Top Ten Fan Cards — October 30, 2021
This week’s Top Ten Fan Cards chart sees a football card holding on to the top spot. The card tally by sport has football […]
Roll Tide Roll: Jermaine “Funny Maine” Johnson provides window onto Bama football fandom
Sometimes watching a die-hard fan watch their team in action is as entertaining, if not more so, than the game itself. That’s the premise […]
Team Edge’s hoverboard football game conjures life-sized electric football minus the vibrating field
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 […]
Queens of Instagram: Shannon Elizabeth, Jennifer Tilly, Liv Boeree tops in followers among poker pros
While Shannon Elizabeth may be best remembered for her role as the dream girl in American Pie and more recently, for her advocacy on […]
Buck Williams, Jason Kidd headline Brooklyn Nets all-time top five players by Win Shares
Buck Williams, who starred for the Nets over eight seasons in the 1980s, is the team’s all-time leader in Win Shares with 62.8 for […]
Japanese high school baseball player introduces nunchaku-style bat flipping in theatrical at bat
Powered by a band playing Queen’s “We Will Rock You,” a Japanese high school baseball player entertained the Ageo Municipal Stadium crowd with an […]
Why it’s almost impossible for tennis players to serve the ball in excess of 160 mph
Professional tennis players have been serving with ever increasing velocity over the past several decades, with the fastest of them topping out at 150 […]
Friday Night Poker Potpourri: Hero calls, Hollywood hands, and Hellmuth meltdowns
Our friends over at the PokerStars YouTube channel have put together a series of videos with a lil’ sumpin’ sumpin’ for poker fans everywhere […]
Skating Under the Influence: Drunk skateboarder proves drinking and skateboarding don’t mix
There are plenty of activities that one should avoid when inebriated; notable among them, driving a motor vehicle. But while the penal code covers […]
Ultimate Montreal Canadiens history quiz tests the level of ice water in your veins
With 24 Stanley Cups to their credit, the Montreal Canadiens are — from a historical perspective — far and away the NHL’s most successful […]
Finding Traction: Ultra runner Nikki Kimball takes on 273-mile Long Trail in Vermont
The vast majority of people will live out their lives having never run a half-marathon, let alone a full marathon of 26.2 miles (42.195 […]
Fail Friday Follies: Golf gets goofy with missed swings, errant hits and runaway carts
While nearly 90 percent of the respondents to a Reddit survey adjudged golf to qualify as a sport, almost no one asserts that it […]