bryant may be an even bigger jerk than he appears. Then we watched his new "viral" ad for Nike and knew so.
Danica Patrick has a couple of new ads for GoDaddy.com. The video code won't seem to embed right, so click here if you want to watch them. The first one, spoofing a steroids-in-baseball Congressional hearing, is kind of lame. The second clip is extremely sexy.
The upcoming weekend is the best of any true pro football fan's season. Unlike Super Bowl Sunday, which is more about hype and TV commercials, the AFC/NFC Conference Championship games are for hardcore fans. You don't have to go to someone else's house to watch. You don't have to fight for a seat and strain to hear the announcers over two ladies talking about the spinach dip. You don't have to hear all the Super Bowl's human interest stories, all the yapping about "bulletin board material," and the mayors of opposing cities making silly bets. Championship Sunday is for real fans; the kind who want nothing more than to hunker down on the couch in front of a big screen TV for six hours and not miss a play. The kind who love the game for what happens on the field, not all the soap opera that goes on around it.
Super Bowl betting, of course, has already begun. A gambling site reminds bettors they can get action on absolutely any aspect of the game; from who wins the coin flip or scores the first touchdown, to what songs Springsteen will play at halftime. Incidentally, the visiting Eagles are an early 3-point favorite at Arizona, and Pittsburgh is a 5-point favorite over the Ravens, if you like that sort of thing.
