Links Minka Kelly Would Love: Baseball Hall of Fame, Tom Brady’s Razor Scooter, and Harbaugh Mania

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It’s morning. While you get out your favorite coffee mug, pour a glass of orange juice, and make sure you have enough milk for your bowl of cereal, get yourself back up to date with the happenings in, or at least somewhat near, the sporting universe.

The following are links that we’re certain Minka Kelly would love.

– The Baseball Hall of Fame briefly opened its gates and hurried in Roberto Alomar and Bert Blyleven yesterday, but for newly eligible players like Jeff Bagwell, who, since denying any steroid use only seems to serve as proof of his guilt for the Mean Girls of the BBWAA, his fate may already be decided.

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Monday Link Dump: Twins Ink Joe Mauer for Next Decade, Hot Women of the Super Bowl

Here are your Monday links.

I know that I’ve gone back and forth between having a daily link dump, and then doing a weekly one, and pretty much every iteration in between. Well here is what I’ve decided: I’ll do link dumps whenever I have enough good links that it makes sense. It might be once a day, it might be once a week. But whenever it is, you’ll get plenty of tasty sports web goodness to feast on.

First up today? Big news in Minnesota where the Twins have inked Joe Mauer for the next decade. And then after that, a link to Guyism’s very nice gallery of Super Media Day hotties. You’re welcome guys.

Update: Hang on just a second about that Joe Mauer contract extension…

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Tuesday Link Dump: Brett Favre is Different Than Us but Braylon Edwards is Just a Tool

The link dump is getting posted early today, as I have some non-sports blogging stuff to attend to this afternoon. Still, if Brett Favre decides to retire after lunch, I promise I’ll be ready with a quick post.

And speaking of Brett Favre, want to know the top 10 differences between him and us? Click on through. You can also find more reasons, as if you needed them, for why Braylon Edwards is a self-serving tool.

Also, go find the Foot Locker link in the NBA section. It’ll take you to a badass online 3-point shooting contest that is sure to make your afternoon unproductive (at least in terms of, you know, work.)

Have a great Tuesday everyone.

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Thursday Link Dump: Who REALLY Has Advantage Between ‘Bama and UT?

Today’s link dump is ready to go, with the highlight being a superb rundown of who really holds the advantage between Alabama and Texas. (Yes, any webpages that include pictures of Jennifer Love Hewitt will also get preferential treatment as long as I’m involved here at MSF.)

Also, see why the Big Ten is ready for the Big “Tyme”, go behind the scenes with the chimps running the show at The BCS, and learn why we are losing the war on logic when it comes to rating pitchers.

And more. Enjoy.

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Wednesday Link Dump: Starring a Couple of Big, Fat Idiots

Your Wednesday Link Dump is prepared and ready, complete with a link to an awesome quiz by Mental Floss that tests your knowledge of NFL longsnappers and Vice Presidential candidates. Yeah, that’s right.

Also, more proof that JaMarcus Russell is an idiot (like we needed it), more proof that John Heyman might be a big, fat, idiot (at least according to our friends at Major League Jerk), and a pretty insightful piece from one of my favorite blogs about why every blogger needs a non-blogger spouse.

Enjoy.

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Monday Link Dump: Terrorists on the Detroit D-Line, a Potential Chris Johnson-Usain Bolt Race, More

Here is your Monday afternoon link dump, complete with Chris Myers making a pretty lame joke involving the Detroit defensive line…and terrorism, and a cool blurb about a potential Chris Johnson-Usain Bolt foot race. And other stuff too.

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Links of the Day: Monday Morning Dump

Here is a quick Monday morning link dump, recapping the weekend with links from some of our favorite sports blogs:

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Link of the Day: Stewart Mandel on Computers and the BCS

We’re a little light on the updates today, but we’ll have something special for you later this evening or tomorrow morning: an interview with Jimmy Traina of SI.com’s Hot Clicks.

As a preview, I want to highlight a great line a few minutes ago in a story that I found while making my way towards today’s Hot Clicks (starring the lovely Minka Kelly). The line is from SI.com college football Stewart Mandel and sounds like the kind of observation we’d hear in a Jerry Seinfeld stand-up routine.
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Monday WYNTR: Catching Up After a Great Weekend in Cleveland

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I got in at 8:30 last night after a terrific weekend in Cleveland for Sports Media 360. I’ll be posting more about the conference over the course of the week (including a photo gallery from my first Browns tailgating experience) but I do want to quickly thank Glenn Moore for putting the conference on, and all of the attendees for really making it a worthwhile experience.

Just a head’s up: I’ll probably be a day or two behind on our normal posts this week, so I apologize in advance or that. But I’ll get the TV schedules and fantasy stuff up as soon as I’m able.

Also, my apologies to those of you who posted fantasy questions during the weekend that I wasn’t able to get to. I didn’t have quite as much time as I thought I would once I got to Cleveland. But hopefully you all still had good weeks anyway.

And with all that said, it’s time for me to tell you What You Need To Read. And since we featured Minka Kelly on Friday, we can’t leave out Kate Hudson, who will always hold a special place in my heart for her role in Almost Famous.
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Friday WYNTR: The Yankees Lose But My Horse is Amazing

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If you are a Yankees fan, today is a bittersweet Friday for you as the ALCS will go back to the Bronx. And if you didn’t watch the game, this tweet from MSF’s second-favorite Yankee fan (Dad is #1) sums it up quite perfectly:

I’d like to see a “Yankees 3, Girard 2″ backpage tomrorow, with “Clueless Joe” as a runnerup. Don’t let me down, News & Post. Good night.

I personally couldn’t care less. I’m actually glad Joe Girardi keeps making baffling moves (and that the Yankees jinx themselves) because, in the absence of NLCS drama, the ALCS is at least giving us a 6th game.

So for all of you Yankees fans out there, don’t be too down in the dumps today. Your team is still up 3-2, you still have the best lineup, you still have Mariano Rivera, you still have C.C. Sabathia ready to dominate a Game 7, and…

…Derek Jeter is still daring Minka Kelly.

So continue reading as Minka and I show you What You Need To Read this Friday morning.

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Thursday WYNTR: The Baseball Playoffs Get Infinitely More Interesting After a Bad Day for ESPN

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The biggest on-field news in the sports world yesterday obviously revolves around the Philadelphia Phillies beating the LA Dodgers to reach the World Series.

The biggest off-field news in the sports world yesterday involved ESPN, Deadspin, and some pretty lurid tales of sex, ego, and quid pro quo. We discussed this as it was happening, but there have also been new developments in the “ESPN Horndog Dossier” since we signed off yesterday.

But that was yesterday. It’s now Thursday, and we already have the most important news of today and it’s not even 6:30 CT yet: Ozzie Guillen will be working for Fox as a studio analyst during this year’s World Series. Yep, this is going to be great.

And now the rest of What You Need To Read for Thursday, October 22nd, brought to you by…Kate Beckinsale.

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Wednesday WYNTR: Steve Phillips’ Affair, Jay Calls Out Jay, and More Browns Misery

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It is once again new feature time.

I realized this morning that every day there is one blog post I look forward to more than any other: The Big Lead’s morning link roundups…which, coincidentally, has not been posted yet this morning.

WTF?

This unexpected void in my morning gave me the opportunity to participate in an exciting new morning activity: thinking. And what I got to thinking and wondering about is why I’m not putting together a similar post on a daily basis for you, our trusty MSF reader.

So I decided to start doing it. And if the old adage “imitation is the most sincere form of flattery” is true, then consider yourself flattered TBL. We’ll obviously put our own spin on things, but we’re not trying to hide the source of our inspiration.

Look for this new feature every morning, probably around 7-7:15 Central Time. And if you’re a blogger or an interested reader who likes sharing good stuff you read, send me tips.

And now, without further ado, onto this morning’s WYNTR (that stands for What You Need To Read), sponsored by birthday girl Kim Kardashian (who probably has a better chance of completing that pass than Derek Anderson…)

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Monday Morning Links

Here are a few links to get you started on a Monday morning, including Stewart Mandel’s weekly college football wrap-up, the pretty bizarre story of Jim Nantz’s divorce, David Wells farting on air, and Terrelle freaking Pryor.

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Evening Link Dump

A quick roundup of links for you, prepared as I watch a pretty damn good Monday night game so far between the Dolphins and Jets.

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LOTD – Joe Posnanski: “Eric Mangini was the Worst NFL Head Coach Hire in 25 Years”

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Today’s link of the day comes from one of our favorites here at Midwest Sports Fans: Joe Posnanski.

In his column at SI.com today, Posnanski makes the bold claim (reiterating something he had recently tweeted) that Eric Mangini is the worst NFL head coaching hire in the last 25 years.

Something tells me that our very own Midnight Writer just might agree.

That’s what I call a bold statement. And though it sounds like hyperbole on its face, it is harder and harder to disagree with as each lost Sunday passes by with the Browns seeming to regress under Mangini’s watch.

I am in no way ready to give up on the Mangini experiment yet. But, there is absolutely nothing empirical that anyone can point to that suggests a turnaround is nigh.

And that really sucks…because there are still 13 more Browns games that I will faithfully watch. If they’re anything like the first three, it is going to be a long, sad, miserable year.

With that said, here is your Link of the Day and excerpt, plus more great links from around the blogosphere on a relatively slow sports news day.

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