Category: Sports
Free tacos.
Post date: Tuesday, October 24th, 2006.
7:11.
Seven-Eleven convenience store chain has purchased the rights to the starting time of Chicago White Sox baseball games.
Post date: Friday, October 20th, 2006.
Hamburg SV.
German football club that is offering its fans the opportunity to be buried next to their stadium. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 20th, 2006.
RadarGolf.
Tracking system that uses radio-frequency technology allows you to locate lost golf balls. (via)
Post date: Sunday, June 11th, 2006.
Dianetics Racing Team.
Church of Scientology to start a NASCAR racing team.
Post date: Wednesday, June 7th, 2006.
Global Gaming League.
Media company that is in talks with Chinese government about getting video games into the 2008 Olympics as a demo sport. (via)
Post date: Thursday, June 1st, 2006.
Golf-Ball Finding Glasses.
Lenses that block out dark colors and allow white to pass through making golf balls easy to locate. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Section L of Chapter 265 of the Texas Administrative Code.
Texas law that has abolished high diving boards from swimming pools. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, May 24th, 2006.
Limerick.
Post date: Wednesday, April 19th, 2006.
Severn Bore.
British surfer breaks world record by riding a wave for seven miles. (via)
Post date: Thursday, April 13th, 2006.
Joggling.
Sport of running and juggling at the same time. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, April 12th, 2006.
Zorbing.
Sport where you roll downhill in a giant plastic ball.
Post date: Friday, March 31st, 2006.
Baseball’s Best Burger.
Baseball stadium to offer double bacon cheeseburger served between a Krispy Kreme doughnut. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 9th, 2006.
Fore!
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station to drive a golf ball into space. (via)
Post date: Thursday, March 2nd, 2006.
Mayan Long Count.
Former major leaguer says that the world will end on December 21, 2012.
Post date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006.
Chuiwan.
Ancient paintings may prove that China invented golf.
Post date: Tuesday, February 14th, 2006.
NDMX golf ball.
Golf ball that can correct its flight path in the air gets approval for use by the U.S. Golf Association.
Post date: Sunday, February 12th, 2006.
Super Bowl Monday.
Web site that is petitioning to make the day after the Super Bowl a national holiday. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, February 7th, 2006.
We are go, Las Cruces.
Rocket Racing League to make world headquarters in New Mexico.
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Ski Dubai.
Indoor ski resort located in the Middle East. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2006.
Herculean effort.
Olympic torch is too heavy for atheletes to carry. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 2nd, 2006.
World’s greatest golf player at night.
Blind golfer hits a hole-in-one. (via)
Post date: Monday, December 26th, 2005.
Nuts.
One of the hottest new sports around: peanut balancing. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 7th, 2005.
Old school.
52 year-old man makes college basketball team.
Post date: Thursday, November 10th, 2005.
Be like Larry.
Prisoner gets additional years added on to his time so that his overall sentence matches Larry Bird’s jersey.
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
Quitters.
Florida high school football team voluntarily forfeits the rest of season after being outscored 299-0 in the first six games. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, October 19th, 2005.
Toccer.
Tennis polo is a combination of soccer, lacrosse, field hockey, and tennis, and is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. (via)
Post date: Friday, September 30th, 2005.
Bogus Air.
Airliner fakes emergency so that passengers can watch a soccer game.
Post date: Wednesday, September 21st, 2005.
Hole-in-two.
Man hits a hole-in-one on a mulligan ball and is refused the $10,000 hole prize award.
Post date: Tuesday, September 13th, 2005.
Old Orleans.
Louisiana Superdome will have to be torn down due to the extensive damage caused by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, September 7th, 2005.
Making a splash.
The sport of ‘dive-bombing‘ holds its world championships in Germany.
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Don’t milk them. Race them.
Cow racing: A fine, bovine tradition. (via)
Post date: Monday, August 29th, 2005.
2K6.
If you loved the now-defunct ESPN NFL 2K5 video game, you can now upload the 2006 team rosters for both PS2 and XBox! (via)
Post date: Monday, August 22nd, 2005.
Slam dunked.
Mascot Hall of Fame inaugurates its first class, which does not include Mickey Mouse or Ronald McDonald. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005.
Driver.
Man hits hole-in-one that sails over two time zones.
Post date: Thursday, August 11th, 2005.
Don’t quit your day job.
Shot putter who missed world qualifier due to flight mix-up instead enters javelin qualifier and loses big time.
Post date: Tuesday, August 9th, 2005.
NCAA 87 INDIANS 86.
Indian mascots not allowed to attend the Big Dance.
Post date: Monday, August 8th, 2005.
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