Take clips from Star Wars and make it look like the opening credit sequence of Dallas, a popular 80s show notable for asking the eternal question, “Who shot J.R.?”

College baseball star Brian Kownacki could easily double as a stuntman or Olympic gymnast.  In the video above, Kownacki does a flying leap right over the catcher’s head to dive straight into home plate for an amazing 3-run play.

The opposing team, naturally, was left in a total state of bewilderment.  As you can see, immediately after the play, the opposing team’s coach ran over and begin aggressively arguing with the umpire, urging that the catcher touched the runner when he flung his hands above his head.

However, all of the arm flailing, both by the catcher and the coach, was to no avail as the Kownacki’s team won 12-9.

It’s a truly amazing feat, no doubt.  But it is awfully familiar.

Now where have I seen this move before?  Oh yeah…

I wonder if Kownacki told the catcher “I don’t intend to slide” before scoring.  I would have.

What a missed opportunity. Hudson has just announced “Oops! Prank Party” for the Wii, which instantly conjures thoughts of wonderfully juvenile delinquent activities such as egging cars and toilet papering houses. Sadly though, it’s looking to shape up as just another party game.

So what are the actual “pranks” you ask? They’re a bunch of “family-friendly pranks that allow the winner to taunt the competition.” Oh, and there are also “embarrassing costumes and pranks for the mini game winner to assign to any losing player.” How cruel!

Despite a whopping 100 party games, not one mini-game in Oops! Prank Party appears to even marginally encourage amusing law-breaking activities such as sticking a banana in someone’s exhaust pipe. No toilet papering a teacher’s house, no duck-taping a person to wall in his sleeping bag, no stealing street signs with your girlfriend’s name on them for Valentine’s Day, and worst of all, no borrowing those flashing “Road Closed” signs to block off an intersection late at night to screw with irritable midnight drivers (I’m speaking from personal experience on that last one).

There will be none of this hilarious tomfoolery in “Oops! Prank Party.”

Perhaps Hudson should have farmed this one out to GTA publisher Take-Two, who jumps all over digitized criminalism like Budweiser ads on Nascar. I’m sure they could create an exotic party game far by beyond the scope of my prank-happy imagination. And hey, why even limit it to a party game? Let’s just make a prank city game.

In the mean time, I guess I’ll have to settle with picking on little kids in Wii version of Bully.

Usually in prison movies you find at least one character who is upset with the system, making his protests known by running a tin cup along the bars or stirring up the other inmates with cries of opposition. Not so in Sweden, where an inmate has taken to serial farting.

Anders Eriksson, the prison’s warden, realised that the inmate’s repeated episodes of flatulence were “a series of concerted attacks” on staff.

“I have worked within the prisons and probation service since 1986 and I have never experienced a situation where behaviour of this sort has led to punishment,” he told Sweden’s Metro newspaper.

The apparent motive came to light a couple of weeks ago when the prisoner was playing cards with fellow inmates.

“I had an upset stomach while I was playing cards but did not want to fart there. So I went over to the guards instead,” the 21-year-old convict told the prison authorities.

When challenged over his behaviour and summoned for questioning, the prisoner claimed that his “farts were all noise and no fragrance”.

He has been served with an official warning that future flatulent conduct towards prison guards will be punished.

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