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You Can't Make This Stuff Up
Kevin Kerr
December 29, 2008
No, you really can't. From a point guard's fruit-related injury to a third baseman's wimpy delivery, it's been another sublime year for the ridiculous
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December 29, 2008

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

No, you really can't. From a point guard's fruit-related injury to a third baseman's wimpy delivery, it's been another sublime year for the ridiculous

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In fairness the Bulgarians did pull their goalie kinda early

In a qualifying match for the 2010 Olympics, Slovakia's women's ice hockey team defeated Bulgaria 82--0.

On the plus side, Keanu Reeves's production company snapped up the film rights

Fans of the Argentine soccer team Chacarita were so desperate to get to a game on time that they hijacked two buses and forced the drivers at knifepoint to go faster.

Funny, Yankees fans recognize these symptoms each September

Third baseman Alex Rodriguez's wife, Cynthia, told the YES network last spring that her husband passed out during the birth of their first daughter: "In between pushing I'm going, 'Honey, are you O.K.' One nurse had a cold cloth on his head. The other nurse had the blood pressure on his arm. And my mother was rubbing his back."

And, at mile 125, he can see dead people

"When I get to mile 75 of a 150-mile race and I'm completely trashed," ultramarathoner David Goggins told Runner's World , "that's the only way I can see what David Goggins is all about."

The waitress said it was par for the course

John Daly, a two-time majors winner, was found drunk and unconscious outside a Hooters.

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