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Why Do So Many Women’s Sports Still Incorporate Skirts?
Why Aren't There More Asian-Americans in Pro Team Sports?
The 12 Best Soccer Goal Celebrations of All Time
10 Funny Intramural Team Names
10 Tips for Semi-pro Football Tryouts
5 Tips for Finding the Right Tennis Club
10 Surprising Pop Warner Players
5 Tips for Coaching Pop Warner Cheerleading
How to Start a Pop Warner Football Team
What Was the Fastest Pitch Ever? It Depends Who You Ask
Everyone Is Going Bananas for the Savannah Bananas
Aaron Judge Breaks American League Home Run Record
Who Is the Highest Paid WNBA Player in 2024?
The 10 Biggest Busts in The History of The NBA Draft
Dolph Schayes
Longest Field Goal: NFL Kickers Who Made History
NFL Players In Their Own Words
Puffy Guardian Caps Could Reduce NFL Player Concussions
What Is the Hosel on a Golf Club?
Why Do Golf Balls Have Dimples?
What Are the Odds of a Hole-In-One?
How and Why Owen Hart Became a Wrestling Icon
The Only Boxing Champions in History to Retire Undefeated
The Top 16 Boxers to Win Titles in Four or More Weight Divisions
Tech Team Keeps 2020 Paralympians in the Medal Race
Why the Paralympic Games Might Be Better Than the Olympics
Why Some Olympic Sports Are Still Open Only to Men or Only to Women
The Fastest Mile Time: Top 5 for Men and Women
The History of Roller Skating
5 of the World's Most Grueling Ultramarathons
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Forget Ultimate Fighting. Pillow fighting is the real ultimate sport.
By Oisin Curran
Taekwondo features dramatic, aerial, jumping, spinning kicks, but it's also about building character.
By John Donovan
When preparing to swing at the tee, you want to golf ball to go just as far as you want it in exactly the right direction you want it to go. That's where the dimples come in.
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Sinking a hole-in-one is way more difficult than Tiger Woods and those other professionals make it look.
By John Donovan
For the first time ever, two male cheerleaders will be at the Super Bowl.
By John Donovan
Only the best of the best make it to the Super Bowl. And that includes the NFL officials.
By John Donovan
The NCAA scrapped the Bowl Championship Series in favor of a playoff system. But does it truly crown a national champion in college football?
By John Donovan
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Three of the five longest field goals in NFL history have been kicked in Denver's Mile High Stadium. What gives?
By Mark Mancini
College sports just wouldn't be the same without those silly costumed humans (and live animals) parading around the sidelines pumping up the fans.
By John Donovan
It's called an own goal, and it happens when a player accidentally knocks the ball into the wrong net — the net they're supposed to be defending.
By John Donovan
All Major League Baseball parks extended the protective netting that keeps the most dangerous of foul balls from zipping into the stands. But is it enough to protect fans?
By John Donovan
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Admit it: You cry every time you watch the parade of athletes in the opening ceremony. We do, too. What other official stuff goes down at this ultimate Olympic gala?
Twenty-one cities have hosted the Winter Olympics, but many of them may soon be too warm for cold weather games.
Although women freely wear pants or shorts in everyday life, some sport associations still mandate skirts for their female athletes. Is this sexist, due to tradition or both?
By Alia Hoyt
Sports fans can be a noisy bunch. Hey, screaming your head off is part of the fun, right? But someone had to come up with 'DEE-FENSE' first. Who was it?
By Mark Mancini
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How did this football club, initially composed mainly of Germans and Brits, become the repository of the hopes and dreams of an independent Catalan nation? And what would happen to the club if Catalan seceded from Spain?
By Dave Roos
The relationship between pro sports and expression of patriotism, like playing the National Anthem, is a uniquely American phenomenon. And a fairly recent one.
By Dave Roos
There have been thousands of professional boxers over the years but most of them, even the greats, lost a bout or two along the way. Retiring undefeated in the sport is quite an accomplishment. This list features the only 13 boxers in history who were world champions and managed to finish their careers without losing […] The post The Only Boxing Champions in History to Retire Undefeated appeared first on Goliath.
By Ian Palmer
Winning multiple world titles in boxing was a little harder several decades ago as there were just eight different weight divisions in the sport. Today there are 18 weight classes mainly due to the introduction of junior and super divisions as well the cruiserweight class. Some four-division champs have achieved the feat by gaining just […] The post The Top 16 Boxers To Win Titles In Four Or More Weight Divisions appeared first on Goliath.
By Ian Palmer
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The welterweight division has always been a big hit with boxing fans as it has featured some of the sport’s most dynamic champions. The division is contested for fighters weighing between 140 and 147lbs and sits between the lightweight and middleweight divisions. This list features the 10 longest reigning welterweight boxing champions in history. It […] The post The 10 Longest-Reigning Welterweight Boxing Champions In History appeared first on Goliath.
By Ian Palmer
When it comes to soccer, the United States doesn’t have the same storied history as many of the more glamorous footballing nations of Europe or South America. Despite that, they have been slowly clawing their way into relevancy over the last three decades. After failing to qualify for every single World Cup between 1954 and […] The post The 13 Greatest American Soccer Players Ever appeared first on Goliath.
By Devon Taylor (@DevonTaylor113)
People don't expect to see Asian-American basketball stars. Or football stars. But why?
By Dave Roos
The Super Bowl is this Sunday between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. As is the case every year, no stone will go unturned when examining this football match-up and predicting which team is likely to come out on top. The Super Bowl is not only the biggest sporting event of the year, it is […] The post 10 Super Bowl Records That Will Never Be Broken appeared first on Goliath.
By Jack Sackman
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It was da bomb in the '90s, stone-cold dead in the 2000s and may just be poised for a comeback. But why?
By Dave Roos
How — and why — do martial arts practitioners bust those boards without hurting themselves?
By Oisin Curran