Here is disclosed a sports glove having a glove housing with four finger portions, a thumb portion, and a palm portion. The finger portions, thumb portion and palm portions of the glove housing each have an anterior surface with a series of flexible shock absorbing blocks formed thereon. The shock absorbing blocks are separated by gaps of less than 5 mm in width. The flexible shock absorbing blocks on the finger portions are divided by parallel upper and lower grooves formed along the anterior surface of the finger portions, the upper and lower grooves having a width of greater than 5 mm, the upper and lower grooves extending across each of the finger portions. An elongated palm groove is provided which extends across the anterior surface of the palm portion roughly parallel to the upper and lower grooves, the palm groove having a width of greater than 5 mm.