1) Giancarlo Stanton hits a homer for the New York Yankees in Boston … and then gets clouted by a Red Sox fan from the Green Monster. Remember when Stanton got revenge on Mike Fiers? It’s never dull when he’s involved, although he might not know how to eat a Kit Kat.
2) Kennedy Bakircioglu scored a belting free-kick from 30 yards this week before catching an ice-cool beer to celebrate; a move straight out of the Nicki Bille Nielsen or Massimo Maccarone back catalogue, perhaps inspired by Corby Town’s Jason Lee.
3) Fernando Verdasco made few friends after belittling a ballboy at the Shenzhen Open but that pales into insignificance compared to this man fighting a boy for Jack Sock’s towel. Then, of course, there was Jelena Ostapenko’s wild throw of a racket at a ballboy. It’s not all bad, though, with Jelena Jankovic finding the funny side, not once, but twice. Sometimes incidents with ballboys are good natured, not so much in Eden Hazard’s case.
4) Let’s just take a moment to appreciate Ian Poulter … the Postman. He always delivers, they say, from the Miracle of Medinah to this year’s Ryder Cup. A little different to the Team USA gear, though it has got nothing on some fans’ get up.
5) Climb Yosemite’s extraordinary El Capitan alongside Alex Honnold.
6) A bizarre Bundesliga own goal. And how about this instinctive finish?
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Some wonderful Belfry beauties.
2) Murray Hallberg used an unusual strategy to win the 5,000 metres at the 1960 Rome Olympic Games.
3) Arguably the worst tackle of all time.
4) A fans’ protest with a difference:
5) Rivaldo at the 2002 World Cup: never forget.
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