Athlon's Essential 11 Links of the Day: December 22, 2014

This is your daily links roundup of our favorite sports and entertainment posts on the web for Dec. 22: 

• The most popular female athletes, according to Google. No. 4 is lovely tennis player Eugenie Bouchard (pictured). 

• Giants kicker Josh Brown kicked a dude in the head yesterday.

• Despite yesterday's close game, the Pats and Jets are speeding in opposite directions.

• Marshawn Lynch's media trolling was particularly polite yesterday. He's turned postgame lockerroom interviews into performance art.

• Eventful day for Odell Beckham: Records, touchdowns and inciting a brawl.

• This is new to me, although they might have been doing it all year: Every TD from every game of Week 16, from NFL RedZone. 

• Ole Miss signee Chad Kelly (Jim's nephew) vowed to get his AK-47 and shoot up a bar. 

• Is it time for Kobe to grab some pine?

• The best college basketball photos of the week.

• Here's Pau Gasol singing John Lennon's "Imagine."

• Relive Marshawn Lynch's earth-shaking Beast Mode moment from yesterday.

-- Email us with any compelling sports-related links at links@athlonsports.com.