Tag Archives: animals
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Amazing Video: A Deer Crashes Into Downhill Skateboarder Going 40 MPH
The organizers of the Buffalo Bill Downhill Bloodspill longboard skateboarding race just can’t catch a break. The event just keeps getting interrupted by strange occurrences. Last year the competition was cut short without a winner when a helicopter carrying a film crew crashed near the race course. Luckily everyone on board escaped without serious injury, [...]
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25 Best Real Animal Mascots in College Football
There are lots of reasons why some people prefer college football over the NFL—the traditions, the gameday atmosphere, the historic venues, the rivalries, you name it. But personally, what really does it for me are teh mascots. And I’m not talking about the guys dressed as in giant plush cartoons. I’m talking about the real [...]
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Cow Interrupts Soccer Game In Poland (Video)
There have been lots of cases of animals interrupting sports events in recents years. In fact, there have been lots of cases of animals interrupting sports evens in recent days. Just last week there were two notable cases. First a black cat ran across the field during a Toronto FC game. Then a squirrel [...]
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A Squirrel Interrupted Play At The US Open (Video)
Well, we’ve had two prominent cases of animals interrupting sporting events in the last two days. Yesterday it was a black cat that darted across the field during an MLS game. Today it’s a squirrel that darted across a tennis court in Queens during the US Open. The way I see it, these occurrences [...]
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Tied 1-1 With 7 Minutes To Go, Toronto FC Gives Up 2 Late Goals After Black Cat Runs Across The Pitch (Video)
Sometime when an animals runs out onto the field during a sporting event, it’s considered good luck. That certainly was the case for the Cardinals when the “rally squirrel” ran onto the field at Busch Stadium last year during the National League Division Series against the Phillies. After all, they went on to win [...]
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9 Terrifying Cases Of Athletes Who Were Attacked By Animals
Top athletes often have to overcome obstacles and endure hardships to succeed. That, of course, is why we often find them so inspirational. But it’s one thing to have to overcome disease, heartbreak, car crashes, or some other horrible thing that regular people experience every day. It’s quite another to have to overcome out-of-the-blue attacks [...]
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Animal Interference: 11 Critters Who Interrupted Sporting Events
Ever since that squirrel ran across home plate just as Philadelphia’s Roy Oswalt was delivering a pitch in Game 4 of the NLDS between the Phillies and Cardinals (a game which St. Louis went on to win), people in St. Louis have been going nuts for the Busch Stadium Rally Squirrel. It’s become a symbol [...]
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11 Stupid Movies About Animals Playing Sports
There are many ingredients required for a good sports movie. You need a solid hero, a sinister villain (or two), a hot actress (or three), and maybe a little comedic relief for good measure. You know what you never, ever need in a sports movie? Animals. Particularly animals playing sports. If you’re thinking about making [...]
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14 Pet Lovers from the World of Pro Sports
The sports world was rocked in 2007 when news agencies got wind of NFL star quarterback Michael Vick’s involvement in a brutal dogfighting ring in rural Virginia. But if any silver lining can be found in this sickening scandal, it’s that the world’s attention was sharply focused on the problem of animal cruelty. And ever [...]
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9 Awesome Videos of Animals Playing Sports
I’ll be the first one to admit that this daily piece is culturally biased. For almost a year now, I have been focusing almost exclusively on human athletes. Well, that stops now. I have overlooked a large segment of the sporting population, and with today’s piece, I would like to move the spotlight to some [...]
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Fierce Competitors: 9 Awesome Animals Playing Sports
This is a really boring time of year for sports. Baseball isn’t quite in a pennant race. Football is in training camp. Hockey players are shaving their beards and basketball is months way. So what’s a sports fan to do? Hahaha who said WNBA? Good one. That was funny. Points for that. In this slow [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Okay Bull, Now You’re Just Rubbing It In
It seems like whenever some brave soul attempts to grab the bull by the horns, he ends up getting impaled by those very same horns instead. This guy was lucky enough to avoid such a disaster, although I’m not sure being stuck under a 2 ton bull feels any better. I guess the saying “when [...]
