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Water cooler: Ronda Rousey, Johnny Football and Pink Floyd

Ronda Rousey, Ultimate Fighting Championship women’s bantamweight champion, is interviewed during media day at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas Thursday, July 3, 2014. Rousey is slated to defend her title against Alexis Davis during UFC 175 at Mandalay Bay Events Center Saturday. (Erik Verduzco/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
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By JOHN PRZYBYS LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
July 9, 2014 - 8:22 pm
 

Here are a few pop culture tidbits that just happened to catch our eye.

■ Ronda Rousey ▶ needs all of 16 seconds to beat Alexis Davis in UFC 175 at Mandalay Bay Events Center. Took the rest of us that long to wrestle the bottle cap from our beer.

■ Heisman Trophy winner and Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel returns to Las Vegas to party over the July Fourth weekend. Don’t worry, though, because spending too much time in Las Vegas never ends badly for pro athletes.

■ Pink Floyd will release its first album of new material in 20 years. Now where did we put that ... planter? That’s right, “it’s a planter.”

■ Filming of “Star Wars Episode VII” shuts down for two weeks because of Harrison Ford’s on-set leg fracture. May the (healing) force be with him.

JOHN PRZYBYS (przybys@reviewjournal.com)

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