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<i>Power Slap </i>sucks so<i> </i>we've conceived 10 'combat sports' shows we'd rather watchHave you watched Power Slap: Road to the Title on TBS? Highly recommended for torturing prisoners of war. It’s awful and I wrote about just how infuriating the show is at length. Something about the mind-numbing act of unprotected slaps to the face did get me thinking of combat sports that would do ...

The Next Stage Of College Baseball Rain Delays Had To Be Medieval Jousting Choreographed dance sequences could only last so long, so here's the Radford pitcher Mark Peterson taking on High Point catcher Kyle Mahoney in a rain delay joust yesterday. What's the next most likely development? Red Rover? Double Dutch? Russian Roulette?...

Jousting Is The Next Big Sport, Says Newspaper Known For Inventing Trends The New York Times has a big ol' magazine piece on the popularity of full-contact jousting. You'd think it'd be hipsters doing it ironically, but no, they're manly men. Action footage after the jump....

No Longer Will Your Finger Jousting Competitions Be Lawless

We've talked to you about the great sport of finger jousting before, but we are proud to report that the World Finger Jousting Federation has come up with an official set of rules. They're quite helpful....

What Could Possibly Go Wrong With This Idea?

Yahoo's Time Capsule Project begins today, in which people from around the world are encouraged "to submit text, images and video that reflect human nature" to be included in a message that will be beamed into space. So that the world of sports isn't left out, we are submitting the video above, whic...

I Will Joust You With My Finger, Bitch.

It's very sadly missing from the Sunday TV sports lineup, but there is a hot new sport on the horizon. It's called Finger Jousting, and it's sweeping the... okay, it's not sweeping the nation or anything else. But they do have a website. So that's step one. Here's how the sport works:...