Daily fantasy sports provides players instant gratification
Mar 9, 2010 Other
Here’s a tip for the thousands of people participating in the growing phenomenon of daily fantasy sports: Watch out for Tippy. He’s consistently a top performer on sites like FantasySportsLive.com and FanDuel.com. Tippy also runs two sites—FantasyHandicapping.com and FantasyBasketballDaily.com—dedicated to daily fantasy strategy. He has no mercy.
Maybe the most ridiculous (or awesome) pooltable ever.
Mar 9, 2010 Other
Obscura Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table. It turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. Obscuras projection, sensor and tracking system reveals images and animations that follow the movements of the pool balls as players hit them around the table.
Top 10: Sportsmen Who Blew Their Second Chance
Mar 7, 2010 Other
These sportsmen just didn’t learn their lessons.
Poker Stars European Tournament Robbed … on Live TV! (VID)
Mar 7, 2010 Other
Where does a poker tournament fit into the pantheon of armed robbery? The European Poker Tour found out when six men armed with machine guns strolled into the tournament and hijacked everyone for 1 million Euros.
Wrestling Fans Admit and Then Forget It Is Fake
Mar 7, 2010 Other
During a recent screening of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, wrestling enthusiast David Graziano fluctuated between an awareness that the match he was watching was completely scripted and a willingness to treat the event as though it were 100 percent real.
Blind man first to abseil down waterfall
Mar 5, 2010 Other
A blind extreme sports enthusiast has become the first person to abseil down Britain’s highest waterfall…
These sports banners really should be banned
Mar 5, 2010 Other
The sports world is rife with totems celebrating athletic excellence, such as the 17 Boston Celtics championship standards displayed at Boston’s TD Garden. Then there’s the other stuff; the lamest banners in the sports world. Here are a few examples.
Introducing ‘Skyaking’: skydiving with a kayak
Mar 5, 2010 Other
Paddling across the sky, 13,000ft up in a kayak has become a new daredevil craze dubbed Skyaking.