Next time someone tells you NASCAR is not a sport, feel free to school them by linking to this well-thought-out persuasive speech by a high school student. Then listen for the sweet silence of them shutting up.

• The short and brutal life of a NASCAR engine (Atlantic)
• Amazing basketball save (Break)
• Epic Cuban baseball brawl (YouTube) 
• Zamboni falls through ice (Denver Post)
• Baseball considers radical realignment (SI)
• Rachel Leah to return as guest Octagon girl (Cage Potato)
• Most obvious sign ever (Jalopnik)
• Obama plan to end fishing in public waters? (ESPN)
• De Niro to play Lombardi in movie (ESPN)
• The worst part of The Godfather (Gunaxin) 
• Awesome snow-plowing robot (Break)
• The New Dork (Entrepreneur State of Mind) (Break)
• 9 greatest celebrity death rumors (Screen Junkies)
• News reporter RAGE (Holy Taco)
• Own a jetpack for $90,000 (Made Man)
• NSFW: Awesome cleavage (Break)