Ping Pong Archives

Blake Griffin Played Ping-Pong Against a Professional

Posted December 7, 2011, 6:10 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (7 Comments)

During the lockout, players searched for something to fill their days. Blake Griffin turned to table tennis for a few minutes. Red Bull might have had something to do with his choice, but that doesn’t matter. In this video Griffin takes on professional ping pong player – and model – Soo Yeon Lee. While most [...]

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Barack Obama Plays Ping Pong, Meets Kate Middleton, Gets Car Stuck

Posted May 24, 2011, 4:15 pm by Stephen Douglas (CRM!) (86 Comments)

President Obama and the First Lady are currently traveling through the UK having all sorts of wacky adventures. Barack played table tennis with the British Prime Minister David Cameron. The duo proved once and for all, that there is no such thing as a picture of people playing ping pong that isn’t awesome.

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Terry Bradshaw Has Experienced Some Short-Term Memory Loss; Ping-Pong is Helping Him

Posted April 12, 2011, 2:05 pm by Jason McIntyre (33 Comments)

Terry Bradshaw: The FOX TV analyst says he has experienced some short term memory loss from his NFL playing days – he said he remembers six concussions – and he recently spent three days at the Amen Clinic seeking help. One of the solutions? Ping-Pong. “I started playing at the ping-pong table now. But you [...]

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Table Tennis Olympic Doping Scandal Won’t Go Away

Posted December 10, 2010, 2:00 pm by Jason McIntyre (33 Comments)

Ping-Pong: “The World Anti-Doping Agency is challenging a decision that cleared Olympic table tennis medalist Dimitrij Ovtcharov of doping despite his positive test for clenbuterol.” Ovtcharov claims he ate contaminated meat. The German federation bought it. The kicker: Clenbuterol “burns fat and builds muscle.” But unless he was dabbling in some Barry Bonds cocktails that [...]

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The Roundup: Lance Stephenson Arrested, Everyone Hates Rob Dibble & Boston Beatdown with a Bat

Posted August 16, 2010, 8:20 am by Jason McIntyre (220 Comments)

Kristin Cavallari … Whitney Cummings slayed at the David Hasselhoff roast – 2:35 for the Magic Johnson joke … “Councils pay for prostitutes for the disabled” … there was a Little League brawl in Canada … how do you feel about “automatic” IRAs? … long, but good (and sad) … if real, this is very [...]

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