Awesome Sports

An early look at Brian Helgeland’s Jackie Robinson bio pic, starring a bowtied Harrison Ford as Dodger’s GM Branch Rickey, who broke baseball’s color barrier by signing the great Number 42.

Fans can settle a long-standing debate with both the Dream Team and the 2012 Olympic team in NBA 2K13. Because we’ll never know for sure… by how many points the Dream Team will win.

Michael Peebles started the Huntington Baseball Co. in hope of bringing the game’s rich history back to life with a series of hand-made, old-fashioned gear including bats, gloves, baseballs and hats.

Get a good look at the new player animations and signature moves in NBA 2K13, including lots of dunks, crazy layups and pumped up celebrations. The song is Victory, a Puff Daddy classic.

British table tennis player David Wetherill dished out a well-placed return shot while he was falling in his match against Germany’s Kusiak Thomasz at the 2012 London Paralympic Games.

NBA 2K13 brings a crossover-friendly control scheme, new player physics, the Dream Team and the return of the All Star game modes. We hope they made the Slam Dunk contest enjoyable.

According to another video, prior to this match football club 1.FC Magdeburg had failed to score in the previous five matches. Instead of booing, the club’s fans did something much better. Or worse.

Director Lukas Chmiel turned the juggling prowess of Soccer Art member Kamil Drzewucki into a truly tantalizing work of art in this well-shot clip. Music is by Felkon. (Thanks Grzegorz R.!)

A motivational video by GreySkale Media featuring pro footballer Giavanni Ruffin and “Hip Hop Preacher” Eric Thomas. The song is Your Hand in Mine by Explosions in the Sky.

Even the world’s best athletes have bad days, but some of the commentators at the 2012 London Olympics are quite the perfectionists. These are some of the contenders for Best Worst Comments.

The upcoming release of Konami’s long running football series promises more improvements to the AI and its online features, more precise controls and more trademark moves from star players.

Athlete, rebel, poet. The personification of swagger, with the skills to back it up. Team USA pays tribute to The Greatest by commissioning DJ Steve Porter’s goose bump inducing remix.

Strap this tiny gadget onto your glove, and it sends data to your iOS device over Bluetooth, allowing you to analyze club speed, position, tempo, and swing path information to help improve your game.

At a CFL match, Tiger Cats WR Chris Williams amazingly turned a missed field goal into a touchdown. Or not: Williams celebrated too early. Good thing his team still won.

Another ad for the 2012 Paralympics, this time for UK’s Channel 4. With what these people have been through, being an athlete is the easy part. The song is Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy.

Add another fool to the list of premature celebrants. Riccardo Russo had a decent lead in the 2012 Italian CIV race, until he miscalculated and began celebrating a lap too early. Poor schmuck.

An animated preview of Felix Baumgartner’s much hyped record-breaking supersonic freefall from 23 miles above the Earth. Red Bull will stream footage of the real thing when it happens this summer.

If you’re too shy to rock these modern Nikes at the country club, the Lunar Swingtip offers a good compromise. These casual sneakers are spikeless, so you can wear them on and off the course.

A fan shouts out advice to Viktor Troicki as he prepares to serve against Novak Djokovic in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. Troicki is clearly irritated at the smartass. You know what happens next.

The boys of Ultimate Batting Practice are back with another “Is it fake?” stunt. This time they play a weird amalgam of tennis and baseball, using bats to volley a baseball back and forth.

Take a fun and exhilarating ride down the snow-covered Allalin Glacier with Andreas Tschanz and 138 other bikers, as he hits almost 80mph, all captured from the viewpoint of his helmetcam.

Legendary linebacker Ray Lewis preaches about what it takes to get to the next level. His speech will get you pumped up to do just about anything. Oh, there’s also a game somewhere here.

A documentary about the 1992 USA Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, a group so packed with talent and egos that they faced  – and created – greater challenges within than in the Olympics itself.