Olympian Nile Wilson vanquished by 13-year-old in super-strength gymnastics challenge
Olympic gymnast Nile Wilson is used to competing against world-class athletes (like fellow Brits Jay Thompson and Brinn Bevan), but couldn't have anticipated the [...]
Sabine Lisicki sets women’s tennis serve speed record with 131-mph sizzler
In the summer of 2014, Sabine Lisicki became the first woman to break the 130 mph speed barrier on a tennis serve, breaking Venus [...]
Bend It Like Beckham: Why soccer balls curve one way and smooth balls curve backwards
David Beckham's ability to curve free kicks around defenders and into the goal was the stuff of legend, but do you know the physics [...]
Watch a water-filled soccer ball collide with Dan’s face in fantastically slow motion
In 2010, Gavin Free and Dan Gruchy made a super-slow motion video of Gruchy getting smacked in the side of the head with a [...]
Going up? Climbing Mount Everest will cost you anywhere from $20,000 to $200,000
Almost 5,000 individuals have summited Mount Everest since 1953, when Englishman Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first set foot atop the majestic peak [...]
Gonzalez Twins skipped senior seasons with UNLV basketball to pursue greener pastures
Basketball fans who enjoyed watching Dakota and Dylan Gonzalez hoop it up at the at the Thomas & Mack Center in years past, had [...]
Tim Duncan, David Robinson headline San Antonio Spurs all-time top five players by Win Shares
Tim Duncan, who ruled the lane while helping lead the San Antonio Spurs to five NBA championship titles, is the franchise’s all-time leader in [...]
How Ridiculous, Dude Perfect and Mike Senatore quench your thirst for water bottle flip tricks
Plastic water bottles are the boon and bane of modern society. 1,500 of the ubiquitous crunchy cylinders are consumed every second in the United [...]
Cold As Balls: Floyd Mayweather shares his story and boxing secrets with Kevin Hart
Over the course of Floyd Mayweather's boxing career he held multiple world titles in five weight classes and the lineal championship in four weight [...]
‘Game of Thrones’ behemoth Hafthor Bjornsson delivers refrigerators two at a time
When the average Joe gets hungry, he grabs a couple snacks from the refrigerator. When Iceland's 6'9" 400-pound Hafthor Julius Bjornsson (aka Thor) gets [...]
Workout Wednesday: World-class climber Adam Ondra takes training to Olympic heights
Anyone can get a membership to a climbing gym and become fairly competent at scaling the wall by putting in a few training sessions [...]
Boxing Grandy twins leave Steve Harvey sucking wind, eating ice cream on ‘Little Big Shots’
Decades before he became the host of a youth talent show, Steve Harvey dabbled in boxing. That experience has come in handy as host [...]
Pictorial history of basketball cards covers decades of hallowed hoopsters on cardboard
The first true basketball card set didn't appear until midway through the last century. Today, led by Starr Cards, the future of basketball cards [...]
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 [...]
Roller-skating Chinese kids blow Steve Harvey’s mind with acrobatic routine set to Bruno Mars
While most kids these days are choosing skateboards, inline skates and hoverboards for their small-wheeled recreation, it's somehow comforting to see that there are [...]
Tattoo Tuesday: Check out the best San Jose Sharks fans’ ink from the Bay Area and beyond
In our #TattooTuesday series we will be scouring fandom to highlight the most-impressive tattoos celebrating a particular team from one of the big-five sports [...]
Tiger Woods, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus lead the way with most PGA Tour wins
In the 2018 Tour Championship, Tiger Woods claimed a wire-to-wire victory with rounds of 65-68-65-71 to finish 11-under-par and two strokes clear of the [...]
Olympian Nile Wilson hosts ultimate gymnastics challenge with Jay Thompson, Brinn Bevan
In 2017, Olympian Nile Wilson hosted a gymnastics challenge with fellow Brits Jay Thompson and Brinn Bevan that has gone on to garner more [...]