Can he get back to being in the pr-ibe ob l-ibe?
For Atlas Obscura, Sam Lin-Sommer wrote about Oaxaca in Mexico and its love of basketball through La Copa Benito Juárez, an annual tournament that takes places in the mountains: At this tournament, there are no corporate sponsorships, no prize money. Just some 6,000 players and fans from the basketball-crazed mountains of the Sierra Juárez, trekking to the Zapotec hamlet of Guelatao de Juárez, driven by, as the tournament’s motto goes, el honor de competir.
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Crosspost with Distant Arcade: 2025 World Snooker Championship semi-finalist Zhao Xintong has a Pokémon named Chimchar on his bowtie. Those pocket monsters get everywhere!
I’m late but Alex Ovechkin beat Wayne Gretzky’s all-time goals record. I also learnt that they are both kinda shitty with their vague alignments with Putin and Trump so hopefully someone not shitty can beat them both to 2nd and 3rd one day.
Hackaday on soccer balls and the "knuckleball" phenomenon
Balls to all that!
Frank Rijkaard, Marco Van Basten, and Ruud Gullit on their time in Italy with AC Milan
Name me a better footballing trio. I’ll wait.
Marcus Rashford brace helps Villa to 3–0 win vs. Preston in FA Cup quarter finals
Villain initiation: complete.
I have no opinion on the GOAT debate (so don’t bring it here) but these Michael Jordan plays are ridiculous.
The Chocolate Men: Cadbury Athletic F.C. and its confectionary affiliation
I wonder if they play in the Chomp-ions League.
Here's why NFL teams like to pay for dirty balls
Filthy. Too dirty to clean their acts up.
TIL: there are London Irish, London Scottish, and London Welsh rugby teams (although I also found out that the original London Welsh had to fold but the name lives on via an amateur team). Oh, and London Cornish, London French, and London New Zealand! London South Africa were also a club but dissolved in 2014.
For Colossal, Grace Ebert covered Keerthana Kunnath’s photo series about a community of female bodybuilders in Kerala, titled “Not What You Saw”: Set against common backdrops like beaches, the outside of a traditional Indian home, and lush, green foliage, the collection highlights an alternative vision of beauty grounded in immense female power.
You can't make me hate Marcus Rashford
I wish him all the best at Villa.
The best table tennis points of 2024
Outstanding athleticism from last year.