No doubt you heard about how Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs picked a bothersome bat right out of the air during a basketball game last week, but mental_floss seizes upon the occasion to remember similar occurrences with their listicle of 10 Times Animals Have Interrupted Sporting Events. We especially enjoyed this seagull’s contribution [...]

The celebration FAIL is possibly the most embarrassing if it’s happening to you, and often the most satisfying if you’re a spectator, because what’s better than watching obnoxious victors get some swift comeupance? Epic Carnival deals out some bubble-bursting pain with their listicle of the 12 Best Celebration Fails, and we’ve got a couple more [...]

This is why Americans will never be the best at soccer: because they aren’t passionate enough to modify whatever technological craze they’re currently addicted to in order to combine it with their favorite sport. The British, on the other hand, seem to be doing just that with this project–and promotion for the rock group Kasabian–whereby [...]

So the World Series are about to get underway, and this is pretty much the highest stakes time of year for a baseball umpire, whose every call is all the more likely to be pored over and questioned over the next few games. Let’s hope they don’t invite the ire of sports history the way [...]

Not all sports involve shooting one thing into another, but certainly most of the good ones do–sorry, pole-vaulting. Appropriately, every time someone makes an amazing shot (like the guy from Texas A&M, or Roger Federer) bloggers must compare this new feat to its forerunners, which is how we got Hail Mary Jane’s listicle of The [...]

We haven’t thought about pole-vaulting in ages, not since we accidentally flipped on the track and field competition on TV during a long-ago summer Olympics, or maybe it was during junior high school gymnastics… At any rate, pole vaulting is a rather ridiculous-looking sport that we’ve never considered practicing, and are less likely to consider [...]

Because sports and related fields (athletic gear and the like) are such big business, they often produce some of the coolest and funniest ads. At comedic end of the sports field, ESPN’s sports news show Sportscenter is probably the best. This makes Bleacher Report’s listicle of The 25 Funniest Sportscenter Commercials very entertaining. We especially [...]

No matter how you feel about his Basketball Hall of Fame acceptance speech, Michael Jordan was still one of the best basketball players (and superstar athlete corporate spokespersons) ever. Appropriately, he’s appeared in many of the best commercials ever, as you’ll appreciate while perusing Hail May Jane’s listicle of The 23 Greatest Michael Jordan Commercials [...]

We aren’t huge football fans (rugby, now there’s great sport with an irregularly shaped ball!), but if we had to pick a favorite sort of football highlight it would be between the acrobatic catch and the return for a touchdown. After all, what’s the point of having such a huge field if you can’t run [...]

As kids we were total trampoline addicts – we were on that thing all the time, and though we never came away with any serious injuries or even substantial some of our friends took some mighty impressive tumbles. We never ever broke a trampoline, although a rather heavy-set friend of ours definitely bent his out [...]