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The Guardian - UK
Sport

The Iceman, Sugar Ray and surfing up the Amazon

There are myriad ways to kill a day at work: read GU, make a cup of tea and then knock it over, mop it up and make another one, play our selection of the greatest internet sports games ever, chew a pen and stare out the window looking thoughtful. But YouTube is starting to trump them all, particularly for sports fans. So every Thursday we'll be wasting as much time as is humanly possible to bring you our favourite clips. Then you can add your own, and everyone will go home happy. And having done no work.

1) Sometimes the best goals come from the least likely sources. Here's Roy Wegerle justifying the £1m he cost QPR in just 10 seconds of football. Back in 1994 this stunning dribble from Leeds' Rod Wallace was enough to win him the Goal of the Season award. If they're just that bit too surprising for you, here are some belters from prolific Liverpool scorer John Arne Riise. And if that's still not enough for you, how about a fond look back at Bruce Rioch's greatest ever signing? We give you ... Dennis Bergkamp.

2) If you think football's not what it used to be, you couldn't be more right. The Shrovetide football match in Ashbourne, Derbyshire has a history stretching back to the 12th century, and it hasn't changed too much in all that time.

3) The British don't have a monopoly on absurd sports. Here's SlamBall!, featuring two hoops, eight players and a whole load of trampolines. What more do you need to know?

4) The US Masters starts today, which is reason enough to watch Tiger Woods's phenomenal chip at the 16th in 2005, possibly the greatest shot in the tournament's history.

5) The crucial ice hockey clash between the USSR and the USA at the 1980 Winter Olympics was such a good story that Hollywood made a movie out of it. Twice. It may not have Steve Guttenberg or Kurt Russell, but the original beats them both. Here it is, the miracle on ice.

Five favourites from last week's blog

1) Who says pool and Domino Rally don't mix?

2) Sugar Ray Robinson lost only one of his 123 fights. Muhammad Ali called him: "The king, the master, my idol." Here are some highlights of his later career as a middleweight.

3) In the Amazon they call it Pororoca surfing, here in Britain we have our own version, the, um, Severn Bore.

4) Sit back and let Sean Kelly take the strain, as he reels in lone leader Moreno Argentin in the final 100m of the 1992 Milan-San Remo race to claim his final Classic win.

5) It's the title game in Division II of the 2007 National Basketball Championship; Barton College is down by seven to Winona State with 45 seconds left, when everything begins to go haywire ...

Spotter's badges: dyagetme1, viking17, plungepool, offpiste, rolandito.

And finally ... more stuff from the Guardian today

1) Back to Euro 96 and Croatia's decisive win over Denmark. Not included: the Davor Suker shot from halfway that Peter Schmeichel scrambled back to save. Included: the Suker chip the big Dane couldn't stop.

2) Nostalgia corner, No1: a very brief video from Mexico 1970. So: in comes the cross, up goes Pele, down goes the header. Goal? Not if Gordon Banks has anything to do with it.

3) Nostalgia corner, No2: they don't make tennis brats like they used to. John McEnroe has a pop at the umpire, the crowd and then a woman sitting behind his chair. Top tantrum.

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