Playing baseball at an airport (Japan Probe)

Japanese phenom Ryo Ishikawa became the youngest golfer to win on any tour at the age 15, and at age 17 has already risen up the ranks to #60 in the World. Not to mention he finished 5th overall in the money last year.

He’s a phenom festival, plus he looks like he’s going to unleash a tornado whirlwind kick after he’s done reading this green

I’m sure he could have just called somebody if he wanted to get exempt for stateside PGA event this year, but before he had the chance to do that Arnold Palmer played his consummate golf legend card and took matters into his own hand.

According to PGAtour.com, Palmer sent Ishikawa a personalized letter asking him participate in the Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill (March 23-26). Ishikawa, known also as ‘the shy prince’, graciously accepted and will be one of two exempt players who will get to compete against a top-ranked field next March that could include Tiger Woods, who could potentially return to tour action by then.

(Japanese phenom accepts Palmer’s Bay Hill invitation)

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These Sports Days traditionally take place each Fall in Japanese elementary schools. Called Undokai, they’re held across the country for kids ages K – high school, and features unusual games like pan-kui kyoso, which is a race where competitors must grab a piece of bread hanging at face height without using their hands.

Think MXC without the rope swing pitfalls, and the futile attempts at pillar-hopping, and the moats. Basically, it’s pretty budget. Not necessarily because of the traditions of Japanese sports day, but probably, because it’s jail.

I won’t tell you which team, but get yourself ready to see a phenom emerge (happens at about the 4:30 minute mark, if you want to expedite the process here) and carry her team to glory . Sweet, incarcerated, glory.

Also, like all transcendent timeless tales, one the characters has to convert. So prepare yourself for a security guard to be moved to tears towards the end of this.

According to the source of this video, Japan Probe, that was a “19-year-old prison guard who had recently started working at the facility and had never before seen such an event. She had previously seen the inmates as mainly criminals who deserved imprisonment as punishment for their crimes, but seeing them participate in the event has made her see them more as fellow human beings.”

Sporting meets detainment, bringing people together. Harmony, love it. Special recognition to the commenter who best speculates what that criminally speedy relay champ got sent up the river for.