No ifs, ands, or butts: Giving the derriere its due across each of the major team sports
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 […]
Centuries before cricket or baseball were invented, India had gilli-danda
More than two millennia before the sports of cricket and baseball were codified, there was a similar game being played in India which later […]
Americans go Down Under to learn what’s inside a Kookaburra cricket ball
A few years ago, Lincoln, then a second-grader, and his father, Dan Markham, ordered a cricket ball from Amazon to cut in half for […]
Cricket fan Mitchell Schibeci transforms into Watermelon Boy at Big Bash League match
Most superheroes transform in private to keep their everyday identities secret, but not 10-year-old cricket fan Mitchell Schibeci. In plain view at a 2016 […]
World’s top ten largest sports stadiums by capacity topped by Rungrado May Day Stadium
Remarkably, eight of the world’s top ten largest sports stadiums by capacity are college football venues in the United States. However, the biggest of […]
Bradman is one bad man in Big Ant Studios’ Don Bradman Cricket video game
For those unfamiliar with Sir Donald George Bradman, one might describe the legendary Aussie as the Michael Jordan of cricket. Though really, it is […]
Segway sports: hockey, football, golf, polo, supercross, biathlon and cricket on two wheels
Before the Segway PT (personal transporter) made its public debut in 2001, rumors were rampant about the nature of Dean Kamen’s mysterious invention — […]
Sideline sports reporters learn the hard way that beanball hazard isn’t limited to players
A couple years ago, an Australian news reporter became news himself when he was struck in the head by a runaway skateboard. He joined […]
Sadhguru shares what it will take for India’s Virat Kohli to become cricket’s GOAT
Earlir this year, Indian megastar Virat Kohli won his third consecutive Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World award to go along with numerous other […]
Kings of Instagram: Virat Kohli, Sachin Tendulkar, AB de Villiers tops in followers among cricketers
Sir Donald Bradman may have been the greatest batsman of all time, but his genius on the cricket pitch came eight decades too early […]
Heavily-tattooed Ben Stokes is English cricket’s biggest, brashest trash talker
For a sport that has long prided itself as a gentleman’s game, spectated by gentlefolk, Ben Stokes salty language on the cricket pitch can […]
Dodgers infield shift, Japanese multi-day game make for cricket-flavored baseball
Late in the 2014 baseball season, a pair of games unfolded that looked more like cricket than America’s (or Japan’s) pastime. First, the Los […]