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 […]
Remembering AB de Villiers’ fastest ODI century in cricket history off 31 balls
Scoring a half ton and a century are notable milestones across all forms of cricket, but doing both in record-breaking speed is the stuff […]
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 record for highest cricket ball catch keeps going up as drones go higher and higher
With each passing year, commercially available drones are getting stronger are able to reach heights their forbearers could only dream of. As they’ve gone […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 — […]
Pitch Perfection: Exclusive club of cricketers who have hit six sixes off one over
In Major League Baseball, 18 players have hit four home runs in a game, but no one has ever hit five or six to […]
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 […]
Run-Robbing Roster: Celebrating the best catches in cricket history
Just as in baseball, the biggest headlines in cricket are reserved for the hardest hitters and the fastest throwers, but every once in awhile […]