Today in Sports History: Carl Lewis wins 100m in Los Angeles, first of nine Olympic gold medals
On August 4, 1984, legendary track-and-field athlete Carl Lewis won his first of nine Olympics gold medals he would claim over the course of […]
Wilt Chamberlain, Kobe Bryant, Devin Booker among NBA single-game scoring leaders
Prior to a couple years ago, if one had to wager which of the current crop of NBA players would crack the all-time single-game […]
Sadhguru shares what it will take for India’s Virat Kohli to become cricket’s GOAT
Earlir this year, Indian megastar Virat Kohli won his third consecutive Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award to go along with numerous other […]
Top Ten Fan Cards — August 10, 2024
This week’s Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a basketball card taking over the top spot. The card tally by sport has soccer and […]
Mountain bike descent of Corbet’s Couloir proves its time for Winter Olympics’ MTB event
The Olympic Committee is famously slow in adding new events to the world’s most hallowed athletic competition — it wasn’t until 1998 that snowboarding […]
Jukka Dudeson, Jesse La Flair play parkour-flavored ‘Hole in the Wall’ at Tempest Freerunning Academy
What happens when YouTuber Jukka Dudeson and freerunner Jesse La Flair get a hold of large sheets of styrofoam and meet at a Tempest […]
Discover what’s inside a golf ball, then watch one get crushed by a hydraulic press
A few years ago, Lincoln, then a second-grader, and his father, Dan Markham, cut a golf ball in half for their nascent YouTube series […]
Take Me Out to the Disco: Flip through our virtual bin of sports-themed music album covers
Music and sports are inexorably intertwined. From marching bands at football games, to boxer’s walk-out music, to arena pump-up songs, the two realms of […]
Evan Longoria headlines Tampa Bay Rays all-time roster by Wins Above Replacement
Over the course of the Tampa Bay Rays’ still young history, no player served as the face of the franchise for as long as […]
Kings of Instagram: Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, AB de Villiers tops in followers among cricketers
Sir Donald Bradman may have been the greatest batsman of all time, but his genius on the cricket pitch came eight decades too early […]
Jose Angeles melds skateboarding with parkour in 8K video shot on San Franciscan sidewalks
What do you get when you mix two of the hottest extreme sports the planet has to offer? Skateboard parkour, naturally. In a video […]
Mamba Mentality: Watch every one of Kobe Bryant’s appearances on ‘The Ellen Show’
The Ellen DeGeneres Show has been broadcast from two Los Angeles-area television studios since its debut in 2003, but it was only been the […]