Sports Balls Replaced With Cats website

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By Low Lai Chow in Cool Websites on Thursday 25 April 2013

It says here on the site that it’s ‘just a bunch of athletes competing for the sweetest kittens’. Whether it’s football, water polo or basketball, the athletes will take care of the cat, thank you very much.

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NCAA basketball players might be ballet dancers

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By Low Lai Chow in New Trends on Wednesday 3 April 2013

TIME Magazine recently picked out some choice shots from the massive influx of NCAA basketball action we’ve seen all March, distilling these into what essentially seems like ballet moves. Very cool.

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Sunday League Referees: a photo series by Dave Imms

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By Dave Imms in New Photography on Tuesday 2 April 2013

Every weekend on the Hackney Marshes in London, UK, hundreds of people participate in football matches as part of the Hackney and Leyton Sunday League. This mini-series is about the home-made thrown together referee attire, the individuality and personality to a bloke that’s always seen as the bad guy…maybe it is about that £30 for the 90 minutes [...]

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Extreme sports meets stop motion animation

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By Low Lai Chow in Video on Tuesday 19 March 2013

We’ve seen many Playmobil stop-motion videos, but none as well-shot as the ones by Karim Rejeb, who merges his love for both extreme sports and stop-motion animation into what he calls ‘xtrem stopmotion’ on his site. We really dig the surfing one above (all of over 7 minutes long!), while his most recent work is [...]

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Eerie photos of football fields by Simon Harsent

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By Rebekah Rhoden in New Photography on Friday 25 January 2013

Football fanatic Simon Harsent documented different locations for playing football around the world. According to Harsent, his purpose was “to go behind the headlines, the transfer fees, and the Ferraris”. From well-known stadiums to forgotten alleyways, these photographs show a more eerie side to this beloved game.

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The Roller Derby revival

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By Jack Ripple in New Trends on Thursday 23 September 2010

Two words: Roller Derby! I got involved in the resurgence of modern Roller Derby about five years ago, as a fan and volunteer, and it has since taken over my life. I love it. Gone are the days of staged matches: it’s evolved into a real sport with explosive growth across America and is catching on in other parts of the world now. Proof positive? The new Yokasuka Sushi Rollers are just getting organized on a military base in Japan. Yes, the past is catching up with us. On roller skates.

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By Francis Andrews in Video on Friday 14 November 2008

This guy is unreal, simply awesome. If every kid’s misspent youth eventually turned out as good as this, then parents would be forever silenced. What’s more, he’s not even Brazilian. Yes, the Japanese are the masters of style, whether fashion, technology, or now even ball skills. Except for this. Ahem.

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Gfunk&Batz soccer tees

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in New Fashion on Monday 25 August 2008

The new Melbourne-based football themed t-shirt collection — GFUNK&BATZ — is a lot of fun. Driven by the designers’ passion for the game, the shirts will have you leaping around like Kewell or Beckham (if that’s what you want) in no time.

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We’re searching for Australia’s best new sports writer

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By Zolton in New Trends on Tuesday 5 August 2008

On our other website, The Roar — which features Australian sports opinion — we’re currently looking to discover the best new sportswriter in the country, and turn them into a paid columnist on the site. Every day we run a number of reader-generated sports opinion articles on The Roar. And you can vote on the [...]

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The Roar

Zolton Contributor

By Zolton in Cool Websites on Tuesday 18 March 2008

Those of you who are based in Australia and are into sports might like to check out the other website the Lost At E Minor team runs, The Roar.

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