Jimmy Kimmel likes to issue pranks to his viewers from time to time. The last I saw was his instruction to parents to pretend they had eaten all their kids’ Halloween candy. And he’s at it again.

This time Kimmel asked viewers to pull the plug, turn the TV off, or switch channels at an important moment during the Super Bowl. And record the resulting mess for us all to laugh over, obviously.

I find this video especially hilarious as I do not understand the level of interest some people have in sports. Support a team, fine. Go to a game, fine. But sit around focused on the TV as if life itself depends on it? Sad.

While most of the football fans featured take it well, several resort to violence. And I find that especially saddening. A football game is so important to you that you’re happy to injure someone who interrupts it? Get a life.

Maria Menounos proves herself to be a woman of her word when it comes to honoring lost bets as she hosted the show wearing nothing but a Giants coloured bikini.

And she just ruined the body images of thousands of girls by implying that she looked/felt fat in her bikini.

Thank you, Maria. Thank you so much for that.

At least both of the guys smartly didn’t say anything about her comment.

Personally, I don’t really give a rat’s rear end who was playing, who won and who lost their bets, but at least Patriot’s fans have a pretty sight to soothe themselves with.

This video shows Kelly Clarkson singing the U.S. national anthem to open the 2012 Super Bowl between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots.

This performance is either laughable or boring, depending on your tastes. What it most certainly isn’t is good. In any way, shape, or form.

For starters the U.S. national anthem is treated with such reverence, with people looking to the skies and holding their hand to their hearts, that I always end up giggling.

As for Clarkson, she delivered the lines without drama (boring) but then added her own little vocal riffs toward the end (laughable). And all from a woman who was discovered on one of Simon Cowell’s crap talent shows.

With all those damn gum commercials, I forget that Shaun White is actually still a really good snowboarder. Never in the history of The X Games has a snowboarder received a 100- a perfect score!

Here’s the clip of the amazing run. Some say that the judging is biased due to White’s fame, but you can’t deny that it’s worthy of a gold medal.

White pulled out of Slopestyle due to an ankle injury. It proved to be a good decision in the long run because his performance during the X Games was incredible. His first run was a 94, and he did this run while still in 1st place.

STRIDE is going to sell the hell out of that flavor today.

No one ever wants to see a roof falling in on them while they’re inside a building. Least of all the metal roof of an ice rink.

These kids are happily training in their ice hockey rink when someone notices the roof is starting to peel away at the seams. I don’t think that’s meant to happen somehow.

Everyone gets moved to the edges of the rink, and eventually out of the building altogether. But as the way these days, someone captures it on their mobile phone for posterity.

It looks as though heavy snowfall caused the collapse, as I’m guessing that’s the white stuff that comes falling through the cracks in the building as it caves in. Scary stuff.

Supercross is a dangerous sport. In fact, all motor sport is dangerous, regardless of the machine used and the health and safety rules instituted.

A fact that Trey Canard and Ryan Morais could attest to, having been involved in a nasty crash during the 20-lap main event of the Monster Energy AMA Supercross Series held at Dodger Stadium

Both riders came away badly injured; Morais with three fractured vertebrae in his neck, a broken jaw, and a bad concussion, Canard with two fractured vertebrae in his spine, and a bad concussion.

The thing to remember is crashes are a part of motor sports. Remove the risk of anyone coming a cropper and you take away the thrilling aspect of the sports. Everyone involved knows the risks and takes part regardless.

Ooh, that really isn’t good. The last place you want to end up is croc-infested waters, especially when you have a bungee cord tied around your legs. I see a lawsuit a-coming.

Langworthy is surely going to sue. But I’m guessing she will have had to sign some kind of waiver before she jumped, and that could protect the company involved if it did ever get to court.

The problem with all extreme sports, including bungee jumping, is the slight risk of something going wrong. If there wasn’t that risk then they wouldn’t exactly be extreme sports.

This hasn’t put me off the idea of bungee jumping, and it’s something I’d still love to do. But if I ever do one I’ll know there’s a very small chance it could be the last thing I ever do. Then again the same can be said for crossing the road.

No disrespect to amputees but I have never thought those who have been unfortunate enough to lose a limb would make for great footballers. How wrong was I?

This video shows some of the highlights from soccer games held during the African Cup Of Nations for Amputees. That’s right, a tournament just for players with one leg or one arm.

The outfield players have all lost one leg and get around on crutches. And yet they can still pass, shoot, and tackle just as well as players who have the use of all their limbs.

This is amazing, quite frankly. I’d go and see one of these games. As a spectacle it beats watching anything the Premiership can provide.

To fall off a Segway is embarrassing. To do so while holding a camera is highly embarrassing. To do so in front of thousands of people is embarrassing beyond mere words.

This guy was filming a game of cricket in Melbourne, Australia, on a Segway scooting around the pitch when he had a little accident.

He drove into a helmet and tumbled forward to the ground. Two of the cricketers reacted as though a bomb had gone off behind them. But it was just this douche making a prat of himself.

Why they feel the need to send a cameraman out onto the pitch is beyond me anyway. Cameras have zooming capabilities, don’t they?

No, you aren’t seeing things. That is two old men fighting on stage in front of an assembled crowd. I really hope Joe Kapp and Angelo Mosca are ashamed of their actions.

Kapp claims this wasn’t his fault, and that he was offering a flower to Mosca as a peace offering. Oh shut up you absolute idiot. Kapp started it, finished it, and wouldn’t let it go.

He didn’t need to bring a flower in the first place. This was over an on-the-field incident that happened 48 years ago, so I’m sure Mosca wasn’t sat there hoping for some crappy meeting of the minds between the two former footballers.

In the full video you get to see the aftermath, with both Kapp and Mosca addressing the fight. Kapp tries to defend himself and closes by joking he called his dog Angelo and kicked the shit out of him on a regular basis. What a douchebag.

Fight, fight, fight! Come on kitty number one, you have him on the ropes now. No, kitty number two, that is an illegal move.

OK, so they don’t actually fight to the death. I don’t think these little fellows have it in them to kill or maim. This isn’t some kind of kitty snuff video, for which I’m eternally grateful. Instead it is cuteness personified.

Kittens fight, as do grown cats. This is how they learn to defend themselves and how they would kill prey in the wild. Why they still do so when they have a bowl of nom nom nibbles sitting in a bowl in the kitchen is beyond me.

I still can’t help but wonder why these owners decided to make (or buy) a wrestling for their kittens. Is it for their enjoyment or the enjoyment of the kittens? Either way it makes for an entertaining video.

I’m so glad someone else filmed this because I would never be able to. I’d love to have a go on the actual alpine coaster, but I would need to use the brake and have both my hands free for holding on. And a spare pair of underpants, too.

I like rollercoasters, as long as they’re not too fast or too scary – yes, I’m a bit of a wuss – but this looks like a different prospect altogether. Personally it looks more fun.

This is a single-pipe alpine coaster in Mieders, Austria, and the reason these things are unlikely to catch on around the world is the obvious need for a bloody great mountain to slide down the side of. And in the U.S., home of the lawsuit, the fear someone will sue.

I may have to visit Mieders in Austria now purely to take a ride on this alpine coaster. I’ve never heard of the place before and never really had a desire to go to Austria, but this has to make the trip worthwhile, doesn’t it?

This is a video showing First Lady Michelle Obama being booed at a NASCAR race in Florida. It’s ignorant behavior, but not necessarily for the reasons many seem to be suggesting.

I think this is being blown out of proportion somewhat. In the U.K. we openly boo our politicians if we don’t like them including the Prime Minister. But in the U.S. there is generally a lot more respect for the President. For some strange reason.

I guess the controversy is over the fact that this was in the south and Michelle Obama is obviosly African American. But I doubt the color of her skin had anything whatsoever to do with it.

Let’s face it, the United States, like every other country in the world (bar Germany and China) is in financial difficulties. And this is a reaction to that. It’s still stupid, however, as most of the problems were sewn before Barack Obama became president.

Are you confused about Frank McCourt’s sell off of the Los Angeles Dodgers? Well then what you need is a handy Taiwanese animation to explain the situation. Sort of.

From the talented team that brought you the Royal Wedding and Conan versus Leno comes this slice of comedy confusion.

I’m Australian so this story’s not really on my radar, but best I can understand it, it has little to do with baseball. Instead the bits catching my interest are McCourt’s steamy love affair with Fox, and his unfortunate severed hand. Oh the horror!

Frankly this news story is no clearer to me now, but I’m still glad I tuned in!

I don’t have a problem when police are protecting and serving people, but then someone starts unnecessarily clubbing someone it just boils my blood.

There definitely needs to be a balance of power, and that can be seen at this sport event.

There is a difference between a riot and a group of people standing up for themselves. Sure, the man in the video running was acting like an idiot waving a flag, but this type of thing is a frequent occurrence at games.

I, for one, would like to see this type of “crowd-control” realised in every day situations for overstepping power. There are just way too many police brutality videos as it is.

Warning: This video shows a fatal motorcycle accident from the MotoGP race in Sepang, Malaysia. Viewer discretion is advised. Marco Simoncelli died from injuries sustained in this crash.

At first sight this accident doesn’t look all that bad. I’ve seen riders get flung through the air and tumble head over feet multiple times before getting up and walking away. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case here.

Marco Simoncelli’s bike veers across the track into the path of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. Neither rider could avoid hitting Simoncelli, whose helmet was knocked off.

Simoncelli sustained injuries to his head, neck, and chest, and was in cardiac arrest by the time medics arrived on the scene. He died from his injuries despite being treated.

Rest In Peace, Marco Simoncelli: 1987 – 2011.

I’ve still yet to participate in parkour, because I’m too lardy, too lazy, and too scared I’ll break my neck. In other words I think I’ll leave it to the professionals.

The world went through a phase several years ago of being completely obsessed with freerunning, or parkour as I prefer to call it. But that obsession has now ended.

However, there are still hundreds of brilliant freerunning videos being uploaded to YouTube and other online video websites every week, and just occasionally one sparks my interest.

These demonstrations of the sport aren’t all that spectacular – I’ve seen longer, higher, and more daring jumps – but they’re sublime. This is parkour as an art from more than an extreme sport. Which is the way it should be.

This video shows the 15-car pile-up during the IndyCar Series season finale at Las Vegas Motor Speedway which claimed the life of former champion Dan Wheldon. He was just 33-years-old.

Wheldon was airlifted to hospital after this crash, which saw his car catapulted into the fence where it burst into flames. He had suffered serious injuries and ended up passing away a couple of hours later.

The bad thing is crashes are as much a part of motorsport as overtaking and driver rivalry. They happen often and the fans even enjoy watching huge pile-ups, whether they admit it or not.

But when someone dies in one of the crashes it changes the very nature of it. It’s no longer an awesome sight to behold, it’s just scary, shocking, and absolutely tragic. As is the case with this particular one.

Dan Wheldon: 1978-2011. Rest In Peace.

What do you get when you cross Rocky, Iron Man, Transformers, and Wolverine? Real Steel. Or a mess. Depending on how you want to look at it.

When I first saw this trailer in the cinema I came out wondering what Hugh Jackman was playing at. Why would he read this preposterous script and not just throw it in the bin? It’s for his kids, obviously.

This is a strange one because at its heart it’s a boxing movie. A boxing movie aimed at children. But because it’s robots doing the boxing it’s OK to watch them kicking the crap out of each other in a ring.

Real Steel may be the best film ever, but I’ll never know because I refuse to go and see it. For those who want to punish themselves, Real Steel was released yesterday (Friday, Oct. 7).

The Phillies versus Cardinals play-off game got a little comic relief recently thanks to the most adorable little streaker.

We’ve all seen streakers of the human variety, but I’ve never spotted a squirrel taking their lead. This little guy is the cutest thing, so cute in fact that even the players had to stop to watch his antics.

I like to imagine this tiny rodent had a whole bunch of his squirrel pals egging him on from the side lines. Surely making such a mark on such a major game in baseball history has to make him a squirrel legend!