Take that, Zach LaVine!
The NBA's two-time slam-dunk champ has nothing on Simon Berry, a 24-year-old Brit who broke a Guinness World Record by bungee-jumping 240 feet from a platform to dunk a Chocolate Hobnob cookie into a cup of tea.
It took him 10 tries to do it.
Headlines
At TheKicker.com:
"Can the U.S. women's soccer team do a 'Ladybugs' thing for the men's team?"
At TheKicker.com:
"Kirk Cousins taunts turkey by yelling 'How do you like me now?'"
Move over, Lions
As pointed out by Jack Finarelli of SportsCurmudgeon.com, if the Browns do go 0-16-tying the 2008 Lions for NFL infamy-Cleveland would own the tiebreaker edge.
Alas, Detroit went 4-0 in exhibition games that season, this year's Browns 0-4.
Price reduction
Red Sox pitcher David Price is giving $2.5 million to alma mater Vanderbilt to put toward a $12 million baseball facilities project.
Or, to put it in baseball parlance, a quality start.
Fact of the week
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has as many wins playing in Cleveland (10) as any Browns QB since 1999.
How dry I am
Kansas' football team has lost 40 straight games playing away from home.
Or as they say in Lawrence bars come closing time, none for the road.
Who said it?
Colts coach Chuck Pagano, to The Indianapolis Star, when asked what kind of plays he would call if punter Pat McAfee-listed as the team's No. 3 QB for Thursday's Steelers game-got pressed into emergency duty:
"I don't even wanna think about it, to be honest with you."
Brad Dickson of the Omaha (Neb.) World-Herald, on rejuvenated Colorado in contention for the Pac-12 football title:
"Coloradans have not been this excited since the introduction of hemp Pop-Tarts."
Dan Carson of FoxSports.com, after a deer flattened a runner during a collegiate cross-country race in Pennsylvania:
"You don't expect Bambi to hit like Earl Thomas."
Richard Klemko of SI.com, on the Cowboys' rookie QB:
"A 23-year-old playing point guard. Dak Prescott is not LeBron. He's not Kobe. He's John Stockton."