Sports

Jezza and Captain Slow return to BBC America on 2/25/13 with this silly business – a rugby match played with hatchbacks and crossovers – with the Stig as ref. Maybe the Hamster is inside the ball?

Red Bull pro skaters Ryan Sheckler, Ryan Decenzo, Torey Pudwill and Zered Bassett talk about their roots and passion for skating while enjoying a skate trip to Phoenix, Arizona. Track list at the link.

NetworkA sent Signal Snowboards’ founder Dave Lee to an Italian glass factory to watch them build an amazingly gorgeous snowboard from curved, tempered glass. Will it shatter, or will it slide?

Sports, stunts and first-person perspective videos dominate the latest video of Luc Bergeron aka Zapatou’s popular compilation series. You’ll find links to all 243 videos on his Google+ page.

Devin Graham and his friends went to Oahu, Hawaii to see the awesome moves that the experts from Aquatic Aviation can pull off on the jet-powered FlyBoard. They should’ve taken this guy with them.

To celebrate Michael Jordan’s 50th birthday on 2/17/13, Meir21 compiled 50 of His Airness’ best plays, from his college days to his Wizards stint. Poor Craig Ehlo. Happy (belated) B-day MJ!

Made by Sherpas Cinema, Into the Mind is about the “varying disciplines of skiing, snowboarding and other mountain pursuits that display the connectivity of Earth, mind, body and soul.” Coming 09/13.

At around 0:50 of Sverre Liliequist’s Big Mountain run at the Swatch Skiers Cup, a sizable patch of snow breaks off and threatens to engulf him. But Sverre ain’t Sweet Brown; he got time for that.

Skaters have been pulling off tricks involving multiple skateboards for a long time, but we’ve not seen anyone do it the way Adam Miller did – by pulling off a gainer backflip down a set of stairs.

Stephanie Dietze and Lutz Eichholz unicycled downhill from the Cima Ombretta Orientale, a 9,900ft. peak of the Dolomites. They make it look easy. Turn subtitles on. Image by Markus Greber.

While you probably wouldn’t want to wear these in the ring, any fan of pugilism would love to have these hand-stitched leather boxing gloves proudly on display in their sports collection.

Looking forward to March Madness? Studio Neat’s iOS app makes it easy to place bets with friends and has a scoring system that amply rewards picks. The app will only be available in the US App Store.

We can already hear the cries of “fake” but we’re still impressed by this clip of a guy making a full-court basketball shot – with his shirt pulled over his head. (Or his excellent VFX and editing skills.)

He’s not the Silver Skier, but Norwegian PK Hunder did launch his phone from his pocket during an X Games Big Air practice run only to have it meet back with its master owner at the bottom of the hill.

A lighthearted moment that occurred in the midst of an intense Russian Professional Basketball League game. After faking out his defender, the ballhandler near the top of the key spots a free man…

Mediocre Films assembles a compilation of some of the commercials we can expect to see during this Sunday’s big game – along with a brief tribute to what Super Bowl ads used to look like.

Lacoste gets somewhat back in touch with the brand’s roots with L!VE: a line of extra stylish (and extra expensive) limited-edition sports accessories. The helmet designs are particularly choice.

Once again, the band Hadouken uses videos of impressive physical feats to promote their music. This time it’s their new song called Levitate. We’re not sure all the trick shots are real, though.

At the 1994 Lipton Championships, Andre Agassi was outplaying fellow tennis legend Boris Becker so much that Becker decided to take a break, handing his racket to a ball girl named Stephanie Flaherty.