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Adam Scott, you know, the golfer your girlfriend cares about more than you? Yeah, well, his popularity exploded on Sunday after he won the Masters, and now it looks like the TV show “The Bachelor” has interest in bringing him aboard.

After he won the Masters, ABC executive Robert Mills tweeted about the possibility of the golfer becoming the next “Bachelor”

So……Adam Scott as the next #Bachelor??What say you, #Bachelornation?

— Robert Mills(@Millsy11374) April 14, 2013

The Adam Scott as #Bachelor idea has exploded. Will try and meet. And Ryan Lochte-this is what it means to have interest in you as #Bachelor

— Robert Mills(@Millsy11374) April 15, 2013

I love how supportive @chrisbharrison is of the Adam Scott as #Bachelor idea. We know why he’s doing it-he wants to play 18 holes at Augusta

— Robert Mills(@Millsy11374) April 15, 2013

Chris Harrison to whom Mills referred in his last tweet is the host of the show.

Would Scott have interest in doing the show? Only he knows, but I have to imagine that it would be tough to fit into his golf schedule. And it’s not as if Scott would have any trouble finding dates, either. He and tennis player Ana Ivanovic have been in an on-again, off-again relationship. They were together late in 2011, but they had split up as of earlier this year.

H/T MSN Entertainment

The Adam Scott who won the Masters on Sunday and captured his first career victory in a major is not the only well-known Adam Scott in the world. There is also Adam Scott the actor.

Some of you may know Adam Scott the actor from the TV series “Parks and Recreation,” while others may know him from his role as Derek (Will Ferrell’s brother) in the movie “Step Brothers.” In any event, Scott the actor made an appearance on “Conan” Monday night to discuss how he is getting sick of the Adam Scott jokes. My personal favorite:

“You know what’s way below par? Your acting.”

After what he accomplished at Augusta National, Adam Scott the golfer deserves all the credit he is getting. If Derek has to deal with a few insults along the way because of it, so be it.

SNL lampooned the Mike Rice practice video in absolutely epic fashion. Actress Melissa McCarthy was hosting “Saturday Night Live” for a second time, and she brilliantly played the role of Sheila Kelly, the head coach of phony Division III school Middle Delaware State, for the sketch. Bill Hader played the role of an “Outside the Lines” reporter, and the whole thing was amazing.

The sketch featured brilliant lines such as Coach Kelly threatening to cut players’ ponytails off. Other forms of her abuse included:

- Shooting T-shirt guns at people.

- Throwing bricks at her players.

- Threatening her players with a baseball bat.

- Making the players serve her a meal on the court.

- Chasing after the players in a golf cart.

I completely lost it when Kelly knocked out the teacher with the Taser gun. But the best part was when fictitious coach Kenny Watkins, playing the Eric Murdock role, emerged. Coach Kelly was stalking him like Ben Stiller’s character in “Happy Gilmore.” It was hilarious.

The whole situation with Rice sucked, but “Saturday Night Live” sure knew how to make light of it.

Roger Ebert died Thursday at the age of 70. Ebert was not only one of the greatest film critics of our time, but also a fantastic writer. The man won a Pulitzer Prize and entertained us with his great movie reviews both in writing and on TV.

As I have gotten more and more into movies over time, I started comparing my reviews of a movie to those of the critics. More often than not, my thoughts seemed to agree most with Ebert’s. The man had an excellent way of expressing his thoughts and, despite not being overly critical, was not afraid to say when he disliked a movie.

In honor of Ebert, we decided to share portions of his reviews of some of the most notable sports movies.

A film like “Hoop Dreams” is what the movies are for. It takes us, shakes us, and make us think in new ways about the world around us. It gives us the impression of having touched life itself.
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Many filmgoers are reluctant to see documentaries, for reasons I’ve never understood; the good ones are frequently more absorbing and entertaining than fiction. “Hoop Dreams,” however, is not only a documentary. It is also poetry and prose, muckraking and expose, journalism and polemic. It is one of the great moviegoing experiences of my lifetime.

The climax of the movie will come as no great surprise to anyone who has seen other sports movies. “Hoosiers” works a magic, however, in getting us to really care about the fate of the team and the people depending on it. In the way it combines sports with human nature, it reminded me of another wonderful Indiana sports movie, “Breaking Away.” It’s a movie that is all heart.

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Denver Nuggets center JaVale McGee is one of the most entertaining players in the NBA for a number of reasons. For starters, he is a freak athlete. McGee makes some incredible plays that over 90% of the players in professional basketball could never dream of making. He also commits some embarrassing blunders that 100% of the players in the league hope they never replicate.

Many would say that McGee’s playing career and life would make a great television show, and it would appear that Oprah Winfrey (or those who call the shots for her television network) agrees. According to The Hollywood Reporter, McGee and his outspoken mother Pamela, who is a former basketball player herself, are set to star in a reality show called “Millionaire Mama’s Boy.” The show will air on Oprah’s TV network OWN.

As CSNWashington.com pointed out, Pamela has made headlines in the past for defending her son against some of the harsh criticism he received while playing for the Washington Wizards. Charles Barkley referred to McGee as a “knucklehead” at the time, saying that anyone whose mom has to convince people they aren’t a knucklehead probably is one.

McGee has made less mistakes with the Nuggets this year than in years past, but that does not mean he has been able to hide from criticism — some of which has come from his own coach. If JaVale’s and Pamela’s lives outside of basketball in any way mirror the way JaVale acts on the court, they should make for some pretty entertaining television.

A rumor circulated on Tuesday that Ronda Rousey has been courted to play a role in the third installment of “The Hunger Games” movies. The report emanated from Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Radio and was publicized by MMA site Bloody Elbow.

When contacted by Larry Brown Sports over email Wednesday, Rousey’s manager Darin Harvey said he had no comment on the report.

When asked for his opinion on the report, UFC President Dana White was not bashful.

“You know how I feel about the movie stuff,” White said on “UFC Tonight” Tuesday, per MMA Mania. “When Rampage (Jackson) did the movie, it was his dream to be a part of the A-Team. I don’t want to take away any opportunities from Ronda, but at the same time, her window of opportunity as a professional athlete is really narrow. She could make a zillion movies when she retires. Where she’s really going to get the money is here fighting. I don’t care if she’s the lead role in ‘The Hunger Games 2,’ she would not make anywhere near – I mean, not even in the universe – to the money she makes fighting.”

Would Rousey really make more as a fighter than she would as an actress? I’m not as confident as White. I do know acting has one benefit — it would be a heck of a lot safer than fighting.

In August, Rousey hinted at the possibility of going into movies. However, she recently told the New York Post she wouldn’t consider an acting career until she’s done fighting.

“I’m a fighter first,” Rousey said Feb. 14. “I came straight [to this interview] from sparring, not from getting my eye brows done. Once I feel like my fighting career is done, then maybe I’ll go into something else.”

Rousey may not be ready for a movie career, but she certainly is becoming famous. She headlined UFC 157 over the weekend and it reportedly generated a very respectable 400,000-plus pay-per-view buys. It must be noted that she did get a nice boost from the Lyoto Machida-Dan Henderson co-main event, which probably would have drawn well on its own.

White, of course, is hoping Rousey sticks with fighting; he allowed women into the UFC because of Rousey and he would be losing his biggest female draw if she left. Former Strikeforce fighter Gina Carano began making movies after losing to Cyborg Santos in 2009 and hasn’t returned to the cage since.

Jimmy Kimmel challenged a 2-year-old boy to a basketball shooting competition and ended up losing. Seriously.

The story begins on Feb. 3 when Joseph Ashby uploaded a video to YouTube of his young son, Titus, making trick basketball shots. The video (seen here) went viral and has nearly 9 million views. Titus was invited to the “Today” show to shoot baskets, and Kimmel called out the kid for stinking. That criticism led Ashby to film a video challenging Kimmel to face Titus. Kimmel accepted and invited the Ashby family out to his show.

Kimmel then faced Titus in a shooting competition where they each had 45 seconds to make as many baskets as they could. The 2-year-old beat Kimmel 10-6 in the competition, which aired on Thursday’s show.

After an embarrassing display like that, I only have one question: Did Kimmel lose on purpose? That’s pretty much all he has left to say at this point.

Things were so bad that at one point Kimmel even went over to block Titus’ shot!

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