Sunday February 27, Daily Links

SUNDAY 2.27


NEWS STORIES

 



Russian Owner Of Chelsea FC Giving Up Control

The Russian Oligarch owner of Chelsea FC is stepping away from his beloved soccer team as the war in Ukraine rages on. This happened after the UK Parliament called for him to hand over the club. Why couldn’t Dan Snyder be Russian?

Read more at NBC Sports.


Jon Stewart's A Fan Of Ukraine Preside Zelenskyy

Jon Stewart praised the President of Ukraine, who is also a former comedians, saying ““We’re watching Shecky Greene transform into Churchill.”

Assuming Zelenskyy lives through this conflict, Netflix will be giving him a three special deal.

Read more at Huffington Post.


Sperm Banks Need Donors Of Color

Sperm banks around the country have a huge drought of POC donors, and the pandemic has made the shortage even worse.

Semen preppers could become a whole new category of crazy.

Read more at the WSJ.


Tik Tok Getting Flooded With Pro Russian Propaganda Videos

The Russian Bot army is trying to win the propaganda war by flooding Tik Tok with pro-Russian video content and memes. If they can get the Zoomers on their side, that’s half the battle.

Read more at the AP.


Russian OnlyFans Models Are Hurting - They Can No Longer Access Their Funds

With all the sanctions coming down on Russia, there’s been an unexpected causality – the bank accounts of Russian OnlyFans models. Can we please all take a step back and realize that this war doesn’t need to be happening. People need hot Russian women.

Read more at Yahoo.


Elon Musk Boots Up Starlink To Make Sure Ukraine Has Internet

Musk has activated his satellite based internet service so that Ukranian citizens can access the web after the russian invasion knocked out internet service. He also offered to rescue the ISS if Russia tries to drop it from orbit.

Is Elon Musk Iron Man now?

Read more at mediaite.


Russian Vodka Boycott is Spreading

After Russia invaded Ukraine, drinkers took to social media to show their support of Ukranians by pouring out their Russian vodka and swearing off the Russian based brands.

And I’m only putting freedom dressing on my salad.

Read more at TMZ


New Yorkers Got a Free Coach Bag With Covid Hotel Stay

A number of visitors to NYC’s free isolation hotels for residents who tested positive and didn’t want to risk transmitting to members of their household got a luxury parting gift. “You take the lift to the lobby, and just as you’re being discharged, there’s a pile of Coach bags behind a retractable rope and you walk up and pick whatever you want and somebody behind the rope hands it to you,” one resident told the Post.

Coach bag. Thought you said roach bag.

Read more at NY Post.


Klitchko Brothers Fighting for Ukraine

Vitali Klitschko, the mayor of Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv is joining his brother Wladmimir in taking up arms to defend his country against Russia. The former heavyweight boxing champions

Guys you know this fight doesn’t take place in Iran?

Read more at ESPN




SPORTS



Sean McVay Turns Down Amazon

Amazon offered Los Angeles Rams coach Sean McVay a ton of money to host Thursday Night Football’s broadcast that airs on the Prime platform. Its believed they may have offered as much as $100 million for a 5 year deal. He said no thanks, he’s staying with his team.

Good luck getting packages delivered Sean.

Read more at NY Post


Pat McAfee VS Vince McMahon At Wrestlemania!?

It’s been leaked that a match between Pat McAfee and Vince McMahon has been added to the line up at Wrestlemania. The only question here is can Pat pull off a Super Kick as well as HBK?
Read more at Barstool.


Russian Tennis Player Wrote On the Lense of a TV Camera

Adnrey Rublev wrote “No War Please” on the camera lense as a protest statement against the Russian invasion.

This is the only interesting thing to happen in tennis in the last 20 years.


Tweeter Collects Sunday Night Football Shout Outs

If you don’t pay attention to the intros on Sunday Night Football, you may have missed these adorable little easter eggs of players giving fun shout outs to someone or someplace other than the college they graduated.

This is like Big Brother on live eviction night. Shout out to Mom!


Matt Stafford's Wife To His Rescue!

Kelly Stafford is defending her husband who just won the Super Bowl. Mrs. S wrote on Instagram, “Can y’all just let him enjoy this?! It went from Matthew can’t win, to Matthew can’t win against winning teams, to Matthew can’t win big games, to Matthew can’t win playoff games, to Matthew can’t win it all.”

I know it seems like you’re helping…

Read more at US Magazine



CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT



Jack White Can Name Any Beatles Song After Hearing One Second Of It

Jack White just needs one second to identify ANY Beatles song. But can he identify the A-Team theme song? Doubtful.

Watch the video on Instagram.


Bill Paxton's Family Settles for $1 Million

The anesthesiology group that presided during Paxton’s valve replacement surgery has settled with his family for $1 million dollars, without acknowledging any wrongdoing. Paxton suffered a stroke and died following the heart procedure, and the family sued for negligence alleging a cover up as well.

His death is worth 1/100th the value of Sean McVay working one day a week watching football.

Read more at Complex


Bert Kreischer Don't Fuck Around at Savannah Banana Batting Practice

Bert is america’s answer to Putin

Read more at Barstool


Cedric the Entertainer Officiated Russell Peters Wedding

Peters married in California with a star studded guest list including Cedric who performed the ceremony.

Wasn’t a dry eye in the house when Cedric announced them playa and wife.

Read more at TMZ


Fuchs Wife Gets 400k in Alimony....Every Month

The owner of the Chrysler building, Michael Fuchs is caught up in a high profile divorce and he’s going to be paying his ex wife $400,000 every month.

She still couldn’t afford to rent anything inside the Chrysler building.

Read more at NY Post.


Piers Morgan Vows to Save You From Cancel Culture!!

Piers has a new show and he’s vowed to take on those “ultra woke lunatics head on.” HIs new talk show will air on Sky News Australia, TalkTv in the UK and Fox Nation in the US.

Dude do you even know there’s a war going on?

Read more at Deadline..


Sean Penn: Putin Fucked Up

The actor, filmmaker and activist is over in Ukraine making a documentary on the Russian invasion, and says Putin made a brutal mistake attacking the neighboring nation. “Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts broken, and if he doesn’t relent, I believe Mr. Putin will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind,” Penn said.

If anyone would know. It’s Spicoli.

Read more at Fox News


Pussy Riot Raising Money for Ukraine

The infamous Russian punk rock performance art group is selling NFTs to raise money to support Ukraine.

NFTs? Or NFT&A?

Read more at rollingstone.



VIRAL & TRENDING



Sexual Identities Shifted During Covid

The BBC lookied into why people began exploring new sexual identies during the pandemic.

What else did we have to do?

Read more at BBC




STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS



Study Suggests Eating Less Meat Lowers Cancer Risk

If you cut meat out of your diet or at least cut back to just a few portions a week, you could lower your risk of cancer, says researchers from the University of Oxford.

Can we slide this into the no shit pile?

Read more at Insider.



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