President Obama showing nice form while throwing a football at Soldier Field yesterday.
Source: Flickr / whitehouse
The world’s greatest soccer star looking a little less messy.
Lionel Messi is one of six sports stars — including Tim Tebow, Jeremy Lin, Novak Djokovic, Oscar Pistorious and Yani Tseng — to have been named to this year’s TIME 100 list of most influential people in the world.
Photos: Portraits of Influence - Beautiful photos of two dozen of the TIME 100. Look especially nice at full screen.
Source: TIME
Via @si_vault, the worst halftime fan-participation competition ever. From last night’s Lingerie Football League event.
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In Arkansas, a rule is barring 11-year-old Demias Jimerson from scoring a touchdown if he’s already scored three times and his team is ahead by at least 14 points.
You can be anything you want in life, son, unless the other kids suck!
Big, bad early season news for the much-hyped Philadelphia Eagles: Michael Vick suffered a concussion in Sunday night’s 35-31 loss at Atlanta, and his status for a Week 3 divisional matchup against the Giants is unknown.
Source: ESPN
A gallery of the six defense-themed regional covers of Sports Illustrated’s NFL preview, which hits newsstands this week.
The following standout linebackers are featured:
* LaMarr Woodley of the Pittsburgh Steelers
* Clay Matthews of the Green Bay Packers
* Jerod Mayo of the New England Patriots
* Curtis Lofton of the Atlanta Falcons
* Calvin Pace of the New York Jets
* DeMarcus Ware of the Dallas Cowboys
Worse than being a face-painter?
I’d say yes, and that’s hard to do.
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Madden NFL 12 Demo Now Available
The Madden NFL 12 demo is now out for the Xbox 360 and is expected to be available for the PS3 later this afternoon.
The Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears are the two playable teams in the demo, which allows users to play a full game with five minute quarters at any difficulty level.
I’ll be posting a new SGS episode with my thoughts on the demo later this week.
Source: sportsgamershow
Can’t believe this is the shape Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo is in at only age 34. He’s been spending too much time with Ronaldo McDonald.
The three time FIFA Player of the Year and two-time World Cup champ had a farewell performance with the Brazil national team in its friendly match vs. Romania on Tuesday.
TIME released its 2011 list of 100 most influential people in the world, and I was surprised to see only two sports-related people included: Kim Clijsters and Lionel Messi. Looking back, I was even more surprised to see TIME’s love affair with tennis stars as influential characters.
Clijsters is the second female tennis player in as many years to make the list. The 2010 TIME 100 included Serena Williams, Phil Mickelson and Didier Drogba from the sports world.
The 2009 TIME 100 included Rafael Nadal, Tiger Woods, and Manny Pacquiao.
Andre Agassi and Lance Armstrong were the only athletes included in the 2008 TIME 100.
Finally, the 2007 TIME 100 included sports personalities Roger Federer, Tony Dungy, Chien-Ming Wang and Thierry Henry.
That’s only 14 sports-related people in five years of the TIME 100, and five of them play tennis! The tally is as follows:
- Tennis 5
- Soccer 3
- Golf 2
- American Football 1
- Baseball 1
- Boxing 1
- Cycling 1
Very surprised to see no NBA stars on the list, as basketball is an ever-growing sport internationally.
Source: TIME
Out of the thousands of Johnny Unitas tattoos I’ve seen, this is easily my second favorite.
Interesting mix of serif and sans serif fonts!
Trying to figure out the body part here. Is that the back of someone’s knee? (Someone with really fat calves.)
Anyway, it’s a nice tribute. Better than the cliched “MOM”
(via sportspage)
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Baseball starts in one week, but this new NFL video “2010 Season in Six minutes” has me fired up for football. An excellent production, and damn those guys hit hard.
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Fantastic video of Tiki Barber reporting live on the Today Show the morning after the New York Giants won the Super Bowl a season after he retired.
Gotta love that anchor offering congratulations to Tiki, as if he actually wanted the Giants to win.
But the best is at the end, when Tiki was asked what’s going through the players’ minds that glorious morning after a upset victory. How the hell should he know?
(via @LadyBlueICU)
