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You’ve got to feel for Japanese marathoner Natsuki Terada on this one. The guy ran a phenomenal race only to have it run hideously (and memorably) awry in the final seconds… when he followed a race truck away from the finish line....
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An Indian man is believed to have been killed by a reluctant fighting cock. According to witnesses Singrai Soren was killed by his cockfighting rooster after it emerged victorious from the ring. In the brutal sport of cockfighting, attach razor blades to the legs of their birds – and...
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A Janet Jacksonesque diet of oxygen and water? Tennis players having a debate on fluids? No, it’s an actual sporting event. It seems that Federer and Nadal have played this tennis match, on a floating court in Qatar, a country not renowned for its abundance of water. It’s not...
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If you’ve never eaten catfish before, you really should try – they seriously, seriously make up for their boniness in taste. With their rows of really sharp teeth, they make a formidable adversary; more so it seems if you decide to skip using a rod and reel and use...
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Videos of hurdles are often as amusing as the event itself. This one comes out of China but as you can see from the second video below – hurdles failure is a universal phenomenon. ...
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Minnesota has had a lot of snow this year – so much so that the rooftop dome of the football field used by the Minnesota Vikings, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, actually collapsed under the strain, unlucky for the Vikings. On a positive note, the incident occurred at 5am...
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A 17-year-old wrestler from Fresno County is facing a charge of sexual battery after he employed an unsavory yet widely used technique in a match against a 14-year-old. The move in question is called a “butt drag” and it involves grabbing your opponent by the buttock and sticking fingers...
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Rather than let his fists do the talking in an altercation with PSV Eindhoven midfielder Otman Bakkal, Ajax ace Luis Suarez decided to creative and use his teeth… to bite Bakkal’s neck. It was all over fast enough that the referee missed the action, but it was picked up...
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A 24-year-old kitesurfer died on a wet and windy day after being blown onto hard land. The young man, who has not been named was “overwhelmed by the force of the wind while he was kitesurfing at sea” on a beach in Saint-Jean-de-Luz on France’s southwest Atlantic coast. In...