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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 [...]

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 [...]

We’ve never been big on baseball, but like NASCAR, we understand the appeal of a hobby with such an obvious potential for pain and injury. In fact, the only time we really watch baseball highlights anymore is when we’ve heard about a good fight (like the recent Red Sox-Tigers throwdown) or a painful pitch gone [...]

Let’s face it: by and large, baseball movies are among the worst kind of sports movies (which might have something to do with Kevin Costner’s disproportionate contribution to the sub-genre). Whatever it is, movies set in and around the baseball diamond can’t really compare to footballe, soccer, hockey and, yes, even basketball movies. That said, [...]

In about two weeks, President Barack Obama will toss out his first opening pitch since moving into the White House (as a Senator he once threw the opening pitch at a White Sox game). The pitch will kick off the MLB All-Star Game, which is happening in St. Louis this year. To get us psyched, [...]

Of the many things the Internet deities provide that we should be thankful for, their capacity to provide much-loved fictional characters with a rich life outside their conventional narrative confines is clearly in the top 5.
This is especially true of nerdy favorites like Star Wars characters, as our good friends at Urlesque demonstrated with their [...]

We always knew that age falsification was a high-stakes risk in the competitive sport of marriage, but were unaware of its various applications in sports. Perhaps you too, dear reader, are unaware of the crippling pressures towards everlasting youth, agility and fitness that are place upon our pro athletes? Well just in case, this edition [...]

It seems like most major professional sports teams in the U.S. have undertaken a stadium change in the last ten years. In New York alone we have the new Mets stadium Citi Field, Yankee Stadium, and the Meadowlands’ Jets stadium all under construction. There are also more long term (likely imaginary) plans for a new [...]

We’ve always felt that the sums of money being spent on professional sports – and the attendant industries of endorsements and entertainment – were a little obscene, and the good folks at Forbes recently confirmed that suspicion with a listicle of the most valuable franchises in the world.
So try not to think of the number [...]

Onesie here, back with another edition of Listicles’ weekly sports column Sporty Saturdays. I recently realized that although there has been ample year-end list coverage in these pages over the last couple of weeks, the ubiquitous sports-themed “best of 2008″ has been absent.
Though I’m especially busy around this time of year with freelance mascot gigs [...]