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Brace yourselves, we've got bad news. There's a new viral dance craze. It's called the "Harlem Shake" and it's getting headlines as "the new Gangnam Style," which is about as cringe-worthy a phrase as exists in the English language.

E! Online explains the premise (yes, we're citing the E! here on the Stew):

The videos are about 30 seconds long and set to "Harlem Shake" by New York deejay Baauer. For the first 15 seconds, one person dances (or just humps the air) while everyone else in the room acts normal. Then, the beat drops and all hell breaks loose.

College baseball teams, perhaps taking a cue from when Harvard University players were early adopters on the "Call Me Maybe" craze, are making "Harlem Shake" videos. This one, from Saint Leo University in Florida, is actually pretty fun:

Samba tries to explain the thickness of his wallet to Clint Hill (Getty)

In the football equivalent of a car dealer howling with laughter as you drive away from the showroom in a clunking lemon with sawdust in the tank and no brakes, Russian side Anzhi Makhachkala have belittled Queens Park Ranger's decision to take Christopher Samba off of their hands during the January window.

In a bid to stay in the afloat for another year, the club that sits seven points away from safety at the bottom of the Premier League triggered a release clause to pay a club-record fee of £12.5m ($19.5m) for the Congo defender. They also agreed to pay him £100,000 ($157,000) every single week over a four-and-a-half year contract. Despite the fact that he is 28. And his name is Chris Samba.

Speaking to a Russian news website, Anzhi director German Tkachenko said what we are all thinking, adding that they actually "wept" when the agreement was made. The Guardian translates:

"At QPR he will earn almost as much as he did at Anzhi. In my view QPR have lost their minds.

"When they

Tiger Woods — Getty ImagesThere is no real shock that Tiger Woods will be at next week's Accenture Match Play (besides the fact that Phil Mickelson will be skipping the WGC event once again), but it is nice to hear that Woods will be hitting up three events in a row on the PGA Tour.

Starting next week, expect to see as much of Tiger as you can stand (as long as he sticks around in the match play longer than he has lately) as he is expected to hit up the Accenture, then the Honda Classic and finally Doral, site of his breakthrough win a season ago that catapulted Woods to a great 2012 that included three wins on the PGA Tour.

Tiger has won the Match Play three times, with the last being in 2008, the only time he's triumphed since the event was moved to Arizona, and while he's never won the Honda Classic it was last year that really got him going with his final round 62, leaving him just behind champion Rory McIlroy.

Woods has had incredible success at the WGC-Cadillac Championship, winning Arnold Palmer's event

If you think it’s hard to bowl a decent game with a typical approach, what Whitney Foster does will blow you away; she bowls competitively with no hands.

As impossible as that may sound, every word of it is true. As featured in the Louisville Courier-Journal, Foster is a senior on the Louisville (Ky.) Manual High bowling team. She has recorded some of the state’s better scores this season -- she has bowled a 203 game during the 2012-13 campaign, which is better than one of the scores put up by the state’s individual runner-up in 2011-12 during her five game set. All of that is impressive, but it becomes even more awe inspiring when one learns that Foster is bowling without any hands.

Instead, the senior uses an elaborate set up to prepare and release a ball. First, she cradles a bowling bar in her right arm, trapped between her biceps and forearm. She releases the ball by bending forward and gyrating to create spin for it to travel down the lane. She has no other choice, because Foster was born with a rare genetic disorder called arthrogryposis, a condition which leaves her muscles and tendons underdeveloped and very frail.

“Anybody would look at her and say that she can’t bowl,” Manual coach Bob Hillerich told the Courier-Journal. “They’d say you need working hands and arms. But what she’s overcome, it’s just been amazing.”

Foster has to have a teammate place the ball in her arms -- she’s too weak to lift a 12-pound bowling ball -- but she can do everything else on her own. That’s important, because Foster is a teenager who has spent most of her life feeling ostracized from more healthy teens. Now, being part of a team and competing on her own has made an enormous difference.

“It was really cool that they didn’t judge me and that they made me feel like a part of the team,” Foster said of her teammates, who have welcomed her since she signed up for the team as a sophomore. “They made me want to be there.”

(AP)Every season most of the 30 front offices in Major League Baseball generate a marketing slogan designed to rally their respective fans and, hopefully, make customers out of them. Who knows if they work? Most of the time, we just make fun of the gimmickry. Also every spring training, players themselves come up with slogans on their own that, in just about every way, trump the club's official line. Who knows if they work? But at least they are funny. Two seasons ago, for example, the Cubs wanted everyone to "[Bleep] the Goat." Didn't work out, the goat won't be dissuaded, but it was good for some laughs.

The Colorado Rockies are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, but that's of little use to Michael Cuddyer and the boys, who are coming off a brutal 2012 season in which they led the league in errors, came in last NL West and finished with the third-worst record in the majors. David Nied retrospectives might be one thing, but why would anyone want to look back at the year the Rox brought up the rear?

On that note, Cuddyer has come up with his own marketing scheme for the guys in the clubhouse that is decidedly forward-thinking. And kicking. From Troy Renck of the Denver Post:

As the Rockies’ pitchers and catchers (and plenty of position players) prepared for their first work out Tuesday at Salt River Fields, they found purple t-shirts in their locker stalls. They were gifts from veteran outfielder Michael Cuddyer. The front of the shirt reads “Beat Their (Butts)” in big white letters.

“It’s well documented that we struggled last year because too often we beat ourselves. This is a reminder that we need to change that,” Cuddyer said.

You probably recognize this sign, albeit not with these words on it.

This was the source material for one of last season's most viral hockey photoshops, as some smartass saw fit to replace the words -- which were already sort of weird and creepy -- with words that were even weirder and creepier. Also totally NSFW.

The very funny, very blue photoshop spread across the globe. Someone even turned the doctored photo into a NSFW Halloween costume.

One thing that helped the virality of the image was that many didn't realize they were looking at a forgery. Of course, anyone with an ounce of sense knows there's simply no way that sign would ever have been allowed into an NHL arena, especially now that all the games are televised and the signs run the risk of being beamed out to young viewers at home. If Sean Avery can't say sloppy seconds, an oral sex-themed isn't making it to air.

In spite of the censorship, however, some very weird, creepy, and inappropriate signs have managed to make it past the gate. Let's go on a journey.

Early in the second half of an Argentine second division match between Boca Unidos and Gimnasia, the referee was hit square in the chest with a rock thrown from the stands. Trailing 1-0 to the visiting Gimnasia, Boca Unidos fans were angered further by the referee's decision to show one of their players a red card.

As the ref fended off verbal challenges to his decision from other players, a good sized rock hit him in the left pec and he then slumped to the ground. After getting checked out, the referee did continue and later sent off two Gimnasia players. Gimnasia still won 1-0, though.

This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.

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Devin Harris and DeShawn Stevenson, current Atlanta Hawks (Getty Images)

In the months following the end of the 2011 NBA lockout, the defending champion Dallas Mavericks were faced with an enormous luxury tax bill, a capped-out team, an enticing 2012 free agent class, and enough trading options to make a shakeup of the championship-winning roster worth it.

We understood the moves they made then as we do now, even though nothing – Lamar Odom’s lost year, Dwight Howard’s indecision, Deron Williams’ love of max contracts, Jason Kidd’s flight to New York, Dirk Nowitzki’s knee injury, the eventual 2012 acquisitions – has gone right. Now, faced with needing a probable 22-9 season-ending run in order to make this year’s playoffs, the Mavs have been hit with the worst news yet.

Eyeing Dallas’ 2013 cap space, former Mavs and current Atlanta Hawks DeShawn Stevenson and Devin Harris may want to come back. DeShawn Stevenson may even want to play for three more years! From the Dallas Morning News’ Eddie Sefko:

“I’d love to play my last two, three seasons here,” said Stevenson, who will turn 32 on April 3. “This was the best franchise I ever played for, here and Washington. They handle things and treat people great. They do everything the right way.”