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 […]
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.
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.
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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 the last few years, the St. Louis Rams and San Diego Chargers moved to Los Angeles, while the Oakland Raiders headed to Las Vegas. Those are some team moves that worked out — unlike these proposed franchise relocations that didn’t quite work out. St. Louis Patriots About a decade before quarterback Tom Brady arrived […]
This year’s NBA Playoffs are a little bit different than usual. Not only did they start a lot later than in years past, owing to delays caused by coronavirus shutdowns, but they’re also full of quirks and monumental firsts. The fifth-seeded Atlanta Hawks upset the Eastern Conference’s #1 team, the Philadelphia 76ers, in the conference […]
After a coronavirus-shortened, largely live spectator-free season in 2020, Major League Baseball is back in 2021, and so are the fans. And so is the ballpark food available in the concession stands at the big ballpark and stadiums. But it’s not exactly hot dogs and soda anymore. Lumberjack Slammie (Toronto) This baseball glove-size monster is […]
Today we’re going “indy” with these interesting facts about auto-racing’s annual Memorial Day weekend event, the Indianapolis 500. Perhaps the Indy 500 is so big because it’s contested in a place that is literally huge. You could fit the entirety of Vatican City inside of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway… and Yankee Stadium… and the Rose […]
A few Major League Baseball season is underway, and all the excitement of the national pastime has returned to stadiums around the country. Something that probably won’t happen between now and the World Series: these records getting broken. Most home runs by a pitcher Since baseball players are highly specialized these days, pitchers aren’t expected […]
The NCAA basketball tournaments are all about the numbers — Sweet 16s, Elite 8s, Final Fours, “One Shining Moment” and more. Here are some facts and figures regarding March Madness, past and present. UNLIKELY FINAL FOUR TEAMS Lowest seed to make the women’s final four: 9-seeded Arkansas in 1998. Lowest seed to make the men’s […]
