Players come and go. Coaches come and go. Even fans come and go. But owners can last forever with franchises being passed on from generation to generation and staying within families for decades. That ...
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.
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 ...
Not every sport played at the Olympics is meant for the mainstream, and some of them are downright weird. Let’s begin with one clarifying thought. When we say something is weird, it doesn’t mean it’s ...
The biggest high school football stadiums are mini sports cathedrals in the United States. High school football is played in all corners of the United States. Every Friday night, stadiums fill up to ...
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 ...
We see these female sprinters as not only the best track and field athletes but as some of the best all-around athletes to ever play high school sports. The greatest high school sprinters of all time, ...
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 ...