Let’s just forget about Barkely on TNT.   Let’s jus forget about how awesome he is in the media.  Let’s forget about him weighing over 300 lbs.  What I want you to try to do is remember him as a player.

Bear in mind this is a guy who is 6’4 and absolutely dominated the glass for nearly his entire career.  Don’t forget that.

Just the other day I was thinking about how when I was a little kid I’d be able to bike 5 miles to tennis camp, then play tennis for 8 hours and then bike 5 miles back home.  I mean, is that some kind of a joke?

I’m pretty sure today I’d make it maybe half a mile and get a cramp or pass out.  I wouldn’t even get to play tennis.

I bring this up because I don’t understand how anyone over the age of 25 can workout like this.

I mean I guess when it’s your job it’s different but still.  It always puts me in awe.

In the 1930s and 40s, the banks of the Matsukawa River in Ito City, Japan were lined with people washing their laundry in small tubs. But since 1955 the tubs have become boats, and each year the locals and visitors participate in one interesting competition.
More than 200 people are here to try their luck in the 54th annual tub boat race.

30 heats including women, men, children, and teams are racing down a 400 meter stretch of the river.

Half the fun depends on out-paddling fellow racers, and the other half requires keeping the tub afloat without falling out.

*I’m pretty sure I want to be best friends with Ichiro Sakamoto.

It’s one thing to have all the time and preparation in the world to perform a masterful dunk.  It’s another if you’re just improvising and have split seconds to make a decision.

And of all the videos I’ve seen, this one is solid particularly because it took into account the actual games.  Like pressure, playoffs etc etc.

Enjoy

Via Hoopdoctors

It’s kind of sad when over a third of these aren’t even basketball related.  Sure you’ve got your milestones and maybe a dunk or two but go back ten years and you’d have some broken backboards and amazing dominating performances.

Still though, he’s Shaq.  He’s funny.  And I’m rooting for him in Cleveland.

He falls over and over trying to land a 360 on his little 12′ bike, but makes up for it with a run in the new section of some park. You have to give him credit for his effort. 

The little tike is 8 for Christ’s sake.  What the hell were you doing when you were eight?

Check out all the other kids.  They’re way older.

If you don’t think this is real, think again.  Check out this website.  This thing is no joke man.

It was in 1933. Philanthropist Inder Singh Grewal visualised an annual recreational meet where farmers from areas surrounding Kila Raipur could get together and test their corporal endurance. The idea gave birth to Kila Raipur Sports, the undisputed “Rural Olympics”.

The idea also gave birth to about 10,000 examples of unintentional humor that would last for decades.

I will be the first to tell you that I’m a Yankees fan and always will be.  But do I ever see this kind of stuff in New York?  The answer is a definitive “no.”

I understand that the Yankees are supposed to be this “classy” organization.  But come on.  You can always “Blame it on the Rain.”  This makes me really like Papelboner and Delcarmen.

By the way, can we just exile Michael Kay to some deserted island please?  Get the Mets guys to come over to YES.

Ooooohhh.  I used the word “urban.”  I guess because this guy is black and they’re playing rap music I’m a racist right?  Well come on people.  If it were a white skinny guy who wasn’t ripped playing on a jungle gym what the hell would I have here?

Seriously though.  This is quite extraordinary.  I’m really wondering whether or not this dude was a real gymnast.  If not, he’s got a hell of a physique not to mention a ridiculously lucky genetic code.