It’s awesome when football players lay out for a catch.  It’s awesome when you see how fast they are to go out and grab a ball from nowhere.  It’s fun seeing them snag a ball from another player in midair and that being ruled a catch.   But personally I think the most badass type of catch is the one-handed catch.

I don’t know what it is but it just looks impossible.  Ever catch a ball one handed?  It’s gotta be one of the most exhilarating feelings in sport.  It’s right up there with hitting a really nice golf shot.  Just one of those things that “feels” perfect.   You know, smashing an ace.  Clubbing a home run.  Knocking a guy out with one punch.  The list goes on.

The one handed catch.  It’s fannnntastic

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The Alley Oop play.  It’s a great play.  It’s an entertaining play.  It’s a challenging play.  It’s one of those plays that can literally change the tempo of a game.  Notice I didn’t say momentum.

Did you know that momentum is 100% used the wrong way by sports announcers?  There’s no such thing as momentum in a basketball game.  Momentum is a scientific term used to describe the relationship between mass and velocity.  So I’m not sure how that term got into the mix.

Tempo of a game on the other hand is acceptable.  It’s a term describing speed and rhythm.  In any event, here are some awesome alley oops.

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The Cleveland Cavaliers have reached an agreement in principle to acquire Phoenix Suns center Shaquille O’Neal, multiple sources involved in the talks told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday night.

Cleveland will send Ben Wallace, Sasha Pavlovic, the 46th pick in Thursday’s draft and cash to the Suns for O’Neal.

By no means am I downplaying this trade and saying that Shaq shouldn’t be happy joining Lebron for what might be a decent shot at a title run.  What I’m saying is that the guy was essentially traded for a broken down defensive has been, a European shooter who will strive to be mediocre at best, and cash.  In other words, he was traded for peanuts.  Put it this way, it will suck knowing one of the top centers ever will have gone down in history being in not one, but two ridiculous trades.

Originally people thought the O’Neal for Odom, Butler and Grant deal was one of the most lopsided deals in history (which now may not prove to be so because Gasol came out of all of this so it’s really O’Neal for Gasol and Odom).  And at the time it probably was because Shaq was still an elite player.

But now?  Now Shaq is gonna have to live with knowing he was traded for feces.  I mean that just has to sting a little doesn’t it?  I guess it won’t matter if he can bring Cleveland a championship.

I think it’s safe to say we’re all rooting for a Cleveland/L.A. series.  I’m going on record right now saying that if we see these two teams in the finals it will be one of the highest rated sports events in history.

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Sportscenter commercials have come a long way since the early days of the 80s.  The integration of players has been outstanding.   And in today’s market I’m always up for seeing a commercial from ESPN.

But one thing I hadn’t realized is that back in the 80s and 90s athletes weren’t really the stars of the commercials.  The anchors had a much bigger role.  Of course athletes were implemented in the commercials but there was definitely less of a focus on them.

Personally I think the commercials have improve immensely over the last 10 years or so.  However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t still classics from years past.

Here are 10 memorable Sportscenter commercials from the 90s

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Since I’m such a huge fan of women’s softball, why not check out the best softball team of them all?  The Florida Gators softball squad were (up until recently) the defending national champions.  And one has to wonder what kinds of qualities make up a championship caliber team?

Some say teamwork.  I agree.  Some say doing the little things.  I agree again.  Some might even say that there are intangibles involved that you can’t really put into words.

Well if showing off cleavage, giving the camera the finger, and licking your teammates face are part of those intangibles then I think we’ve found our answers.  I would definitely party with these chicks.

Pictures after the jump

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Coming off the most recent news about Michael Phelps I had a couple of thoughts on the matter.  For those that don’t know.

Olympic gold medal winner Michael Phelps has written a book. The children’s book titled “How To Train with a T. Rex and Win 8 Gold Medals” is a collaboration with illustrator Ward Jenkins for the picture book that encourages children to exercise and work toward a goal.

While I’m certain that Phelps will be receiving his fair share of criticism on this matter, I have my own opinions.  If I were Phelps I’d probably be leading a very similar life as him.

Think about it.  You grow up and have incredibly awful gums.  Your teeth are a mess and you’re clearly a huge dork.  But you have a talent, an athletic talent, despite a wacky jawline that’s much better suited to play World of Warcraft.

But you get older and all of a sudden your athletic skills bring you to the Olympics.  You’re gotten zero women in your life.  In fact you were probably made fun of save the fact that you were an incredible swimmer.  You have all this pent up energy and motivation to succeed and say “dammit I’m NOT a dork and I can get chicks!.”  So you win the damned Olympics and in ridiculous fashion.  You realize that now your dreams have become a reality.

Well, Phelps is about the biggest example of this dream in history.  So smoking weed (on occasion), going to strip clubs, banging ridiculously hot women,  eating like 10 meals a day, and gosh darnet writing a children’s book with a T-Rex isn’t really a surprise is it?

Isn’t that what you’d do?

Guy is just livin’ the dream man.  Nicely done Mr. Phelps.  Now hook me up with Theresa White.

Love that chick.

Every year in football there’s a ton of running backs that dazzle in high school.  And every year virtually all of them turn into dust in the NCAA.  But ever stop to think about how much better these guys are than their competition while they’re still in high school?  It’s really quite absurd.

Some of the highlight tapes of the likes of Noel Devine, or even NFL superstars like Adrian Peterson remind us that when these guys ran the show in high school it was truly like watching men play amongst boys.

With that in mind, here are 10 awesome high school running back highlight tapes

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Seriously though, can we really call these accidents?  What do you expect when you put a human onto a bull or horse that has virtually NEVER had a human on top of them, or have been tamed?

I think that rodeo guys and gals are about the toughest breed of human there is.  I also think they are the dumbest.  I guess it’s one thing to drive around a car at 180mph and race with other fast drivers.  It’s another to go base jumping with a parachute.    Hell it’s even another to do flips on a motorbike.

But riding on an animal that weighs ten times what you do without any pads and simply a strap to hold onto?  Seriously, rodeos are way up there for being pure stupidity.

So while these videos are insane, they don’t surprise me in the least

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As the Lakers took game 2 last night in a much closer battle with the Magic, I couldn’t help but come back to the same creepy thought I’ve felt all year about the Lakers….how can I keep watching Pau Gasol?

I mean I didn’t used to feel this way about the guy.  He was a clean cut dude when he entered the league.  Much shorter hair.  It seems as though he at least cared about his grooming back then.  And trust me, I’m taking nothing away from his game.  He’s truly an all star and is easily the second biggest reason this team should win it all this year.

But now, every single time this guy makes a big shot, gets a rebound, or does anything that would elicit him to scream and do a chest bump with teammates seriously gives me the willies.

And he has to smell awful.  I mean just look at the hair and beard.  I feel for Kobe.  I’m sure he’s all shits and giggles on the outside, but inside he must be so conflicted having to touch Pau.

Come on Pau, you’re a great player but clean it up, just a little…please?