Olympics
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Talented Fan Serenades Kobe Bryant at Olympic Basketball Tune-Up (Video)
In preparatin for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, the USA men’s basketball team has embarked on a four-city exhibition tour that kicked off with a week of practice in Las Vegas, followed by the team’s first exhibition game against the Dominican Republic at UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Arena on July 12. Now, the game [...]
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Fan Throws Shoes at Kevin Durant…Because He Wanted Durant to Sign Them (Video)
The 2012 Summer Olympics kick off this Friday with the Opening Ceremonies, but the U.S. Olympics men’s basketball team is still fine-tuning their game. Tomorrow they’ll play an exhibition against Spain, yesterday they played an exhibition against Argentina, and last week they played Brazil in D.C. (in front of President Obama) and Great Britain in [...]
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Antonija Mišura Is A Sexy Croatian Basketball Player (Gallery)
A few days ago we put out a list of 30 Gorgeous Female Olympians To Watch At The 2012 Summer Olympics. It appears as though we may now have to increase that list to 31, thanks to our recent discovery of the gorgeous Croatian Basketball player, Antonija Mišura. Flying under the radar (which isn’t a [...]
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Australia’s Michelle Jenneke Does Sexy Pre-Race Routine, Internet Goes Crazy (Video & Gif)
Just 48 hours ago, nobody outside a few friends and her immediately family knew who Michelle Jenneke was. Today? Millions of people know her name. And all it took was a 5 second dance. Man, the internet is awesome. You see, Ms. Jenneke is a 19-year-old track and field athlete from Australia. Over the weekend [...]
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LeBron James’ Dunk And President Obama’s Ensuing Expression Are Even Cooler In Super Slow-Motion (Video)
On Tuesday we told you all about Barack and Michelle Obama‘s kiss cam adventures at the USA-Brazil exhibition basketball game Monday night in DC. Well today we’ve got another story pertaining to Obama’s outing at the Verizon Center on Monday. But this one has nothing to do with Presidential smooching, and everything to do with [...]
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LeBron Unveils New “Unstoppable Move” At Team USA Shoot-Around (Video)
On the surface, it might seem like LeBron James and Kevin Durant would be like oil and water. And not only because the two were adversaries in the NBA Finals this year. The globe-trotting, celebrity entourage-toting, Decision-making, multiple championship-forecasting LeBron is generally regarded as having a bit of an inflated ego. Meanwhile, if there’s any [...]
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Barack And Michelle Obama Were On The Kiss Cam At Last Night’s USA-Brazil Basketball Game (Video)
Whether or not you’re a fan of his politics, you have to admit that Barack Obama is the coolest President the United States of America has ever had. The guy smokes, drinks beer, has a hot wife, sings Al Green at press conferences, and, of course, is a pretty serious baller. That’s why fans at [...]
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French Track Star Bullies 14-Year-Old Girl Wearing Mascot Costume (Video)
Well, if you were looking for someone to root against at the upcoming Summer Olympics, we’ve got your man. His name is Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad. He’s a 27-year-old Algerian-born Frenchman, and he a big huge douche-wad. What makes us say that? Well on Sunday at the European Track and Field Championships in Helsinki, after Mekhissi-Benabbad won [...]
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Nastia Liukin’s Gymnastics Career Ends With Face-Plant On Uneven Bars (GIF)
Four years ago in Beijing, Nastia Liukin became just the third U.S. woman ever to win gold in the all-around women’s gymnastics competition. Her surprising victory at the age of 18—surprising because of her “advanced” age, because teammate Shawn Johnson was more highly regarded, and because the Chinese snuck a bunch of underaged gymnasts into [...]
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Watch Olympic Gold Medalist Dan O’Brien Fall Off Chair During Interview On NBC (Video)
Remember Dan O’Brien? He and fellow U.S. Decathlete Dave Johnson were part of this massive Reebok ad-campaign leading up to the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The campaign was called “Dan & Dave,” and it tried to use the two rivals and medal-favorites to spike interest in both the decathlon, and Reebok, of course. The [...]
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Usain Bolt Almost Runs Over Flower Girl at Track Meet in Norway (Video)
I think maybe the folks in charge of the Samsung IAAF Diamond League and the organizers of the Bislett Games in Oslo, Norway, might want to review their policies regulating who is allowed on the track after a race before their next meet. Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt won the 100-meter race yesterday in a solid [...]
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Lolo Jones Is The Hottest Virgin At The 2012 Summer Olympics (Pics & Video)
The London Olympic Committee will be providing athletes at this year’s Summer Games with 150,000 condoms. Chances are not one of those condoms will be used by American sprinter Lolo Jones. And it isn’t because she doesn’t practice safe sex. In fact, Lolo happens to practice the safest form of sex: celibacy. During a recent [...]
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Dammit, High Priestess, You Had One Job!: The Olympic Flame Goes Out (Video)
If the Olympic flame represents the spirit of competition, than the Olympics are gonna sorta suck this year, because the Olympic flame was extinguished mere moments after it went out. Someone known as a high priestess was in charge of holding the flame in some sort of bowl during what I can only assume was [...]
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Morgan Freeman Returns As The Voice Of Visa’s Olympic Promos (Video)
It’s not clear what the existing arrangement is between soothing baritone Morgan Freeman and the Olympic marketing committee, but the English-speaking world would just like to assume, as long as there are Olympics, and as long as there is Morgan Freeman, that Freeman will narrate Visa’s Olympic promotional ads. Frankly, Freeman could read from a [...]
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This Canadian Paralympics Commercial Is Amazing! (Video)
In all likelihood, the 2012 Paralympic Games will be overshadowed by the 2012 Summer Games in London. That tends to be the case when it comes to Special Olympics events, but this year the Canadian Paralympic Committee is determined avoid taking a backseat to the “able-bodied” Olympics, and they’re hoping that this commercial by Canadian [...]
