Wednesday February 9: Daily Links

WEDNESDAY 2.9


NEWS STORIES

 



Canadian Truckers Shutting Down Border Bridge

News outlets are worried that this trucker convoy in Canada is going to start trouble for the US now that they’re blocking cross border traffic. CNN is calling for Biden to get involved.

It’s all good. We can go a year without hockey pucks and maple syrup.

Read more at mediaite.


Zoo Hires Marvin Gaye Impersonator

Two endangered monkeys aren’t fucking so a UK Zoo tried to help set the mood by hiring a Marvin Gaye impersonator to serenade them.

Hopefully the monkeys won’t get close though to know he’s an impersonator or the shit will fly.

Read more at TMZ.


Weirdo Couple Busted In $4.5 Billion Crypto Heist

Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, 34, and his rapper wife, Heather “RAZZLEKAHN” Morgan were just busted in a 2016 Crypto exchange breach where they laundered nearly $5 billion in cryptocurrency. All the money obviously went to the production of her “music” videos.

Read more at the Daily Beast.



SPORTS



Cris Collinsworth Is Going to the Super Bowl! Again!

Collinsworth played in two Super Bowls with the Bengals and now he’ll be back, and in the booth next to Al Michaels.

Before you think this is great, he lost the other times he was there.

Read more at NY Post.


Matthew Stafford Thinks Leo DiCaprio Should Play Him in the Movie

A reporter from Access Hollywood asked LA Rams QB Matt Stafford who would play him in a movie about his career. He chose big with movie star Leo DiCaprio and Twitter thinks that’s just ridiculous..

We agree. Leo never would have spent that amount of time in Detroit.

Read more at clutchpoints.


American Athlete Wins Gold for China

American born Eileen Gu is an Olympic sensation winning gold in teenage freeskiing. Her win was so big it crashed China social media website Weibo.

America would be so proud if she was on our team.

Read more at CNN.


Wizards Coach Goes After Fans

Mike Batiste had to be restrained after he lost his temper at some hecklers.

Wasn’t it so much better last year with no fans?

Read more at mediaite.


Byron Allen To Buy Broncos?

Byron Allen is currently putting together a bid for the Broncos and if successful, he will become the first black owner in the NFL. If this happens, expect the archive for Comics Unleashed to be put up on the block.

Read more at Bloomberg.


Gronk Gives Joe Burrow All The Love

Gronk recently said if he can’t play with Brady, he’d want to play with Joe Burrow. If Gronk heads to Cinci, may as well start calling them Pink and Wooderson.

Read more on Twitter.



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



The Who Returns to Cincy For First Time Since Tragic 79 Show

The last time The Who was in Cincy, was 1979 and 11 people died at the show.But now they’re returning for the first time in 40 years

Can we have some security this time?

At least the audience will be on walkers so no more trouble.

Read more at wlwf


Tom Brady Teases Possible Comeback

When asked if he would come back to the NFL and play again, Tom Brady said never say never.

Can you go away before you come back? Jesus give people a chance to miss you, dude.

Read more at TMZ.


Will The Freedom Convoy Attempt To Disrupt The Super Bowl!?

Members of the Freedom Convoy currently going on in Canada are chattering online trying to organize something to disrupt the Super Bowl. If this gets any heat, Roger Goodell will order a drone strike on them so maybe let the SB be.

Read more at Rolling Stone and on Twitter.


Caitlyn Jenner Slams the Rock

First Don Jr. went on twitter and outted The Rock for deleting an old transphobic tweet. He also sent @ to several companies that the Rock represents. Caitlin confusingly thanked Don Jr. for highlighting before telling The Rock that cancel culture is wrong.

Let’s see if Joe Rogan comes out to back him up.

Read more at newsweek


Hugh Hefner's Ex Was A Drug Mule?

A woman who dated Hugh Hefner says she was a drug mule in the latest episode of “Secrets of Playboy.” She says he sent her on drug runs even though he always sore he didn’t do drugs.

“The first time that Hef sent me as a mule to get the drugs — there were two brothers that came up to the house, one of the brothers sold cocaine, so Hef sent me to his house,” she explained. “He said, ‘Here’s the money, get the stuff.’ That was so easy for him, that became the norm. I picked up the stuff, brought it back to him, handed it to him and he locked it up.”

Sorry to break the romance here, but you’re not a mule taking drugs from Beverly Hills to Santa Monica.

Read more at toofab.


Wendy Williams Show Getting a Permanent Guest Host

It doesn’t look like Williams is returning to her show anytime soon, and Sherri Shepherd is going to fill in for the rest of the season.

Has the audience even noticed the difference?

Read more at TMZ


Comedian Heather McDonald Shares Video of On-Stage Collapse

Great closer.

Read more at TMZ



VIRAL & TRENDING



Cock and Balls Hit Slalom Gate

Things don’t go well for this skier who connected perfectly with the gate.

This deserves extra points.


Pokemon Wordle is Here!

A new game gives users a chance to guess which of 900 pokemon is the secret word.

The answer is always pikachu.

Via Digg.



STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



70% of Americans Living Check to Check

A new poll found that 7 out of every 10 Americans say they’re living paycheck to paycheck with no safety net at all.

Guessing 2 out of 10 didn’t have a paycheck to live by.

Read more at studyfinds.



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