Heads Up: Jump In The Nick Of Time

For those of us who didn’t stay home on New Year’s Eve and instead boozed it up, here’s Robbie Maddison’s record-breaking jump of 322 feet and 7 1/2 inches, or roughly the length of a football field. And we thought hooking up with that crazy girl that night was impressive. [Sox and Dawgs]
South Korean boxers are unlucky: Choi Yoi-sam won a fight on points and then died afterwards from his brain going kaput. He’s the third S. Korean boxer to die in the past 20 years. [Sporting News]

Reading manager Steve Coppell has criticized the EPL’s transfer window, calling it “scurrilous.” We would’ve also accepted “vituperrious.” [BBC Sport]
The US National Team selected to play a friendly against Sweden is made up almost entirely of MLS players. Unfortunately for the US, none of them are the good, foreign born kind. [Fox Sports]
Scottie Pippen calls Chicago Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich a midget while lobbying for the open Bulls coaching gig. Whether you have the ability to get rid of him or not, calling the man who runs your offense a midget isn’t the best foot forward. [Slam]