Danny Green of the San Antonio Spurs was racing back to the locker room to watch the Sprint Halftime Report (I assume) and almost had his life ended when a CHILD NINJA appeared from out of nowhere and almost took him out. I don’t know why there is a child ninja roaming the halls of the AT&T Center, but he’s there, and you’ll never see him coming. (via Ride The Pine)

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Here are your quick and dirty WWE Payback results for Sunday night’s pay-per-view.

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The inaugural WWE Payback pay-per-view airs live tonight at 8PM EST, beginning with an online pre-show event beginning at 7:30. Payback is headlined by a “three stages of hell” match between WWE Champion John Cena and challenger Ryback, featuring a lumberjack, tables and ambulance match in a 2-out-3 falls setting. The hilarious With Leather readers will be discussion the thread all night long, so be sure to stop by and hang out and unlock your Paul Heyman Guy badge.

The full card is below.

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There comes a time in every man’s life when he suddenly realizes what he was born to do.

Like most adults who play air hockey more than once a year, I consider myself the best air hockey player alive. I’m sure 80% of you missed the first half of that sentence and are already in the comments typing BULLSHIT BRANDON I’M THE BEST AIR HOCKEY PLAYER. It’s the nature of the game. The Japanese have compromised that delicate balance of machismo by creating an air hockey robot capable of inhuman speed and accuracy, as well as adaptive reasoning.

We’re through the looking glass, people.

Japanese researchers at Chiba University’s Namiki Lab have developed an air-hockey robot that is skillful enough to compete against human players. It’s not the first air-hockey robot developed, but the team led by Professor Akio Namiki has upped the ante: their robot changes its strategy based on its human opponent’s playing style.

The system consists of an air-hockey table, a Barrett four-axis robotic arm, two high-speed cameras, and an external PC. It builds on the lab’s work with high-speed tracking. Previously, the researchers (in collaboration with University of Tokyo’s Ishikawa Oku Lab) paired a ultrafast vision system with a dexterous robot hand to juggle balls and fold towels, but here it tracks the puck and opponent’s paddle. The position data from the camera images is then processed by the external PC, which determines the robot’s next move. The robot is tracking the game at an insanely fast rate of 500 frames per second. Which means that, from the robot’s point of view, its human opponent is moving at a laughably slow pace. It’s like the robot is playing the game in a Matrix-style bullet-time frame. (via IEEE Spectrum)

Here’s the monster in action.

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There’s only one way to start a column about ‘The Wonder Years.’

Whether you lived in the 1960s or just the 1980s, ABC’s 1988-1993 hit ‘The Wonder Years’ remains one of the best TV shows ever made. It follows the not-especially-remarkable life of Kevin Arnold, an average kid growing up in the suburbs in the late 60s, his family, his friends and the girl of his dreams. If you haven’t watched the show, I recommend you running to Netflix Instant and marathoning the entire thing, being careful to avoid that low rent version of ‘With a Little Help from My Friends’ they use in the open so they don’t have to pay The Beatles and/or Joe Cocker a ton of money.

We’ve put together the 15 best sports moments from the run of the show, featuring everything from dodgeball to Jesus Christ playing high school basketball to Kevin’s sweet vintage Jets jacket. Click through to check them out.

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In the spirit of yesterday’s video of Ronda Rousey magically appearing to armbar the Best Buy Geek Squad comes O sonho de Anderson Silva (“The Dream Of Anderson Silva”).

In it, Silva dreams that he is (more or less) playing a game of Beercup on an international level, improving the game of pro soccer by adding rear naked chokes, jumping kicks to the chest and referee intimidation. The story, as far as I can tell, is that Anderson is so bored during MMA fights that he starts fantasizing about being able to punch people in other sports, and is already deep into absurdity before somebody hits him and wakes him up. Then, because etiquette, he kicks that person to death.

Trust me, it’ll all make sense when you watch the video, which is included below. Well, everything’ll make sense except the part where he’s delivering food on the beach. That’s still pretty weird.

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