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

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

• The USF Sun Dolls dance team took a trip to the beach. Looks like they had fun.

• Marshawn Lynch surrounds his Lambo with velvet ropes when he parks it. Sounds about right.

• Andrelton Simmons may not be from this world.

• A guy grew a beard in the shape of the Washington Nationals logo.

• Good stuff, if a little inside baseball: breaking down Mike Trout's swing.

• Zach Mettenberger got clocked by a rogue Bama fan in a Nashville bar. But it could have been worse.

• The highlight of Cliff Lee's evening was a satisfying fart.

• ESPN's "This Is SportsCenter" ad featuring Metallica is pretty funny, as are the bloopers and outtakes.

• Andre Drummond treated a bowling ball like a basketball, with amusing results.

• The Chargers can boast only the second-best softball team in San Diego. Interesting footnote: Philip Rivers "is a horrible shortstop."

• So apparently Rory McIlroy did Jager bombs out of the Claret Jug.

• You'd think a pitcher would be able to throw the ball around the infield. In Shane Greene's case, you'd be wrong.

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