Sports
The world has turned its attention to Milan and Cortina in Italy for the quadrennial Winter Olympics. The greatest skiers, curlers, ice skaters, lugers, hockey players, and other athletes compete for glory and gold medals. Not being contested: these very real, very odd, and very obscure winter sports. Yukigassen. First played in Japan, and now in […]
Here’s every big and surprising number associated with the Big Game.
The origin stories of all the major and oldest New Year’s college bowl games: Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton.
So many football players who graced the cover of the annual Madden NFL video game were felled by injuries. So, is the “Madden Curse” real?
The World Series always generates a few memorable moments of baseball greatness, if not some truly bizarre ones, too.
These are the greatest football teams of all time from leagues that went defunct.
There’s big money in NBA shoe deals. With the NBA Finals starting, let’s look back at the history of players’ signature shoes.
It’s baseball season again, and everyone out there will be playing the same version of a sport that outlasted some wild variations.
A look into the history of the Super Bowl, and the weirdest, goofiest, and most unpredictable moments that ever took place on the NFL’s biggest stage.
It’s time for the biggest week in baseball — the World Series. Uncle John got hyped by answering these common questions about the October Classic.
It’s October Fourth, or should we say, “Fore-th”? Today is National Golf Lovers Day, and here are some of the most astonishing meltdowns in golf history.
The 2024 Chicago White Sox squad is the latest team to join a particular canon: the worst professional sports teams ever.
Will anything that happens in the just now underway 2024 NFL season be anywhere near as weird as these quirky moments in football history?
Here are all the wildest, biggest, and strangest new foods on offer at the big league stadiums this year.
The 2023 NBA finals are finally here, so Uncle John thought he’d pull together some of his most bizarre basketball records. Here are some of the greatest—and weirdest—things to ever happen in hoops. Least dribbles with the most points: In December 2016, the Golden State Warriors beat the Indiana Pacers 142 to 106 thanks to […]
In honor of Women’s History Month, here’s a look at the accomplishments of Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, who just might be the greatest American athlete who ever lived — regardless of sex or gender. AAU An All-American in high school basketball, Didrikson found her first job after graduation with a Dallas insurance company…who hired her […]
Harriet Tubman is a truly inspiring historical icon. She was a high-ranking participant in the Underground Railroad, an 1840s and 1850s network that helped enslaved Black people get out of the South and make their way to the North, where slavery was abolished. Her achievements are amazing and legendary, so much so that they’ve been […]
Sixty-two years ago one of the most astonishing, memorable, and important athletes and cultural figures debuted on the world stage when Cassius Clay won a gold medal in boxing at the 1960 Olympics. Read on to learn about “The Greatest,” Muhammad Ali, and check out his book in our Show Me History series, Muhammad Ali: […]
