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Gino Martino's Head Butt Challenge Hunts for a Real Contender
I am very excited to present to my readers and fans a very important athletic contest. It is called the Head Butt Challenge...
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Hardcore Runners Head to Antarctica for Marathon
How hardcore are you? People who train outside the box are licking their chops and picking up side jobs to fund a trek to Antarctica this November...
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Wife-Carrying Champion Wins 2 Years In A Row
His name is Taisto Miettinen. He holds the title for wife-carrying world champion in not only 2009, but 2010. Kristiina Haapanen was his partner...
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You Get A New Dodge Truck If You Win The Iditarod
Lance Mackey won the Iditarod March 16. He is the only individual to win the 1,100 mile dog sled race four consecutive times. Mackey is a 39 year old throat cancer survivor. He wins a new Dodge truck and about 50,000 bucks...
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Alpacas Go Surfing In Peru
A domesticated Andean alpaca named Pisco caught three waves on a ten foot surfboard March 16. The event occurred just outside of Peru’s capital in a beach town called San Bartolo...
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Free Runners Invade London
Book your flight to London now. The 2009 Barclaycard World Freerun Championship is scheduled for Aug. 15. Trafalgar Square is where you can tell your cabbie to take you...
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Kite Boarders Unite in Pursuit of a True World Champion
Athletes who strap modified surfboards to gigantic kites and harness the wind in order to skim lake and ocean surfaces are known as “kiteboarders...
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The Power of Ping Pong Can Put Your Head Through Drywall
A grass seed salesman I know went head to head with the power of ping pong and lived to tell about it. Table tennis has been known by a variety of names including gossima, flim-flam, and ping pong...
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Landscape Gardener Wins World Nettle Eating Championship
The Bottle Inn is a pub located in Dorset County, England, in a town called Marshwood. A historic argument occurred there between two farmers in 1986. The argument was over who had the longest nettles...
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Elephants Take the Cake at Eating Competition
America stands on a new frontier. July 3, 2009, marks the date of the first known cross-species eating competition. The showdown occurred at the Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Coney Island Boom-A-Ring in Coney Island, New York...
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Bubble Gum Bubble Blowing World Championship Declared a Tie
In the strange world of professional bubblegum bubble blowers, a tie has been declared for competitors in the first quarter of the 2009 World Championship of Bubblegum Bubble Blowers...
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Racing Sausages In Milwaukee
Anyone who has been to a Milwaukee Brewers home game since the mid-1990's can tell you that one of the highlights of the trip to County Stadium or Miller Park was the Sausage Race...
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Junior Marksman Compete for National Olympic Championship
Over 300 youth from across the nation gathered in Colorado Springs from Apr. 4-19 to compete in the 2009 Rifle and Pistol National Junior Olympic Shooting Championship...
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Is Mud Wrestling a Sport?
After conducting some cursory research, I am led to believe that mud wrestling is not an actual sport. It appears that mud wrestling is mostly limited to fraternity houses, bars, hillbilly backyards, ...
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Big League Wiffle Ball to Set Guinness World Record
Recently, a member of Televersemedia noticed Nick Benas and Jared Verrillo on the cover of a magazine and were intrigued by the organization they created named Big League Wiffle Ball...
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Whatever Happened To Lawn Darts?
A friend of mine bought a house recently in one of the “Best Places To Live In America” according to Money Magazine. It's in a coveted neighborhood, right next to a city park...
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100 Years of Horseshoes in Springfield, Illinois
The National Horseshoe Pitchers Association of America (NHPA) is preparing its first centennial celebration. The 100th Horseshoe Pitching World Championship is scheduled for July 27-August 8 in Springfield, Illinois...
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An Athlete's Warrior Spirit Overcomes Age As Well As Opponents
Locker rooms, huddles, dugouts, courtsides, ringsides, and sidelines have heard endless attempts at inspirational speeches by players and coaches...
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Professional Wiffle Ball Brings the Glory of Baseball Back to the Masses
If the pitcher is God unfurling fate, then the batter is man, facing a 90 mile-an-hour unleashing of reality, making nanosecond decisions. It's bravery to even inhabit the batter's box...
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Professional Wiffle Ball Captures the Attention of American Youth
America is unique among nations because it is a nation of immigrants. Immigrants who came to a wild land and sought to construct an ideal society...