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BASE jumper Jeb Corliss is airlifted to hospital after breaking his leg in a fall on Table Mountain.

Extreme sports enthusuaists will know that world famous BASE jumper, Jeb Corliss, is in Cape Town.

Last week he made headlines by succesfully completing a controlled descent wingsuit flight off of Table Mountain, at insane speeds. Check out the gallery, HERE.

Today, Jeb jumped from Table Mountain again, but did not complete his flight, or BASE jump successfully. Reports on his current condition are unclear. Click through for details.

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Just to fill you in on who Tim Tebow is, he is God’s current gift to American Football. And I mean that in more ways than one. In particular, he is a highly-religious man and often thanks God in interviews for his performance as quarterback for the Denver Broncos. That is quite normal amongst successful public figures, but Tebow has been known to take it further:

In 2010, a new rule for the next NCAA football season, dubbed “The Tebow Rule” by media because it would have affected him, banned messages on eye paint. During his college football career, Tebow frequently wore references to biblical verses on his eye black. In the 2009 BCS Championship Game, he wore John 3:16 on his eye black; the verse was the highest-ranked Google search term over the next 24 hours, generating over 90 million searches. Additionally, later, when Tebow switched to another verse, there were 3.43 million searches of “Tim Tebow” and “Proverbs 3:5-6″ together. Tebow stated of the searches “It just goes to show you the influence and the platform that you have as a student-athlete and as a quarterback at Florida” [more here]

You get the picture.

It is for reasons like this, that top US talk show host, Jimmy Fallon, dressed up as a David Bowie / Tim Tebow hybrid and sang a re-hashed version of “Major Tom.”

It’s a quality performance, whether you know anything about Tim Tebow or not.

Follow the link below to check it out.

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Anyone who made it to Saturday’s 151st L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate will attest to the fact that it was everything and more than we could possibly imagine! What a day of royal elegance it was! Guests witnessed an appearance of the legendary Pocket Power leading out the contenders for the main race, the L’Ormarins Queens Plate – Grade 1 – 1600m, won by Gimmethegreenlight in a memorable edition of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate.

Gimmethegreenlight takes it!

Whether your frolicking was done in the VIP Stud Club or the Caprice tent, there was no shortage of eye-candy, as both boys and girls went to town with the blue and white theme. Vintage dresses were paraded side-by-side with tight little blue and white numbers. It was something of an A-list celebrity scrum, as everyone from Miss South Africa to Pro surfer Jordy Smith shared the limelight. That main picture above is of Miss SA, Melinda Bam, Lady Kitty Spencer and Jo-Ann Strauss. They were spotted later that night, partying to Tumi & the Volume, The Kongos, Spoek Mathambo and finally Cape town’s #1 disc-spinner, DJ Sox!

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Click through to watch a video of Bevan Small and Michael Mason’s combined effort to dismiss Brad Wilson in New Zealand’s T20 domestic league. It may well be the best catch ever caught on camera.

Shane Warne recently stepped out of retirement to play for the Melbourne Stars, and hooked up to a microphone, his live commentary on his bowling revealed the genius of his cricketing brain.

Part of Shane Warne’s agreement to play for the Melbourne Stars in the Big Bash League was underpinned by a deal with television rights holders, Fox Sports. Warne would wear a microphone throughout every match and commentate as he played.

And in the words of Cricinfo scribe, Alex Malcolm:

This was a competitive match, the most competitive and intense of the Big Bash so far. And what Warne delivered was truly spectacular.

Art lovers have pondered what it would be like to listen to Michelangelo talk as he painted the Sistine Chapel. What tennis would give to have Roger Federer talk them through a service game against Rafael Nadal? Cricket fans got their equivalent tonight as Warne describe how he was going to bowl, and why he was bowling to that plan, before executing it in real time, in a competitive environment.

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I was grabbing a couple poached eggs at Cecconi’s with The Big H just off Saville Row – Mayfair – this weekend. We spotted a new white Range Rover Evoque struggling to park opposite us. The driver was a Brazilian woman and, after a few attempts, her companion jumped out to help direct her. What do you know – it turns out it was none other than F1 “supremo,” Bernie Ecclestone!

I took these pics of the 81 year-old playing car guard for his 32 year-old girlfriend, Fabiana Flosi.

Follow the link to check out the series of photos, as well as a brand new interview with the Guardian, in which Bernie talks about his daughter’s new reality show, and her R700 million home he bought her: Continue Reading

Much excitement over in the United States (of America) as a team in Oklahoma won what would surely be described as a derby match of sorts. I say this, because there was a virtual riot after the game with a total pitch invasion, which included the uprights being ripped down. Pretty hectic visuals.

This from Washington Post:

After an annual football game they call Bedlam, thousands of Oklahoma State fans jumped, ran and pushed their way onto the field in joy. The Cowboys had just taken apart the Oklahoma Sooners, their bitter and often more successful rivals. The Cowboys’ first national championship suddenly seemed within reach.

But fans were pressing toward the field, which is separated from the stands by an eight-foot stone wall. Some students jumped down, others were pushed. The crowd pulled down the goal posts, and in the 45 minutes or more it took police to restore order Saturday night, some fans were trampled as the crowd struggled to reach the exits.

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Clearly the father (or “papa” as they like to say in France) of international rugby player, Imanol Harinordoquy had a touch too much pastis during a derby game between Biarritz and Bayonne. Check out the video after the jump.