Ian Walsh rides man-eating, sixty-foot waves in thrilling surf documentary
What seems normal to surfer Ian Walsh, is almost unfathomable to us mere mortals. A day at the office for Walsh involves being rocketing […]
Skateboarding down the Alps with Byron Essert and Alex Tongue (complete with cows)
If you possess a Type A personality and have a gyroscopic sense of balance, then we’ve got just the ticket for your next summer […]
Zen of Skating: Lil Wayne shares passion for skateboarding with Jimmy Fallon
Hip-hop artist Lil Wayne is best known as the creative force who lent his considerable talents to 28 top-ten hits including “Lollipop”, “She Will”, […]
Team USA’s Tom Schreiber stars in World Lacrosse Championship’s most-thrilling game ever
Until 2006, the United States had dominated the World Lacrosse Championships winning eight of the first nine tournaments. Canada then claimed two of the […]
Hopping Humans: Is it possible to execute a box jump in excess of one’s height?
Until the advent of CrossFit, the standing box jump was not really a metric by which one gauged his or her prowess in the […]
Parkour gets animated every which way, from Minecraft to stop motion to flipbook
Buoyed by the popularity of American Ninja Warrior and various other stunting and obstacle racing shows (e.g. Wipeout, Bullseye, Spartan), parkour continues to grow […]
Monday Motivation: David Goggins embraced suffering to become the hardest man alive
If David Goggins was a hot sauce he would make Heavenly Heat’s Meet Your Maker Retribution Sauce taste mild by comparison. As it is, […]
Taiji bailong ball (aka taiji rouliqiu) is a hypnotic mashup of tai chi and badminton
New sports occasionally appear that represent the mashup of previously existing sports (e.g. footgolf), but few have the manifold pedigree of China’s taiji bailong […]
Cushiest job in sports: More Nerf trick shots with Dude Perfect
Other than being a highly-paid bench warmer in the NFL, MLB or NBA, there is probably no cushier sports-related job than being part of […]
Robin Yount headlines Milwaukee Brewers all-time roster by Wins Above Replacement
As the Brewers are one of MLB’s younger franchises, their all-time roster by wins above replacement lacks some of the marquee names associated with […]
105-year-old Japanese sprinter Hidekichi Miyazaki still holds 100-meter dash world record
Japan’s Hidekichi Miyazaki didn’t start running until he was in his 90s, but he wasted little time in rewriting the record books for sprinters […]
Kings of Instagram: Odell Beckham Jr, Tom Brady, Cam Newton tops in followers among NFL stars
Tom Brady, Khalil Mack and Patrick Mahomes may have the top-selling NFL jerseys, but it’s Odell Beckham Jr that has far and away the […]