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The top 10 science-fiction sports of all-time
All right, so BuckBokai tries to come off the disabled list today – yes, it seemed like a career-ending injury for a while there, thanks to Father Time (who, as Charles Barkley once so philosophically stated, is undefeated). But fingers crossed that this time BuckBokai once again plays at his steady level.
So to (re)start things off, let’s get back to the basics with a look at the Top 10 Science-Fiction Sports ever devised.
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21st century sports: Snowboard Basketball
Now that winter’s getting ready to set in over wide swathes of North America and Northern Europe, let’s hope we see a revival of the greatest 21st-century sport invented in 2010: Snowboard basketball.
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Happy Turn Ahead the Clock Week!
Today is July 25th, which means BuckBokai will take this opportunity to celebrate that greatest of real-life sports events ever, namely the Turn Ahead the Clock games held by Major League Baseball in 1998 and 1999.
Begun with a single freaky promotion designed as a parody of “Turn Back the Clock Nights,” the first such game featuring futuristic duds happened on July 18, 1998 in a game pitting the Kansas City Royals against the Seattle Mariners. (Is there anything Seattle couldn’t do in the 1990s?)
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Sports of the 21st century: Cat weightlifting
Buck Bokai really does love io9 – a sizable proportion of inspiration for this ‘site is due those wonderful folks – but it should be admitted that, like most other things outside of verb tenses, they ain’t perfect.
Case in point: That website’s recent reportage of an intriguing competition, the 21st century sports-looking “Cat Weightlifting.”
Hailing from (naturally) Japan, Cat Weightlifting does not in actuality involve hoisting a stack of felines or even one massive beast, but rather is the sport of Vasily Alexeyev adapted *for* cats. Grammatically speaking, then, a better title for this event might be “Cats’ Weightlifting” – after all, one doesn’t say “Woman Tennis,” do you?
In any case, combine the Olympic contest of strength with a bit of “Japan’s Funniest Home Videos” and you get “Cat Weightlifting.” Go ahead, watch the clip below the break and tell Buck Bokai you don’t find it scintillating – just look at that flawless lift of 1.6 kilos.
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