Toronto Reporter Mark McCalister of Global News Can't Talk

Poor reporter Mark McCalister gets tongue tied when reporting on Libya---He has trouble reading his teleprompter and completely fumbles his lines. Mark may be talking but he certainly isn't making sense. Makes you wonder if he's having a brain aneurysm on the air.

An SUV backs into Ben Higgens - Sports Reporter from From San Diego

During the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament San Diego's news team sent Ben Higgens to Tucson to report on local teams playing in the tournament. During a live feed from outside of the arena an SUV was backing up long way and almost hit the sportscaster.

Fortunately his camera man slapped the side of the explorer just as it was inches away from Higgens and almost knocking him over. This was almost a scary day when the news caster would have been the news.

McDonalds Commercial with Lebron James and Larry Bird

So as I'm sitting on the couch watching the NCAA men's basketball tournament, an interesting commercial comes on. McDonalds has a funny spot that features Lebron James and Dwight Howard making a wager where the winner gets to eat a McDonalds lunch and the loser has watch the other eat it.



As the bet plays out, the two put on a fantastic slam-dunk show and when Howard breaks the backboard, they look towards the seat to see Larry Bird finishing up the last fry in the bag.

Then they say, "Who's that?"

For my younger readers out there, Larry Bird is not only one of the best players to play the game---but he has also appeared in a few other interesting McDonald's commercial of yesteryear.

Soccer Player Kicks an Owl

During a recent South American soccer match, one of the teams had their owl mascot end up on the field, and a player kicked the bird off the field. Animal rights activists are quite upset.

UCONN's Alex Oriakhi Free Throw Attempt Stays on the Rim

During a recent NCAA Men's basketball game featuring UCONN huskies versus West Virginia, Alex Oriakhi (#34 for the University of Connecticut) is shooting a free-throw with the game tied at 22 to 22.

He has one heck of a soft touch on his shot. Because the ball bounces on the rim and stays on the back-plate. The announcers were surprised, and in my 35 years of watching basketball I have never seen this happen--I didn't even think it was possible.

It's not that the ball was wedged between the rim and the backboard---no the round ball was perfectly balanced on the back-plate. In situations like this, I believe the officials regard the play as a jump ball and look towards the possession arrows to see who gets in-bound the basketball.

Baby Micah Laughs at Ripping Paper

This Morning on NBC's Saturday edition of "the Today Show", they showed a new web-hit of little baby Micah laughing hysterically at her Dad ripping a bunch of paper in front of her. It turns out the paper was actually a job rejection letter that the baby's father received in the mail that day.



When we watched this clip, both of us were laughing along with the little kid... It's definitely a fluff news piece that reporters frequently report on... I'm guessing when it's a slow news day, they just say, "let's find something interesting/funny/uplifting from youtube."

Seattle's KOMO reporter Shomari Stone Breaks up a Street Fight

Recently Seattle Based ABC reporter Shomari Stone was doing a shoot by the water front when two men start getting into a fist fight behind him. One guy was just pummeling the other guy and Shomari jumps into the fray and rescues the man.

It turns out the guy he saved had a checkered past and a criminal record. This is one time when the new caster helps to prevent more bad news from happening.