Google’s Jennifer Hom works on a Wacom tablet to create a logo marking the 25th anniversary of the Buckyball’s discovery. (Credit:Daniel Terdiman/CNET) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–They’ve celebrated Pac-Man’s anniversary, Einstein’s birthday, the World Cup, the Fourth of July, Persian New Year, the Olympics, U.S. elections, and just about everything in between. Who are they? Google’s Doodlers, of course. A band of artists whose job it is to translate special events into those colorful, whimsical versions of Google’s corporate logo, the Doodlers[....]
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If you ever hear somebody giving swimmers crap about their sport, step in and call them an idiot. Swimming isn’t my first sport of choice, by any means, but it’s pretty physically taxing and I respect anybody who can do it well (especially smoke weed and do it well). After seeing this picture, I guess I can now say great swimmers are so in sync with the water that they can do the back stroke and balance bottled water on their forehead. Impressive. (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
It may not be quite as bad as getting gored by a bull through the mouth, but having a javelin pierce through the skin on your shin doesn’t look all that pleasant either. I’m still trying to figure out how the hell that happened. Perhaps this guy was simply trying to get a better look at the jaw-dropping . I wonder if it was worth it… (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
It was on this day in 2006 that the Swedish men’s hockey team won gold at the World Hockey Championships. Sweden defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 in the championship game played in Riga, Latvia. Sweden became the first country in history to win gold at both the Olympics as well as the World Hockey Championships in the same year. The Swedish Olympic team featured a star-studded line-up, with names like Lidstrom, Sundin, Alfredsson and the Sedin twins, but these players were unavailable for various reasons (NHL playoffs, injuries etc.) However, the World Hockey Championship team[....]
Talk about creepy, Wenlock and Mendeville are just that. The two mascots of the 2012 Olympic Games in London were unveiled on Wednesday and it appears as though organizers had to reach beyond our galaxy to find these monstrosities. Looking like something out of a Simpsons Halloween special, these one-eyed lobster-clawed figures were apparently created with the help of focus groups consisting of children. As for the one eye and funny looking yellow light on their head? Well the former is supposed to be a lens through which the world will be watching (I wonder if it captures images in[....]
For 44-years, Tommie Smith’s 200-meter record time withstood the test of timed track. His 19.5 hand-timed record has survived some mighty big names over the years, but it couldn’t hold off American sprint star, Tyson Gay. Gay lowered Smith’s record time by 0.09 seconds on the straight track created at the Manchester Great City Games. I know what you’re thinking, the 200 meters is a straight sprint and his name is Gay. Get it? Isn’t that funny? Well, don’t worry, the Associated Press already beat you to playing off of that in their[....]
Olympic gold medalist Shawn Johnson may be able to leap over tall buildings in a single bound, but she can’t throw a ball three feet. In attendance to throw out the opening pitch at an Iowa Cubs game, the American gymnast gave us what may very well be the worst performances from the mound ever. Even if they moved her five feet in front of home plate, this toss still never had a chance. Maybe she is a lefty, but just doesn’t know it. I mean, seriously, how can someone who owns an Olympic gold medal have such a terrible arm? Or better yet, how can anyone who has an arm have[....]
We here at TotalProSports are all about taking your average sport to the next level. Wherever there is someone willing to turn any athletic activity into something extreme, we are always prepared to show it some love. This case of bringing skateboarding and bobsledding together is no different. Most people assume that once the snow melts away, the bobsled track becomes useless, but not to your typical thrill-seeking skateboarder. For them, the summer weather means the fun has just begun. You would think that after the what transpired at the 2010 Olympic Games, most people[....]
Interesting choice by the National Drugs Campaign to pick a somewhat chubby swimmer to serve as its “marijuana wastes potential” poster child. You know, because there’s this guy whose won a zillion gold medals and just so happens to smoke the reefer, too. I’m not entirely sure, but that guy certainly looks like the chiseled, celebrating swimmer reflecting off the pool’s water. Maybe the ad’s simply saying that if you smoke weed you can be awesome in the water, but a fat nobody out of it. You be the judge. (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
Interesting choice by the National Drugs Campaign to pick a somewhat chubby swimmer to serve as its “marijuana wastes potential” poster child. You know, because there’s this guy whose won a zillion gold medals and just so happens to smoke the reefer, too. I’m not entirely sure, but that guy certainly looks like the chiseled, celebrating swimmer reflecting off the pool’s water. Maybe the ad’s simply saying that if you smoke weed you can be awesome in the water, but a fat nobody out of it. You be the judge. (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
It’s been pretty much one great thing after another for Steven Holcomb since winning the bobsled gold at the Vancouver Olympics. Well, at least until this week. Holcomb, who is a big-time computer nerd and video gamer, discovered that his prizedXbox 360 and games had been stolen out of hiscar. And while the $4,000 worth of gear and games has him a little queasy, what really makes him sick are the hundreds of hours of saved games that he had on the console. After six weeks on the road, bobsled gold medalist–and avid gamer–Steven Holcomb was looking forward to some quality[....]
SAN FRANCISCO–I have to admit, in the six weeks since I got back from covering the Winter Games, there has been a bit of post-Olympic letdown. So, when British Columbia tourism officials set up a zip line in San Francisco and brought a few Olympians to town, I decided I had to check it out, even if the tech angle was a little weak (as my editor was quick to point out). Zipping back in time to the Olympics (photos) View the full gallery For the Canadians, it was a chance to show San Francisco some of what Vancouver has to offer. In addition to the zip line, British Columbia has[....]
This gymnast has more flexibility in her than a team of NASCAR drivers. I’m not sure what this stretch is called, considering I would tear both hamstrings completely if I ever remotely attempted such a maneuver, but my guess is it’s called something like “crouching tiger, folding table.” (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
I didn’t know it was legal in wrestling to run away during a match, but that’s exactly what it seems like this guy is doing in this picture. Like a parent trying to drag their last kid out of the car in the parking lot at the dentist’s office, his opponent is pulling on his leg, telling him to get back in the ring and fight like a man. I think I’d try to run from a guy making that face, too. (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
Wrestling is full of homosexual innuendos. What, with the tights, some of the starting positions (one man behind the other man on all fours) and, well, wrestling it’s hard not to think that these individuals are really enjoying rolling around on the floor together. But the line is crossed when one sticks his or her fingers up their opponent’s butt. That’s just inappropriate. But this is totally acceptable. (Credit:http://www.totalprosports.com/) [....]
So what is $10,000 divided by three? That is what Bruins forward, and member of Canada’s gold medal men’s hockey team, Patrice Bergeron is trying to figure out after finding one of Sidney Crosby‘s missing gloves. Following the game winning goal in overtime of the gold medal game, the search has been on to locate Sidney Crosby’s missing gloves and stick, the ones responsible to scoring the goal heard all around Canada. With the man hunt two weeks in, Bergeron figured maybe he could be of some help. After all, he was seated next to Sid throughout the[....]
When it comes to airline flight delays, some common causes you are likely to hear are weather conditions, or mechanical problems. As for the least likely cause for a delay, we take you back to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympic Games, where an Air Canada flight was forced to remain on the ground because passengers were busy watching the gold medal men’s hockey game between Canada and the U.S.A. On Tuesday, chief executive of Air Canada, Calin Rovinescu, stated that the company had “incurred a flight delay for a reason (we) had not yet encountered in over 72 years of[....]
If I can tell you one thing about trying to TiVo Sunday night’s Oscars, it’s that being online during the ceremonies was definitely not a safe place to be. This is the era of time-shifting, and I like to take full advantage of the fact that I can set my DVR to record something like the Oscars and then sit down later on and watch it at my leisure and yet still be surprised by what happens. It’s because of tweets, like those seen here in the TweetDeck stream of CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman, that Twitter is not the friend of those attempting to stay away from news[....]
If I can tell you one thing about trying to TiVo Sunday night’s Oscars, it’s that being online during the ceremonies was definitely not a safe place to be. This is the era of time-shifting, and I like to take full advantage of the fact that I can set my DVR to record something like the Oscars and then sit down later on and watch it at my leisure and yet still be surprised by what happens. It’s because of tweets, like those seen here in the TweetDeck stream of CNET News reporter Daniel Terdiman, that Twitter is not the friend of those attempting to stay away from news[....]
NHL superstar Sidney Crosby has had himself an interesting past few weeks. Not only did he score what may be one of the greatest goals in Canadian hockey history, but he is now responsible for one of the biggest manhunts, or should we say equipment-hunts, of the year. Following his game winning goal in overtime of the Gold Medal game against the USA, Crosby’s equipment went missing. Ever since that moment, the search has been on to find the Reebok gloves and stick that caused an entire nation to celebrate the night away. Now Reebok themselves have got involved in the hunt,[....]