Sports, as an activity, has always been connected with a great deal of seriousness, focus and dedication from the sportsman. Team sports and also individual sports have the same amount of dedication and determination involved, that being the essence of champions and champion teams. True sportsmanship is actually a quality that men and women, and not merely sportsmen, aspire to possess on the playing field as well as in their respective personal lives.

But sports cannot be consigned only to the serious. These sportsmen at a number of times are definitely the butt of jokes for their antics, their amazingly funny quotes or some peculiar activities which makes for quite a few really funny sports news. It is remarkable to observe a mind that is normally so strong, focused and channelized on the field just loose itself once off it. Sports news and other entertainment providers have a field day airing these events and we, as audiences have a good time watching them.

Funny sports news does not just involve these funny antics but extends to some hilarious and quite often bizarre sports competitions. There are numerous news providers who uncover these seriously funny sports competitions and bring it to their viewers.

The Finnish people take their beer seriously and in what way! They have come up with a festival that is a walking competition with a twist. The all male players have got to cover a 253.5m long course covered with obstacles over land and water while hauling their wife on their back!! The victorious one gets a mobile phone and most importantly, the equivalent of his wifes weight in beer!

The participants have to be careful of dropping or bouncing the wife as that includes a fine. Traditionally the participants would have to be married to the woman, but in modern times any suitable female will do as long as she is above 17 years old and weighs over 49 kg.

For the person in search of some action head over to Pamplona in Spain for their annual event, the Running of the Bulls! This sport involves a bull pursuing the multitude of participants through the narrow lanes of Pamplona for up to a kilometer. The chase ends eventually in the bullring where the bulls are left to look after themselves. Every year the crowds go crazy during this event leading to some really funny moments.

For the compassionate who do feel a little revolted because of the gory nature with the Running with the Bulls event comes a compassionate alternative. The Festival of San Fermin is commemorated each year with the thrilling Running with the Nudes events. Quite similar to the Running with the Bulls, this event too demands people running through the winding streets of Pamplona; the sole catch is that they are completely nude! An appropriate reply, one can say, towards the barbarity linked to bullfights.

A boat race could hardly be called funny. But not the Henley on Todd Regatta, a yearly sports event held in Alice Springs. The Alice Springs version of the extremely English Henley on Thames regatta involves boating all right, but over a dry river bed. This is so as Alice Springs lacks the active water body since it is very close to Central Australia. This seriously funny sports event has been in the news due to its large boats that contain no bottom and sees the participants making a mad dash for the finish line running inside these hollow boats.