Soccer tykes: Can you identify Robin van Persie, Mario Balotelli and Neymar as kids?
With their images plastered everywhere from train station ceilings to ferris wheels you might think it would be impossible not to recognize the world’s […]
Kings of Instagram: Usain Bolt, Asafa Powell, Yohan Blake tops in followers among runners
The fastest man to ever set foot on the Earth, Usain Bolt is the only runner in history to complete a “triple-triple” with three […]
Stan Musial headlines St Louis Cardinals all-time roster by Wins Above Replacement
More than 70 years before Aloe Blacc’s hit single “The Man” was released, there was a prodigious singles hitter that earned the same moniker […]
Parkour passport: Freerunning with Jason Paul from Frankfurt, Germany to Tokyo, Japan
Jason Paul’s love affair with freerunning began in 2005 when his best friend introduced him to the sport via a parkour documentary. From that […]
Young phenom CJ Cummings of Beaufort, South Carolina is the LeBron James of weightlifting
CJ Cummings may stand a nearly a foot-and-a-half shorter than LeBron James, but he’s on a trajectory to be as important a figure in […]
Tennis Tuesday: Top 10 ball-boy fails headlined by multiple encounters with Andy Murray
Facing a match point in an April, 2017 charity match versus Roger Federer, Andy Murray turned to the ball boy to keep his hopes […]
Watch freediving world-champion Guillaume Néry’s breathtaking TED talk
In some ways, freediving is like cliff diving turned topsy turvy. One breath at a time, world-champion freediver Guillaume Néry pushes the boundaries of […]
Dude Perfect shoots down drones with variety of surface-to-air missiles
For anyone who has ever had a pleasant respite in the park disturbed by an intrusive drone and fantasized about shooting it from the […]
“Little Zen Monkey” Ellie Farmer took to climbing before she could walk
There is a well-known proverb that asserts, quite reasonably, you must learn to crawl before you can walk, but Rachel and Zak Farmer’s daughter […]
Goalkeeper cat’s paw-some skills rival those of Gianluigi Buffon and Iker Casillas
In George Orwell’s dystopian novella Animal Farm, sheep bleat out the slogan, “Four legs good, two legs bad!” Later, Napolean, the dictatorial pig, decrees, […]
Top Ten Fan Cards — May 5, 2018
This week’s Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a hockey card holding on to the top spot. The card tally by sport has basketball […]
Speedo ad features competitive 95-year-old swimmer Jurgen Schmidt
Jurgen Schmidt, the star of Speedo ad from two years ago, is a competitive swimmer from Huntington Beach, California, who logs an impressive 2,000 […]