NASCAR driver Matt Kenseth crossed the finish line at 1am to win the Daytona 500. Fans had to sit through both rain and fire ball delays. During the race, driver Juan Pablo Montoya crashed into a 200 gallon track dryer causing a massive explosion.
Brad Keselowski took the opportunity to take to his Twitter and update fans on the crash from on the track. Keselowski posted pictures and answered follower questions as he waitied for the race to resume. In case you were wondering, Keselowski phone battery was running on 28%.
While Keselowski didn’t win the race, he did gain nearly 150,000 new followers!
Apparently professional athletes do not get paid enough, AJ Burnett has agreed to pay for teammate Daniel McCutchen’s daughter’s college tuition. When Burnett joined the Pittsburgh Pirates in the off season, he wanted to keep his No.34 jersey. Only problem was McCutchen already had the number.
When Burnett tried to negotiate with McCutchen, he said he would give up the number if Burnett paid his daughter’s college tuition. Lucky for Burnett he has a lot of time because McCutchen’s daughter is due in May.
In the past, players have requested Rolexs or vacations in exchange to give up their number.
America has gone linsane over NY Knicks underdog phenomenon Jeremy Lin. Taking advantage of the marketing opportunity, Ben & Jerry’s ice cream released a special edition “Taste the Lin-Sanity” fro-yo. The vanilla frozen yogurt, with swirls of lychee honey and fortune-cookie pieces was only sold at the Harvard Square location in Cambridge, Massachusetts in honor of Lin’s alma mater.
But now Ben & Jerry is under scrutiny by Asian Americans because the ice cream perpetuated stereotypes. The company has released a statement apologising, “Our intention was to create a flavor to honor Jeremy Lin’s accomplishments and his meteoric rise in the NBA, and recognize that he was a local Harvard graduate. We try to demonstrate our commitment as a Boston-based, valued-led business and if we failed in this instance, we offer our sincere apologies.”
Although the Theo Epstein compensation has finally come to a resolution, the Boston Red Sox have another headache from the Chicago Cubs on their hands. A Cubs fan bought the domain name to Boston’s new spring training park, JetBlue Park at Fenway South. Eric Engelman is a Fort Myers resident and life long Cubs fan. After seeing the naming rights story on the local news, Engelman bought the domain name for $8.00 on his wife’s GoDaddy account and redirected the website to NewYorkYankees.com
Unbeknownst to the Red Sox front office, Red Sox senior adviser Charlie Steinberg was made aware of the website blunder at a press conference when he typed jetbluepark.com onto his phone. Steinberg told media and Sam Kennedy, executive vice president and chief operating officer, “We’re going to have to look into that.”
