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Your weekly roundup from the sports world and internet, Feb. 16

Sleepy 110-year-olds, fish-throwing failures, hockey flops, dogs on slides, dinosaurs on horses, and more... It's time for your weekly roundup!

By Mitch Hahn
Fox 28 via YouTube

Welcome to the 44th Purple Row edition (and 148th overall) of Tuesdays With Mitch, where I'm told some people somewhere will start playing games of baseball in the near future. Let's get into it...

(As noted before, the "writing portions" of some of my offseason posts will be brief. For the most part, there's not much going on with the Rockies these days and the staff here at Purple Row is covering the ins and outs of the offseason better than I can in this weekly format.)

We're jumping straight into the weekly departments again today. And as you know, I added a poll for you to vote on your favorite clips throughout the offseason. Sometime when Spring Training rolls around, we'll crown an offseason CLIP OF THE YEAR. So don't forget to vote for your favorite at the bottom of this post. (Last week's winner was Aaron Gordon jumping really high.)

Stud of the week:

Meet Flossie Dickey (great name), who recently turned 110 years old. She's a gem. This video drags on a little bit with some corny newscasters trying to lessen the awkwardness, but all I ask is that you stick around for her reply to the question about how much she's looking forward to her upcoming birthday party. It's gold.

Ass(es) of the week: This is s a big category this week, as the internet provided no shortage of people making fools of themselves.

First, my personal favorite, this kid trying to throw a large fish on the ice at a New Hampshire hockey game. This is a tradition of their's, evidently. Anyway, this young gentleman reaaaallly struggles, much to the amusement of folks like us.

I mean, if it were me, I'd try to chuck that thing to the rafters. NO HALF-MEASURES!

Then there's this dude (Ohio State's Jae'Sean Tate in a game against Nebraska) who is REALLYFIREDUPTOPLAYDEFENSE! ...only to never really get the chance because his man just blew by him while he was slapping the floor with his head down. Classic.

Andre Drummond with the hilarious missed dunk of the year. He just needed to start his jump about four feet closer to the rim and this would have been a really awesome highlight.

We're still going strong in the Ass category with the rarely seen DRAMATIC HOCKEY FLOP from New Jersey's Joseph Blandisi, who was penalized for embellishment (thankfully).

I don't like soccer but you really have to admire this beautiful free kick. This might be my favorite clip of the week. Such an innovative and well-designed play! I could watch this all day.

So apparently Kimbo Slice is still a thing and he fought some other big, strong, fat guy on Friday night. From what I understand both dudes could barely stand up long enough to try to fight each other and it ended when one of them just kinda tipped over. Seriously, this is how the fight ended. What a time to be alive!

Vine(s) of the week:

"Suck it up, LeBron!" This lady makes it clear how she feels about LeBron complaining to the refs in very stern terms.

Guys, not all dogs can comprehend how to go down the slide in local the playground. This lady's reaction is pretty strong.

And finally, at long last, we have footage of a T-Rex riding a horse who is playing soccer. Why do we have footage of this? I need you to stop asking questions.

Now go vote in the poll below!

Happy Tuesday, everybody. Thanks for readin'. See ya next week.

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