With a disputed history dating back to at least the 1800s, the annual Cooper’s Hill cheese rolling involves hordes of fearless competitors chasing an eight pound double gloucester cheese down a steep hill.
This year, would you believe, the competition was won by an American. See the full gallery here.
Photographs: Matt Cardy (top) and Carl Court/AFP/Getty Images
(via afternoonsnoozebutton)
Hmmm, would you call this a recreational LARPing league? The next step after quidditch?
This year, we’re thinking the media softball league should take a different angle….
“Weapons must be blunted. Stabbing or thrusting, which Brooks defined as repeatedly delivering excess force to the same point of contact, is not allowed. Fighters can hit any region in the “kill zone,” which excludes the feet, back of knees, groin, back of neck and base of skull. Vertical strikes to the spine and horizontal strikes to the back of the neck are forbidden.
Injuries have included dislodged teeth and broken or severed fingers.”
(via Battle of the Nations, a Holy Grail of Battle Re-enactments - NYTimes.com)
Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City could have used a zamboni after the Rays-Royals game was called this afternoon.
Oh yeah, and it’s May 2nd.
Kauffman Stadium
May 2, 2013
Kansas City, Missouri
Photo by @TBTimes_Rays
Seriously, our weather is insane.
Kids books are nice, but Hugo has recently taken a strong interest in ESPN: The Magazine.
Bonus—its pages are both shiny and crinkly.
Bruins-Sabres National Anthem (by specmotors) Rene Rancourt starts singing, and then the TD Garden crowd takes it home as Boston returns to sports two days after the bombing at the Boston Marathon.
This is a goosebump- and tear-inducing way to start the morning.
(Although sometimes I wish we would see this kind of national unity more often, and not just in the wake of the worst tragedies).
HEADER OF STATE President Barack Obama bounces a soccer ball on his forehead during a White House ceremony honoring the Stanley Cup champions Los Angeles Kings and Major League Soccer Cup champions LA Galaxy. (Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta / AP via The Telegraph)
What, no slap shots in the East Room?
This is a new sport to me. Quite the hybrid.
Matt Read (L) and Chris Levy compete in a bout of chessboxing during a competition at the Scala venue in London. The hybrid sport combines chess with boxing in alternating rounds. The winner is decided by a knock out or checkmate, whichever comes first. A full match consists of eleven rounds: six rounds of chess, each four minutes long, and five rounds of boxing, each three minutes long.
Picture: Peter Kollanyi/LNP (via Pictures of the day: 25 March 2013 - Telegraph)
I made the Washington Post DC Sports Bog, for the first time since the pithy comments in the old Atlantic 11 poll. Woohoo! And thanks to Liz for spotting me on the Bog.
Look for me and my cousin Alexandra in the foreground. Along with the banners, it’s probably one of the only good things to come out of last night’s game.
On a related note, Liz spotted me in the photo drinking a beer, and my friend Bea spotted me from the 400 level by the way I was drinking a beer. Should I be worried. (Oddly, it was the only beer I had all game).
(via Georgetown fans bring ‘traitors and liars’ banner to Pitt game)
I’m glad I have mustache-fundraising progress (and, you know, work), to keep me from having to dwell on the death throes of the BIG EAST today.
Hoping the Hoyas come out of this stronger — the timing is especially a shame, as the overall athletics program at GU (despite lacking facilities) has never been stronger, what with the national prominence of the soccer teams, women’s and men’s basketball, sailing, track and cross-country… I’m hoping that whatever solution is arrived at doesn’t hurt those teams much. Even though I know that it is, as always, mostly about the TV money.
(Photo via Aresco attempting to hold Big East Conference together)
With two trips to the National Building Museum’s minigolf course, Hugo is pondering career options.
A young bull jumps over several runners or ‘mozos’ at the bullring at the end of the fourth bull run of the San Fermín festival in Pamplona in Spain. Five runners were slightly hurt in the event, which must have been a lucky escape for many more Photograph: Jesus Diges/EPA
Not that any part of it seems safe, but this appears to be one of the more foolish parts of the ritual.
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