Perseid meteor shower video

Cool stuff. Via Bad Astronomy:

"Violent battles" and one man stabbed outside soccer game

Wow.

A man has been stabbed and violent battles have broken out between rival football fans in "large-scale" crowd trouble, police said on Tuesday night.

Hundreds of fans are involved in the disorder which police said was caused by people without tickets to the West Ham versus Millwall game who had planned to start trouble.

Basketbrawl

Uruguay vs Mexico in what was essentially a scrimmage:

Top ten plays of the weekend

Just about all baseball. Since it is, you know, the offseason for everything else, but here are SportsCenter's top 10 plays for the weekend that just ended.

Unassisted triple play ends Phillies game

Philadelphia Phillies 2nd baseman Eric Bruntlett ended the Phillies' 9-7 victory over the New York Mets in style -- with an unassisted triple play. You can see the video at MLB.com.

With the Mets threatening against Phils closer Brad Lidge, Eric Bruntlett turned the first game-ending triple play in National League history and only the second in Major League history. With Luis Castillo on second base and Daniel Murphy on first and both running on the pitch, Jeff Francoeur hit a line drive that Brunlett caught before he stepped on second base to retire Castillo. Bruntlett then tagged out Murphy to end the game.

It was just the 15th unassisted triple play in Major League history, and the second one to end a game.

Bruntlett also had three hits. Not a bad game.

The Shins - Turn on Me (Video

A pretty damned good video. Check it out.

Usain Bolt slideshow

Over at Talking Points Memo.

Bolt (seriously, a sprinter named Bolt!?) might be my favorite athlete right now who doesn't play on one of my favorite teams.

I can't decide which is my favorite photo. Maybe this one that shows he beat the rest of the field by a good ten meters.

But, yeah, Bolt is crazy fast.

Looking back to the future in baseball

A very interesting Uni Watch (a column about uniforms) from ESPN's Page 2 on "Turn Ahead the Clock," a promotion that gave teams 'futuristic' uniforms just in time for the turn-of-the-millenium.

I thought a couple of the jerseys (the Colorado Rockies and, against the judgement of the Uni Watch guy, the San Diego Padres) looked pretty cool. But the San Francisco Giants (left on the last link) and the Pittsburgh Pirates jerseys... umm... let's just pretend that never happened.

TV reporter files report -- via iPhone

Here in Albuquerque, KOB-TV reporter Jeremy Jojola (or @jeremyjojola on Twitter), did something pretty cool -- he filed his report via the iPhone.

Check it out:



I'm not an iPhone user and I still find this pretty cool.

Chad Ochocinco is multitalented

Chad Ochocinco (formerly Chad Johnson) kicked an extra point which proved to be the difference in the Cincinnati Bengals' preseason victory over the New England Patriots. Ochocinco, being the self-promoting showman that he is, wasn't exactly humble afterwards.

From the Associated Press:

" 'Esteban' Ochocinco is back, the most interesting footballer in the world," Ochocinco said. "Everyone has to remember, I've always said that soccer is my No. 1 sport. I think Ronaldinho would be proud of me right now."

It isn't the first time the American football player has expressed his love for the European style of football. Though, at the time, he was still named Chad Johnson.

ESPNsoccernet: Rumor has it that you drove Coach Lewis crazy juggling a soccer ball during practice?

CJ: [Laughs] Yeah that's the way I warm up, before games, during the season, in practice, in between drills, in between practice I use the ball, just juggling the ball all day.