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Life ban for Younus Khan, Mohammad Yousuf (312 diggs) The Pakistan Cricket Board has banned former captains Mohd Yousuf and Younus Khan for life, besides imposing a 1-year ban on Shoaib Malik in the wake of the team's disastrous tour of Australia.

Maybe the most ridiculous (or awesome) pooltable ever. (1,147 diggs) Obscura Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table. It turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. Obscuras projection, sensor and tracking system reveals images and animations that follow the movements of the pool balls as players hit them around the table.

The 50 Biggest Screw-Ups in Sports History (492 diggs) Screw-ups, blunders, bloopers, errors, mess ups, or mistakes; whatever you call them, sports are full of them. However, there are some screw-ups that rise above the rest. Some so embarrassing that they live forever in infamy...

Daily fantasy sports provides players instant gratification (214 diggs) Here's a tip for the thousands of people participating in the growing phenomenon of daily fantasy sports: Watch out for Tippy. He's consistently a top performer on sites like FantasySportsLive.co m and FanDuel.com. Tippy also runs two sites—FantasyHandica pping.com and FantasyBasketballDai ly.com—dedicated to daily fantasy strategy. He has no mercy.

Wrestling Fans Admit and Then Forget It Is Fake (323 diggs) During a recent screening of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, wrestling enthusiast David Graziano fluctuated between an awareness that the match he was watching was completely scripted and a willingness to treat the event as though it were 100 percent real.

Poker Stars European Tournament Robbed ... on Live TV! (VID) (1,464 diggs) Where does a poker tournament fit into the pantheon of armed robbery? The European Poker Tour found out when six men armed with machine guns strolled into the tournament and hijacked everyone for 1 million Euros.

Top 10: Sportsmen Who Blew Their Second Chance (206 diggs) These sportsmen just didn't learn their lessons.

Can you tell why they call this 'the scorpion'? (409 diggs)

The 8 Most Intense Sports Intros of All Time (329 diggs) Professional and collegiate athletics have become less about the performace and more about the show.

Introducing 'Skyaking': skydiving with a kayak (239 diggs) Paddling across the sky, 13,000ft up in a kayak has become a new daredevil craze dubbed Skyaking.

Spank that Ass Roller Derby! (GIF) (463 diggs) I would pay double to watch those girls.

These sports banners really should be banned (238 diggs) The sports world is rife with totems celebrating athletic excellence, such as the 17 Boston Celtics championship standards displayed at Boston's TD Garden. Then there's the other stuff; the lamest banners in the sports world. Here are a few examples.

Blind man first to abseil down waterfall (189 diggs) A blind extreme sports enthusiast has become the first person to abseil down Britain's highest waterfall...

Stop Kicking Yourself (GIF) (637 diggs)

Training Advice from Michael Phelps (267 diggs) The Olympic gold medalist reveals how he stays in race-ready form

My Roger Ebert Story (270 diggs) The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert's email and asked him a question.

14 Good Players Who Became Bad Personnel Men (Gallery) (184 diggs) Just because a professional athlete has success in his career does not automatically qualify them for an executive position.

Romancing your sister? Ice dancing is all in the family ... (274 diggs) Israeli ice dancer Roman Zaretsky knows exactly what people are thinking when they see him and his sister skating hand-in-hand or doing a seductive tango. Disturbing.

Chile's athletes, coaches to skip Olympics closing ceremony (210 diggs) Chile's athletes and coaches are planning to skip the Olympic closing ceremonies following a magnitude-8.8 earthquake that has devastated their country.

Chuck Liddell Working Out Naked? (nsfw) (404 diggs) This appears to be Chuck Liddell and his girlfriend, Heidi Northcott, working out naked, presumably in his home.

Tendulkar hits world record individual ODI score (363 diggs) India's Sachin Tendulkar broke the world record for the highest individual score in one-day internationals

World's Strongest Boy Sets Air Push-Ups Record (w. Vid) (320 diggs) He's only five-years-old, but Giuliano Stroe has already set two world records... His latest feat saw him set a world record on an Italian TV show by doing 20 'air' push-ups - that's where your legs don't touch the floor between lifts.

9 Worst Public Sports Apologies (358 diggs) Athletes are famous for their outsized talents matched only by their outsized egos. So it should come as no surprise that these titans should fail utterly when required to offer apologies for their egregious offenses against decency and general human conduct.

Smells Like Figure Skating [VIDEO] (243 diggs) 1998: Scott Williams takes grunge to the ice.

WWE Star The Undertaker Catches Fire In Accident (383 diggs) Pro wrestling star, The Undertaker, was engulfed in flames last night in St. Louis because of a problem with the stadium's pyrotechnics.

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