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Watch An Alligator Eat A Snake At The PGA Championship (Video)
The Kiawah Island Resort in Kiawah Island, South Carolina is a beautiful place top play some golf. However, it is not an ideal place to go for a swim. The PGA Tour’s golfers and its fans learned that on Thursday during the opening round of the 2012 PGA Championship, as many of the participants put [...]
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11 Sexiest Countries at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Well, after two solid weeks, the 2012 Summer Olympics are starting to wind down, with just a couple more days of action before the closing ceremonies on Sunday. And I don’t know about you, but I always find it a little sad when the Olympics are over. After all, they give us so many interesting [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 10th) – Billy Martin
It was on this day in 1986 that the New York Yankees retired the #1 formerly worn by Billy Martin. Martin also had a plaque dedicated to him at Monument Park in Yankee Stadium. Billy Martin spent his first eight years as a player playing second base for the Yankees. After being traded to Kansas [...]
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Olympic Celebration Fail: Water Polo Coach Jumps Into Pool, On Player’s Head (Video)
Unlike other team sports, such as soccer and basketball, women’s water polo is relatively new to the Summer Olympics, having been added only 12 years ago for the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney. And unlike those other sports, the USA has not completely dominated women’s water polo. Coming into London 2012, the Americans had medaled [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/9/12 — R.A. Dickey
Heading into last night, Mets starting pitcher R.A. Dickey appeared to be the favorite to win the National League Cy Young award, and his performance against the Miami Marlins should only help his chances. Dickey entered the game with a 14-3 record and a 2.82 ERA, and he improved his numbers in each of those [...]
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US Gymnasts Are Hitting The Town Now That Their Events Have Concluded (Video)
Now that the women’s gymnastics competition has finally concluded at the 2012 Summer Olympics, the American gymnasts—so successful this year—can finally relax and have some fun in one of the world’s greatest cities. So what does relaxing and having fun entail if you are gold medalists Gabby Douglas, Aly Raisman, Jordyn Wieber, Kyla Ross, and [...]
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Google’s Homepage Has A Cool Kayak Game
As if Google hasn’t already provided us all with enough through their incredibly efficient and extensive search engine, throughout these Olympics Games they have decided to give us even more, via their series of addictive Google Doodle Olympic Games, which allow you to play a different Olympic sport each day before you get on with [...]
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50 Hot Beach Volleyball Photos from the 2012 Summer Olympics
The women’s beach volleyball competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics wrapped up yesterday with Team USA defeating Team USA for the gold medal—Misty May-Treanor and Kerry Walsh Jennings beat April Ross and Jennifer Kessey, earning their third consecutive gold medal. Of course, now that beach volleyball is all done, there’s pretty much no reason to [...]
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More Video and Pictures of the Olympic Bottle Thrower Surface
Remember the other day when we told you about Usain Bolt‘s historic victory in the men’s 100m final, and how some guy threw a bottle out onto the track right before the starter fired his pistol? Well, the bottle-thrower’s name is Ashley Gill-Webb. He’s a vending machine repair man from South Milford in North Yorkshire, [...]
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A Hilarious Compilation Of Sports Fan Fails (Video)
How I Get Back My Love In the world of sports, it isn’t only the athletes that provide us with epic moments of failure. Oftentimes, the fans prove themselves to be equally capable of providing such moments. From places like Washington and Philadelphia, to halfway across the world in Japan, sports fans everywhere have proven [...]
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This Day In Sports History (August 9th) – Wayne Gretzky
It was on this day in 1988 that the Edmonton Oilers did the unthinkable and traded Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings along with Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, the Kings first round draft picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993 and $15 million in [...]
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Watch This Pole Snap In Three Places During Cuban Pole Vaulter’s First Attempt (Video)
Imagine you’re a pole vaulter. You bust your butt training six days a week for ten years, hoping to one day make the Olympics and get a shot at the ultimate prize; an Olympic medal. Now imagine you made the Olympics, and your big day has arrived. All you have to do is go out [...]
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Stat Line Of The Night — 8/8/12 — Giancarlo Stanton
The Miami Marlins rank an abysmal 29th in the league in runs scored this season, but their offense was certainly alive and well during last night’s thrashing of the New York Mets, and it was being led by none other than their slugging right-fielder, Giancarlo Stanton. Stanton stepped up to the plate five times during [...]
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New Zealand Female Field Hockey Player Whacked In The Head By Dutch Player’s Stick (GIF)
For those who enjoy watching all of the reckless slashing and hitting of the NHL, but also enjoy watching sexy women running around in short dresses, we have the perfect sport for you… Women’s field hockey! In case you haven’t noticed, women’s field hockey has been taking place at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, [...]
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France’s Nicolas Batum Punches Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro In The Groin (Video)
France was eliminated from the 2012 Olympic men’s basketball tournament earlier today after losing their quarterfinal game to Spain by a score of 66-59. And while this may have been the last that we will see of this French team in London, they certainly left their mark… Unfortunately for Spain’s Juan Carlos Navarro, that so-called [...]
