Cracked Archive - Sports

5 Dumb Hobbies You Won't Believe Have World Championships
Little did we realize that these pointless time wasters were, for some, the subject of a years-long pursuit of excellence.
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The 6 Ballsiest Sports Cheats of All Time
There are cheaters and then then there are the ones who do it with such audacity and creativity that you kind of want to just give them the victory for their effort.
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- By Ryan J., Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Most Annoying Things About Sports (To Non Sports Fans)
When you're not a sports fan, there's a double standard when it comes to ... well, just about everything.
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5 Sports Fans Who Ruined Sports
Every obnoxious fan at a sporting event has a forefather. These are those people.
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 5 Acceptable Reasons to Go Bowling
Who goes bowling, and for God's sake why?
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- By Brenna Crotty
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6 Extreme Sports You Won't Believe Anyone Survives
You have to kind of feel sorry for 'extreme sport' practitioners. For one thing, you can't even say the name of their sport without an eye roll and a smirk, and for another, the '90s are over.
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- By Pauli Poisuo
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Why You've Never Heard Of The Greatest Sport Ever Invented
Give us the roughest, toughest athlete you can think of. He would be soiling himself if he had to play this game.
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- By Rob Sylvester
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6 Bizarre Incidents that Prove God Hates Sports
Many people only become sports fans when things go horribly wrong. This article is for them.
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- By Robert Evans
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The 5 Most Terrifying Side Effects of Exercise
Running makes you soil yourself. That's all were saying.
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- By Ezekiel Buchheit
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5 Ridiculous Sports You Won't Believe Were Olympic Events
In the Olympics as we know them today, new events have to go through a long process of careful consideration before inclusion in the esteemed games. Baseball and Softball have recently been cut, for example, while Rugby and golf have made inexplicable comebacks. We can't just have any random spastic game of Calvinball gaining entry into the pinnacl
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- By Evan V. Symon
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The 6 Greatest Athletic Feats Ever (Aren't What You Think)
Here are six events everyone knows as the greatest in the history of sport, and the true stories that actually beat their pants off.
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- By Mike Cooney
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5 Things That Are Apparently OK To Do in the Name of Sports
Unlike LARPing, sports give you a free pass to act ridiculous and buy all sorts of crazy crap.
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- By Christina H
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5 Golf Courses That Can Kill You
The only thing more boring than a game of golf is a steaming pot of brown whole grain rice, and even that is a close call. Over the past few years, we've learned there are two ways to make golf interesting: One involves lightsaber golf clubs and the other involves injecting some homicidal golf courses into the game. Since lightsaber technology is,
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- By Evan V. Symon
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5 Bizarre Brain Hacks That Make You Better at Sports
Talent, hard work, desire -- they're all nice if you're trying to get to the top of your sport. But all other things being equal, there are a few other factors that give one side the edge.
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- By Kathy Benjamin
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5 Reasons Riding a Bike Is The Most Humiliating Exercise
Little kids learn how to ride bikes before they learn how to tie their shoes -- which is way more dangerous than it sounds after reading this article.
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