With the largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl in 21 years, the Seattle Seahawks trumped the Denver Broncos by 43 […]

The price of fuel is sky high, traffic jams cause road rage, global warming is said to be a disaster in the […]

In 1963, baseball pitcher Gaylord Perry remarked, “They’ll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.” On July […]

Try holding your breath. After a minute you will have used up most of the oxygen stored in your body and carbon […]

Surfing was noticed by Europeans for the first time in 1767 at Tahiti. In 1777, English discoverer Captain James Cook (1728 – […]

The word “gymnasium” comes from the Greek word gymnos, which means naked. In ancient times athletes practiced in the nude to the […]

A sport similar to football (called soccer in the United States and elsewhere) was played 3000 years ago in Japan. Chinese text […]

On Tuesday February 13, 1923, in a strong man contest held before a packed house in City Hall in Augusta, Maine, John […]

The love of – nay, addiction to – competitive and solitary sports cuts across all social-economic strata and throughout all the demographics. […]

In 1891, James Naismith, a physical education instructor, was thinking about new ways of providing exercise for the young men. He nailed […]