No human of sound mind willfully sits through an entire press conference with the Super Bowl halftime entertainment but the 2012 scrum with Madonna is worth a look-see it in bits and pieces. The sheer amplitude of the press corps in attendance is a telltale indication of just how absurd and not about (American) football … More

When it comes to pyrotechnics mastery, the People’s Republic has everyone whipped. The Chinese invented fireworks back in the 7th century, of course, and the rest of the world has been playing catch-up ever since. Don’t believe it? Just go to a high-rise Shanghai hotel for Spring Festival (or any huge occasion) and gawk at … More

What do you get when you take a bunch of ultra-performance sports, rally and muscle cars, daredevil drivers and a frozen lake? Why the Ferdinand Ice Festival in the tiny hamlet of Drevsjo, Norway, of course. Every year a cabal of car fanatics and journalists roll in to witness the likes of Lamborghinis, Porsche 911 … More

From test cricket last week to Grand Slam tennis this week, Melbourne proves once more to be the capital of world class sports events in Australia. The first major of the tennis season gets underway on Monday, January 16 and will conclude on Sunday, January 29. Champs Novak Djokovic and Kim Clijsters are ready to … More

No athlete so thoroughly dominates and transcends his sport quite like Sachin Tendulkar. A legend and quasi-deity in India, the man’s fame is well beyond that of a Bollywood matinée idol and difficult to put in words for non-observers of cricket. Tendulkar had the impossible weight of a 1.2 billion-strong nation on his shoulders throughout … More

There are superb time lapse videos and there are terrible, epic fail time lapse videos. There is no in-between. To cap 2011 off in style, we have unearthed a gem that happily falls in the former category. Sydney has rarely looked better, in our humble opinion. See for yourself. You need to a flashplayer enabled … More