nah, we’re just kidding. real story of the autopsy here.

visit our friends at tiricosuave.

our starting lead-off hitter seams to have a fixation on jennifer aniston. she DOES still look good in a bikini. {on205th}

have NBA nicknames declined at the same rate as airline customer service? {collegeiseasy}

who knew the coal miner’s daughter was a playa in motocross? {sickmx}

water. dirt bike. high speeds. {gizmodo}

in our humble opinion, basketball is secondary to hot dancing broads during the NBA playoffs. {coedmagazine}

apparently we need to do more to help our pampered and spoiled student athletes be more successful in the classroom. {espn}

here you will find one of the best blog names on the planet AND one of the best written mock drafts we’ve ever read. {veganfishtacos}

Eight Belles may be dead, but her “people” have extracted revenge. {liveleak}

you and two of your friends can win a chance to be physically and mentally humiliated play three-on-three with Ron Artest, Joakim Noah and Nate Robinson. {tvweek}

blog mogul Harvey Bars has an indecent proposal for (and a great picture of) Scarlett Johansson. {tiricosuave)

we remain proud of flatusyahu.com contributing editor PhizzEd’s work as Richard Nixon in this Tom Petty & The HB’s video:

As you know from being a loyal reader of these very pages, Yum! Brands had the utter misfortune of being the title sponsor of a major sporting event where a poor horsy broke both its ankles and was immediately “euthanized” (aka destroyed).  The Eight Belles tragedy turned an exciting event, into a real bummer for all of us.

You have to wonder if Yum!’s executive team is wondering today if it was wise to be the title sponsor on the one major sporting event (besides the Daytona 500), where the participants have a chance of dying in the battle.

But corporate America is resilient….and we imagine that somewhere in a conference stocked with bagels, cream cheese, lox and a whole bunch of coffee…..Yum! is trying to come up with ways to not only minimize the damage from their ill-fated sponsorship…..but to actually profit from it…..with some possible Eight Belles related food introductions:

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The evil-spirit of Jack Kevorkian visited Churchill Downs yesterday as tragedy again hit a Triple Crown race. This time it was Eight Belles whose legs buckled and she was immediately euthanized (we used to call it “destroyed”) immediately on the track. (another horse soul floating around to keep our beloved Barbaro company).

We’re certainly not knee-jerk reactionists….but we do think this situation begs an answer tot he following question:

WHAT THE FUCK?????

Are these horses incapable of bearing the tremendous loads they are carrying around the track?

Are the track surfaces to blame?

Or, as we suspect, is this simply the price horses must pay for being further down on the food chain than us humans?

Whatever the answer….we believe NBC and its sponsors….especially YUM BRANDS…..can look forward to repeat Kevorkian moments at the Kentucky Derby.

Now THAT’s entertainment.

You can be darn tootin sure that the marketing geniuses at YUM! Brands (owner of KFC, Taco Bell, Long John Silvers, etc. etc.) didn’t count on horses being destroyed ON THE TRACK moments after the finish when they signed on to be the presenting sponsor of the Kentucky Derby.

We’re certain that millions of little girls were surely watching the pretty horses gallop around the track today when, horrifically, second-place finisher Eight Belles broke both ankles and was immediately euthanized. We’re not going to get in the middle of the controversy over whether horse racing is inhumane (it is). We’re just going to simply say that next time a mother asks her daughter if she wants to eat at KFC…..we’re guessing the response might go something like this:

“Aren’t they the people who killed that poor little horsey who tripped?”

ouch.