Italian soccer players are usually criticized for unnecessary falls when they’ve barely been touched by an opposing player, but Udinese’s Pablo Armero didn’t have anyone to blame but himself for this one. Udinese was holding a 1-0 lead, just 30 minutes away from qualifying for the UEFA Champions League and the loads of cash that comes with it, when Armero tripped over himself right in front of the goalkeeper, failing to score and seal the win for his club.
Ouch.
To make matters worse, Udinese blew their lead and the match went into a penalty kick shoot out, where another Udinese player, Maicosuel, decided to get cute by attempting to fool the goalkeeper – and failed at that too.
The Brazilian is a new arrival from Botafogo… but he was confident enough to attempt a ‘Panenka’ and cheekily dink the ball down the middle of the goal.
However, as you can see, he failed to wait for the goalkeeper to commit to the dive – making him look quite the prat when the ball was simply caught by the stationary custodian, who booted the ball high into the sky with disdain.
Lucky for Maicosuel, the video was removed from YouTube, so nobody can see him make a fool of himself anymore.
Looks like Kent State’s Andre Parker will be getting some grief for awhile in the locker room after this goof up on Thursday night…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmmnRS1tVrk
I can’t decide what’s funnier: that he is a little over 5 yards from a TD and runs the wrong way, that his teammates are blocking for him as he is running the wrong way or that the other team tackles him instead of letting him run into the endzone for a safety?
Some weeks I absolutely adore the Twitters. People are saying witty things, I find out interesting stuff, and I am ahead of the breaking news-curve. Then other times, I just wish we could take the Internet away from people. Well, this week started out promising and then quickly took a turn for the worse…
The Good:
Easily the best Tweet of the Week, and it’s not even close…
All eyes are on Llanwrtyd Wells, a small British town. They are hosting the inaugural World Alternative Games. This is a spoof on the Olympic games and will feature nearly three dozen events including mountain boarding, woolsack carrying, mountain bike chariot racing, and bog snorkeling.
These games were arranged shortly after it was announce that London would be hosting the summer Olympics. The residents of the town wanted to commemorate other contributions to sports and thought this would be the perfect time.
If you would like to learn more, you can check out the official website here.
While the world is still winding down from the London 2012 games, the Paralympics are set to kick off this Wednesday. Since Oscar Pistorius made headlines as the first person with a disability to participate in the able-bodied Olympics, he seems like a good Monday AM Motivator, yes?
Seriously, guys, I can’t keep up with who is failing drug tests nowadays. Melky Cabrera, Bartolo Colon, and, now, Lance Armstrong? (OK, I’m fully aware of that Lance Armstrong didn’t actually fail a drug test that we’re currently aware of, but just go with it…)
Seems the athletes out there need a primer on how to avoid these drug testing nightmares, and I thought I’d help:
1. Don’t say you didn’t use performance-enhancing drugs. That just gets you into trouble later. Say “I didn’t fail a drug test” (if that’s actually the case). Just ask Rafael Palmerio.
2. If you did actually fail a test, apologize to your fans, but don’t say you won’t do it again. It just makes you look dumb if you fail another.
It’s safe to say that Ryan Lochte is one of our favorite Olympic athletes. He has provided endless threads of conversation and lots of laughs with his videos and animated gifs. It should come as no surprise that his recent Vegas visit with pal Prince Harry was a topic of recent conversation.
Lochte and Prince Harry were partying it up Vegas style when they decided to have a friendly little race in the pool fully clothed. It is reported that Lochte beat Prince Harry (no surprise here). It appears that they’ve been having tons of fun in Vegas over the past few days.
Ryan Lochte will also be making his tv debute on 90210. He did a short interview which you can see below.
We’ll keep you up to date on Ryan Lochte and his many antics.
I’m a cartoonist when I’m not writing here or being a historian. I don’t claim to be the best cartoonist ever – in fact, I’m far from it. I do, however, write my own webcomic, which is here, and even my art is better than this. Fortunately for the artist, he or she wasn’t credited by the Nuggets. If I’d drawn this or written the script for it, I wouldn’t want anyone to know it was me, either.
Here’s the cover:
That doesn’t look so bad, I suppose, but the cover art is usually done in more detail than the art inside the comic since it’s designed to catch the reader’s eye and make them pick up the book. A lot of the facial features really disturb me, though – there’s something weird about the way they’re drawn and I can’t put my finger on it.
All four pages – yes, four pages – of the comic, along with my art critic comments, after the jump.
Thumbs up to those muscles, RVP. Photo via arsenal.com
If you’re one of those folks whose knowledge of European soccer players comes from watching Bend it Like Beckham, you’ve probably missed out on gorgeous Dutch footballer Robin van Persie. Since 2004, “Van Persie” and “Arsenal” have gone hand in hand, as RVP became the face of the English Premier League club, its captain and leading striker with 30 goals scored as last season.
Well, no longer. Van Persie has been stirring up the headlines of late, as he just completed a move from Arsenal to Manchester United, which he admitted was the team the “little boy inside me was screaming for.”
Van Persie makes his debut for United today against Everton (2:55pm ET on ESPN2) so what better way to introduce him to our readers than a little Monday motivation? While we don’t have many shots of RVP flashing his muscles, that smile is definitely enough motivation for this Monday…
Robin van Persie signs with Manchester United
When he’s not leading Arsenal in goals, Van Persie suits up for his native Netherlands in international play.
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