Daily Archives: May 26, 2011
Buster Posey Injury: Giants Catcher Injured Video
Giants catcher Buster Posey suffered a broken bone in his left ankle after a collision at the plate during Wednesday night’s loss to the Florida Marlins.
Wednesday night, the road back to the World Series for the defending champion San Francisco Giants took a dramatic and painful twist.
Scott Cousins scored the go-ahead run in a brutal collision with Posey at home plate in the 12th inning, injuring the Giants star catcher in a 7-6 loss to the Florida Marlins. The Giants said there would be no test results released until Thursday, when he’ll have an MRI exam.
Teammates were still coming to grips with the loss.
“It’s huge. He’s one of the leaders of the team already and what he brings every day is something you can’t replace,” Giants right fielder Nate Schierholtz said. “I’m just hoping for the best. I couldn’t really see what happened from out there. I was just hoping for the best, maybe he got the wind knocked out of him or something.”
Watch Canucks Advance To Finals With Double OT Goofy Goal Full Video
Kevin Bieksa(notes) of the Vancouver Canucks was the only person on the ice, at 10:18 of the second overtime of Game 5, who knew where the puck was: Wobbling off his stick and behind the San Jose Sharks’ goalie, winning Game 5 of the Western Conference finals and sending the Canucks to the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since 1994.
Attempting to send the puck deep in the Sharks zone, defenseman Alex Edler instead sent the puck off a stanchion on the glass. It ricocheted to Bieksa, who blasted a knuckleball of a one-timer past Niemi.
“I’ve been here for seven years, and I’ve never seen a puck go off that partition and kick right out like that,” said Bieksa on VERSUS. “I just tried to get enough wood on it to get it to the net.”
Confetti fell as the officials conferred on what had just transpired, but the game was over. The Canucks celebrated as vociferously as the thousands of their fans did inside and outside the arena, clinching the conference finals with a 3-2 victory and a 4-1 series win.
It was an odd goal. But in many ways, it was a surreal goal — especially since it was the 17th anniversary to the day of another double-OT goal that put the Canucks in the Stanley Cup Finals.
Arctic Summer Time-Lapse Video
Arctic Circle, that experience periods of time where darkness never comes. The video below captures this in a 24-hour time-lapse that almost looks unreal.
The sun seems to just bob in the sky like a ball bouncing across the heavens, briefly seeming to touch a mountain range before climbing back to its climax.
A full day of sunlight may seem cool at first, but we can imagine it’s quite maddening and confusing to experience this, or even something close to it. In places like Fairbanks, Alaska the sun doesn’t set until after midnight on the vernal equinox, but at least they get some darkness.
Tornado Dog Crawls Home On Broken Legs Video
Almost three weeks after deadly tornadoes ripped through Alabama, this dog finally returned home. With two broken legs.
Mason, as WAVY-TV 10 refers to the dog, was blown away during the storms. He had been hiding in a garage when the storm picked him up and blew him away on April 27th.
Perhaps most astounding was the extent of Mason’s injuries.
Women’s Tennis Association Launches New Ad Video
Women’s Tennis Association unrolls its new “Strong is Beautiful Campaign.”
The campaign highlights “athleticism and grace — a unique combination that has turned the stars of the WTA into the most recognizable and followed female athletes on the planet,” according to a WTA statement. The ads, which feature dozens of stars including Wozniacki, Serena Williams, Kim Clijsters, Ana Ivanovic and Li Na, were shot by filmmaker Dewey Nicks, who produced a similar series for The New York Times Magazine last year.
In each 30 second shot, a star tennis player delivers not just a ball but also a voice-over storyline. In her clip, Kim Clijsters, whose pregnancy and brief retirement from tennis several years ago generated considerable buzz, rejects the idea she had to compromise now that she is a mother.
“Before I had a baby, I devoted all my time to tennis,” she says as she returns a forehand crouched in a near split. Afterwards, I had to compromise. Now I devote 100 percent of my time to the baby–and 100 percent to tennis.”
American Idol: Finale Results Recap For May 25, 2011 Live Video
Tonight, after several weeks of competition, a winner will be crowned the next American Idol. Will it be Scotty or Lauren? We are about to find out who will become the show’s youngest winner ever!
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Ryan announces there were over 122 MILLION votes last night and this season there were about 3/4 of a billion votes. WOW!
Awww, each of their hometowns is having a party tonight in their honors!!!
The top 13 sing Lady Gaga’s Born This Way. It is actually very cute and nice to see them all together again.
James Durbin performs with Judas Priest. WOW! This guy needs to go on tour and get his own album as soon as humanly possible.He is just fabulous!
We get a moment of the judges moments. If there were a drinking game this season based on how many times Randy Jackson said someone was in it to win it, I’d be a lush!
Jacob Lusk and Kirk Franklin sing together. I love that they are having the contestants sing with their own Idols, what an honor! WOW, Gladys Knight joins them, how amazing is that for him?
Casey Abrams sings with Jack Black. Fabulous!
The girls sing a medley of Beyonce songs and are surprised with an appearance by the woman herself. Tonight is so awesome so far!
Steven Tyler gets made fun of for his randomness. Again–can I say how much I LOVE him?
Haley Reinhart and Tony Bennett sing a duet. This is by far my favorite performance of hers. These two sing so well together. This needs to be on her album. I love it.
Jennifer Lopez gets her own montage of fans hitting on her.
Lil’ Jon is in the house! I love him so much more now that he has been on Celebrity Apprentice. He is so smart, talented and adorable. Our top girls are also singing a medley of TLC songs with TLC accompanying them. I feel like I am back in 8th grade again. I remember singing their songs with my friends…..oh, the memories!
Faridabad: Chartered plane with 7 on board crashes Video
Faridabad: A small chartered plane, carrying seven people, including two pilots onboard crashed into a residential area in Faridabad at the outskirts of the national capital on Wednesday night.
Twelve people — 7 on board and 5 on the ground — are reportedly killed. The number of casualties could rise, reports say.
The PC-12 single-engine turbo-prop aircraft was flying from Patna to Delhi. It was rushing a critically ill patient for medical treatment.
The civil chartered plane crashed on the roof of a building in the Parvatiya Colony near the Air Force Station at around 2235 hours, official sources said.
The reason of the crash has not been revealed. Reports, however say the plane could have crashed because of technical reasons.
Fire brigade, police and officials of DGCA have rushed to the spot. The entire area has been cordoned off. Rescue operations were underway and assessment of the damage would be done as well.
Plane crash in faridabad Video Delhi 10 Dead May 2011
Pilatus PC-12 single-engined turbo-prop aircraft was flying to the capital from Patna, rushing a seriously-ill patient, Rahul Raj, for specialised medical treatment when the crash occurred at 10.50 p.m., five minutes after it lost contact with the Air Traffic Control at Delhi airport
plane, that crashed in Faridabad on Wednesday night killing ten people, including all the seven onboard, was in contact with the Air Traffic Control and on the radar before suddenly vainishing and losing touch.
