What can't Yankees manager Joe Girardi do? First, there's manage the Yankees to their 27th World Series win. But after the win, when driving home on the Cross County Parkway, he stopped to help a driver who crashed into a wall!

*This is right near where I live. It's a really dangerous stretch of parkway* picked by suebe 2 days ago

This is an old article (and a similar one to Bingo's post), but I've recently discovered barefoot running and am very interested.

I'm fascinated by this statement: "For the fun of it. One of [Tarahumara Indians] recently came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing nothing but a toga and sandals. He was 57 years old."

FOR THE FUN OF IT????? picked by icepigs 4 days ago

A 10-foot Great White Shark had been hooked already by a baited drum line off the coast of Queensland, Australia when it was attacked and bitten by a much bigger fish. Based on the bite marks, the attacker is presumed to be a 20-foot long Great White shark.

What a picture! picked by bingo 2 weeks ago

The coach of the national football team has ordered players to kiss each other on the lips in order to create a special bond between team mates picked by ruthstark 3 weeks ago

2nd pro team this year (NHL's Phoenix Coyotes were first). Who's next? picked by icepigs 4 weeks ago

A high school cheerleading squad is getting flak after parading religious banners at football games.

The Lakeview-Fort Oglethrope High School cheerleaders, of Georgia, have tried everything to get their team to win, including displaying football banners with such biblical verse as “commit to the lord” and “take charge of it, picked by suebe 1 month ago

and get police escorts on the way to their home games if a pending bill passes.

Why don't they just leave earlier? picked by suebe 2 months ago

As a transvestite comic who is prone to put on weight and had never run farther than five miles, Eddie Izzard is not the obvious candidate to run 1,100 miles around Britain. But the 47-year-old stand-up and actor will today drag his aching limbs from the Olympic park to Trafalgar Square in the last of an astonishing 43 marathons he has completed in just 52 days... picked by doodlechild 2 months ago

Dock Ellis was baseball's first true king of performance enhancing drugs. Dock Ellis is probably the only player that intentionally tried to injure his opponents during an All-Star game. He's one of the few (the only?) to be pepper sprayed by stadium security upon arrival. How many other major leaguers spent their off-season cruising through the ghettos of Haiti in order to find zombies? picked by 2manyusernames 2 months ago

The controversy over gender row champion runner Caster Semenya deepened today — after reports claimed sex swap tests have shown she is a hermaphrodite.

*update to this picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

It would be hard to find a more loyal fan of the Washington Redskins than real estate agent Pat Hill. She's had season tickets since the early 1960s, when her daughter danced in the halftime shows at the old D.C. Stadium, before it was renamed in memory of Robert F. Kennedy. picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

A Brooklyn judo champ stripped of her first place medal when judges realized she was a woman competing in a contest against men secured her place in the history books Friday. *After waiting 50 years!* picked by tvirus 2 months ago

For the bases that is. Blind individuals play beep ball, a form of baseball specially modified for the blind. A special baseball that beeps (and weighs an entire pound!) is used, and payers run toward padded columnar "bases" that beep. Due to varying levels of sightedness, players wear blindfolds on the field to keep things equal. An update on the sport from an earlier post picked by suebe 3 months ago

South Africa’s track and field federation had been asked to conduct a gender test on an 800-meter runner amid concerns she does not meet the requirements to compete as a woman. picked by nateebiinature 3 months ago

Who didn't see it coming? picked by JoshSF49 3 months ago

So how could they take the field at Yankee Stadium? Because this was 3 a.m. picked by cb__ 3 months ago

Women boxers will compete at the London 2012 Olympics, the International Olympic Committee has ruled.

They will compete at three weight divisions after the IOC's executive board ruled that boxing would no longer be a male-only event. picked by DAVEthefish 3 months ago

Imagine Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier slugging it out for a round in one of history’s greatest boxing matches and then when the bell rings sitting down for a game of chess. Preposterous? Ok, maybe. But we would have loved to see it and you wouldn’t have to make up the rules as you go because Chess Boxing is a real sport. picked by iamamaniac 3 months ago

Here are some slightly modified versions of some of my Nature Photographs. If you've ever wondered what it would be like if Godzilla trampled the countryside of rural Idaho, set fire to downtown Boston, ran amok in the great cities of Europe, or just showed up near that little pond behind the Junior High School ... picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

Throughout most of history, the rough terrain has been given over almost entirely to wildlife. But in the summer of 1869, the woods were overrun. For the first time, middle-class urbanites decided that a few weeks spent in the clutches of Nature might be survivable. In fact, they had been convinced it would be fun. picked by kakana 3 months ago

22-year-old Tyler Bradt plunged over Palouse Falls in eastern Washington and set a world record for a kayak descent. The fall was 186 feet, which he covered in less than four seconds.

After disappearing under the water he emerged within six seconds with his broken paddle and sprained wrist. picked by Bingo 3 months ago

Mark Buehrle pitched the first perfect game in the major leagues in five years, leading the Chicago White Sox over the Tampa Bay Rays 5-0 on Thursday. picked by coldbladed 4 months ago

The Centennial Wrestling team was told they could not wear bikini tops to try and get attention at their car wash, even though the cheerleaders across the street can. picked by muppet 4 months ago

Long Island Railroad engineer allegedly allows a passenger to drive the commuter train for 25 miles at speeds up to 80 mph!! picked by suebe 4 months ago