Remember back on May 4th when we posted a photo set of MLB player’s using pink equipment for Mother’s Day? Well, for the low, low price of $2,500 you can own Bryce Harper’s pink bat that he used. Bryce’s bat is the most expensive of nearly 100 items up for auction on MLB.com with proceeds going to help “Think Pink.” Start bidding now
After 50 years and 8,019 games, the great Johan Santana finally gave Mets fans a birthday of their own, throwing a gutty no-hitter against the Cardinals in an 8-0 Mets’ win.
A few of us were talking last night about going to the Belmont Stakes next Saturday (June 9th) for the chance to witness the first Triple Crown winner since 1978 – I totally just jinxed it by talking about it. Tickets can be purchased the day of at the track for $10. For those of you who live in and around New York City the ride to Belmont takes only 30 minutes on the LIRR from Penn Station (see the schedule/info here). Races start around noon with the big race going off around 6 pm. If you want to plan a good day with your friends your goal should be to take the 12:36 pm train out of Penn Station and get there at 1:10 pm. Although you can’t BYOB anymore (it was recently banned) but you can booze on the train and buy beer at the track. A crowd of 100-120,ooo is expected so again, if you’re looking for one of the incredibly monumental events you’ll be talking about with friends for decades to come this is it.
Michael Phelps first burst on the scene in 2004 at the Athens Games where he began a run that would make him without question the greatest swimmer of all time. Now, as he gets ready for the London games, he has his sights set on something bigger…being the greatest Olympian of all-time.
Remember when you were a kid and played cops and robbers, capture the flag or manhunt. This is exactly like that but with paintball, 20+ years later and on more steroids than the east coast of New Jersey in the summer. Your 6 year old self would be proud of this.
Gary Connery (most likely related to Sean) just set a world record for landing in a wingsuit without a parachute and for also having the largest pair of metaphorical balls on the planet. The Wingsuit jump had to be done at precision pace and accuracy to land on his target of cardboard boxes. After completing the jump, Gary walked into a pub and broke Chuck Norris’ jaw with a wince. You may have seen the video last week but here are a few pictures that show just how crazy the feat was.
Tom Brady’s Wicked Accent from Tom Brady Here is UnderArmour’s latest commercial from Funny or Die. A little known fact: Tom Brady is NOT from Boston. He’s also a pretty good quarterback.
This weekend Memorial Day was celebrated across Major League Baseball. There were fireworks, service men and women got to visit the field before games, in some cases they sang the National Anthem or threw out the first pitch and in one instance a family was reunited on the field during the 5th inning of the Braves game.
I have some beef with the Detroit Tigers. Their All-Star calibre team needs to start getting Justin Verlander some run support. It’s getting ridiculous. Verlander is in the prime of his career and has the stuff that makes him capable of throwing a no-hitter each time he steps ont he mound. Just look at this highlight reel of Verlander from the 8th inning of yesterday’s game against the Indians where he topped out at 102 MPH and peppered in a few vicious 82 MPH curve balls. Verlander pitched a complete game, let up two runs, struck out 7 in a losing effort. Clearly his 5-2 record does not properly reflect his current level of play. He actually might just need to throw a no-hitter each game to reach 20 wins this season. Put him on a team that can actually score runs like the Rangers or Cardinals and Verlander would go 34-0 this year.
If Blake wasn’t 6 when NBA JAM came out, I’d say this is straight from the game. Either way this is a tremendous job by SB Nation on replicating the pinnacle of my childhood in modern times. This video is on fire! If you watch it 3 times in a row, your computer explodes. Fact. (H/T) SB Nation
If only Facebook, or better yet the internet was around for the early 90′s, when feel-good kids sports movies were king, and CGI-alien-robot-apocalypse saturated blockbusters were kept in comic books and board games. To pay homage to the athletic prowess of fictional 90′s sports stars, we’ve created renditions of what their Facebook timelines would have looked like, fully equipped with the creepily accurate Facebook ads. Greg Goldberg (Mighty Ducks) Sanca Coffie (Cool Runnings) Michael “Squints” Palledorous (The Sandlot) Henry Rowengardner (Rookie of The Year) Spike (Little Giants)
Guess when you have the 5th lowest attendance in Major League Baseball you have to bring in the fans in somehow.
Roberta Mancino just about every guy’s dream women. She is an Italian skydiver, BASE jumper, wingsuit flyer and international model, has participated in more than 7,000 skydives (including four skydives while completely naked), and on five occasions her parachute did not open in mid-jump but she figured it out. To top it all off in 2010, Mancino was named the World’s Sexiest Female Athlete by the magazine Men’s Fitness. Here is Mancino with Mark Healy, a world renowned free diver as they float around the ocean without the help of oxygen tanks. Basically, to seek thrills these two hold their breathe for a really long time and do risky dives like swimming with sharks and exploring sunken ships.
Each year the Follow The Light Foundation and SURFING Magazine sponsor a photo contest that gives $5,000 to a photographer with the most impressive series of photographs. Past winners include: Chris Burkard, Matt Clark, Morgan Maassen, Duncan Macfarlane, Ray Collins, and Todd Glaser. All of which have gone on to do phenomenal things and bring new skills and art forms to life. We have gone through this year’s submissions and curated the top 20 for you to enjoy. After you review these masterful photos head over to SURFING Magazine’s “Follow The Light” page to see more and visit http://followthelightfoundation.org to learn more about the $5,000 grant.
Over a four-day span, Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles hosted six sporting events, each requiring its own changeover. What transpired from Thursday to Sunday, when the Los Angeles Kings (NHL), Clippers (NBA) and Lakers (NBA) played a total of six games in 72 hours is an unprecedented string of events for a single arena to host. Here is a time-lapse vide of the entire weekend showing the switch from ice to basketball taking approximately 2 hours, 15 minutes; from one basketball court to another taking about 90 minutes. In all, more than 110,000 fans poured in and out of Staples (assuming some didn’t hide out in a bathroom between games). [source]
How much would you pay for your favorite piece of memorabilia. This weekend it was announced that someone with very deep pockets shelled out a record price for the earliest known Babe Ruth game worn jersey. SCP Auctions, based in California, said the circa 1920 New York Yankees uniform top worn shortly after he was sold to the Yankees by the Boston Red Sox for $100,000 following the 1919 season fetched $4,415,658 at the company’s April auction, which ended Sunday. This far exceeded the $2 million pre auction estimate. That price broke the previous record of $4,338,500 set in 2010 for James Naismith’s founding rules of basketball. Below you can see the description of the auction from SCP and several high quality photos of the jersey. Once you are done check out this awesome photo set of Babe Ruth from his playing days with the Boston Red Sox. In a time when baseball, reeling from the 1919 Black Sox scandal, declining attendance and declining credibility, needed a revitalization, Babe Ruth saved the day. By destiny’s hand, the most visible, dominating, and popular athlete in American history was brought to New York City to play on baseball’s biggest stage. At the dawn of the more »
For all you NHL fans, more specifically New York Rangers fans, more specifically team captain, Ryan Callahan fans, check out these sweet Tees The Roosevelt’s team designed to support the Blueshirts on their playoff run. Get yours at Stadium Street Tees Buy Now: $20
Pepsi Max took Kyrie Irving to a pick up basketball game in Bloomfield, NJ, disguised him as an old man named “Uncle Drew”, and had him teach some youngbloods how the old school does things. After watching a couple times, it seems a bit set up, but still a hilarious video to watch and Kyrie actually does a pretty convincing job of playing an old man.
I’ll Have Another overtook Bodemeister, blazing down the stretch to win the Preakness in the final strides Saturday and keep alive his hopes of winning the Triple Crown. In a race that was a virtual repeat of the Kentucky Derby finish, I’ll Have Another raced from behind to beat pace-setter Bodemeister. In the rematch, I’ll Have Another won by a neck after winning the Derby by 1½ lengths. I’ll Have Another now has a chance to become the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978. The Belmont Stakes, the last of the Triple Crown races, is June 9.
Another one of Nike’s brilliantly shot soccer commercials. These guys know what they’re doing.The next wave of superstars are here. Neymar, M’Vila, Götze. Hungry to break through. Unafraid to line up with Ribéry, Sneijder, Ronaldo.
Alana Blanchard and Monyca Byrne are two of the most beautiful and talent surfers in the world so when they are shooting first person GoPro videos we are obligated to share them with the world.
In Part two of the second series of New Era Rivalry commercials The Windy City Showdown continues as Craig Robinson quizzes Nick Offerman about the lengths he would be willing to go for a Cubs World Series win. New Era + NBC Thursday Night Actors = Hilarity
Awww yeah!! ESPN’s award-winning documentary series “30 for 30″ will be returning with new films in October. Like the first series, “30 for 30 Vol. II” will unite a wide array of filmmakers to tell nonfiction stories from the sports world.
The 2012 Whistler Longboard Festival is happy to introduce the Skate X Shoot Presented by Rayne Longboards http://rayne.com. The events will happen at the Whistler Olympic Park (WOP) on on July 12, 2012. The morning will consist of a 20km Endurance Race with a $1000 Cash Podium. Later we will tackle the Skateboard Biathlon similar to winter ski biathlon. The Skate + Shoot will test speed, agility, accuracy and stamina. Riders will skate up and down the 10km of looping mountain trailway, but not before making a stop at the target range. No license required, 10 year minimum age and all skill levels welcome. For more info please check out http://longboardfestival.com
This past Saturday the biggest BMX stars on Earth descended on Chicago for Chad Kerley’s vitaminwater® Invitational. The event is being called the “contest of the year” and “one of the best street contests of all time.” So many insane tricks went down and Garrett Reynolds walked away with the “Overall Rider of the Day” prize as voted by the other riders. If you missed the live feed we pulled together some of the highlights of the day.
Major League Baseball honored Mother’s across America yesterday with the annual tradition that sees players using pink bats, pink arm bands, even the bases and line-up cards are pink. Many of this equipment is auctioned off after the game to raise money for breast cancer research. Mother’s Day seemed to produce a flair for the dramatic this year, with the Marlins’ Giancarlo Stanton and the Reds’ Joey Votto both connected on walk-off grand slams Sunday, marking the first day with two walk-off slams since April 10, 1998, when Mo Vaughn of the Red Sox and the Padres’ Steve Finley accomplished the feat. The St. Louis Cardinals also made a nice gesture to Chipper Jones, which you can see below. All in all it was a great day and if you couldn’t make it to the ballpark because you were meeting up with Mom here are a few pictures from about MLB.
Earlier this week, ESPN SweetSpot writer David Schoenfield declared fully recovered White Sox pitcher Jake Peavy the game’s best hurler. Peavy’s comeback, from two-time ERA champ to desperately dangling limb and now back to a batter-baffling force, has been remarkable and was never a given. But as good as Peavy’s been, overwhelming hitters with his four-pitch repertoire, he isn’t a guy who haunts the nightmares of his opponents. Stephen Strasburg, well, he’s another story. READ: Stephen Strasburg Looks Like the Scariest Pitcher in Baseball
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The Long Beach Grand Prix is the second longest running street race in the world. The race has an illustrious history and people come out in droves to see cars fly by and breakneck speed in the sun of Southern California. Here we join David Welch and Justin Marks as they race through the streets in ridiculously fast sportscars during the Long Beach Grand Prix in the Pirelli World Challenge Series.
Think about the best day of your life. Then multiply that by one million and you might be half as lucky as Christopher Gilmore was yesterday at the MLB FanCave. Sports Illustrated cover model Kate Upton stopped by the MLB FanCave in New York City to meet with FanCave Dwellers Ricky and Ricardo and host the final showdown of the MLB 2K12 Million-Dollar Challenge. Kate got to interview former contestants and crowned the luckiest schmuck in the world Christopher Gilmore, the winner of the MLB 2K12 Million-Dollar Challenge. Not a bad day, get a check for a million bucks and get to meet Kate Upton. Like a boss.
The Roosevelts should be dedicating this entire week to Texas Rangers’ slugger John Hamilton. Over the last three days “The Natural” has put on a show of Ruthian proportions in the hometown of the Great Bambino. Yesterday, following up on his mythic four home runs in a single game performance, he launched another home run off the B&O warehouse that was one of the furthest shots in Camden Yards history. Once the landing spot is calculated he will certainly receive a plaque like to ones in the video below.
R.A. Dickey meets up with some backyard hurlers.
Popular YouTube’er Chetaah created this incredible supercut of beautiful/inspiring/thrilling moments in sports. All the videos are in crystal clear HD and laid over the soundtrack of John Murphy’s – “Adagio in D minor (Bombastic).” To get the most out of the video make sure you change the Youtube settings to watch in 1280p HD – click the little gear box in the player on the right side.
Texas Rangers’ Josh Hamilton hits a two-run home run in the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Baltimore, Tuesday, May 8, 2012. Texas won 10-3. Hamilton had four home runs on the night. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) Texas Rangers star Josh Hamilton, nick-named “The Natural,” had MLB’s first 4-homer game since 2003 and the 16th of all-time. The performance was similar to his memorable home run derby at Yankee Stadium and earned him a standing ovation from the visiting Baltimore Orioles crowd. Hamilton’s 18 total bases was also an American League single-game record. During his post game interview Hamilton spoke humbly of his performance on the field but his “Beast Mode” t-shirt [see below] said it all. Additional Photos + Video Texas outfielder Josh Hamilton, right, high-fives third base coach Dave Anderson as he rounds the bases after hitting a two-run home run in the first inning of the Rangers 10-3 win over Baltimore. Source: AP Photo | PATRICK SEMANSKY Texas Rangers left fielder Josh Hamilton (32) is congratulated by shortstop Elvis Andrus (1) after hitting a two-run home run in the first inning against the Baltimore Orioles at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Mandatory Credit: Joy R. Absalon-US PRESSWIRE May 8, 2012; more »
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