For decades, Mount Rushmore was a large hill and tourist attraction in South Dakota. Then, fans and media turned it into the Mount Everest of sports, the most visited final four of all-time greatness.
Long-distance running is not just about marathons anymore. In recent years, ultramarathons have emerged. Ultramarathons are for people who want to push the limits. They range from 30 miles to the last ...
The value of NFL teams and the wealth of their owners has shot through the stratosphere in the last two decades. It was just 20 years ago that you could still get an NFL team for a bargain basement ...
The greatest defensive players in MLB history have been showered with Gold Glove Awards. In 1957, the people at Rawlings Sporting Goods came up with the idea to honor the best defensive players in ...
Metrics have reset the bar for Cooperstown, and a few of those who fall short may surprise you. Remember when baseball was a simple game? Yeah, me, too. Then metrics reared its decimal point and ...
These swimmers won gold in every 100-meter freestyle event since the modern Olympics started in 1896. Speed wins in swimming. And at the Olympics, swimmers don’t get much faster than in the 100-meter ...
NBA franchises rise and fall based on the decisions they make on draft day. The greatest dynasties in NBA history have to start somewhere. That somewhere is always the NBA draft. Franchises rise and ...
Major League Baseball has no shortage of famous fans. And they love their baseball teams as much as we do. Celebrities are just like us. They are human after all. Although they’re a little higher ...
The greatest cricket teams of all time took the world by storm. Cricket has grown a lot since originating in England during medieval times. Today, the game has 2.5 billion fans. That makes cricket the ...
They were good football players. But were they all-time greats who deserve a place in the NFL Hall of Fame? The Pro Football Hall of Fame requires four to eight candidates to be inducted each year.
The most successful leadoff hitters reflect a merger of different times and philosophies. For the better part of baseball history, the leadoff spot in a batting order was reserved for spray hitters ...
These athletes have capitalized the most from the 2021 court ruling that allowed amateurs to profit from their name, image and likeness (NIL). The landscape of college athletics changed in 2021 when ...