Awesome Sports

When skilled robots make soccer’s stars obsolete and the sport boring, Il Fenomeno rallies his successors. This animated short is the soccer equivalent of Space Jam. We wouldn’t entrust the future of the sport to Tim Howard though.

Make your Stanley Cup viewing more intense with Fan Fever’s NHL Goal Light. It can also blare all 30 team horns. It comes with 30 team stickers, a remote control, a 3.5mm jack and  ceiling/wall mounting brackets.

After taking on American football, basketball and baseball, Bad British Commentary tries to make sense of hockey. Anthony Richardson seems to have a better handle on it, save for the lack of corner kicks and the belated trophy polishing.

While we usually see Rémi Gaillard mercilessly pranking folks, he also knows his way around a (soccer) football. In celebration of the 2014 World Cup, Rémi shows off one trick shot for each of the 32 FIFA finalists.

SEBA Team Russia shows off their slalom rollerblading skills, while Alexander “DoctorFilm” Baskakov and Aero-Photo.RU show off their action filmmaking skills in this short film shot in Moscow. The track is Youth by Daughter.

Adidas matches Nike’s World Cup ad with its own star-studded promo. Featuring Lionel Messi, Xavi Hernandez, Luis Suarez and more. The backing track is a taste of Kanye West’s upcoming single God Level.

Pop Chart Lab picked an all-star roster of 165 basketball jerseys from 1921 to the present for this poster. Most of them are from the NBA, with cameos from the Globetrotters and basketball movies. Death to sleeved jerseys!

Designed for late-night pickup games, this basketball has been bestowed with bright battery-powered LED illumination. For play in complete darkness, we recommend some glow-in-the-dark hoops to go with.

Photographer Darren Dyk of Beyond Slow Motion captured the mad skills and extreme stunts of Nitro Circus Live through the lens of his slow-mo camera, letting us see their ramp flips and trick in more detail than ever before.

See what it’s like to be and to practice against the Maestro, thanks to Roger Federer, his coach Stefan Edberg and Google Glass. Imagine if you could livestream from a celebrity’s perspective. Oh wait.

Snowboarder Dan Brisse decided that combining snowboarding and rooftop parkour would be a good idea, as he was towed to the edge of a building, flew through the air while doing a spin, and landed on another roof.

Xpogo shows off some of the crazy stunts that are possible with pogo sticks, as athletes use their springy sticks to jump over ledges, bounce off walls, down stairs and generally jounce around like Tigger – except when they crash.

Hey y’all, the 70’s are back – thanks to the Brooks Running Company. Their Heritage Footwear Collection features the Vanguard and Vantage, with classic style and street-smart aesthetics. Plus, they look good with tube socks.

(Gore) A skit from The Onion SportsDome about a disabled Army vet who can’t get into the UFC because of his handicap. In case that sentence just made you unsheathe your righteousness, we’re going to say it again: it’s from The Onion.

Hailing from Egypt, 22-year old Ōsunaarashi (“The Great Sandstorm”) is the first professional sumo wrestler to come from Africa. This clip is an excerpt from Salazar’s 30-min documentary. The entire film is on Red Bull TV.

Professional stuntman Ronnie Shalvis shows us some of the fastest ways to get around cars… as well as the most tedious ways of getting out of them. The Saturn was only slightly harmed in the making of this video.

A turf war between kids at a local soccer field turns into an all-out war when they invoke their heroes. And the wrong Hulk shows up. Nike Football pulls out all the stops in their star-studded commercial. (Thanks Gian!)

(NSFW: Language) Eight professional skateboarders travel to Iran, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. This beautiful film by Patrik Wallner of Visualtraveling is part skate video and part travel documentary.

Nico Calabria was born without his right leg or hip, but that didn’t stop him from playing soccer competitively. You’re dead inside if this ad for Powerade doesn’t give you the feels. Support Nico’s dream of playing World Cup soccer here.

Speed rider Valentin Delluc pulls off a trick that seems straight out of a Tony Hawk Pro Skater game: grinding on ski lift cables at high speed, making sure to float off to avoid the posts at the last second. More here.

Toronto Blue Jays shortstop Munenori Kawasaki is still working on his mastery of the English language, but that just makes this locker room interview all the more endearing. His English is already so much better than Chico Escuela’s.

Sorry Lyoto, but the real Dragon is here. Alongside in-game footage of vicious knockouts and submissions, the latest gameplay video for the Xbox One and PS 4 MMA game reveals that Bruce Lee will be a playable character.

A silly edit of putting footage from The Masters doctored to make it look like it’s taking place on a miniature golf course. The hole with the gopher is priceless. They really should consider adding obstacles like these on the greens.