Story Archives of 'Sports'

Maybe you’ve heard of parkour, in which practitioners climb, jump and flip over walls, fences and stairs, turning the city into an obstacle course. Such unconventional sports are taking off in Germany, according to Der Spiegel.

More than thirty robots went head-to-head in Toyama, Japan last weekend at the prestigious Robo-One competition.

Our favorite contender was a one-armed stabbing robot that can be operated by brain waves. The inventor attached a series of electrodes to his forehead and used neural waves to tell it when to walk forward, rotate right, and unleash its stabbing arm.

In the red corner: from Venice, a rambunctious Goffriller cello from 1690. In the blue corner: measuring eight feet of solid spruce, an alpine horn. The venue: a faded gym where champion boxers Muhammad Ali, Roberto Duran, and Mike Tyson have honed their skills.

Not that this is a surprise to Here's What's Awesome readers, but I think we're on the cusp of the animal prosthetics trend. Last week we wrote about an elephant with a new prosthetic leg; this week Presurfer introduces Lucky the turtle, who has a new set of front legs that help him in "chasing his girlfriend around." Who am I to stand in the way of a trend? I said to myself. So I had Lucky the turtle pick out this week's awesome links.

Every runner seems to have a horror story about knees, either involving themselves or someone they know. The belief that running ruins your joints is intuitive and commonly espoused. Why wouldn’t your knees want to punish you for all the pressure and pounding they receive during a work out?

Allegations of performance enhancing drugs have stained baseball in the last few years. But it’s not new to the sport. Many players in the past have routinely taken amphetamines before games. They say Joe DiMaggio drank ten cups of coffee before suiting up.