Pud, Pickles, and Other Great Nicknames of Old Time Baseball
Baseball today is as good as it’s ever been, but it will never beat early baseball for its colorful and wonderful nicknames.
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The Biggest Comebacks in Sports History
The most exciting and memorable moments in sports: the next to impossible, come from behind victories. These are the biggest comebacks in sports history.
Great Moments in Father-Son Sports History
Every day is Father’s Day when you’re a pro athlete who can take the field, court, ice, or track with your own equally sports-adept offspring.
A Moving History of NBA Team Moves
NBA teams haven’t switched cities in a while, but uprooting was once quite common in the biggest basketball league.
What You Didn’t Know About the CFL
As the CFL prepares to field its 68th season, let’s look at the unique history, rules, trivia, and fun of Canadian football.
One-Hit Wonders of the NBA Playoffs
Who will be the otherwise little-known player who rises up and breaks through in a big way this NBA playoffs?
The Wide World of Weird Winter 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 […]
Happy New Year, It’s Bowl Game Day
The origin stories of all the major and oldest New Year’s college bowl games: Rose, Orange, Sugar, and Cotton.
Is the Madden Curse Real?
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 Wide World of Weird World Series Moments
The World Series always generates a few memorable moments of baseball greatness, if not some truly bizarre ones, too.
The Greatest Football Teams of All Time (That No Longer Exist)
These are the greatest football teams of all time from leagues that went defunct.
That Almost Looks Like Baseball
It’s baseball season again, and everyone out there will be playing the same version of a sport that outlasted some wild variations.
When the Super Bowl Got Super Strange
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.
Welcome to Life in 2025
Here’s what’s definitely (okay, probably not really) going to happen in 2025, according to some psychics and sci-fi movies.
The Best at Being the Worst: Sports’ Least-Winningest Teams
The 2024 Chicago White Sox squad is the latest team to join a particular canon: the worst professional sports teams ever.
The Weirdest Moments in Football History
Will anything that happens in the just now underway 2024 NFL season be anywhere near as weird as these quirky moments in football history?
What’s New in Weird Baseball Food?
Here are all the wildest, biggest, and strangest new foods on offer at the big league stadiums this year.
Six Bizarre Basketball Records
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 […]
