ESPN is laying off a portion of its staff today, a network spokesman confirms to us. How many? ESPN won't say. A tipster told us earlier today that it would be more than 400 staffers. A source at ESPN said that number is a little high, but it appears to be in the hundreds.

I'm a bit of a Lamborghini fan. No matter which one I see drive by, I act like I just saw Kate Upton run by in a bikini. So if I saw 350 of them in one place, I fear my body would shut down from the overwhelming ocular and audial stimulation. Good thing I wasn't in Italy the other week.

This is the GE90-115B, the world's biggest jet engine. It's 18 feet long, 11.25 feet wide, and it weighs 18,260 pounds. It's set a world record for producing 127,900 lb_f of thrust. Can you find a bigger engine?

With the 24 hours of Le Mans coming soon, it's a good time to review Steve McQueen's classic Le Mans, which someone politely posted to YouTube. It's what many consider to be the greatest racing film about what many consider to be the greatest racing event.

The new Xbox is being revealed in a couple of hours, and the rumour mill says we're going to be seeing the latest game from Turn 10 Studios. That means sparkly next-gen car goodness. My gonads are fizzing just thinking about it.

An extreme sportsman who leapt off a 1,000-foot cliff in Lake Garda, Italy, only to suffer a parachute malfunction and tumble helplessly to the ground, shockingly managed to escape the harrowing ordeal with only minor injuries.