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the Mark Pike
Posts tagged “sports”
A batboy for the New York Yankees goes on a wild goose chase for a left-handed bat-stretcher
One of the greatest stories ever told.
Boomshakalaka
Required Viewing: Chiranjeevi, the most famous Tollywood actor of all-time, schooling some creeps on the hardwood in the greatest finish to a basketball game film patrons have ever seen.
MONDAY AM BONUS: Our old friend Mark Pike has put together an “Amazing” version of this clip that, for once, warrants this description:
The dude who gifted us with the hastily made Cleveland tourism video was tapped by TNT’s basketball crew to make an amazing self-deprecating follow-up. This is why I love the NBA. (Skip to 2:03 if you have the attention span of a hockey fan).
Adidas collabo with FreeDarko!
After Dwight Howard broke the shot clock last night (an obvious metaphor highlighting his ability to mess with the spacetime continuum and tip the Planck scale) you owe it to yourself to watch this (and the Derrick Rose one too).
New York’s Finest
Norman Rockwell would’ve had a field day with this sequence of events from tonight’s Yankees game: Cop catches homerun ball. Cop hands ball to young boy. Boy taps cop on shoulder to get his attention and shakes his hand in thanks. Cop sits down, knowing he did a very cool thing.
This quadtych is an exaggerated amalgamation of every foul ball story from my youth. One time, a guy in the section below me caught a ball and threw it my way. I went over to him and shook his hand and everybody in the Tidewater Tides AAA stadium clapped. I was embarrassed, but it was awesome. Another time, we were entering the stadium late and a foul ball hit a car in the parking lot. A cop grabbed it and gave it to me. Turns out the ball was hit by Gary Carter, on minor league rehab assignment. A few innings later, I convinced the cop to enter the locker room and get the ball signed for me.
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Free Darko: An Interview With Bethlehem Shoals
On today’s episode of “Headphones Are Stethoscopes” I had the chance to chat with one of the authors from FreeDarko.com, a blog about basketball, but so much more than that. It’s about race relations, politics, the pursuit of the aesthetic, philosophy…
Here’s a quick recap of topics discussed:
- Michael Lewis’ Statistical Analysis
- Liberated Fandom
- NBA Stars (and Fake NBA Stars) on Social Networks
References include Milton Friedman, Pi, Facebook, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The River Wild, Jesus Shuttlesworth, William Carlos Williams, Polvo and the Macrophenomenal Pro Basketball Almanac (in stores now!).
If books aren’t you thing, go snag a t-shirt. Wear your art on your sleeve.
SPiN New York: Exclusive Ping Pong Club
SPIN New York, coming this spring, is part Urban Social Club, part Athletic Club, part Off-Broadway Ping Pong Theater. Table Tennis is being reimagined and reinvigorated by SPIN New York. The club will feature a state of the art playing facility, including 15 luxury tables, a main stage center court, pro shop, lounge, bar and restaurant.
It’s places like this that make me think about moving to NYC immediately.
freedarko.com: The Official FD Bracket Form
Ra-Ra-Rasputin rooting for Duke? Yes. Go Devils.
Who you rooting for? Upsets? March Mania.
