Sports

A South African soccer fan was beaten to death so that his family could watch a religious television program. Anyone with siblings will know that battles over remote controls are serious business – they can even turn violent. Thankfully the violence usually falls short of the type that was...

A 22-year-old, 6-foot-five man stands accused of using his boyish looks to pass for a 16-year-old sophomore so that he could play high school basketball. Soon after Joseph enrolled at Permian, he was first approached to play football, but said that he was more interested in basketball. Senior football...

The shirtless individual that you can see pictured on the right is one Damien Walters, free runner extraordinaire. The accompanying video features Walters pushing his body to its incredible limits and more than makes up for the millions of parkour done wrong videos that abound on YouTube. Via Digg...

Vancouver, Canada: A German athlete broke one of his front teeth when he bit his silver medal as he posed for cameras. David Moeller, who had just placed second in the men’s luge was asked by sports photographers to bite his medal. Unfortunately for Moeller, he bit with a...

A group of surfers in Chile claim to have found the perfect break and are not afraid to brave extreme pollution to enjoy it. Ventana beach in Santiago, Chile receives polluted outflow from no less than ten thermoelectric power stations, which leaves the water brimming with arsenic, mercury, lead...

These are definitely the people to go bungee jumping with if you don’t find jumping from a bridge with only an over-sized rubber band separating you from death scary enough. Seriously, who needs enemies with friends like these?...

Vladimir Putin is out to prove that he still has what it takes to represent his country… in the sporting arena. Russian television footage shows the black-belted leader putting his martial arts skills on display for the second time in two years, this time it was for the national...

Two kite surfers made the most of the strong winds on the south coast of England and pulled off an incredibly pier jump that had been three years in the planning. Twenty-five-year-old Jack Scrace and 24-year-old Lewis Crathern took to the seas in 40mph winds and jumped Worthing pier....

You know a football game is rough when wildlife gets involved.  Just ask 7-year-old Brandon Hiles of Wintersville, Ohio. Brandon was playing a game of backyard football with a bunch of friends when he was dropped by a deer.  Apparently the youngster had stumbled into a fight brewing between...