Amanda and Karen of team Wall-E (forest) deserve a round of applause. A sweaty, loud, monster round of applause! Thanks to league policy, at least two of the soccer players on court must be women, ensuring females always get their time to play. More female players are encouraged to hit the court, if there are more than two on a team. Our photo-friendly ladies were the only two women on their team who made it to their end-of-season friendly playoffs game. Luckily, Amanda and Karen are delightful broads who love getting sweltry. This duo rocked every second of the game, which was approximately 2,160 seconds of fierce athleticism.

You can see the goalie, front and center. That makes sense. But scratch your head about this one. There’s a sneaker. Without a body. Or maybe we just can’t see the rest of the body. Genius scientist-slash-invisible soccer player? This photo is not the result of fancy post-production trickery. So there must be an invisible Soccer player in our midst, which begs the question, where's the other sneaker?

If it works for Tim Tebow, starting quarterback for the Denver Broncos, then it might just work for Flag Football team Regeneron (light blue). With seconds left on the game clock, Regeneron - which has a player from Denver - doesn’t chant their team name or slap butt cheeks to inspire a victorious final play. No, folks. Instead, they Tebow. That means they bend down and pray, or at least pose as such, and let the moment of silence bring them the good fortune to win their final game of the season. “Tebowing” even has its own mention on the Florida-native’s Wikipedia page (because, as well know, Wiki is the end-all, be-all in knowledge gathering, and where this Football ignoramus has done all her Tim Tebow research). Regeneron won the game, 32 to 18, so don’t knock the force of the meme. Can’t get enough? Check out this site showing submitted photos of people mimicking the quarterback’s pose, created by Broncos fan Jared Kleinstein. http://tebowing.com/

POURtugal FC requested I take some pics of their team, so here you go! It's your moment to shine. Thanks for playing a heartfelt game that was a pleasure to watch and to snap! And remember, ask and you shall receive.

How can we be anything other than proud knowing we’re a part of the NYC Social Sports Club? Look at the company we keep. Meet Autumn (yes, like our favorite season) whose accomplishments - and smile - can fill multiple blog posts. So where to start? Well, this is her first season playing Soccer with us, but she’s also a nifty Footballer. Her team includes friends who are also newbies. She works in Media and Advertising at Dish Network. She plays on team FC Guatemala (royal). Oh, right, and she ran the gosh darn marathon! Not just one, folks. The 2011 NYC Marathon is her third marathon, after already conquering mile after mile in San Francisco and Washington DC. On Sunday, November 6th, this 9-ish-minutes-per-mile distance runner raised money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society with Team in Training while racing through Staten Island, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx to hit the finish line in Central Park. Talk about an easy Sunday morning!

When you experience the fervor of Dodgeball, many words come to mind - action-packed, enthralling, rowdy. This kind of a sport gets the adrenaline pumping and is the only I’ve seen where you can bulldoze your opponent, then everyone, including said opponent, finds it hilarious. There are some things you don’t think of when Dodgeball comes to mind, some sights you don’t expect to see, such as sweet, smiling faces like these. Wednesday night Dodgeball got a little case of the fuzzies and some players were surprisingly cuddly.

Reincarnation is a pleasing concept if you know that your next life will be spent in the top tier of existence, such as a lion at the top of the safari food chain, Queen of a magical land where all beings adore you, or Kim Kardashian’s jeweler. Unfortunately, if you ruffle too many feathers in this lifetime, you might return to the world at the bottom, like on the floor of a soccer court with eight sweaty players in chase of your hide. Luckily, NYC Social Sports Club is a friendly group more eager to share a laugh and a pitcher at the bar then slam a decisive goal. Remember to be kind to your athletic equipment, you never know if that may be your future, bouncy, self.

Congrats!! You’ve registered to play and party with NYC Social Sports Club! Thanks for signing up to play Volleyball and Soccer. Scratch that, we mean, thanks for signing up to play VolleySoccer! I think you just bumped a goal.

NYC Social Sports Club does Halloween with all sorts of ghouls and trickery. Yes, that is the Human Centipede playing Dodgeball. We’ve got Superman saving the day...and tying his sneakers before hitting the court. Some teams are evil, very, very evil. Even if it requires going to a triple-X rated shop and talking with the salesperson about the most durable blow-up doll in stock, then that is what our players will do to make the games extra creepy. Halloween isn’t just dress up at NYC SSC, it’s a whole new attitude.

Volleyball players wait for this moment. The moment when a teammate jumps from the front line and slams an oncoming ball. A spike vibrates through the court, terminating the opponent’s defense. These plays are glorious and fortunate, because all the technique in the world can’t predict a forceful hit.