(Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)   Yesterday Forbes released its annual list of the ‘100 Highest Paid Athletes.’  We took a look at the list and pulled all of the Olympians (and two soon-to-be Olympians) to see where they stacked up – and you might be surprised. Or not. As it turns out, the Olympians on the list almost exclusively… [read article]

(Photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images)   Good morning and happy new week to you!  Sometimes in life you just want things to go easy.  Of course, they don’t always go that way, but when they do, it’s nice when they’re captured on video – like this off the heel goal scored this weekend by Portuguese born Real Madrid striker Cristiano… [read article]

  Nike has, for years, been telling the world that if you buy their shoes you can jump like Jordan; tap, tap, tap-a-roo like Tiger; and serve like Serena. Yeaaaah. But, recent developments in sports apparel technology can make a small difference in performance, and possibly, with the release of the CR Mercurial Vapor Superfly III soccer boot (long-name much?) by… [read article]

  Check out Cristiano Ronaldo as the Portuguese superstar scores a huge free kick against Denmark in the 2012 Eurocup qualifier.  Unfortunately, it was Portugal’s only goal of the game and they went down 2-1, BUT, this highlight makes up for it to some small degree to us, the humble foosball viewers… Bobby! You been playin da foosball!

  szólj hozzá: Rm 1-0 Ajx   UPDATE: It appears the embedding for the video has stopped working, but you can still see it on it’s original site here.   When done right, soccer truly can be beautiful. We just had to post this video of Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo scoring a beautiful goal against the Dutch team Ajax (pronounced… [read article]