If you cruise the Baltimore Sun's Web site, you'll notice that there is quite an assortment of sports blogs to peruse.  Some are subject specific, such as ones on mixed martial arts, fantasy sports and the Ravens. Others, such as this one, are about sports in general and one of those is written by the talented Kevin Van Valkenburg called The Life of Kings.

I like to include video here as much as possible -- after all, you are looking at something that resembles a TV screen -- but so far, we haven't done any original videos (we hope to remedy that in the future).  But Van Valkenburg made a spash recently in a George Plimpton-esque video in which he tries to do what he writes.  Kevin covers swimming for the Sun, including chronicling the exploits of local Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps.  In his video, the writer tries to understand what it means to do what Phelps does -- in this case, swim the butterfly. 

Folks, we have here a brave, brave man, and the results are immensely entertaining, I dare say hilarious.  We encourage you to take a look. We don't want to be a spoiler but just to relieve any concerns, Kevin does not drown. And there's even a follow-up here.