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Introducing Courtney from Andover. I saw Courtney at Waterworks (excuse me the upscale Marina Bay Beach Club, cough cough) a couple years ago and she was just about the hottest chick I've ever seen in my life. It took me long enough to find her and make her our Smokeshow of the Day huh?

Are you a hot chick who I spotted a couple years ago and forgot about? If you are send in your smokeshow photos ASAP. It's your duty! Send all nominations to randomthoughts@barstoolsports.com

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Poor Brooke Hogan. See this is what happens when your kid brother cripples a kid in a car accident, your parents get a divorce, your dad rubs lotion on your ass and your mom starts dating a 15 year old that looks like everybody in your family. You end up wearing outfits like this in public and making me want to puke. Seriously whoever told Brooke it was okay to wear this deserves to be executed.

From Christopher Gaspar:

Patriots draft picks linebacker Jerod Mayo, cornerback Terrence Wheatley, linebacker Shawn Crable, quarterback Kevin O'Connell, cornerback Jonathan Wilhite, kick returner Matthew Slater and linebacker Bo Ruud combined to win the "Ultimate Rookie Challenge" trivia contest at the NFL Rookie Symposium, which was held earlier this month in Carlsbad, Calif.

Players were asked a series of 32 questions about topics ranging from their NFL benefits packages to material from some of the educational seminars on finance and life skills that were held during the three-and-a-half day symposium, as well as some basic NFL trivia. Individual scores were combined to come up with the top team score, and the seven Pats rookies fared the best.

Each Patriots rookie was awarded a 32-inch Samsung flat screen TV for the New England newbies' collective victory. O'Connell, the team's second of two third-round picks, finished fourth among all 252 draftees in attendance and received an iPod as well.

It's like I've been saying for years: Every GM in the NFL preaches that they look for smart players, but Belichick and Pioli back it up. I mean, they want intelligent players who are also strong, fast and would pull their grandmother's windpipe out through her mouth to win a championship. As much of premium as they put on intelligence, they're not going to draft Christopher Mintz-Plasse or Kati Cawley. But I wouldn't be surprised to find out Ruud works on the Finobacci Sequence between plays. Or Mayo likes to sit around after practice discussing Cartesian Dualism. I'll bet Slater likes to calculate Pi while he's breaking down opponent's Special Teams tapes. And I wouldn't be the least bit shocked to hear that O'Connell carries a copy of "Ulysses" inside his playbook for a bit of light reading once he's mastered the offense. Training camp can't start fast enough.

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As big of an idiot as that lady is in the Price is Right clip is, the bottom line is that she still somehow managed to pull out a victory. And in America winning championships is still all that matters. Unfortunatly the same can't be said for the Wheel of Fortune dumbass. The look on Pat Sajak's face says it all. It just doesn't get any worse than that.

Vote 1 for Price is Right and 10 for Wheel of Fortune

HARWICH, Mass. -- Bail has been set at $200,000 cash for a Harwich man accused of trying to rob a convenience store armed with a grenade that turned out to be fake. Police say a masked Dennis Walsh walked into the store Sunday night holding the grenade and demanded money from the cash register while threatening to pull the pin. Police say Walsh fumbled with the pin, then got scared by a store employee and tried to escape. Three witnesses chased and grabbed him. Walsh is charged with armed robbery while masked, assault to rob while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon. He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Monday in Orleans District Court.

If it weren’t for the fact this guy was wearing a Pats sweatshirt I’d say he was dumbest criminal of all time.  I mean what kind of idiot uses a fake grenade to rob a convenience store?  What happened to guns? Is that too simple? Obviously the clerk knows you’re bullshitting with a grenade.  I mean what are you going to do, blow yourself up to get the money?  That would defeat the whole purpose or robbing the store in first place.   After all everybody knows that you can’t buy shit when you’re dead.    At least that's what my sources tell me.

"Greta can you please promise me that you'll wait to masturbate until the interview is over"

"Dude!"

Well it's official. I will regret not being on this beach watching umbrellas attack people for the rest of my life. I'm so jealous. This was a once and a lifetime opportunity. Shame on me for not being there. I live for this type of shit.

MSNBC.com - A state employee has resigned and officials have disavowed an international advertising campaign that led to calls for an investigation of tourism posters proclaiming “South Carolina is so gay.” The campaign, which plastered the London subway with posters advertising the charms of South Carolina and five major U.S. cities to gay European tourists, landed with a resounding thud in South Carolina, where the issue of gay rights has long been a political flashpoint. Similar ads were posted for Atlanta, Boston, Las Vegas, New Orleans and Washington, D.C., none of which reported any negative backlash. But in South Carolina, reaction to the posters was swift. Republican state Sen. David Thomas of Greenville protested the campaign and called for an audit of the advertising budget overseen by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism. “South Carolinians will be irate when they learn their hard earned tax dollars are being spent to advertise our state as ‘so gay,’” Thomas said in a statement.

Listen I’d be pissed if I was from South Carolina too.   I mean what kind of half assed gay advertising campaign is this?   The Civil War and golf?  You really think this is going to bring the London Gays to the Palmetto State?  Talk about throwing money out the window.  Because everybody knows the London Gays are into World Championships, The South End and Seafood.   In other words just like with everything else Boston wins. 

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For reasons unclear to me, this year the Major League All-Star Game, which used to be a nice, little mid-season diversion and a chance to showcase the game's best players, has been replaced with a big, fawning, obsequious celebration of all things Yankee. It's a Bronxapalooza. Every media outlet in the country is joining in on the unctuous toadying to the point there's nowhere you can hide from the everyone's list of The Great Moments in Yankee Stadium history. Babe Ruth. Gehrig. Mr. October. College football. Boxing. Concerts. Popes. Giambi's porn 'stache. Everywhere they're joining in on the groveling at the steps of the House That Ruth Built as they await the opening of The House That the New York Government's Woefully Misplaced Priorities Built. Everywhere, that is, except here. So without further ado we give you;

The Worst Moments in Yankee Stadium History:

11. Gotham Bowl

The 1962 game featured Nebraska against Miami and was played in front of only 6,100 people. Still it was a much bigger success than the previous Gotham Bowl game when Oregon State played no one in front of zero people because organizers couldn't line up an opponent. Apparently fear of the Joker was keeping people away and the game was never held again.

10. Suzyn Waldman's On Air Clemensgasm, 2007

"Oh my goodness gracious!!!"

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Papelbum wants nod to close over Mo

As if Jonathan Papelbon wasn't unpopular enough in New York. While the rest of the baseball world heaped praise on Mariano Rivera for his Hall of Fame career during Monday's All-Star media day, the Red Sox closer declared that he deserves to be the American League's ninth-inning man at Yankee Stadium Tuesday. "If I was managing the team, I would close," Papelbon said.

We've both earned that right; us, by winning the World Series and having the opportunity of having our manager there and our team being represented, and Mariano by what he's done for this role, we're in Yankee Stadium and blah, blah, blah," Papelbon said. "It's not that easy. Everybody thinks it's a cut and dry answer, but it's not."

After his 50-minute media session, Papelbon backtracked on his statements, telling the Boston Globe that he had had a change of heart after answering questions on the subject for the better part of an hour.

Far be it for me to criticize anything Jonathan Papelbon says or does, but I have a real problem with what he said here. To be specific, I have a problem with the part where he backtracked. Why, Paps, why? Why back off your original statement when everything you said was right on target? F- New York. F- the Yankees. F- Mariano Rivera and the New York media that's been clamoring to have him close, start the game, bat leadoff, sing the anthem and bang ARod's wife on home plate. What in God's name does Terry Francona owe these worthless nitwits anyway? Isn't this the same press corps that's been ripping him for years and calling the Sox classless every time there's bad blood between the two clubs? And who cost Pedro an MVP he deserved? Isn't this the same fan base that boos every Sox player from Papi to Johnny Pesky? And the same Yankee organization that when Joe Torre used to get to manage the All Star game (it was a long time I ago I know, but try to remember back that far) used to put 15 of his own players on the roster? And now they're demanding Tito worship at the altar of Rivera the way they do? They're like a kid you grew up with who treated you like crap your whole life and as soon as you hit it big he calls you looking for favors. A frenemy.

Papelbon's first comment is of course right. You want to manage the game, win the goddamned World Series. Unless you do, STFU. The Red Sox earned Terry Francona the right to do whatever the hell he wants. And if I was him, I'd bring Sandman in in the 6th, if at all.

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Amen Chase. Amen. It's just too bad that they cut away from him because I'm pretty sure he followed up the FU with the following

"Fuck You. I don't see any fucking Yankees participating in the HR derby. What are they a bunch of pussies? Where is Arod? If this was the last season at Fenway and the allstar game was there you'd have to cut off both David Ortiz's arms and legs for him not to compete. But I guess Arod could give a shit less about New York or their idiot fans. So keep booing me and Maria Menonous in the celebrity all star game you losers. You're just jealous Boston wins at everything. Fuck You New York"