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Anyone who has worked out in a gym will already be familiar with these annoying examples of alpha maleness-guys who use the gym as a platform to show the world how “cool” they really are, working the room while getting under everyone’s skin as they feebly attempt to stroke their own ego.
So, the next time you encounter one of these turkeys while you’re trying to shed those extra pounds, you can call them out by name and tell them to hit the showers!
–via Stuff I Stole From The Internet
This is a sport that can only exist in animation: a combination of diving, skydiving, and synchronized swimming. It seems silly at first, but the movements become hypnotically beautiful. Animation by Paris Mavroidis; music by Kaki King. Link -via the Presurfer
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Jaco van Gass, a British soldier from South Africa, lost an arm in Afghanistan. That’s not slowing him down a bit. He plans to climb Mount Everest, making use of a prosthetic arm that he helped design himself:
He said: “I came up with the idea to attach an ice axe to one of my prosthetics, so I kind of challenged the guys at Headley Court to see how we could get this done.”
Van Gass bought a regular ice axe and staff at the centre sawed off the double-sided head, then welded and bolted it to a specially adapted prosthetic made of carbon fibre and plastic.
Link -via Gizmodo | Photo: David Cheskin/Press Association
Just like skating, except instead of balance and control, you have those uncomfortable supports for your little foot-unicycles. It’s no wonder this never caught on! -via The Daily What
Diane Pieknik was 65 years old when she decided she wanted to play hockey, which she had never done before. You go, girl! -via the Presurfer
Kermit the Frog took in a ball game at Yankee Stadium recently, and had a great time despite being seated next to Mayor Bloomberg, who was clearly unamused by the presence of the fleece superstar.
Kermit was also unfazed by the lady who spent the day on the stairs next to him wondering why some guy had his hand stuck up Kermit’s butt, unaware of just how tight security has become for the Muppets. Fame has its price, boys and girls.
Link –via The Mary Sue
Aaah the good old days, when a man was free to test his invention of the American football helmet in the manliest manner possible-by letting other men kick him and beat him about the head with a baseball bat.
Take a trip down memory lane and you’ll no longer wonder why brain damage was so prevalent in the early 20th century, but you will wonder how they ever played a game of football without wearing helmets!
–via Stuff I Stole From The Internet
Comments Off Fast thinking and a little fancy footwork turned an awkward fall into a crowd pleaser! The title of this video is “How we do track in Hawaii.” -via I Am Bored
The website of the United States Powered Paragliding Association describes what could have happened if the carabiner had slipped just a little more:
This pilot was quite close to a catastrophic situation on two fronts. One, a significant bump that unloaded that riser could have caused the riser to come completely out, leaving the pilot spiraling uncontrollably down on the remaining side. Two, the carabiner has dramatically less strength and a strong updraft could break it.
Here’s my question: was this picture taken during or after the flight? If during, then, sir, the people of the Internet thank you for thinking of us first.
Link (scroll down) -via reddit | Photo: Stefan Obenauer
The World BASE Race is not a race to the top, but to the bottom: 2,500 feet down a cliff! BASE jumpers from all over the world come to Rauma, Norway, to don wingsuits and compete, or just to watch. Unlike other BASE jumping competitions, this one is based on speed, with the winner being the one fastest to reach the bottom of the course in one piece. Read more about the race and see plenty of photographs at Environmental Graffiti. Link
(Image credit: Ivar Brennhovd)
The NCAA basketball tournament has reached the Final Four, the top four teams who will play each other today. I am inwardly excited that two of the four teams are from my home state (take that, Duke)! To get you ready, Buzzfeed has the most important tournament topics people are talking about, explained by adorable little Corgis. Link
The soccer team of Magdeburg, Germany wasn’t doing well. Fans suspected that the players didn’t know where the opposing goal was and were just too embarrassed to ask. So at a recent match against a Berlin team, they held up arrows that discreetly pointed it out. The effort was successful, and Magdeburg scored a single goal. It did, however, still lose the match.
Link -via Nan Koenig | Photo: SportFotos
During a match against Barcelona, fans of Milan’s soccer team erected a placard mosaic of a vengeful Pac-Man bearing down on Inky. The text below reads “Let’s eat them!” That’s a good idea, because they’re no hiding spot in soccer.
Link -via Kotaku | Photo: @ParkLaneSpud
Comments Off Allegedly, this video shows Johanna Quaas performing a gymnastics routine in Cottbus, Germany. When eighty-six years old you reach, look as good, you will not.
She can also work the parallel bars.
-via reddit
Do NOT try this at home! Andrew Dickey is an expert, and there’s no telling how many bones he broke getting to this level. Oh, and there’s a chance of vertigo just from watching this video. -via BroBible
When a bully called their team “the fruit basket,” this dodgeball team was inspired to create new uniforms. “Cutecumber” is the only female team member. Link
He entered the woman’s gymnastic floor competition as a lark, and entertained the crowd in more than one way! -via reddit
Well, I couldn’t, but I’m not so young anymore. Other people, however, have run — not just walk, but run — marathons with little or no training specifically for that grueling race. BBC News Magazine talked to runners and doctors about this challenge:
Typically, those signing up commit to long periods of meticulous planning, a careful diet and a regimented programme of progressively longer runs.
And yet those limbering up for the London Marathon on 22 April can be forgiven for feeling galled by Irish pop singers Jedward – aka John and Edward Grimes – who claim to have completed the Los Angeles marathon on a whim, straight off a flight and with no training.
Such an accomplishment flies in the face of all the advice offered by the medical world and the running community alike.
If you had to run a marathon tomorrow, could you do it?
Link -via Kottke | Photo: Flickr user steffenz
The fence at the Argo Gold Mine in Idaho Springs, Colorado is made out of old skis. It’s just one of seven perfectly serviceable fences made of recycled sports equipment featured at Environmental Graffiti. See others made of surfboards, hockey sticks, bicycles, and even bowling balls! Link
(Image credit: Flickr user Vilseskogen)
Comments Off Master Corporal John Celestino of the 31 Canadian Brigade Group, training at Camp Atterbury in Indiana, wanted to try the training exercise against a US National Guard soldier. Who will win? Watch and see! For those outside North America, the Canadians are wearing the brighter green. -via reddit
This is the photo that proves just how cool Shark Diving magazine editor Eli Martinez really is. He’s so cool, in fact, that sharks come from miles around just to give him a high fin five. Either that, or this particular shark likes to play with his food before he eats.
Quilting just wasn’t enough. Last September, 101-year old Mary Hardison of Ogden, Utah paraglided with an instructor, thus becoming the oldest woman to ever do so. Her motivation? Keeping her young, freewheeling son in his place:
Hardison said she wanted to paraglide because her 75-year-old son began doing it as a hobby.
“I didn’t want him to get too far ahead of me, so I decided that I’d go too,” she said Tuesday.
Fear never entered the equation for Hardison, who previously rode all of the adult rides at Disneyland to celebrate her 90th birthday.
Hardison said she was shocked to learn her flight had become a world record.
“To me, I was just going on a little ride,” she said. “I had no idea I’d break a record.”
Link -via Stuff | Photo: AP/Jeremy Castellano
Comments Off Zia is in the 4th grade, so she’s probably nine or ten years old. Here, she wears a camera while taking her first run on the ski jump. She’s certainly got more guts than I do! This is my vision of ski jumping. -via reddit
Lighting flares in the stands has been prohibited at soccer games in Turkey. Here’s how fans responded. -via reddit
BBC Comedy’s Misery Bear does his bit to promote Sport Relief 2012, a British running event on March 25th to raise money for Comic Relief’s charitable works. As always, Misery Bear runs into obstacles in his quest, like a friendly competition with champion UK runner Mohammed “Mo” Farah and a break with a distracting singer. -via Arbroath
Dallas Seavey was the first to cross the finish line of the 40th Iditarod race in Nome, Alaska, yesterday evening. At 25 years old, he is the youngest winner of the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race ever, though it’s not his first sports championship -he was a state and national champion wrestler in high school.
A third-generation musher who shared the race trail this year with his father and grandfather, Seavey kicked from White Mountain to Nome on Tuesday. A north wind walloped his sled, fanning snow into the Bering Sea as the young musher extended his lead into Safety and pushed ahead for the title.
Seavey finished at 7:29 p.m., an hour ahead of runner-up Aliy Zirkle. His total time for the 975-mile race was 9 days, 4 hours, 29 minutes and 26 seconds.
This was Seavey’s fifth Iditarod. His father won the race in 2004. Link -via The Daily What
(Image credit: Marc Lester/Anchorage Daily News)
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If you go to see a Little League game in San Diego this spring, chances are you’ll see a matchup of the Padres vs. the Padres. That’s because their uniforms are all various historic versions of the MLB team’s uniforms!
Here’s the deal: All Little League chapters within a 10-mile radius of Petco Park were given the opportunity to choose from 20 past and present Padres jerseys and matching caps, all at no cost. Most of the leagues jumped at the chance. When the dust settled, the Padres had supplied 11,600 jerseys and caps to over 800 local T-ball, baseball and softball teams. Even better, the kids get to keep the gear when the season’s over.
The uniform program is the brainchild of Padres president and COO Tom Garfinkel, who came up with the idea last year during a Little League promotion at Petco Park. “We had about 8,000 Little Leaguers doing a parade around the warning track before the game, and it occurred to me that almost none of them were wearing Padres jerseys,” he recalls. “They had jerseys sponsored by local businesses, jerseys from other teams. And I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if they were all Padres?’” So Garfinkel and his staff made it so.
You don’t have to think very long to realize that this is a win-win for everyone involved: The kids get sharp-looking new uniforms; their parents get to reconnect with old Padres uniforms they remember from years past; the leagues can repurpose their uniform budgets toward other objectives (many of them have used the savings to improve their fields, upgrade their scoreboards, and so on); and last but not least, the Padres generate a huge amount of goodwill while forging an early bond with their next generation of customers.
So how will they announce the teams and keep them straight?
“You can’t just say, ‘The Padres are playing the Padres,’” says Bruce Bourdon, another local league administrator. “And we didn’t want to name the teams after the coaches — Bruce’s Padres against Paul’s Padres, or whatever. So instead we’re saying, ‘It’s 1972 home against 1984 road.’”
Link -via Buzzfeed, where you can see more pictures.
The NCAA basketball tournament brackets are out, and 68 schools will battle to see who is the best college basketball team in the nation (cough*Kentucky*cough). Some of the schools are state universities, others have names that don’t pinpoint their location. In today’s Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you are challenged to figure out where these less obvious schools are on the map. Well, not exactly on the map, but you must guess the state. I scored 82%, that’s 9 of 11! See if you can beat that. Link
Comments Off Shaun White had better watch out for Ratatouille the snowboarding opossum, because if this little guy learns how to grind the halfpipe or drop a backflip 360 off a ramp his power of adorableness coupled with his snow shredding skills will make him the new king of winter sports.
–via The Daily What
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