Captain Janks has been making prank calls for the Howard Stern show for years, and late last night he got Sports Center and more specifically Scott Van Pelt....

Wow. Someone is getting fired over that one.

Video: Howard Stern Show Prank Calls ESPN SportsCenter as Brian Westbrook (BSO)

It's one thing to stage a fake marriage proposal in front of tens of thousands at Yankee Stadium, but getting 18K+ to work in concert is much more impressive. During last night's Wake-MD game, College Humor's Streeter pulled off one of the more amazing pranks on his friend Amir. Here's the clip....

See, we Marylanders are fun-loving, wonderful people! I don't care what Duke fans say. So what you get hit in the head with a D-Cell battery once....or seven times?

Okay, I think I've come to the conclusion that all of these prank calls are from copy cats. People have read about the others, so they search out numbers for the conference calls (which are very easy to find if you try), and then harass a coach they don't like. Either that or some kids are going to put them all out on a CD like the Jerky Boys

Anyway, here is audio of the latest "hit" on a Virginia Media conference call with UVA Coach Al Groh....

Again not very imaginative, and that sounded like a bad Special Ed impression, but it was enough to get the call canceled. My favorite part had to be the moderator flipping out in the calmest way possible. If someone cursed at me and threatened to arrest me, I'd probably just laugh. But if someone told me chastised me and told me that I was, "going to upset a lot of people," I might just feel a bit guilty.

So who wants to take bets on who the next target is? I'm thinking the Big Ten is probably heavily guarded, so I'm taking the WAC.

(Thanks to Anon for the audio)

So last year both the The Sec and The Big East both got attacked by prank callers and now we can add the Pac-10 and USC's Pete Carroll to the ever-growing list. A guy who identified himself as Steve Marsh from "College Blog" (that didn't tip them off?) littered the coach with a series of sexual questions yesterday and eventually killed a conference call. From All Things Trojan and CBS Sports....

All Things Trojan: An occasional prankster himself, Pete Carroll was on the receiving end of a couple crank calls on Tuesday.

This week featured amateur hour in the Pac-10, when somebody posing as a reporter for a fake website asked Carroll to speculate on which players in the conference were "packing 10" in their shorts. Carroll laughed as league officials rushed to cut off the idiot, who insisted, "It's a legitimate question!"

And the transcript from CBS Sports....

Carroll: "I can't understand what you're saying, dude. "

"Marsh": "Coach, answer the question."

Carroll: "I'm not answering something ... I can't understand what you're saying, dude. What are you saying about Britney Spears?

"Marsh": "Would you ever reward your players with a date with her?"

Carroll: "I'm sorry I couldn't understand what you were saying. That's really not in my realm of control here, but of course I wouldn't. I wouldn't have anything to do with that. I'm not even addressing the answer any more than that."

"Marsh": "You have a good day coach."

Carroll: "You bet." (laughing)

"Marsh": "Coach, I've got a follow-up. What about trading in some of your players for, you know, the Trojan condoms? You ever think about (that)?"

Carroll: "Will somebody screen this frickin' call guys, let's go."

"Marsh": "Coach, one more question ..."

Carroll: "Dude, I'm off this one. Thanks a lot, Ohio State. That was a great job there."

"Marsh": (laughing in the background) "He hung up on me."

Now I'm not innocent when it comes to prank calling, but this is kind of getting old. I mean it's one thing if you're clever about it and can actually fool someone, but going on and acting like an idiot is just annoying. And for god sakes, if you're going to do it....at least try and think of something clever, or record the thing so the rest of us can hear it!

Uncalled for behavior (All Things Trojan)
Prankster starts USC-Ohio State week on low note (CBS Sports)
The SEC Has A Big Problem With Prank Callers
The Big East Conference Prank Call Goes Public (Awful Announcing)