Tuesday Links - Jiminez and Price to Start In All-Star Game, Gary Bettman's $7.5 Million Salary, John Wall Summer League Highlights, & Ken Griffey Jr.'s Nike Commercial

Written by Rob Rogacki | 13 July 2010

There's no tree in the living room, but today might as well be Christmas: NCAA Football 2011 is now in stores. Anyone wanna lend me 60 bucks?

Ubaldo Jiminez and David Price were named the starting pitchers in tonight's All-Star Game. I'd love to see both guys get more than just an inning or two, especially since I think we won't see too much offense early in the game.

Busted Coverage seems to think that the ESPN torch has been passed from Erin Andrews to Jenn Brown. Considering Brown got an offer to pose in SI's 2011 swimsuit issue, I would have to agree.

Jenn Brown

Pension Plan Puppets, an awesome Toronto Maple Leafs site you should bookmark, compared NHL commissioner Gary Bettman's salary to the other commissioners of the four big sports in the U.S. $7.5 million doesn't seem like so much anymore.

I don't think the words "recruiting violations" and "Facebook" belong in the same sentence. Unfortunately for Florida, the NCAA disagrees.

Remember that ridiculous letter Cavs owner Dan Gilbert wrote about LeBron? The NBA has slapped him with a $100,000 fine because of it. Hey, it's only 0.1% of what he would have had to pay LeBron. What a bargain.

If today's links go up later than usual (and they probably will), it's because I'm tasing the shit out of people in the online Phillies Taser Game. [via Hot Clicks]

Happy Birthday to Nightmare on Helm Street; they're hitting the big 1st year anniversary today. Drew and Chris have done a hell of a job in the last year making NOHS one of the go-to sites for all things Red Wings.

The Lions and backup QB Shaun Hill have agreed to a one-year contract extension. Hill was a great pickup for the team after starting in San Francisco. Hopefully he'll be a better mentor to Matthew Stafford than Daunte Culpepper ever was.

Today's random video and highlight after the jump...

RANDOM AWESOME VIDEO OF THE DAY

It's been a while since a commercial made me completely freeze afterward, but this one definitely brought back that feeling last night. [via Big League Stew]