Tag: Sports

Buy Him Some Peanuts and Cracker Jack

11 June 2024, Cincinnati

In the 9th inning of the Cincinnati Reds / Cleveland Guardians game Tuesday night, Reds fan William Hendon, a sophomore at OSU, ran onto the field of the Great American Ball Park in his socks and wearing a Johnny Bench jersey. A police officer approached, Hendon did a backflip, and the officer stopped him with a Taser.

Hendon “did knowingly run onto the Reds playing field during the game without permission to do so,” an officer wrote in one of his criminal complaints.

“Everybody thinks you landed that backflip,” Municipal Court Judge William Mallory said during Hendon’s arraignment Wednesday morning.
“I’m pretty sure I did,” replied Hendon.

Hendon pleaded not guilty.

[Images found here, full story here.]

The Cheapest Cheap Seats

ADA-required seating for the blind?

[Found here.]

No Ball

No Ball Court

I remember playing No Ball. The games would go on until someone’s porch light came on, and we’d ignore it. Then someone’s mom would holler at us and the game was postponed. The score remained the same (343 to 352) until we resumed the following day and stopped again at sundown (441 to 455).

[Found here.]

The .Gif Friday Post No.332 – Sportscast Photobombers

Photobomb 3

Photobomb 4

Photobomb 1

Photobomb 2

[Yeah, I looped the 1st three. The last one cracks me up. Unadulterated .gifs found here.]

Australian Cricket

Leave it to the Aussies to take a boring English sport like Cricket and turn it in to something delightfully brutal.

[Found here.]

Gyroscopy

One of the great things about international football tournaments (that’s soccer to you deniers) are the lengths that some fans go to get photos posted on the internet:

A fan cheers during the Club World Cup semi-final soccer match between Brazil’s Internacional and DR Congo’s TP Mazembe at Mohammed Bin Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi December 14, 2010.

Right. Nothing like putting the threaded axle of a bicycle wheel on your noggin, giving it a spin, and enjoying some self-trepanation while watching a soccer match. Next thing you know, your spinning image is posted here.

[Found here and previously posted here.]