Big Ball Boom! Watch overinflated sports balls explode in spectacular slow motion video
The balls employed in a number of the world’s biggest sports are inflatable (see basketball, football, soccer and volleyball), which naturally means they can […]
Mind the Gap: Racing the London Tube on foot from Moorgate to St James Park
London’s underground railway — commonly known as The Tube — has been around since 1863 when its inaugural line connected the railway termini at […]
LeBron James, Steph Curry, NBA’s biggest stars get tooned by talented Barcelona duo
The first official overseas game for an NBA team dates all the way back to a 1978 meeting between the Washington Bullets and Maccabi […]
Ping Pong Prodigy: Teenager Kanak Jha is America’s top-rated table tennis player
When Kanak Jha was 16, he became the youngest American Olympian to participate at the Rio Games, and the youngest in history — of […]
Hot dam(n)! World’s highest basketball shot travels nearly 600 feet
Full-court basketball shots are made only once in a blue moon, so making one from more than twelve times that distance should be near […]
Friday Night Poker Potpourri: Hero calls, Hollywood hands, and Hellmuth meltdowns
Our friends over at the PokerStars YouTube channel have put together a series of videos with a lil’ sumpin’ sumpin’ for poker fans everywhere […]
Oh, chute! Watch Luke Aikins’ death-defying, world-record 25,000-ft skydive without a parachute
Fear of heights and fear of flying both make the top-ten list of the public’s phobias, so it’s safe to bet skydiving would also […]
Omron’s ping-pong robot FORPHEUS coaches human table tennis players to up their game
It’s not known whether Microsoft founder Bill Gates had FORPHEUS in mind when he recently called for a robot tax to offset jobs lost […]
Bob Petit, Dominique Wilkins headline Atlanta Hawks all-time top five players by Win Shares
Bob Petit, who spent his entire 11-year NBA career with the Hawks, is the franchise’s all-time leader in Win Shares with 136.0. Among the […]
Make your shuttlecock sizzle with Swiss-made badminton trick shots
Since our friends over at Dude Perfect have been slow to produce a badminton-themed, trick-shot video, we uncovered a Swiss-made compilation of badminton bedevilment. […]
Ninety points per minute: Richard Branning hits world record 30 3-pointers in 60 seconds
It took LaMelo Ball a full-length basketball game to score 92 points, whereas Richard Branning “scored” 90 in just sixty seconds. Outfitted with a […]
What’s love got to do with it? Freerunning with Pasha the Boss in Venice, Italy
Some people simply fall in love, while others fall, jump, twist and roll. Freerunner Pasha Petkuns, aka “Pasha the Boss”, falls into the latter […]