Awesome Sports

What do you get when you combine two “California kids” with three inches of “dry” snow in Portland? Oh, you know. Cross country skiing in the street is an indicator to use the treadmill instead. Just sayin’. (Thanks Chad!)

Keep your eye on Dave Wottle, the guy at the back of the pack in this footage from the 1972 Olympic 800-meter event. If you look up “sandbagger” in the encyclopedia, they should have a picture of this guy.

Richard Sherman’s infamous NFC rant was intense, but the world’s reaction to it was way overblown. ESPN pokes fun at the media circus with the help of comedian Frank Caliendo and his hilarious impressions.

A week before the big game, SB Nation predicted the horribly imbalanced play of Super Bowl XLVIII by creating two Madden teams – the Seahawks with their stats and proportions cranked to 11, and the Broncos dialed all the way down.

If there’s one thing we know about dogs, it’s that they like tennis balls. In fact, George here tennis so much that he wants the players on the TV to serve the ball to him. We’re just happy George knows enough not to knock the TV over.

“I’m coming home now.” A humbling and nail-biting view of Felix Baumgartner’s 24mi free fall from the edge of space, captured through GoPro Hero2 cameras mounted on his balloon and suit. One of the best videos you’ll ever see.

Glove and Boots‘ Bay Ridge boy Johnny T may not be too happy that New York and New Jersey are collaborating on Super Bowl XLVIII, but he’s still gonna tell us all about the game – and all the jerks who could afford to go freeze their butts off.

Hubertus Von Hohenlohe will be attending his sixth Winter Olympics at Sochi as a downhill skier for team Mexico. The 55-year-old Olympic Prince will be competing in style with a state of the art ski suit modeled after traditional Mariachi garb.

Chinese tennis superstar Li Na recently won the 2014 Australian Open. She won the crowd over once more at the awards ceremony with her honest and funny speech about the people who support her. And made her rich.

Last time we trusted a Brit to teach us about American football, it didn’t go well. Thankfully, UK animator Fraser Davidson’s short clip is significantly more accurate, even if it’s a bit light in educational value. (Thanks Brian!)

Work it bigger, make it better, do it faster, makes us longer. Nike is helping us reach further fairway distances while turning heads with their ever stylish new VRS Covert 2.0 drivers, which offer easy adjustable settings and faster ball speed.

Table tennis pros Jean-Michel Saive and Chuang Chih-yuan showcased their skills in both their sport and comedy in this awesome exhibition match. Watch them pull off trick shots and mess with the officials. Full match in HD here.

Bad Lip Reading returns to incorrectly interpret players and coaches on the sidelines and the field. Funny thing is, some of the plays that QBs call sound like this. “Don’t hoard cat food! Star Wars typhoon! No more cartoons! No Kung Fu!”

Football is a completely different sport in the UK, so there’s no wonder The Exploding Heads‘ clueless commentary of American football is so hilarious. Best part: It’s not even an NFL game. Damned yellow tripwire gets ’em every time.

Nine-year old Jaden Newman is only in fourth grade, but she’s a member of the high school women’s basketball team. She averages 14.8 PPG and 7.5APG. Their opponent’s defense sucks, but her hot hands and handles are for real.

YouTube channel IFHT and Hockey Community present the 29 steps to becoming a beaut of a hockey player. It’s more than just skating and brawling. You also need to drink beer, show off your scars and deal with wet clothes.

ESPN’s top sports videos of the year includes Doug Anderson’s whirlwind slam dunk, the behind the back three point shot and this kid running over a puny football defense. We can think of at least five videos they missed though.

Developed by Reebok and MC10, the Checklight helps monitor for dangerous head impacts. Easy-to-read colored LEDs provide instant feedback. While it won’t diagnose injuries, it certainly will help you know how severe an impact was.

The Memphis Tigers’ men’s basketball team did their best Globetrotters impression during their latest game against the SE MO Redhawks. They got a steal, pulled off three different touch passes then capped it off with a dunk.

The NBA recounts its picks for the most epic dunk shots of the past year. While Kobe and LeBron are impressive, Xavier Henry’s basket at number six is a thing of beauty, and we think it should have been number one.

Nearly seven minutes of New York Knicks coach Mike Woodson being depressed. On one hand, with enough footage you could make any coach look miserable. On the other hand, all of this is from this season. Also the Knicks are miserable.

The Buffalo Sabers won in overtime against the Phoenix Coyotes with a bizarre goal. After a mad scramble, Coyotes goalie Mike Smith went back to their goal to guard it, not knowing that he was the one who would doom his own team.

(NSFW) Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou is back with his compilation of the best YouTube videos of 2013. While we disagree with a few of his picks – underwater boxing? – overall his list is really solid. Spider-deer!