Breaking News

Rick Show is sad to learn that actor Richard Griffiths, known to most of us for his role as Uncle Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter movie franchise, has died today at age 65

Here's a short little video obit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXQKVzFiBR4

Rick In Peace, Richard.

"The Rick Show"

Other Rick Show time again.  Here's one that I think we can all finally get behind.  Fun old Aussie man on camera, and by the summary of "We'll miss you Rick," I'm guessing he's not on camera anymore.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfMFWGhZExY

Andy Richter

Andy Richter is an actor and comedian.  He had a TV show of his own, Andy Richter Controls the Universe, he's done some voice work, and most notably, he's spent years working with Conan on talk shows.  Since St Patrick's Day recently happened, here we find Andy with Martha Stewart making Irish drinks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy3qFrfZ2Dw

Also, he took a trip to Woodstock back in the day (after the jump)

Rikki Tikki Tavi (song)

Some time ago, we talked about Rikki Tikki Tavi, the animated show.  A somewhat classic cartoon, great for kids.  This is not the same.  It's interesting, though.  This is a rock song by the group Fair to Midland.  They were formed in 1998 and hail from the Dallas, TX area.  They unfortunately have no members named Rick.

http://youtu.be/hc16HBULCf0

Here are the lyrics, if you want.

Rick Rubin

Rick Rubin is a record producer.  His real name is Frederick, but I'm sure we're all okay with him going by Rick.  He's the co-president of Columbia Records and was a founder of Def Jam Records, so he obviously knows his stuff.  

Here's an "interesting" interview with Rick, if you want to get to know him better:

After the jump, Rick in the studio with Lil Jon!

Busy Week

In what's proving to be a busy week of Ricking, Axe has pointed out that our own Da'Rick Rogers has been tabbed as one of the "risers" from this week's NFL Scouting Combine.

Here's a quote from that article:
Rogers ran well (4.52 seconds) and finished among the top performers at the position in virtually every other athletic drill, including top five marks in the broad jump (11 feet) and short shuttle (4.06 seconds). Most importantly, he took ownership for the mistakes he'd made in Knoxville which led to his transfer to Tennessee Tech.

Here's his profile from NFL.com:

His combine numbers:
4.52 in the 40
10 reps in bench press
39.5 inch vertical
132 inch broad jump
6.71 in the 3-cone drill
4.06 in the 20 yard shuttle
11.31 in the 60 yard shuttle

All but the 40 and the bench press were marked as "top performer"