Highest Five

Sorry rest of Canada, sorry if we kept you awake last night.  The truth is, against all odds we just finished beating last year’s Stanley Cup champions, the Pittsburgh Penguins, and we got a little excited about it.  Okay, we got A LOT excited about it.  In case you weren’t watching the NHL Eastern Conference Semi-finals last night, the Montreal Canadiens defeated Sidney Crosby and his Penguins 5-2, and the downtown core of Canada’s sin city erupted into a massive party.  Thousands upon thousands of fans took over Ste-Catherine street to celebrate, and while most were just hockey-loving Habs fans having a good time, there are always a few jackasses at the party.  Penguins jerseys were lit on fire, cars were flipped, store windows were shattered and inevitably tear gas was released, and arrests were made.  Hockey riots are somewhat of a strange tradition, especially since they usually happen when a team wins!

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Round one of the 2010 NHL playoffs was jam-packed with upsets & pretty awesome goals. Here is a list of the 10 most impressive goals of the first round.

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Leo Messi could very well be the best footballer in the world At this point, he’s got 25 goals in 26 games this year, with multiple multigoal games, including back to back hat tricks. He leaves defenders and keepers clueless, with a power and grace in his shot unparalleled in today’s game.

Here are what I consider his 5 best and most interesting goals:

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They are among the world’s most incredible athletes but also among the world’s most beautiful women. Here are 10 stunning female athletes that could melt the winter away with their hotness.

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To be honest I couldn’t decide whether to call these the “best” falls in soccer or the “worst.”  They’re the best in terms of how ridiculously fake they are.  These players are the “best” at crumbling when anyone comes within a six meter radius of their delicate selves.  At the same time they are some of the worst attempts to gain advantage in a sport through cheating.  The following clips contain some of the worst acting you’ll ever see, from athletes who are the best at demonstrating how abs of steel do nothing to stop them from wilting like tulip petals. You’ll want a multi-viewer just to judge who’s worse.

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I’ve never been a gambler.  Ever since hearing the Kenny Rodgers song as a kid, I never got over the image of a gambler as a cigarette bum with the audacity to drink your last swallow of whiskey.  I didn’t know much, but I knew enough that I didn’t want to grow up like that guy.  Nowadays the only gambling I partake in is when I pay $15 for a movie ticket at the theatres.  Lately it feels like the odds of paying to watch a Hollywood Suckfest are a depressing 10-1.

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Hard fouling is a part of basketball, especially during playoffs, but sometimes players can take things too far.  This collection of elbows, choke holds and bodyslams goes out to all the football and hockey players who call basketball players “wimpy.”  These giants are some of the most ridiculously monstrous athletes around, and if their arm tattoos aren’t enough to prove just how tough they are, then these clips definitely should.

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Rugby doesn’t get the same kind of airtime football enjoys in North America but there’s no denying these guys are tough. I played two years in a Division 3 rugby league and I can attest to its brutality. The last game I played an ambulance came 3 times because of broken bones. When there’s large men running

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When asked to assemble a list of the hardest hits from a sport synonymous with missing teeth, I nearly had to change my pants. The research for this project was physically and mentally taxing. After 16 hours of watching slow motion body checks, my eyes became bloodshot, I had developed a playoff beard, I slipped a disk in my back from doing the wave,

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