re: What is your most embarrassing sports moment?

Playing 3rd in a high school baseball game. During a long inning, I lost track of where the runners were.

With 2 outs, I fielded a hot shot down the line and stepped on third then tossed the ball behind my back towards the mound and ran off the field (thinking the bases were loaded and it was the 3rd out.

Just before I made it to the dugout I got my arse chewed by my coach saying the runners were at the corners.

Had to go back on the field with my tail between my legs.

I was an outfielder in college but had caught some in HS so was sort of the "emergency" catcher. Circumstances conspired to put me behind the dish in a conference game, and I hit our pitcher in the back trying to throw out a runner trying to steal second.

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Yea you didn't win a baseball game 42-3

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There's a chance the scorebook is in my dad's attic somewhere. If I ever come across it I'll post it w/ the alter I'll surely have to use.

Middle school basketball..73-9 defeat

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you played for Va Tech? nice

im shocked they let student athletes play intramurals they dont let them at LSU

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They stopped letting the football players play intramurals except for basketball by the time I graduated.

When I first went, VT had team handball as an intramural sport, water polo, etc and you can only imagine the carnage, so they said only basketball and games like horseshoes

Remember getting my first call to the bullpen. My first warmup toss was absolutely the worst thing I have ever done in my athletic life. I airmailed the ball about 25 feet in the air.. Me and the catcher just started dying, I wanted to jump in a hole.. Still do

Middle school. Dove into a ditch face-first during recess to catch a far-lobbed foul kick. I couldn't slow down once I dove for the catch and had the perfect angle to dive into the ditch.

I had to go to class the rest of the day too.

Football sophomore year I was on the kickoff team and got blind sided on the opening kickoff against Woodlawn to the "OOOOUUUU" of the crowd then the African American player stood over me and said "GET SOME WHITE BOY!"

But our kicker who was a lot smaller also got it bad and was on cox 4 hit of the week and starting crying when he got to the sideline so that made me feel better

My Freshman year we were up 24-1 in the 2nd inning of a baseball game. We are in the dugout clowning and having a good ol' time when one of the Seniors yells,"Knock it off, they may come back and win!". We all got quiet and then everyone busted out laughing. By the end of the third we were down 27-24, and ended up losing 37-33. This was in high school baseball. After the initial onslaught my last four AB's were 0-4 with 4 K's.

Kerry Kittles lit me up for 60 points in an AAU tournament. When he exited the game I finally hit a three pointer to cut their lead....

to 79.

That team featured Kerry Kittles, Randy Livingston, and Scottie Thurman (who hit the game winning 3 over Duke to give Arkansas a national title in '94).

I remember Kittles kicking me in the chest (inadvertently) on an alley oop off the opening tip. I knew it was going to be a long night and realized how much different the speed of the game was with elite D1/NBA talent.

I got redemption in '99 when I had the opportunity to guard Allen Iverson when I was a featured extra for a commercial for the NBA on TNT (Allen Iverson's cross over dribbling camp). I got incredibly lucky by sticking my hand in and knocking the ball away from him while getting some B roll footage. I stole the ball and was on a 2 on 1 fast break (with another actor) and I threw the ball behind my back, hit him in the chest, as the ball went out of bounds. The next several possessions Iverson, totally, and I mean completely kicked my arse.