I for one welcome our shot-stopping overlords.

J.J. Watt just completed one of the more impressive seasons by a defensive football player in NFL history. You don't need us to tell you what he did. You can just read Mays's LiveJournal for a refresher course. We're here to talk about the future. When asked to look ahead to his forthcoming third season in the league, Watt said, "My second year is not going to be my best year in the NFL. I can promise you that." Which begs the question: WORD?! Above is an artist's (or, really, Mark Lisanti's) rendering of what J.J. Watt will look like in the 2013-14 NFL campaign. Don't worry, people of Earth. When the Kaiju rise from the crevices of the ocean to destroy us, J.J. Watt will be there to cancel the apocalypse.

Sometimes, the basketball gods smile upon you. For Don Nelson, that moment came in Game 7 of the 1969 Finals, when he clinched the title for the Boston Celtics with one of the luckiest bounces to ever come off an NBA rim. For Russell Westbrook, it was that 18-foot, and-1 scoop shot from Game 5 of the Thunder's second-round series with the Lakers this year. For me, it was stumbling into the craziest of Andrei Kirilenko crazy faces.

It happened under the most innocent of circumstances. I was putzing around the website Euroleague Adventures and found an interview with AK47 before last month's Euroleague finals (Kirilenko's team, CSKA Moscow, lost to the Greek club Olympiacos). It's not an especially groundbreaking interview, and out of boredom I dragged my mouse along the YouTube timeline and saw second-by-second thumbnails of Kirilenko's face. Again, nothing spectacular, until I reached the 1:24 mark and found what you see here. The title of the video, "Andrei Kirilenko Says He Is Not a Robot," refers to the way Kirilenko explained how he and his teammates felt nervous heading into the championship game: "We're not robots. We have feelings and we have emotions."