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Everyone enjoys a freshly pressed shirt. It looks good and it feels good, but is ironing manly? Up to this point I would have told you no. I, much like the rest of you, thought ironing was a skill best left to grandmas and dry cleaners. Well, gentlemen, turns out we were wrong.
Let me introduce you to Extreme Ironing. Yes, you read it correctly. A sport which takes something that was previously thought to be a chore for house-wives and bachelors and turns it into something both manly and hilarious.
“The …
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If you learn nothing else from your time spent at the Man Institute, remember this: manliness is inversely related to the amount of equipment used when attempting to achieve a goal. That is, the more equipment you need to get the job done, the less manly the act is.
Take hunting, for instance. Hunting on its own is a fairly manly activity. You grab your favourite rifle and head off into the bush to camp and hike and eventually kill an animal. Manly, yes, but there is still room for improvement. …
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It is admittedly long overdue, but given recent events it’s clearly about damn time we write some articles about hockey. In this, the first volume of hockey manliness, some of the manliest people to play one of the manliest positions the sporting world has to offer, the great goalies.
Jacques Plante
I’m sure many of you will know Jacques Plante as the first goalie to wear a mask. You’re all wrong. Plante did, however, design the first fiberglass goalie mask and the first to wear a fiberglass mask in the NHL. Now …
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Guest post by by: Liberty Kontranowski
All work and no play makes Jack a real pain in the ass. So if your days tend to rival those of Bill Murray’s character in Groundhog Day, maybe it’s time you get yourself a hobby – but not just any hobby. Leave the golfing and bowling to the guy next door and up the pastime ante with a manly quest like the five super cool and slightly extreme hobbies listed below.
B.A.S.E. Jumping
B.A.S.E. jumping consists of hurling your body off of four major categories of …
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The majority of Olympic sports have had their spots in the games for many years and additional sports getting added is somewhat rare. The winter games have seen some improvements with the additions of snowboarding events and skeleton. It’s now time, again, that the winter games opened their doors to the manliest of all winter sports, Icecross Downhill Skating.
On Jan. 20, 2000 this fantastic new sport was first seen as people from all over the world flocked to Stockholm to see the races. It was a spectacular event, despite being designed …
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There’s no getting around it: The economy sucks. Unemployment is through the roof and every aspect of daily life is affected by it. One of the first casualties of pursestring-tightening is the gym membership. What was once taken for granted is now an unaffordable luxury. And it doesn’t help that bacon is the last casualty. That doesn’t mean that there aren’t ways to keep in shape on the cheap. Here are five ideas that’ll make sure that even though you may be down on tough times, no one will kick …
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Well, since the post on the beer bong, it’s only natural that we post an article outlining its action packed cousin, beer pong. Beer pong is also occasionally referred to as Beirut, by old timers, although the origins of the name Beirut are quite skewed. In my mind, the name beer pong seems to be the far more logical title, and is much easier for the typical brickheaded frat boy to remember.
Speaking of frat boys, fraternities happen to be the exact place that beer pong gains its notoriety and …
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Have you ever been sitting around, either on shore, or on a boat, bored out of your mind? You look down into the calm water below you, breaking just below your feet while the sun beats down on your face turning you tomato red and making you want to fall asleep.
In glancing out of your peripherals (so you don’t have to turn your head) you’re able to notice that all of your friends are in the exact same mode, they all look like they’ve died hours ago and are just …






