Sports stars on sandwiches featuring Michael Phelps on double-decker fried egg and cheese

June 13th, 2018|

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Sandwiches have fueled at-home sports spectating since the advent of the television, and the language used by sports commentators subconsciously feeds the hunger. In […]

Super-Small Super Bowl: For NFL nerds electric football is like vibrating chess

June 11th, 2018|

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For more than half a century, the Super Bowl has marked the end of the NFL season, but for thousands of electric-football fans, scaled-down […]

Lessons in sport: Did you recognize Pistol Pete Maravich’s floppy socks?

June 8th, 2018|

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How good are you at deciphering visual sports puzzles? Instagram user @lessonsinsport renders stark graphics that hint at legendary sports figures and events (like […]

Ventura College football coaches put fear of Jared Goff into team’s quarterbacking corps

May 28th, 2018|

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It’s hard enough for a college football quarterback to balance off-the-field classwork with attending practice and memorizing the playbook, but add the threat of […]

Luck vs Skill: Comparing the role of chance in hockey, football, baseball, soccer and basketball

May 19th, 2018|

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There’s an old adage in sports that it’s better to be lucky than good, but how much of a role does chance play in […]

J.J. Watt, Peyton Manning and brother Eli are going to make you sweat it before you get it

May 15th, 2018|

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Simply paying for a Gatorade may no longer be sufficient to secure possession of one of the neon-colored sports drinks. According to one of […]

Team Edge’s mini-sports battle includes tabletop versions of ping pong, golf, bowling and football

May 5th, 2018|

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Are you confined to your bedroom, lack a large yard, or stand less than a foot tall? If so, mini sports might just be […]

Star Wars Day: Sports teams from San Jose Sharks to Pittsburgh Steelers feel the Force

May 4th, 2018|

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It’s Star Wars Day once again (otherwise known as May the 4th) which means the sports world is once again paying tribute to George […]

Sideline sports reporters learn the hard way that beanball hazard isn’t limited to players

May 4th, 2018|

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A couple years ago, an Australian news reporter became news himself when he was struck in the head by a runaway skateboard. He joined […]

Lessons in sport: Remember when Muhammad Ali and George Foreman duked it out in Zaire?

April 26th, 2018|

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How good are you at deciphering visual sports puzzles? Instagram user @lessonsinsport has rendered another batch of stark graphics that hint at legendary sports […]

No ifs, ands, or butts: Giving the derriere its due across each of the major team sports

April 18th, 2018|

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Outside of Brazil’s annual Miss Bumbum contest, and the occasional quixotic art film, derrieres are rarely mentioned in the mainstream press. This is true […]

Team Edge’s hoverboard football game conjures life-sized electric football minus the vibrating field

April 16th, 2018|

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Among sports-loving boys of the 1960’s and 70’s, tabletop electric football was all the rage. The movement of the small plastic figurines used in […]