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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 [...]

Hey, the U.S. Open is happening this weekend, and even though we have absolutely no respect for golf (in fact we actively dislike it), we are fascinated by golf fashion. Given how little physical exertion or even simple fitness is required to speed around manicured lawns on electric cars, golf should really be the fashion [...]

At the end of the week, a brand new science-themed mini golf course will be opening at the Hall of Science in Queens, New York, and though that seems an awfully conventional (and predictably pedantic) choice of golf course theme, we’re convinced there’s stranger and more exciting out there. So we hit the links all [...]

Today is No Socks Day, and you can bet we’re stinking up the office with our feet all out in the open. Rather than offer an ellicit listicle of nude feet, though, we’d like to highlight an especially naughty sock-related habit that is all the more offensive on this most sock-free of days: socks and [...]

We’ve always known that many sports – especially motor sports – are environmentally disastrous. Additionally, even with environmentally neutral sports, the ways we tend to play and practice make them harmful. For instance, it came as no surprise to us that TreeHugger’s listicle of 7 Un-Environmental Sports and Activities includes sky-diving, motor boat racing and [...]

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 [...]

Some sobering news from the funny (if occasionally sexist-classist-racist) gentlemen over at NextRound: even though a self-parodying celebrity like David Hasselhoff might be able to pull off a strange or unlikely look with ample sex appeal, it doesn’t mean you, me, or any normal person can. Hence: 15 Looks David Hasselhoff Can Pull Off But [...]