1) Plenty of players have highlight reels of their best goals. Álvaro Recoba has a highlight reel of his best goals from corners. He wasn’t bad from more conventional angles, either. Staying with highlight reels, here’s one-man battering ram Joshua Tuisova.
2) Toronto’s Ryan Goins pulls out the old hidden ball trick to make the Yankees’ Todd Frazier look rather foolish:
3) Half-time in the Vikings v the Buccaneers in the NFL at the weekend – time for a gentle entertainment: a game between some seventh graders and a team of mascots. Goldie Gopher, though, has other ideas. It’s not Goldie’s first appearance in our round-up – here he is being upstaged by a tumbling bear.
4) Also in US football this week: Rutgers’ tight end Jerome Washington makes catch with his feet, Oklahoma’s Abdul Adams runs for a 99-yard score and, um, squirrel touchdown? Squirrel touchdown!
5) Napoli’s Arkadiusz Milik could face another season out with a knee injury, so his team-mates wanted to pay tribute during the Champions League match against Feyenoord. After scoring the opening goal Lorenzo Insigne ran to the dugout to retrieve his team-mates shirt but it didn’t quite go according to plan.
6) Thirteen years after their first match against each other, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal – or Fedal, as they now seem to be known – played their first match together last weekend in the inaugural Rod Laver Cup. Watching the Team Europe pair high five, fist pump and laugh their way to a narrow win over Team World’s Sam Querrey and Jack Sock was as surreal as the time they faced each other on a half-clay, half-grass court in the so-called “Battle of the Surfaces” – but last Saturday’s match was never going to better that Wimbledon final of 2008 for entertainment.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Chicago Bears cornerback Marcus Cooper offers a painful reminder of the dangers of celebrating too early.
WOW. 🙈
— NFL UK (@NFLUK) September 25, 2017
What one word do you have to describe this play?#PITvsCHI pic.twitter.com/mkfOyUNdXU
2) Also in Major League Baseball: Brian Dozier bunts for a home run and Addison Russell smashes some nachos out of a fans hands … then brings him some more.
3) Ukrainian boxer Denys Berinchyk certainly knows how to make an entrance. He ended up with a stoppage after a brutal contest. He has what you might describe as walk up style ...
4) How to bounce back from a derby defeat, with Sheffield Wednesday’s Carlos Carvalhal: crumple and punch a £20 note.
5) A Marseille fan fulfilled a dream before the club’s game Sunday against Toulouse, but he had to go off script to do it. OM invited Kamel Zaroual to take a ceremonial kickoff before the game, in recognition of his recent 1,200-mile charity bike ride. But rather than settle for a perfunctory ceremonial kick off, he took a different option.
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