Sports

  • Pole dancing for Jesus

    Pole dancing – once sensuous and seductive and reserved for trips that men secretly took to the wrong part of town has become mainstream – a sport – used to exercise away the excesses of suburban life… it has even made its way to church. Independent “Pole Fitness for...
  • Sports Reporter Almost Run Over On Live TV

    Some jobs are dangerous. Fighting fires or fighting crime has risk written all over them. But reporting sports scores? Few would think there’s any danger involved in that. San Diego’s sports director Ben Higgins would beg to differ. Higgins was almost run over by a car during a live...
  • Cliff fall, a first person perspective [video]

    The GoPro helmet cam is a great piece of technology. It is reasonably priced, captures really sharp video and is made to stand up to some serious abuse – all of which made the video of a skier losing his footing on top of a cliff that much better....
  • Marathon runner falls victim to dumb luck and poor signage

    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....
  • For Sale: Car with the number 23 on everything.

    Attention all you soccer fans, or is that football fans?  Apparently the english soccer god otherwise known as David Beckham has decided its time to move on. That means of course, its time to get rid of the 2 year-old $100, 000 matte black Porsche 911 Convertible Turbo. The superstar’s supercar had...
  • Nadal vs Federer on water

    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...
  • Catfish noodling, a painful way to get fed and have fun

    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...
  • If you can’t jump over hurdles, just bash through them [video]

    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. ...
  • Vikings’ stadium roof collapse caught on CCTV [video]

    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...