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Once, when we were defense-men for a league one professional soccer team in France, we were approached by an opposing team a week ahead of a major game, and their coach and manager offered to pay us to throw the game. European soccer salaries being what they are, we had to accept, but then when [...]

This is an exciting season for sports: last week was the Super Bowl, this weekend we have both the NBA All Star Game, and the beginning of the Vancouver Olympics. Though, being from that region of Canada, we are much more excited about the former, we are also reformed basketball nerds and so more than [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

Presumably you witnessed Kobe Bryant’s two most recent feat of clock-stopping wonder, and presumably you’re aware that this is by no means his first such exploit. In fact there are so many that one could pick and choose amongst them to come up with the best, which is just what Hail Mary Jane has done [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]