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By now, if you expose yourself to any form of sports media, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, Friendster or even AOL Geocities, you've likely seen footage of Clipper forward Blake Griffin's manly dunk from last night's game against the Oklahoma City Seattle ThunderSonics. This is one of those moves best appreciated on a loop, forever, in animated gif form and our crack team of researchers here at the Juxtapoz Sports Desk has assembled a few for your viewing pleasure.
Who Wants To Sex Mutombo?
Dikembe Mutombo will long be remembered for his shot-blocking prowess and signature post-block finger-wag. Less likely to be remembered of the good-natured, gravely-voiced Congolese big man is an urban legend from his college days at Georgetown.
Tiki Taka Football
"Tiki Taka" is the nickname given to FC Barcelona's trademark pass-pass-pass style of soccer, which typically involves players forming and re-forming 3-man triangles all over the field.
Hoops Illos by Joey Cienian
To accompany their clever piece on which NBA rookies are putting in solid work this season, the genius minds at Hoopism used an illustration by Joey Cienian depicting a couple of our favorite rooks: Ricky Rubio, Iman Shumpert and MarShon Brooks. Besides commissioning cool illos by Cienian, Hoopism is a haven for sports nerds, with an emphasis on "basketball data visualization, analysis, history and culture."
Love's Many Faces
Besides gobbling up rebounds at an astronomical rate, nailing gangster walk-off three-pointers like a boss and catching everything sweet-passing Spanish rookie Ricky Rubio throws his way, NBA power forward extraordinaire Kevin Love has a hilarious array of in-game expressions.
Mullets of Medellin
What is it about soccer and the mullet? Despite disappearing from mainstream fashion years ago, the Camaro Cut lives on amongst footballers worldwide — nowhere more so than Medellin, Colombia. Photographers Stefan Ruiz and Rainbow Nelson chronicled the fans of Deportivo Independiente de Medellin (DIM) and their ubiquitous "soccer rockers" for the brilliant Green Soccer Journal.
Juxtapoz Sports
Welcome to the tipoff, kickoff, first pitch, halfway line tap, first round bell, starter’s pistol pop and the inaugural post for Juxtapoz Sports. A little about myself: I’m a former, mostly pre-internet basketball magazine writer and editor, spent a few years marketing sports at YouTube, I obsessively collect 1990s sports memorabilia and I watched Argentina beat Greece in Polokwane, South Africa at the 2010 World Cup.
