Lyna Perez … Full House reunion coming to Netflix. … Man who drank 16 glasses of iced tea a day suffers kidney failure. … Disney is going to make a live-action Winnie the Pooh. … Golden Tickets to Heaven might be the most “Florida” link ever. Headline: “Tunnel to a 19th century brothel causes traffic chaos in city centre“…. MLB propaganda posters. … Josh Hamilton decision coming after Opening Day. … Turn your iPhone into a Game Boy. … English couple beats 283 billion-to-1 odds, wins lottery again. … Australian woman ‘reported‘ for flashing Google Street View car. … Awful story: mother reportedly leaves baby in car to go clubbing, child found dead hours later. … George RR Martin released another chapter from The Winds of Winter. … Bob Odenkirk and David Cross are doing a series for Netflix. … April Fool’s Day ideas for next year. … Happy Birthday: Jane Goodall (81); Wayne Newton (73); Tony Orlando (71); Bernie Parent (70); Alec Baldwin (57); David Hyde Pierce (56); Cat Cora (48); Sebastian Bach (46); Picabo Street (43); Adam Scott (42); Michael Olowokandi (40); Koji Uehara (40); DeShawn Stevenson (34); Cobie Smulders (33); Amanda Bynes (29); Kam Chancellor (27). … Have a nice weekend.
This is cool — the 63 best NCAA tournament games by region and round. [WSJ]
“Slaves Forced to Run Marathon Shoeless in Qatar” [Daily Beast]
If you like March Madness, you’ll enjoy this piece about the man behind CBS’ NCAA Tournament theme music (and many more). [Slate]
Fascinating story/history of a Ted Williams last bat. [News-Press]
Every change made to Augusta this year, in interactive form. [Golf Digest]
Very long read exploring the viability of long-term contracts in baseball. [Boston Globe]
Which singular college football team produced the most “star” players in the NFL. [Grantland]
Weird story about Pirates pitcher John Holdzkom and Chelsea Peretti. [Post-Gazette]
Ranking TV’s 40 best sketch comedy shows. [Rolling Stone]
Good read on Richard Sherman going back to his high school. [LA Times]
Profile on the friendship between U.S. Soccer stars Sydney Leroux and Alex Morgan. [NYT]
125 MLB season predictions. [Sports on Earth]
Club volleyball player sues coach after benching. [Washington Post]
13 amazing fun facts about Jake the Snake Roberts. [Uproxx]
Hardball Talk’s Craig Calcaterra offered up an interesting take on longform vs. clickbait and modern publishing on the web. [Tumblr]
Adam LaRoche’s son had no clue who Bo Jackson is/was. [MLB]
Jon Taffer is amazing, but his most-expensive Bar Rescue looks to be a failure. [BroBible]
The Rock did Lip Sync Battle Thursday night. Many people, including Stephen, enjoyed it.
An April Fool’s Day prank … on April . ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Fun.
This came out earlier in the week, but how good does Mad Max: Fury Road look? (Sharing an opinion on the Internet? Whoops! What was I thinking?)
Samantha Hoopes video.
Dire Straits.