 by michie 
Sports Sift is designed to celebrate the wide world of sports! If Videosift is a newspaper then Sports Sift is its back pages. Any sport, any discipline, any team, any country - amateur or professional - bring your classic moments, interviews,recent sporting events, news items, legends of sport, controversial moments,obscure sports,bloopers and sports documentaries. Everything from college swimming to the kabbadi world cup final from football to american football,aussie rules, test cricket and ice hockey,golf,tennis, formula 1,nascar,world rally championship,beach volley ball,lacrosse,darts,shinty,hurling,curling,motorcross,skiing,x -games,snowboarding,ice-skating,pole-vaulting,athletics,skateboarding,polo,rugby union/league,basketball,real-tennis,archery,shooting,bobsleigh,sailing,ping-pong,badminton, squash,baseball,water polo,gymnastics,skate boarding and cycling.. if it's Sports Sift it! If the story would appear in the sports section of a newspaper it should be here on Sports Sift. Silly or serious, Sports Sift welcomes it. Sports Sift will try and post the latest sporting events from across the world. New and old beloved by all. Please vote! So many people join collectives; then do not execute their powers to publish a sift that are in need of vital votes. Try and be Sporting. Thanks for all the suggestions on starting up this Sports Collective. The general feedback was positive for a place on videosift that catered to Sports videos. Title suggestions included (some crackers in here) 'The Best Damn Sports Collective Period','Sift of Champions','Ready,Set,Sift','The Art of Sport','The Wide Sift of Sports','All Sorts of Sport','The Thrill of Victory,the Agony of an Ass-Kicking','The World of Sport','All Sort of Sports' and my favourite 'Sporty Sorts'. So... of course I went for the simple Sports Sift. Which was the most suggested for an original simple title. Let me know so I can invite you; automatic invite. http://www.videosift.com/video/American-Version-Of-Soccer-Looks-More-Like-Hockey is older and yucky cammed!
http://www.videosift.com/video/Dirty-Womens-Soccer is newer and non-cammed. What should we do with these two dupes?  On http://www.nba.com/lakers/news/09ringceremony.html ... I am trying to embed its Flash video into http://videosift.com/video/Lakers-Get-Their-Rings-Ceremony-from-2008-2009-season but it is not showing up correctly.
Any ideas? Thank you in advance.  Is michie still an active member on this site? If not, I'd like to claim the sports channel instead of creating a new one. There are plenty of channels already out there and the wall of checkboxes is constantly growing, so I'd rather take over an abandoned channel than create a new one. Is that cool with everyone? What do I have to do to make it happen?
 campionidelmondo aka. CDM aka. Fabio has advanced through the ranks and gotten himself a Ruby. He immediatly started working on a better user-interface for it and the possibility of changing its colour. CDM (his name means "World Champions" for those of you who aren't fluent in guinea) has long been one of the most notable members of the sift. As you may know he designed the GUI of VS4.0 and I'm sure everyone agrees it looks amazing. Prior to this Fabio made numerous scripts concerning the GUI and functionality of the site and he always published them on his blog instead of sifttalk so he never got the *qualities he so rightly deserved. Here are just some of the great scripts he wrote: http://blog.videosift.com/campionidelmondo/GM-Script-Poll-Colors http://blog.videosift.com/campionidelmondo/YouSift http://blog.videosift.com/campionidelmondo/Style-the-Sift http://blog.videosift.com/campionidelmondo/New-GM-Script-Merged-Siftbot-Affirmations http://blog.videosift.com/campionidelmondo/My-New-GM-Script-Invocation-Links And did I mention what a nice guy he is? I'm sure I did, but I'll repeat it; he's always friendly (especially if you praise his raison d'être) and fun to have around. So give it up for the sift codemonkey numero uno (sorry, lucky): Campionidelmondo!...and visit his PQUEUE as well - if you don't he'll make your profile page pink with pictures of violet unicorns EVERYWHERE! Here's something new, fellas: Damien Walters and Tim "Livewire" Shieff made a freerunning sequence on YouTube that lets the viewer decide which move he/she wants to see next.
You get to follow either Damien or Tim and at certain points, you are presented with a choice of two alternative moves, each with its own video. The choice is done via annotations, annoying as they usually are. And everything was filmed rather close-up, so you're up for a treat. Nothing too fancy, but an interesting concept. Tried to sift it, but failed miserably due to mandatory &iv_load_policy=3 which disabled annotations, thus rendering the concept ineffective. Anyway, enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxK-QmM4AM8 London's Trafalgar Square was invaded by competitors all hoping to jump, run and flip their way to victory in the World Freerun Championship.
Twenty-seven freerunners from 17 countries battled it out on a specially-designed course, using bars, boxes and poles to dazzle a 7,500-strong crowd. Great Britain's Tim Sheiff was crowned winner of this year's tournament after wowing judges with his gravity-defying moves. Source: Daily Mail You might know Livewire from a few parkour/freerunning/urban gymnastics videos on the sift, especially as the partner in crime of Damien Walters. So I'll use the opportunity for a few shameless self-links: - getting (un-)dressed like a true gymnast - abusing a slackline and a physio ball - demonstrating obscene body strength and control As of yesterday- June 18 2009, Formula 1 as we know it no longer exists. What happened is that eight teams, Brawn GP, Ferrari, McLaren, Renault, Toyota, BMW Sauber, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso announced their decision to leave and form an independant motorsports body (FOTA)following a four-hour meeting last night ahead of this weekend's British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
Honda left months ago due to the unsustainability of maintaining a $500 million budget in these uncertain economic times. This means there is not one single manufacturer left in the FIA camp, only privateers. Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley are of course threatening legal action against the rebels, and have begun construction of a new, more powerful space station to bring the alliance to its knees. The greatest exhibition of speed and engineering on earth is now kaput. New site founded by Tony Hawk hosts awesome extreme sports footage as well as some comedy. The best part of this site, though, is it has a built in frame by frame slow-motion toggle.
I'm hooked... 36 jumps this year and I can't get enough.
Why? Well, the residual effect on my state of mind is long-term. For about an entire week after a jump I feel great. Of course, on the flip side, if I go longer than a month "sans jump" I get a bit edgy. Looking forward to commenting and talking about it. I've gotten lots of friends to go and they've all had a blast. I've got some kick asss videos, too. I think to myself she is pretty hot...
Apparently there is a top ten list. So I can't be the first to think this. http://www.uncoached.com/2008/09/11/the-10-hottest-espn-news-reporters/ Just making a statement. FHM has set up a site with what they believe are the 100 greatest footy videos of all times.
Some are already here, some are not. So in case you are short of clips to submit: go crazy! P.S. Yes I know, some of you call it "soccer"  That’s not a misprint, this is an actual result from a Olympic pre-qualifying tournament. It was 7-0 after 5 minutes, 31-0 after the first period, 55-0 after two. Down 77-0 with 3 minutes to go, the coach had enough and put in the back-up goaltender, who promptly let in 5 goals on 5 shots in 1:25 of playing time. Amazingly, that is not the worst loss in women’s hockey history, that goes to South Korea over Thailand, 92-0 in 1998. It’s not all bad, Bulgarian goalie Liubomira Shosheva had an amazing 57-save performance, considering, you know, she faced 134 shots in 56 minutes. Can anyone find some highlights? Was curious if we could get enough sifters to have an all Sift Fantasy Football league. Im not sure how the whole FF thing works, but I sure would be willing to join one if someone at the Sift would be willing to set one up. Anyone?
There are some hot hot females competing in Beijing 2008 olympics. I've selected my personal top three olympichicks:
- Biljana "Biba" Golic, the table tennis champion - Laure Manaudou, lovely french swimmer - Leryn Franco, javelin thrower from Paraguay What say you, sirs? In case you've been living in a cave for the last week, you might not know that a Hungarian weightlifter, Janos Baranyai, had a terribly painful accident in which his elbow was ... reversed. The video was all over the internet (e.g. http://www.videosift.com/video/Epic-Olympic-OUCH) until about 3pm today when it was removed from ALL internet video sites. ALL OF THEM! You be the judge, but I smell Big Chinese Brother.
Those effected include MAJOR news outlets (for example): http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=151313 I imagine they will be even more pissed off than I am for sure. 1) China hides 7-year-old singing sensation from camera due to being too ugly. 2) China uses CGI to augment opening ceremony for international TV audiences. 3) Accident occurs in weightlifting event. All online video record of the event is destroyed in 3 hours. ... ... ... ... Grrr. People are raving over the intensity, creativity, symbolism, and general entertainment value of what is the single most watched Olympic opening ceremony (on TV) in history. That's all well and good. It was a sight to see... if you believe what you're seeing. Two new reports have however tarnished the spectacle. First reported is the CGI generated footage of the amazing footprint fireworks, which in reality were in fact real. The footage you saw on your TV was however, fake.
This, to many, isn't much of a big deal. The fireworks on site were real even if the TV footage was faked. A FAR more offensive act however, was the lip-synced "Hymn to the Motherland." The girl who won the intense competition for the singing part was apparently to UGLY to be seen on camera, so they used her voice and replaced her with a cuter girl who became an idolic sensation overnight. Beijing Olympic officials apparently did not realize how offensive this sort of action is to a great many people these days. "We're sorry kid, you can sing great... better than anyone your age, but you're too Fugly to be seen in our precious ceremony. What will people think?!" Well ... they'll think you gypped a 7-year-old out of a dream come true to hand the fame to an actress who is prettier. Well, the good news is that the news crept out and now we know who is who. NOW, it's tragic for the actress who will be unfairly viewed as a fraud. She might not even have known it was not her voice everyone was hearing. For the record, 7-year-old Yang Peiyi sang. Cuter actress Lin Miaoke, 9, was seen and got credit. These two screw-ups aside, this was the most spectacular opening ceremony in Olympic history so praise is due in large measure. It is a shame it could not have been entirely authentic however. http://www.betanews.com/article/YouTube_to_distribute_Olympics_videos_in_an_IOC_deal/1217955013
"With the Web becoming a more prevalent platform, the race to ensure broadcast rights for the Olympics means much less. Case in point: Tuesday's deal between the IOC and YouTube. While obviously the Olympic Games cannot be broadcast live over YouTube, the move marks the first time that content will be available from a single provider on a global basis. Clips and highlights of the games will be uploaded to YouTube, and made available in 77 countries..." Well, I always find photos of abandoned buildings amazing, all the pieces of life just left around, imagining what they were like in their heyday etc. (Some prime examples of people who turn this into a beautiful art form are Abandoned Places and Opacity)
This guy does not have the knack for photography like those people, but the fact that this is the former mansion of Mike Tyson and has a indeterminate recent history, makes it quite fascinating to me, I hope others here will enjoy the photos. Mike Tyson's former mansion Also... it shows: Money can't buy taste. I can't submit the video since the embed isn't compatible for videosift, but this video is worth checking out..
http://sports.espn.go.com/broadband/video/videopage?videoId=3361421 I guess sitting at a desk all day would make me want to hit someone with a rolled up Martha Stewart magazine too. Seriously though, check out some of those weapons! Toilet seats? Dust busters?? | Top Sift for Nov 21st, 2009Newest Channel Talk Posts  1. Rainbow Warriors (British Talk)  2. The Late Movies: Dogs Welcoming Home Soldiers (Catsanddogs Talk)  3. The new stargate on hulu.com (1sttube Talk)  4. Got Fired Today... (Happy Talk) 5. Top 10 Game-Show Moments [Videos] (History Talk)  6. Anyone into document management? (Geek Talk) 7. 15 Best 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' Moments (History Talk) 8. Vote for the best Sesame Street segments (History Talk)  9. Finally Saw "Moon" (Scifi Talk) 10. Ten Different Games, Movies and TV Shows of A-Team Intros. (80s Talk) Subscribe Video Hosts We accept video submissions from the below hosts. If your favorite video provider is not available, please contact us to suggest it.
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