Sports & Outdoors

Putting the Trail of Lights to Shame

Austin may have downgraded this year, but even in -34 C China keeps the party chill. Video after the break. Also, sweet shots from Boston Big… »

Beautiful Game, Sort Of

Randy Johnson hits a bird in mid-air with a fastball. A Cubs fan reaches into the field to rob the left fielder of a sure out in the MLB playoffs. Part of the beauty of sport is that it creates an isolated world, an escape from reality, a place where things are fair, simple, straightforward,… »

Jesus Is My GM

I set out to write this blog post about the upcoming fantasy football draft and to provide some “expert” analysis just in case you hadn’t tuned-in to ESPN within the last ten seconds.  From the pimply-headed high school dweeb to the sit at home/spend daddy’s money douchebag-type, fantasy football is one of the few activities… »

Winch Shredding

Check out this new extreme sport that combines all the fun of high speed winches, wakeboarding brahs, and drainage ditches.

Listen for the cheeky  “I’ve already got a girlfriend” line in this UK version…

Note: Mickey Jamail showed me these videos, direct all credit to… »

El Hombre Deportes

In the vapid realm of what passes for sports journalism in this ESPNified age (fuck you very much Rick Reilly), Bill Simmons consistently towers above the rest. The Sports Guy’s columns careen from keen observation to astute analysis (with a heavy dose of sometimes obscure pop-references), tackling every aspect of sports and sports super-fandom in… »

America’s Best Idea

American citizens are the proud owners of 58 national parks, as well as 333 national monuments and historical sites. These beautiful pieces of land sit untouched by modern progress and unaltered by human interference, that is until American friends or families decide to take a visit to these natural wonders–a trip that this author can… »

Philly Daily News Posts Rabid Headline

Is this headline necessary? Was 19 months in prison enough? Image via Philadelphia Daily… »

QB Colt McCoy, A Businessman First

University of Texas quarterback and Longhorn favorite (gulp, that’s still hard to stomach) Colt McCoy recently purchased an insurance policy on himself in case of catastrophic injury limiting or preventing him from a future career in the NFL (ok that’s enough, i just can’t stomach that!).  For what his father Brad McCoy says as an… »

MIFG Soccer Update

This post may be outdated and a little behind the times, but I thought we needed an update in what has happened in the world of the beautiful game this summer. Summertime in world soccer is a time of transfers and international play big spending and love of country. While the largest clubs in the… »

Ouch My Knee, Ouch Our Checkbook

Baseball is a sport where owners will shell out hundreds of millions of dollars to a player based solely on his physical abilities, hoping that his athletic prowess will propel the team into a championship game, grabbing worldwide attention, increasing revenue for the ball club and then eventually recouping some of the money it spent… »