The world's most unusual and bizarre sports
There are extreme sports, and then there is BASE jumping, which sits in a category so far out on the…
For a game played at a fairly gentle pace, baseball has an oddly rich history of players hurting themselves in…
Few sports are as widely misunderstood as synchronised swimming, now officially known as artistic swimming. To the casual viewer it…
Some racing crashes are remembered for their tragedy. Others are remembered for the sheer disbelief they leave behind, the kind…
Ask most people what causes a bad skateboarding fall and they will picture something dramatic, a failed jump down a…
Soccer is a beautiful game, right up until the moment the ball arrives somewhere nobody wanted it to. For every…
The 2008 Beijing Olympics offered one of the great showcases of artistic gymnastics, and the United States arrived with squads…
Mention skiing and most minds drift to the Rockies, the Alps, or some other range of jagged, snow-capped peaks. Iowa…
Bodybuilding has long carried a reputation for being a fringe pursuit in South Korea, yet women’s competitive bodybuilding has quietly…
For most of baseball’s history, the great spectator hazard was the foul ball, a hard sphere screaming into the seats…