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LOLympics in Lego

Axion — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:02:20 -0000

In This Thread: We look at Legos

The Water Cube, a.k.a. Smogaquarium via i.dailymail.co.uk

Beach Volleyball Beach, via i.dailymail.co.uk

These were yoinked from this set @ dailymail.co.uk.

In this space: I type thirty more words because it's telling me to, and I'd rather you go read their page. It's extremely unnecessary for you to continue reading this. Break things, steal stuff. Life is short, do it in the chip aisle.

Hungarian Janos Baranyai Crushes Arm in Olympic Lifiting VIDEO

echinsuocha1 — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:23:36 -0000

MUST SEE VIDEO, WATCH NOW!!!!

http://blog.ingamenow.com/2008/08/13/hungarian-janos-baranyai-crushes-arm-in-olympic-lifiting-video/

Not quite as exciting as Michael Phelps’ chase for 8 gold medals… but more gruesome for sure. Here is footage from Hungarian Olympic weightlifter Janos Baranyai crushing his arm during competition. Ouch:

I have never seen an arm just give way like this........at least the olympics are doing a good job of taking care of the athletes. Did you see how quickly they rushed in to block the athlete from the cameras?

USA vs Holland - men's soccer

TheRevRun — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:48:22 -0000

...you have to get up pretty early...

...to watch the USA men's soccer game this morning. It's at half-time now, USA is down 1-0, but the Dutch aren't running away with it. Honestly both of these teams look flat. The highlights of this halftime are presented by Matt V. Hooray for USA network.

I figured the Dutch would come with the good squad they had at Euro this year, but this team looks different. The only highlight so far for the USA team has been Freddy Adu rolling through 2-4 defenders at a time. Wouldn't be suprised to see him score one in the second half. ....Lithuania knocked of Argentina in Men's basketball sometime in the night. ...Apparently it's been raining on this day of competition in Beijing.

The second half of the soccer game should be starting soon. I need to get ready for an 8.40a southwest flight, going to see the Dodgers/Giants game and bag telephone park to complete the division.

Olympics!

Hall of Fame Voting

MrNtellect — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:19:41 -0000

We've all heard that so many Hall of Fame voters have an opinion that a player has to be one of his sport's elite to be considered for enshrinement their first time. In fact, there have been stories of some voters who unilaterally refuse to vote for a player on his first try into a HoF. I can understand if you have so many eligible candidates that you have to pick certain ones to vote for. However, to mentally disqualify a player from receiving your vote only because it's his first year of eligibility is insane! What is it about a player's performance that will make him more worthy a year from now? What stats will have changed??

As I listened to Art Monk's NFL HoF induction speech, I heard exactly why this "first ballot bias" is so dangerous. Monk spoke of how his father was his biggest fan, and how his father delighted in coming to watch him play. Monk went on to mention how he was sure that his father would've loved to have been at the HoF ceremony. Unfortunately, that wasn't possible, because his father passed away a few years ago. To the rest of us, it might not make any difference that Art Monk had to wait 8 years to get inducted into the Football HoF, but I think it may have made a big difference to his family. Voting for most Halls of Fame are totally subjective, and rely on what a variety of statistics means to writers, former players, and other voters. In the case of Art Monk, in my opinion, there was one simple statistic that should've guaranteed that he be an instant Hall of Famer. When there are never any character or off-field matters that might influence voters (like in the case of Pete Rose or Barry Bonds), certain all-time stat leaders should be Hall of Famers. Imagine the NHL HoF without the career leader in goals, or the NBA HoF without the career leader in points, or MLB's HoF without the career leader in strikeouts. Art Monk retired as the NFL career leader in pass receptions. Monk retired with the NFL record for consecutive games with at least one reception. He has since been passed by several players in both categories, but at one time, Art Monk could look into the mirror and see a man who caught more passes than anyone EVER in the history of the NFL. To me, that in itself makes you HoF worthy.

Since Art Monk became eligible for the HoF, he's had to watch a number of WRs go in before him with greatly inferior numbers. Monk: 940 receptions, 12721 yards and 68 touchdowns. Lynn Swann, inducted in 2001: 336 rec, 5462 yds, 51 tds (never more than 61 rec or 880 in any one season). John Stallworth, inducted in 2002: 537 rec, 8723 yds, 63 tds. Michael Irvin, inducted in 2007: 750 rec, 11904 yds, 65 tds. I mean seriously...Lynn Swann?? What a joke! He was good, but Hall of Fame?? But the real point is, voters, if a player belongs in the HoF, vote him in! The athlete himself has had the accolades, made the money, had the high profile. Getting into the HoF and the ceremony surrounding it is for everyone else. The HoF induction speech, whatever the sport, is largely the chance for that athlete to have one grand forum to show his appreciation. It's his chance to stand tall and public thank everyone who helped him achieve the things that he's achieved in his career and life. A chance to mention all the people who most folks don't know are responsible for his success. It's for the mom who drove him to practice. It's for the coach who encouraged him to stick with the game when he wanted to quit. It's for the family who invited him to home-cooked meals when he was away at college. It's for that training camp coach who lobbied for him to be able to make that first professional roster. Those are the ones who deserve it sooner than later.

2008 Canoe Polo World Championships

Axion — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:10:24 -0000

2008 Canoe Polo World Championships

Welcome, Uncommon Sportsfans, to the 2008 Canoe Polo World Championships. You've never heard of Canoe Polo? Well, let me get you up to speed. It's basically water polo in a canoe, but with raised goals. Dissimilar from Marco Polo, expensive equipment is required.

Why don't we let these fine folks explain it better than I ever could:

So you're all aboard, right? Want to form a team and compete for the world title? Well set a date for next year because this year's world title event is already taking place in that craziest of crazy outdoor arenas... Edmonton, Alberta, Canada!

photos stolen from richard-berry.com | full slideshow here

Good luck to our competitors! Results to come after the event concludes this Sunday, July 27th.

Poll

Canoe Polo, would you do it?

A bunch of nuts run 125km thru Alberta with a custom-minted coin, call it Death Race

Axion — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:50:29 -0000

Death Race brings brave souls to Alberta

This coming August 2 and 3 is the ninth North Face Canadian Death Race. From the article:

The Death Race plays on the Greek myth of Charon, the ferryman who ushered the souls of the dead across the river Styx and into Hades for a fee of one gold coin per soul.

Oh. Well that's kind of a letdown. What about this coin?

Each of the 1,000 or so entrants will receive a specially minted coin they must take with them as they make their way through the rugged mountain terrain surrounding Grande Cache.

Racers must have their coin to cross the Smoky River near the end of their trek. Losing the coin means instant disqualification.

You don't say? What is the penalty for disqualification? Is it... death? I'd guess not. They've got a juicy hook to this story, though:

One of the earliest winners of the gruelling, 125-kilometre running race was former Edmonton resident Nik Southwell. He had his eyes on the prize, but Southwell forgot to take in enough food and fluids along the way, says Dale Tuck, one of the event's founders.

Instead of dropping out, Southwell persevered and won the men's solo race, collapsing at the finish line. His kidneys shut down and he was rushed to hospital and put on dialysis.

Won the race, but losing the game...

Supposedly the net elevation gain is more than 5,180 metres and the total elevation change is 6,500 feet. (pause while I do some Canadian math) That's 3.2 and 4.04 Earth miles, respectively!

The team names are pretty tame by uncommon sports standards, nothing nearly as good as OTL:

Death Race teams have a habit of giving themselves colourful names. The list of teams entered for this year's race includes Fat, Old and Slow; Stupid is as Stupid Does 1; Wheezing Flatlanders; The Bunion Sisters; Four Hags and a Troll; and This is Gonna Hurt Tomorrow!

Did you know that Canadians like to use extra u's? Me euither.

If you're interested in festivities, there is a weekend party called Deathfest "featuring children's entertainment." Now if I were to ask you, "Hey, there's a party going on called Deathfest that includes children's entertainment: Guess which country?", would you have ever picked Canada?

Also at Deathfest, "Canadian blues-rock legend David Wilcox and country artists Doc Walker and The Road Hammers."

lol wut? Canada has country music?

-via canada.com

India is blueballing Women's Pro Beach Volleyball

Axion — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:43:17 -0000

The Indian woman's team participating in the World Beach Volleyball tournament have declined to wear bikinis, declaring them objectionable and against their traditions.

Ladies, please. You have got to understand, like any sport that was invented in the US, it's about how many eyeballs you can steal away from someone else. We're all waving our hands in your face like crazy, trying to get you to look at us for 5 seconds and consider buying whatever product is associated with us. There is no greater force on the planet when it comes to attracting eyeballs than T and A. And frankly, you're kicking yourselves in the tit on this one.

"We want to give a good fight in the game and not the dress code," said Kanaka Mahalakshmi, a member of the Indian team, adding that she would rather not play if required to wear a bikini that is the recognised dress code for all international beach volleyball tournaments.

Case in point: Women's soccer. Remember that time this girl scored a goal and then delivered the twins? For the next three months, the whole world was interested in women's soccer. When there was nothing delivered in the coming months, over time, the public grew cold and bitter. "Tits or GTFO" the kids say now.

Well Lucknow my little curry rolls, I'm sari about the over 9000 years of culture and that you have these body issues, and you feel all Ahmedabad about your Pune. But these are rules, and it was established early on that the bikini gives you the best competitive advantage in women's pro beach volleyball to just Bangladesh out of the ball, and maybe Bangalore if you want.

Honestly, I don't understand why this isn't the most popular sport on the planet. Check out these common hand signals:

Closed fist - omg, too fast
One finger - ok, that's a start
Two fingers - now you're talking
Open hand - WHOA!

I guess I can't just pick on the Indians (dot, not feather):

But the bikini-only rule has not been popular even in the West, with many women arguing that they should be allowed to wear either tights or shorts.

Fine then, but leave the chesticles alone. My suggestion is to get really in to landscaping: try to get a wax named after your nation and that will help out your chances. I'm staring at you, Brazil, for way too long. I mean, c'mon... the Calcutta just sounds hot.

Thanks to telegraph.co.uk and wackypedia for the fodder

White-knuckle Thrill Ride Peaks: Tour de France

Axion — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:31:12 -0000

Three Tour de France fans were hit by a team car!

Just think, people have been watching this for like over 9,000 weeks already, and finally they get some action. Yeah, there's the usual "He was doping! No, you're doping!" crap going on, but damn... keep your eyes on the road. Dope.

Second of all, that yellow jersey. I know you all are in France, and personal hygiene got stuck in le Customs, but let's be real here, can we just not use the same jersey for whoever happens to be winning? By the end of the race, it's a race to not wear it. le Pew!

Third, how hard do you have to get hit by a car to get X-rays? That's some Marvel Comics shiat right there. I bet that guy's all flyin' around right now, lookin' through stuff. Jealous.

Damn, I just saw there's ten more stages to go. People are gonna have to lose some limbs or get caught smoking Barry Bonds' dried out adreno-glands to top this.

This viking-guy named Kurt-Asle Arvesen won the 11th stage, and probably swings a mean two-handed axe. Just sayin'.

Maine's Uncommon Potato Festival

Axion — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:54:21 -0000

The city of Fort Fairfield, Maine's Potato Blossom Festival 2008 is in full swing and the busy inhabitants of such a lovely 'burg have already been partying hardy, starting the Potato Blossom blowout last Friday.

Yesterday marked the beard growing competition. It started at 4:30pm and there was a $5 entry fee. The beards were only given up to a half hour to grow as the judging was performed at 5:00pm, so this one was probably decided by a hair.

Later this week, on Thursday, the action heats up with hay-bale tossing, ladies skillet-throw, and a barrel rolling contest!

By far the pièce de résistance is the mashed potato wrestling event, to be held this coming Saturday. The mashed potato wrestling event has been on hiatus and is making a glorious return to this year's festival.

via boston.com

Wendy's Triple Classic Challenge

Axion — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:27:25 -0000

Our two contestants, a normal-sized American and a frail, weak figure whose masculinity is now no doubt in question. I should admit that I consider the Wendy's Triple Classic a novelty food that should not be served, consumed, blogged about, hell... not even pictured.

Wendy's Triple Classic w/Cheese

I'd also like to preface that the editor of this video did a great job. Karate Kid soundtrack, short, informative intro, and a stop-watch so you can watch this competitor consume this colossal construction of cow in 74 seconds, excellent presentation.

I said 74 seconds, but he really didn't have it all the way down on that mark, so I guess there's a penalty there.

I love the last line. That is so what she said.

Tiger to have Season Ending Surgery

lightup_thehalo — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:48:49 -0000

Tiger Woods will allegedly have season ending surgery on his right knee. That means no more majors.. nothing this year. How far will CBS's PGA ratings drop? Tiger is having the surgery on his ACL.

Please correct the following items:

Your FanPost must be at least 75 words long. Right now it's only 36 words long. If you just have a quote, link, video or photo you'd like to share with the community, try creating a FanShot instead.

Poll

With Tiger gone, how far will CBS's PGA ratings drop?

Pioneer or Criminal? You be the judge

Axion — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:15:27 -0000

Man driving motorized cooler faces DWI, other charges

Some would call Leslie J. "Bomber" Marr, 57, a criminal, others, a pioneer. Many great sports have humble beginnings, could this be the start of the newest craze in Uncommon Sport?

The machine has handlebars, and its operator sits on a seat atop the cooler, LaChapelle said.

"We were told it can do up to 12 mph," the chief said.

What do we think, Uncommon Sportspersons? Criminal or Pioneer?

Poll

Cooler Racing, sport or crime?

MLS named 2008 League of the Year

Axion — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 02:43:11 -0000

Major League Soccer is the best league ever (this year) according to SportsBusiness.

MLS was chosen from five nominees for Professional Sports League of the Year including, in alphabetical order, Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, National Basketball Association, National Football League and the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour.

Soccer wins by not already being established. Not a whole lot of room for growth in the NBA, MLB, and NFL when you are already huge. But over the women's pro tennis tour? Hello? Sony Ericsson WTA marketing department, you are doing it wrong! They're hot, athletic women, some of whom with exotic accents! Sell it!

Here are some other awards handed out by the biz rag.

Sports Executive of the Year - Tim Leiweke, CEO, AEG
Athletic Director of the Year - Ron Wellman, Wake Forest University
Professional Sports Team of the Year - Boston Red Sox
Professional Sports League of the Year - Major League Soccer
Sports Agency of the Year - Octagon
Sports Event Marketing Firm of the Year - SportsMark
Sports Facility of the Year - AT&T Park
Sports Innovation/Technology of the Year - Sportvision
Sports Media of the Year - Fox Sports
Sports Online of the Year - ESPN Digital Media
Sports Sponsor of the Year - Pepsi Cola North America

Brown Torpedo - Not a legal MMA maneuver

Axion — Wed, 28 May 2008 18:44:59 -0000

Corey Wethey got hit so hard, he shat himself .

In Saturday's match against Corey Wethey, (Fred) Mitchell struck his opponent so hard that Wethey lost control of his bowels. The incident required a 10-minute intermission while officials scrubbed down the ring. Mitchell went on to win the fight by Wethey's disqualification.

It got worse from there...

It was at that point Wethey gained the advantage and locked Mitchell's head between his thighs.

The "Face in Bowl of Pudding" is one of the most disturbing MMA maneuvers around, short of the UFIA. Then the winner drops a real steamer:

After Mitchell's win was announced, he took the microphone and proclaimed to the crowd, "You can say I beat the crap out of him."

I'm not an MMA fan, per se, but they should probably dump this guy from competition all together. You just don't recover from that kind of crap. I guess you could say his career is where he should have been, in the sh*tter. Poop.

Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel

matto619 — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:58:56 -0000

This ridiculously awesome DVD just came out today. It has great motorcycle stunts (including one with a midget!) and my personal favorite: JUMPING OUT OF A PLANE WITH NO PARACHUTE!

Even Evel Knievel wasn't that crazy. Other highlights include Johnny Knoxville totally wiping out and the motorcycle landing on his junk. I figured this is an absolutely perfect DVD for the slew of Uncommon Sportsman readers out there.

Click here to check out the :30 second promo

Welcome to the new Uncommon Sportsman and SB Nation

clockwerks — Tue, 27 May 2008 04:53:04 -0000

Hey Uncommon Sportsman,

Today is the big day. We've switched your community over to the new SB Nation sports blog platform. My name is Trei, and I'm here to help you get adjusted to the new home we've built for you. If you have questions or trouble with the new system, post a comment in this thread and myself or one of the team (lovitt, sixfoot6 or odacrem) will try to point you in the right direction.

Before we begin, I want to let you know we still consider this a beta platform, so don't be surprised if you find a few bugs or if everything isn't exactly right yet. We hope you'll take the time to report any problems you encounter at bugreport@sbnation.com. We'll be continuing to make changes and improving things.

Please take a few minutes to read about what's new below. But if you just can't wait to jump in, here are some quick things to check out:

Sign up for your SB Nation network account and claim your old blog accounts
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What Has Changed

SB Nation Network Accounts - the Big Change

Readers across all of our blogs told us they wanted one account to use on every SB Nation blog. To make this work, we're requiring that everyone create a new SB Nation network account. In most cases you should be able to keep your old username, but a few of you may have to choose something new, since every other community in SB Nation will be going through this same transition. We tried to be as fair as possible in deciding who gets to keep which name, using a formula that takes into account length of membership and frequency of activity.

We want to make it as easy as possible for you to participate on all of our blogs, but we don't want to encourage everyone to start visiting rival team blogs and initiating flame wars. To maintain friendly communities we ask that you explicitly join each blog in order to participate. It's a two-click process, but it does means accepting each blog's community guidelines. Just as you join each blog individually, you can be banned on each blog individually.

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FanPosts (the Section Formerly Known as Diaries)

We changed their name. Why? Because we took this major upgrade as an opportunity to leave behind some vocabulary that never made much sense for a sports blog. SB Nation is the network of, by and for fans, and these are the blog posts we make. So we call them FanPosts. When you're at a bar telling someone to check out your online sports opinions, you don't have to suggest they read your diary.

FanPosts are displayed differently on the homepage - we include your avatar to give more credit for the time you spend writing great posts. The new post editor has a WYSIWYG view that provides easy formatting. It also auto-saves drafts so you don't have to worry about losing your work when you compose a post within the web browser. And you can now associate teams, players and games with your posts: these tools promote your FanPosts on our new team, player and game pages - across the entire network.

The new system does not work like the old diary editor. For example, in HTML mode the new editor doesn't auto-create a new paragraph from two line breaks. But it does offer a whole array of new features. Look for the blinking help button on the right side of the FanPost editor for quick tips, and take a look at our full guide to writing FanPosts on the new platform.

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This one is probably the most obvious change of all. Like other major websites working to improve readability for their audience, we've adopted a fixed-width layout optimized for the 1024 x 768 resolution used by the majority of Uncommon Sportsman and SB Nation network users. Use the switcher below the user menu if you prefer the wider layout designed for 1280 monitors. We've introduced a top navigation bar with quick links into old and new sections of the site. We also polished a few edges, made some things larger, others smaller and moved a few boxes here and there. More changes and adjustments to come.

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What's New

Schedule, Scores, Stats and Roster

Uncommon Sportsman now has all the basic information about the sports and hundreds of other teams. During games you'll see a regularly updated line score, and as the season progresses we'll track team stat totals and leaders. This is just our first step, so look for us to publish more detailed and archival stats in the future. The best part about all this sports data is that we've integrated it directly into the blog so. We now have special pages that aggregate all blog posts written about games, players and teams.

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IRB Sevens Tournament - San Diego

jbox — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:15:37 -0000

Jonny Dub and I headed down to Petco Park to see the IRB Sevens Rugby tournament. Neither of us know anything about Rugby but we were willing to learn and enjoy.

Rugby Sevens is a bit different from regular Rugby. First there are only seven players on the field instead of the normal 15. The best part is that the games are much shorter. The games only last about 20 minutes and they are crazy fun to watch.

One of the first things I noticed when approaching Petco Park was something that Sign on San Diego noticed as well:

"It's like a brotherhood," one usher said. "A big fraternity."

Except I was thinking of the beer chugging, faux hawking, collar popping, hair gelling, puka shell wearing frat boys. It's been awhile since I attended a frat party but all of the clear signs were there. Rugby fans might just be the frat boys of the rest of the world.

Photo Credit:D.B. Blas'

Below is an interesting video of the Padres head grounds crew guy Luke Yoder talking about the conversion of the baseball field to a rugby field.

Sportable.com

Photo Credit:D.B. Blas'

What is a diary?

Dex — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:08:05 -0000

If you're familiar with other SB Nation sites, then you're familiar with the concept of a Diary.

If you're not familiar with Diaries, then think of them as a place for you to bring to light issues that don't get talked about on the front page. Diaries aren't a place for blatant advertising for your Uncommon Sports Event, though we appreciate any tips that you can pass along. Rather, if you participate in Uncommon Sports or if you watch Uncommon Sports, and have a story to tell, feel free to use the Diaries to your little heart's content.

This is a very fine line, we know, and we reserve the right to ding you if you fail to follow that extremely vague set of rules.

Diaries do not have to begin with "Dear Diary", but that practice is not discouraged either.

Uncommon Sportsman: FanPosts

LOLympics in Lego

Hungarian Janos Baranyai Crushes Arm in Olympic Lifiting VIDEO

USA vs Holland - men's soccer

Hall of Fame Voting

2008 Canoe Polo World Championships

2008 Canoe Polo World Championships

Canoe Polo, would you do it?

A bunch of nuts run 125km thru Alberta with a custom-minted coin, call it Death Race

Death Race brings brave souls to Alberta

India is blueballing Women's Pro Beach Volleyball

The Indian woman's team participating in the World Beach Volleyball tournament have declined to wear bikinis, declaring them objectionable and against their traditions.

White-knuckle Thrill Ride Peaks: Tour de France

Three Tour de France fans were hit by a team car!

Maine's Uncommon Potato Festival

Wendy's Triple Classic Challenge

Tiger to have Season Ending Surgery

Please correct the following items:

With Tiger gone, how far will CBS's PGA ratings drop?

Pioneer or Criminal? You be the judge

Man driving motorized cooler faces DWI, other charges

Cooler Racing, sport or crime?

MLS named 2008 League of the Year

Brown Torpedo - Not a legal MMA maneuver

Jackass Presents: Mat Hoffman's Tribute to Evel Knievel

Welcome to the new Uncommon Sportsman and SB Nation

What Has Changed

SB Nation Network Accounts - the Big Change

FanPosts (the Section Formerly Known as Diaries)

Visual Redesign

Search

What's New

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Recommending FanPosts

Auto-refreshing Comments

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IRB Sevens Tournament - San Diego

What is a diary?