Hey, you know what are just around the corner? No, not highway bandits. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver! When the big city near where we grew up was first selected to be the host we were determined to make it our grand homecoming. We started training immediately, but quickly put ourselves out of the [...]

To be quite honest, though we used to be huge fans of professional basketball, we’ve since learned that college football is several dozen times better, and that we don’t really have enough time to devote to being proper sports fans. So we’ll have to take Unathletic’s word (which we don’t really have any trouble believing) [...]

There aren’t a lot of things we like about the NFL, but we’re totally on board with this tradition: Why doesn’t every professional sports team record a new music video every year? Clearly, looking over mental_floss’s amazing listicle of 7 Painful NFL Team Music Videos, it’s a strategy that can’t go wrong, especially when it [...]

When big centers dominated the NBA, the best dunks tended to be a little, um, underwhelming. Now that it’s all about small forwards and shooting guards again, though–Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, Dwayne Wade, Vince Carter, etc.–we’re seeing some of the best dunks in NBA history. Hoop Doctors’ short but sweet Top 5 NBA Dunks of [...]

Thankfully we quit playing hockey long before losing teeth became a serious possibility, although we subsequently came close to losing teeth in the stands at hockey matches, so your pearly whites aren’t really safe anywhere, are they? At any rate, it’s a good thing that it’s pro athletes who get the most teeth knocked out, [...]

We never quite mastered the dunk–we could grab the hoop, but never got enough leverage to actually hold the ball and get it over the rim for a proper dunk. This is one of the great shames of our lives, and more or less the sole reason we didn’t pursue an NBA career. It’s their [...]

One of the things we like about the NFL (we must admit, there aren’t that many, tailgating is another big one) is their ability, by and large, to support a losing team gracefully. Soccer fans aren’t so good at this, baseballs fans don’t fare much better, but you’ll rarely see a more solemn and passionate [...]

There are few things more spectacular (a really good block, perhaps) in a basketball game than a dunk that actually breaks the hoop. They occur fairly regularly, especially if you include all the various pro, college, high school and amateur leagues, but only a select few are truly exceptional. Brobible has assembled what they deem [...]

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 [...]