Tag Archives: diving
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Bruins Coach Claude Julien Complained About Diving, So a Habs Fan Made a Compilation of His Team Taking Dives (Video)
On Sunday, after the Montreal Canadiens beat the Boston Bruins 4-3, Bruins head coach Claude Julien went on a rant at the postgame press conference about Montreal’s proclivity toward diving. And, really, I think all hockey fans can pretty much agree with everything Julien said. These “embellishments,” as he calls them, have no place in [...]
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Katherine Webb on ‘Splash’: Sexy Swimsuit Gallery
Last week, we provided you all with an inside look at Katherine Webb’s sexy photo shoot for the 2013 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. And while that probably should have satisfied your craving for some sexy swimsuit images of the 2012 Miss Alabama winner, today we have some more Katherine Webb bikini photos for you to [...]
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Jose Mourinho Loses It After Cristiano Ronaldo’s Dive Goes Uncalled (Video)
Anyone who follows soccer even a little bit knows that Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest sports floppers in the world today. As talented and electrifying as the guy can be, all you have to do is look at him funny and he’ll fall over and grab his shins. Well, guess what? The referees? [...]
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Attempted Kick-To-The-Groin Results In Another Ridiculous Soccer Dive (Video)
Here’s the thing with diving, or flopping, or whatever you want to call this pandemic in the world of sports: you’ve got to do it instantly, the very moment something happens. If you wait a full two seconds, nobody’s going to buy it. On Wednesday night, Argentinian soccer player Alejandro Donatti found this out the [...]
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An Epic Flop And A Nasty Nut Shot From The Same CFL Game (Videos)
Flopping, it seems, is becoming a pandemic in the world of sports. Soccer players, of course, have been diving all over the field for years, and we just laughed at them. However, it turns out that flopping is contagious, and has made it’s way to North America. First the basketball players started flopping. Then the [...]
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This Day In Sports History (September 19th) — Greg Louganis
It was on this day in 1988 that US diver Greg Louganis hit his head on the diving board during the Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Louganis suffered a concussion after hitting his head on the springboard while performing a reverse 2 1/2 pike during the preliminary round. However, the injury would not [...]
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Here’s The Worst Olympic Dive You Will Ever See (GIF)
If this were a “who can make the biggest splash” competition, Stephan Feck of Germany would have easily earned a perfect score. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t a “biggest splash” competition. It was a 3-meter springboard diving event at the 2012 London Olympics, and it earned him a last place finish in the competition and [...]
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The Mexican Diving Coach Is One Funny Dude (Video)
Ivan Garcia Navarro and German Sanchez Sanchez of Mexico’s Olympic synchronized diving team are pretty damn good. They proved that much when they earned the silver medal in the men’s 10-meter platform event on Monday. As for there coach, we aren’t quite sure if he is responsible for helping Ivan and German achieve such a [...]
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25 Hilarious Diving Fails (GIFs)
When the temperature is soaring and the summer sun is blazing, nothing feels better than diving into a cold pool or lake. To go suddenly from painfully hot to blissfully cool is just one of life’s great pleasures, right up there with cracking open a cold one after a long afternoon of yard work, or [...]
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High School Pitcher Makes Incredible One-Handed Catch (Video)
Baseball pitchers aren’t exactly known for their fielding abilities, but that may soon change if we continue to see them make catches like the one produced by Joe Robie during Ohio’s Three Rivers Athletic Conference championship baseball game. After watching his catcher make a brilliant effort on a weak pop-up just a few feet in front [...]
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Watch Guillaume Néry Dive Into NEMO 33, a.k.a. The Deepest Swimming Pool In The World (Video)
In 2002, Guillaume Néry broke the free-diving world record, as he plummeted 87 meters into the Villefranche-sur-Mer harbour in Alpes-Maritimes, France. Two years later he improved that record to 96 meters at Saint-Leu, la Réunion, and two years after that he broke his own record once again, this time descending 109 meters into the water [...]
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Soccer Player Given Red Card For Diving As He’s Carted Off On A Stretcher (Video)
Soccer players may have a knack for diving, but that doesn’t mean some of their injuries aren’t real ones. At least that is what I have been led to believe after years of watching the sport. As for the referee of this Belgian amateur league match, he isn’t buying any of that. He doesn’t care [...]
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Here’s Danny Coale’s Amazing Catch That Was Ruled No Catch (Video)
While watching the first overtime of last night’s All-State Sugar Bowl between Michigan and Virginia Tech, I thought I had just witnessed the greatest catch of the 2011-12 NCAA Bowl season when Hokies wide receiver Danny Coale made a diving grab at the edge of the end zone, as he secured the ball in his [...]
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LeBron James Stalls For 3 Minutes Before Finally Jumping Off Diving Platform (Video)
LeBron James has no problem humiliating his hometown’s sports fans on national television, but jumping off a 10 meter diving platform? Well, when facing that daunting task, the 26-year-old basketball star has some reservations. The following video is from some kind of Nike-sponsored charity event at a pool in beautiful Barcelona, Spain. Apparently, as part [...]
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Picture Of The Day: Cannon Ball!
Because of the fact that this is the “Red Bull Cliff Diving Championships,” and not the “Red Bull Cliff Jumping Cannon Ball Championships,” I am going to assume that this guy was not performing a cannon ball during his jump. But with that being said, don’t you think it would be pretty cool if he [...]
