Category: Sports

  • Camera Obscura 5280: African-American Rodeo

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    Camera Obscura 5280: African-American Rodeo: “the Martin Lutheran King African-American Heritage Rodeo of Champions during the National Western Stock Show in Denver Monday evening.”

  • Appleton Post-Crescent – Eye on the Ball Blog: GAME PLAN FOR THE BIG GAME

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    Appleton Post-Crescent – Eye on the Ball Blog: GAME PLAN FOR THE BIG GAME: “Covering the big game requires a different approach than your typical game. A game plan is crucial because you coverage starts well before kickoff and continues well after the final whistle. Sunday’s NFC Championship game is a perfect example of how…

  • Back To Shooting: I need to write things down

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    Back To Shooting: I need to write things down: “I neglected to enter POY this year, because I thought I only had a couple images worth entering, both in the pictorial category. I forgot that when I left Lincoln, I thought I might have a good sports portfolio. So for your viewing pleasure, here’s what…

  • Navel gazing – Reuters Photographers

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    Navel gazing – Reuters Photographers: “At various times some of our photographers and picture editors have talked about how the eyes, hands and even feet can be used as the subject of pictures. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you the ‘middle way’ – the human belly as a means of self expression.”

  • Sports Photo Slideshow | Reuters.com

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    Sports Photo Slideshow | Reuters.com: “” (Via Rob Galbraith.)

  • Best Seat in the House | The Seattle Times

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    Best Seat in the House | The Seattle Times, Rod Mar: “I had such a blast at what ended up as the final Seahawks game of the season. Snow, the playoffs, a natural grass field, and Green Bay’s legendary Lambeau Field all made for an incredible environment in which to shoot photos. As many of…

  • PAM PLATT: Flurry over a photo prompts explanation

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    PAM PLATT: Flurry over a photo prompts explanation: “Some of the comments registered by angry, offended and/or baffled readers: ‘Awful,’ ‘an embarrassment,’ ‘horrible decision,’ ‘poor judgment,’ ‘distasteful,’ ‘a mystery’ and ‘shame on you.’ I have to admit I was a little baffled by the response. Aren’t sports the province of the ubiquitous fanny pat? Aren’t…

  • Italian football reels after Sicily riot death

    Italian football reels after Sicily riot death

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    The Observer: After a series of violent clashes at Serie A games, 1,500 police were drafted in for the Sicilian derby. The rivalry between the historically underachieving teams, which has reached fever pitch as both joust for Champions League places, took centre stage after half time as Palermo fans fired tear gas at the home…

  • Trade Secrets: Football players 'On the Job'

    Trade Secrets: Football players 'On the Job'

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    SportsShooter: Erik Lunsford’s illustrative portraits are next in a series of SportsShooter.com features called “Trade Secrets.” The Daunte Culpepper image, “The Office”, was produced through a combination of extensive Photoshop manipulation and physical destructive techniques. After printing, the image was subjected to being run over with a car, getting stomped on with very dirty shoes,…

  • Robert Fisk: Football and violence go together

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    Independent: Foer wades in at the deep end with a visit to Belgrade’s top- scoring Red Star, a team nurtured by Serbia’s equally top war criminal Arkan, who took his well-armed footballers down the Drina Valley in 1992 on an orgy of killing, plunder and mass rape. Arkan drove a pink Cadillac and sported a…

  • Millwall brick

    Millwall brick

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    Wikipedia: In the late 1960s — in response to violence at football matches in England — police began confiscating any objects that could be used as weapons. These items included steel combs, pens, beermats, polo mints, shoelaces and even boots. However, fans were still permitted to bring in newspapers. Larger newspapers such as The Guardian…

  • Somalia Defeats Rwanda To Win Third-World Cup

    Somalia Defeats Rwanda To Win Third-World Cup

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    The Onion: “Never have the words ‘win or go home’ provided such inspiration to any team,” Bin-Shakur said. “I am overcome with joy, as well as hunger, and I look forward to bringing the Third-World Cup trophy home to my country.” The Third-World Cup trophy, an AK-47 coated with gold spray-paint and mounted on a…

  • The Ballad of Big Mike

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    NYT Magazine: What happened next was the strangest encounter of Lemming’s 28-year career as a football scout. Michael Oher sat down at the table across from him. . .and refused to speak. “He shook my hand and then didn’t say a word,” Lemming recalled. (“His hands — they were huge!”) Lemming asked a few questions;…

  • Wrestling stars busted in Hanging Rock

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    From the Ironton Tribune: Robert Alex Szatowski, aka WWE and ECW champion Rob Van Dam, and Terry Michael Brunk, aka Sabu, also a former ECW champion, were pulled over on U.S. 52, near Patrick Street in Hanging Rock at about 10:15 p.m. The two were apparently driving from their performances at the Big Sandy Superstore…

  • Ullrich and Basso out of Le Tour

    Ullrich and Basso out of Le Tour

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    From the BBC: Team manager Olaf Ludwig said: “We talked to the riders several times and even have their declarations of innocence in written form. “At first we had no reason to doubt the riders’ statements, but that situation has now changed profoundly.” Ullrich, Basso and Mancebo are unlikely be the last big names to…

  • Christian Wrestling Federation

    Christian Wrestling Federation

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    Thanks to Dave for tipping me off to this one. From the Christian Wrestling Federation: “When I’m up in front of a pulpit people don’t listen to a word I say. But through a wrestling match, they’re able to understand Jesus Christ better than anything I could say.” Here. And the video is here.