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World’s longest, tallest, fastest dive rollercoaster to soil pants in 2019

According to a recent Slack survey, the vast majority of Loop staffers are vehemently anti-rollercoaster. Apparently the golf website doesn't like adrenaline pumping, eye socket-exploding excitement. Go figure. They, however, are all COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY WRONG and I will shout it from the top of Yukon Striker—the new longest, tallest, fastest dive coaster on earth—if I must. Behold the insanity, fellow masochists.
https://twitter.com/WonderlandNews/status/1029684640381067264
Set to be Canada Wonderland's 17th coaster when it premieres next year, the Yukon Striker features a 90-degree vertical drop, a quartet of stomach-emptying inversions, a top speed of over 80 miles and hour, and a 245-foot plunge into an underwater tunnel (thus the whole “dive coaster” thing). Perhaps most notable for coaster fanatics, however, is its whopping 3 minute and 25 second ride time, winding, looping, and soaring across 3,625 feet of Ontario sky.
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Golf writer dares to question ending of “The Shawshank Redemption,” gets owned by fellow golf writer

Golf writer John Huggan marred what was otherwise a lovely Wednesday morning by panning the critically acclaimed and universally beloved movie, The Shawshank Redemption. The well-respected, but dour Scottish scribe took issue with the movie’s famed escape scene, questioning on Twitter how protagonist Andy Dufresne, played brilliantly by Tim Robbins, was able “to stick the poster back on the cell wall once he was in his tunnel.”
Making matters worse was Huggan’s typical use of an emoji with his rare uninformed tweet, this time going with the thinking face. Not surprisingly, this did not go over well.
https://twitter.com/Clarke_golf_/status/1029724141610524672
Fellow golf writer Alex Myers was quick to defend what has been voted the No. 1 movie of all time on IMDB and has been called the greatest film ever created on several other trustworthy websites. Myers astutely pointed out that Dufresne had the poster of Raquel Welch (previously, Rita Hayworth) only connected on top, thus allowing ..

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Security guard takes total digger on live Fox Sports broadcast

Life comes at you fast. One second you're hanging out on-set, drinking in the summer sunset like a cold glass of sweet tea. The next, you're coming to with carpet burns on your chin and Fox cameras trained directly at your shame. Just ask this poor SunTrust Park security guard. He'll tell you all about it, man.
https://twitter.com/bradbo1/status/1029561232003670018
All of this went down on Tuesday night during a live broadcast on Fox Sports South. The Braves we're taking on their dreaded division rivals the Nationals in a semi-meaningful NL East showdown, when this junior investment analyst asshat wearing a SUIT at a BASEBALL GAME decided pledge his love of Bryce Harper—the favorite player of all junior investment analyst asshats, it should be said—on live TV. Dirty Harry wasn't gonna let that slide, however. Not on his watch, no sir. So he took off, lumbering into the shot like a runaway bison before tripping over some equipment cables (or possibly himself). H..

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Zion Williamson has arrived at Duke, is sadly still dunking from the foul line

Bad news to report, everyone. Zion Williamson has arrived at Duke and he can still dunk from the foul line.
What should have been a joy to watch for college basketball fans everywhere this season (And make no mistake about it, this kid will only be playing college basketball for one season) will now be ruined by the fact that he'll be doing amazing things for Duke. Things like this:
https://twitter.com/DukeMBB/status/1029404577903337472
Sickening. Imagine what he's saving for Midnight Madness at Cameron Indoor Stadium? I don't even want to think about it.
I was hoping there was a chance that all his previous highlights were somehow shot on non-regulation basketball courts and non-regulation rim heights. Apparently, that's not the case. This guy is an absolute monster. Duke haters everywhere can only hope he loses some of those hops by putting on the Freshman Fifteen before the season starts.
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