SportsPickle - Filed Under "Tips" http://www.sportspickle.com/tag/tips Filed Under "Tips" /article/3459 10 Tailgating Tips Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:55:46 -0400

Great. You brought a football to the tailgate. I might throw it around with you. A few times. Maybe. But I'm here to have some drinks and load up on food and hang out with people. That's really the entirety of my plans. I didn't bring my cleats. You see, I came here to watch football. Not play football. Okay? Cool.

Hey, relax with the football, guy! No, I will not play two-hand touch. No, I will definitely not go long. Under any circumstances. If you wanted to play football today, you should have made the team.

Go away, you drunk moron.

...]]> /article/2485 5 Tips For Treating An Attractive Female Reporter Right ... An Athlete's Guide Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:39:01 -0400
Professional athletes often find themselves surround by beautiful women. But what happens when one of these beautiful women wants to talk to you — and it's not for sex? What if they're a reporter who may not...]]> /article/594 We've Seen Your Junk. Now What? -- An Athlete's Guide Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:05:24 -0500

The life of the rich and powerful seems glamorous. Money, fame, women. But it's also very easy to have pictures of your junk plastered all over the internet.

U.S. congressman Anthony Weiner is not the first this has happened to. Pro athletes like Santonio Holmes, Grady Sizemore, Greg Oden and Brett Favre came before him. If you are a professional athlete and have your nudie pics leaked to the Internet — or accidentally tweet them out to your thousands of followers — what should you do?

...]]> /article/559 Green Tips for Sports Fans Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:25:25 -0500 With dire warnings about the fate of the environment coming at an ever-increasing clip, it’s a good time for sports fans to start trying to go green. While changing your sports-watching behavior may not sound like the easiest way to help the environment, it’s surprisingly simple. Just follow these simple tips, and Mother Earth will thank you.


Tip #1 — Reduce your paper consumption —In order to save paper, you should stop buying newspapers just to read the sports section. Oh, wait. Off to a good start!


...]]> /article/536 How to Go from Fat to Muscular: The SportsPickle Way! Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:54:54 -0500 It's a new year. Time to get in shape!


Thanks to SportsPickle you can go from fat and dumpy to sleek and muscular in just TWO EASY STEPS! And only 20 MINUTES!


No, you get out. It's true! Here's how.


STEP 1 — Take a BEFORE picture


...]]> /article/498 10 Last-Minute Gift Ideas for Sports Fans Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:15:50 -0500 Christmas is almost here. Many of you may be done all of your shopping, but chances are you still need a gift or two.


Well, you're in luck! Here are some great last-minute gift ideas for the sports fan on your list.


1. Utility infielder — Great for the baseball fan who has everything! Utility infielders aren't too expensive, take up very little space, hustle on every play, and usually don't care if you forget to play with them. Also, many are bilingual! (Chewing tobacco purchased separately.)


...]]> /article/346 5 Tips for Fighting the Elderly -- by Pedro Martinez Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:01:48 -0400 I am a baseball player. But if there is one thing the game has taught me, it's not a lesson about competition or sportsmanship or being a man or anything like that.


It's that you might have to fight an old person at a moment's notice.


Game 3 of the 2003 ALCS … did I go to the park that day expecting to fight Don Zimmer? Not really. But then one thing led to another and I had to throw that 72-year-old man to the ground.


...]]> /article/313 11 Steps For Coaching Youth Sports the Movie Way! Tue, 20 Oct 2009 09:55:55 -0400 In all likelihood, your days of being able to grasp athletic glory for yourself are all but gone. That doesn’t mean you can’t find a way to pull on a new championship ring each season, though. Just get involved in coaching youth sports! It’s a good way to help spread your passion for the game to a younger generation, but even more importantly, it’s a great opportunity for you to win, thereby proving what a successful, awesome person you are.


...]]> /article/285 12 Steps for Being an Effective Ticket Scalper Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:37:35 -0400 Are you unemployed? Or stuck in a job you hate? Trying desperately to break into the sports industry despite not having any business skills, athletic ability, or an eighth-grade education? Don’t give up just yet. There’s still one avenue you probably haven’t tried: ticket scalping! Follow these easy steps, and you’ll be exploiting your fellow fans in no time!


Step #1:Buy a Pair of Mirrored Sunglasses. March yourself down to the closest drugstore and buy the cheapest pair of reflective shades you can find. From now on, these are you uniform, and you’ll never be taking them off. Nighttime, poorly lit bars, the shower stall at the local truck stop where you bathe…these are all perfectly acceptable contexts for mirrored sunglasses now that you’re a scalper.


...]]> /article/244 5 Benching Tips -- by Brady Quinn Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:28:47 -0400 Hi, this is Brady Quinn, quarterback for the Cleveland Browns. But you may know me better from Notre Dame, or from my Subway or EAS commercials.


Either way, you know me … and that means you know my muscles, too. They're huge. And you don't get muscles this big without working out. Hard.


Today's workout? The bench.


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