Mickey Rourke Won A Boxing Match At Age 62

((HT: Sport2/Primetime Boxing))

Against a 29-year-old who was a career 1-9 in the ring...

Elliot Seymour went down twice in the second round before the referee stopped the contest...

Evidence below...


Rourke says he wants to have four more fights in Russia...

Should be interesting... since it seems that particular country may be the only one that sanctions these kinds of bouts...

And, was it just us or did Rourke look like Jim Davis- aka Jock Ewing- in that hat...

FIFA's Take Is To Blame Britain For Corrupt Bids Process

((HT: Sky Sports))

Shocking no one, really...

The findings of the FIFA-requested inquiry into the 2018 and 2022 bidding processes that eventually awarded the World Cups to Russia and Qatar were revealed as clean. But the villian, as exposed by FIFA in their review press conference was Britain...

Naturally...

But the former US attorney who came up with the review is now critical of the edited version that FIFA has released themselves claiming that the edited version is wrong.

Michael Garcia has a 400-plus page report that was edited down to, about, 10-percent of that for the public review.

FIFA's top judge, Hans-Joachim Eckert, came up with his own version
((HT: Deadspin))

FIFA report

Here's the Hometown Headlines review of the findings and England is not happy...


Garcia will go in front of the FIFA Appeals Committee- which should have the attention span of a cocker spaniel when it comes to listening to their original author.

The HQ doesn't think this will go anywhere other than an appointment on a calendar...

Oshie's Winner From A Different Perspective

((HT: OBS/IOC/Timothy Burke's vine))

Here's the Russian call of the Oshie game-winner...
And it's awesome...
Especially, the fade-out by the play-by-play guy...

Jay And Dan Apologize For International Incident

((HT: Fox Sports))

Jay and Dan are showing the rest of the world Sochi- from the outside since they can't get into to anything on the inside... and they're doing a mighty fine job of it..

But, they seem to have rankled some fur with their last activity...

And, they're now here to apologize for it...


Not like the Russians will remember or anything...

Carry on...

We Have Our First Banned Sochi-Related Athlete Website

((HT: GlobalNews))

Anyone on the Sochi side of the five-ringed circus cannot access Canadian bobsled driver Justin Kripps' website...

You get this instead...

Translation is loosely this:

Dear users!

We apologize, but access to the requested resource is limited.

Possible reasons for limiting access:

Access is limited by court order or otherwise established by the legislation of the Russian Federation.

Network address, which identifies the site on the “Internet”, included in the Uniform Domain Name Registry, indexes pages sites network “Internet” and the network address for the identification of sites in the “Internet”, containing information dissemination in the Russian Federation is prohibited.

Check availability network address in the Unified Register in the section “Viewing the Registry” online http://www.zapret-info.gov.ru.

Network address, which identifies the site on the “Internet”, included in the registry of domain names, indexes pages of sites in the “Internet” and the network address for the identification of sites in the “Internet”, containing information disseminated in violation of the exclusive rights.

Check availability network address in the Register in the section “Viewing the Registry” online nap.rkn.gov.ru.

Kripps recently posted a photo on his Twitter account that showed him and teammates in their underwear that ran on Perez Hilton and Outsports

Kripps replied on his Twitter account about 12 hours ago:

Looks like my website is censored in Russia, haha classic #SochiProblems I wonder if there's a camera in my room

Here's a look at how a kid from Hawaii gets to be a bobsledder...
((HT: Shaw TV Canada))


It might be the only time we see him if he gets censored even further...

You Want Privacy In Sochi...??? Yeah, About That...

((HT: NBC News))

NBC's Richard Engel performed an experiment to see how long it would take for his artificially-created information to be seized inside Russia once he arrived...

It didn't take long...


So, in addition to all the talk of nothing being complete and nothing being safely inhabitable...

There's the high-tech problems as well...

Stunning...