It’s a common mis-perception that musicians and jocks are mutually exclusive commodities. Au contraire, mon frère: many of music’s most innovative and popular acts are major fans of sport – if not stellar athletes themselves. Here, we feature our second volume of our column about musicians with a sports history. Some might even surprise.

Sports endure as one of photography’s most fertile subject matters – so many classic images of athletes remain timeless. At the same time, the greatest sports photographers manage to capture both the excitement of the event itself and the soul of athlete in competition. Asia Kepka is one of those photographers.

“The cheese sometimes gets up to 70 miles an hour,” explains Chris Anderson, the cheese-rolling champion that stars in British buzz band The Maccabees’ video for their new single “Can You Give It.” The clip celebrates a peculiar addition to U.K. sport tradition: tumbling curds in competition down the hills…

As Summer Movie season begins, the blockbusters often get all the attention, but there’s usually a few winners in the art-house category that deserve attention. This year, we take a look at a few new and old classic sports-related flicks.

St. Louis-based photographer and skateboarder goes back to high school to shoot a familiar subject to him, cross-country running. The intimate, earnest quality of his photos — everything from fellow skateboarders to kids being dropped at rock concerts — Worful has a unique talent for capturing ‘high school’ moments. On the radar of such photographers as Tim Barber and Tobin Yelland…