Weird Japanese TV Clip For Your Thursday Enjoyment

The debate over what is and what is not sport has been raging on for years. Football (American and otherwise), baseball, and basketball clearly are sports; figure skating and water ballet? Discuss amongst yourselves. Into this fray I present this clip from Japanese television of . . . some kind of athletic event that seems […]

You’re All On Notice Now

This is the greatest thing since YouTube and soon this graphic (or one very similar to it) will be on every web site in the universe, so we’ll get this over with now:

Thanks to Every Day Should Be Saturday for posting on this, and also the magnificent bastard who designed this thing.

Is It Time To Raise The White Flag?

Hold the freakin’ phone here. I can accept the USA losing in world competitions of baseball, hockey, and even basketball, but there is no damn reason the United States of All That Is Right And Holy should ever lose in a football tournament. We invented the game and outside of Canada and Germany we’re the […]

No More Bling for Mr. T

Apparently Mr. T has declared an end to the era of bling, giving up all of his gold accoutrements out of respect to Hurricane Katrina survivors.

“As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time […]

All the News that Fits

It’s the dog days of summer. As you are no doubt aware, today is one of only two on the calendar (Monday was the other) when none of the four major sports has a game scheduled. But that doesn’t mean that your intrepid reporters at oddsnark have been ignoring the rainbow of other colors […]

Tomato Of Dog Town

Shaun White is back in the spotlight, and thank goodness because life was just a drag without the Flying Tomato around. For those of you who’ve forgotten, White is your reigning Olympic Gold Medal snowboarder and all-around Super Duuude (not to be confused with that girl who hot dogged her way out of a medal). […]

Greatest American Hero

Believe it or not, Joey Chestnut is walking on air. It’s surprising he’s even walking at all.
The 22-year-old college student has shattered his sport’s equivalent of the four-minute mile. Last night in Vegas, he became the first American to consume 50 hot dogs (including buns) in 12 minutes. Chestnut now advances to the […]

K-1 Fighter unleashes his inner homophobic warrior

We’re pretty old-school here at oddsnark when it comes to fighting, with a number of boxing fans among our ranks, but no K-1/UFC/bar fighting experts. (That’s right, we’ve got Iditarod aficionados, but no ultimate fighting enthusiasts.) Luckily this story is funny enough to transcend the world of foot fighting.
Apparently K-1 fighting person Yoshihiro Nakao thought […]

Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir Crowned Miss World 2005

(Yes, beauty pageants count as sports. Definitely. Definitely sports.)
21 year old Unnur Birna Vilhjalmsdottir was crowned Miss World 2005 on Saturday.
According to her bio on the Miss World 2005 official website, Unnur “…has been studying anthropology at the University and next fall she will commence her studies in Law as she plans to graduate […]

Vince Carter’s Mom: Here’s a Statue of My Baby; Teacher: Stop the Vinsanity

Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Florida is going to erect a “near lifesize” statue of New Jersey Net Vince Carter in front of a new gymnasium to be built with funds donated by Carter. The statue is a gift of Carter’s Mom.
Some school board members have complained that erecting the statue sends the wrong […]