Williams racked up over four million views on YouTube over the course of two days, landing interviews with everyone from CBS’s Early Show to the Today Show. But his biggest interview came on his local pop radio station WNCI when a representative from the Cleveland Cavaliers offered him a job (listen to the clip below, starting at 5 minutes, 45 seconds in) doing announcing for the team and its home stadium, the Quicken Loans Arena.

As part of his hiring, the Quicken Loans Arena and the Cavaliers are also paying for a mortgage on a brand-new home for Williams.

Ignoring the obvious publicity stunt factor and our usual jokes, this is seriously just an awesome story and something genuinely touching to see happen. Congratulations to Ted Williams and we wish him the best of luck with his new start on life.

Between this and the now successful homeless musician Daniel Mustard who got his break on the Opie and Anthony show, I’m thinking I need to just go around with a camera and film homeless people until I find their hidden talent. Or they stab me. But ne’er shall the two twains meet.

UPDATE: Here’s a picture of Ted all cleaned up from a video of his interview on WNCI’s Web site. Dude’s looking sharp.

VIDEO: Ted Williams, Homeless Man With Golden Voice, Offered Job, Housing By Cavaliers [SB Nation]

If at first you don’t succeed try, try again. That’s usually a positive piece of advice, but it’s something a Salt Lake man should have avoided after an argument.

Last Saturday, Robert Craft was a little ticked off and slapped his 11-year-old daughter.

“It appears that there was an adult son who was present, who tried to step in and intervene in the situation,” said Deputy District Attorney Alicia Cook.

Cook says that made Craft angrier, so he pulled out a chainsaw. But he couldn’t get it started, so he tossed it and tried starting a weed eater.

No luck there. He even tried hitting his wife with his car, but she got out of the way. Craft now faces felony assault charges and assault in front of a minor.

It’s pretty sad when you commit to killing members of your family but are unable to follow through. The police tend not to like it either with their “attempted” manslaughter charges. This guy had a bad enough day, now you’re going to arrest him for stuff he couldn’t even achieve? And he has to be in jail for years as a painful reminder of how bad he sucks at life? Jeez, guys who try to kill their families can’t catch a break. Unless they’re rich and end up not going to jail, which happens pretty regularly! Then they get a pretty big break! Society’s pretty fair when you can afford ways to cheat the system.

Banished to the basement, the 29-year-old mother with a childlike mind and another baby on the way had little more than a thin rug and a mattress to call her own on the chilly concrete floor.

Dorothy Dixon ate what she could forage from the refrigerator upstairs, where housemates used her for target practice with BBs, burned her with a glue gun and doused her with scalding liquid that peeled away her skin.

They torched what few clothes she had, so she walked around naked. They often pummeled her with an aluminum bat or metal handle.

Dixon — six months pregnant — died after weeks of abuse. Police have charged two adults, three teenagers and a 12-year-old boy with murder in the case that has repulsed many in this Mississippi River town.

“This is heartbreaking,” police Lt. David Hayes said. “It was almost as though they were making fun of the abuse they were administering. This woman was almost like living in a prison.”

Investigators put much of the blame on Michelle Riley, 35, who they said befriended Dixon but pocketed monthly Social Security checks she got because of her developmental delays.

Are you even remotely shocked that people that look like the above would be doing something like this? Like if you had asked me to draw a picture of what the type of person to do this would look like…well, it’d probably be a rudimentary stick figure with a Mexican mustache. But I’d have intended for it to look like those people above.

I guess though that if you’re going to take ownership of a developmentally disabled pregnant woman, this is kind of what you have to do. Like what other uses for her do you have? She can’t like, read you books or solve complex mathematical equations for you. Oh and forget having her file your taxes (unless you want to declare a cartoon drawing of a kitty mixed with seminal fluid as a dependent). So yeah, I guess it’s logical. Probably not very sporting, but logical.