6 Quick Facts About NFL’s First Female Coach: Jen Welter
Welter just made history: She’s the NFL’s first female coach. Here are some quick facts about her.
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4 Major Sports Trophies, and the People They’re Named After
It’s a big deal for a basketball player to win the Larry O’Brien Trophy…but who’s Larry O’Brien anyway? The Larry O’Brien NBA Championship Trophy The winning team of the NBA Finals receives this award, a two-foot-tall, 14.5-pound sterling silver basketball on a stand, covered in gold overlay. O’Brien was the NBA commissioner from 1975 to […]
Some Sweet Surfing Slang
Now that you know all these surfer slang terms, the only thing stopping you from going surfing is the ability to surf.
FIFA, the Movie
After years of relative obscurity, soccer is finally big in the United States, with the Women’s World Cup drawing huge ratings and many more paying attention to FIFA because of a corruption scandal. Here’s a look at one part of the soccer phenomenon that didn’t score a goal.
6 Quick Facts About the Running of the Bulls
It’s one of the world’s craziest, and most dangerous, annual spectacles. Here are a few quick facts about this strange Spanish event.
7 Fun Facts About the Tour de France
Here are some fun facts about one of Europe’s most beloved annual sporting events.
The Fastest People in the World
Better read this article about the speediest runners, swimmers, and bicyclists before it zips away.
It’s Prostate Cancer Awareness Night!
Minor league baseball is a great place to see future superstars on their way up, past superstars on their way out…and really weird promotional nights.
If You Win the NBA Finals…
The NBA finals are here and depending on who wins somebody will do something silly, crazy, wonderful, or all of the above!
The Last Time Cleveland Won a Sports Championship
In 1948 the Cleveland Indians won the World Series…and that’s the last time the city of Cleveland enjoyed a major sports championship, the longest drought in American sports.(It ends if the Cleveland Cavaliers win the 2015 NBA Finals.) Here’s a look at what life was like 67 years ago, when Cleveland ruled the sports world.
It Only Happened Once in Major League Baseball
Enjoy this baseball season with some bizarre baseball trivia.
5 Facts About the 2015 NBA Finals
The lineup is set: Golden State vs. Cleveland. Here are some fun facts about the basketball championship.
It Only Happened Once in the NBA
There can be only one champion when the NBA playoffs wrap up. Here are some other notable NBA figures who were the only person to reach an achievement.
7 Facts About American Pharoah
This year’s biggest new star in sports: Kentucky-bred racehorse American Pharaoh.
- American Pharoah is the seventh horse since 2000 to win the first two legs of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing: the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness Stakes. If he wins the Belmont Stakes in June, he’ll be the first Triple Crown winner since Affirmed in 1978, and the 12th horse in history to do it.
Sports Trivia: A Brief History of the Negro Leagues
This week in 1920, the Negro National League began play. Here’s some sports trivia from our archives that looks back on baseball’s other big leagues.
5 Great Athletes Who Became Great Businessmen
Uncle John’s new book, Lists That Make You Go Hmmm… is available now. Here’s a sample. Tony Hawk (professional skateboarder, 1982–99) Hawk was an entrepreneur before he was a household name. In 1992 he took out a second mortgage to cofound the BirdHouse skateboard company. Seven years later, he solidified his reputation as one of […]
A Toast to Andre the Giant
“As far as great drunkards go, there is Andre the Giant, and then there is everyone else,” wrote Richard English in Modern Drunkard about the professional wrestler and actor. He was a beer enthusiast whose bottomless thirst only had a little to do with his 7’4″, 500-pound frame—consuming as much beer as possible was partially a party trick, and partially a way to numb the physical pain from his wrestling career.
Baseball Trivia and Origins
America’s national pastime is more than just a game—it’s a tradition. The component parts are traditions, too. We got curious about where they come from and pulled together some great baseball trivia for you.
