The YMCA was founded in London, England, in 1844, and came to the United States in 1851. During its long history, three sports were invented at the YMCA that are ...
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Santeri Viinamäki/Wikimedia Baseball is called America’s pastime, but a very different version is played in Finland. It’s called Pesäpallo or “nest ball,” and more popularly known as pesis or Finnish ...
Replica of the Jules Rimet Trophy Ben Sutherland/Wikimedia The FIFA World Cup Trophy is one of the most coveted and expensive trophies in sports. It is made of 18-karat gold ...
It seems everything has a name. The little button on the top of a baseball cap is no exception. The button doesn’t serve any purpose other than covering where the ...
In 1936, during a match at the World Table Tennis Championships in Prague, Alex Ehrlich of Poland and Paneth Farcas of Romania had an incredible rally that lasted 2 hours ...
“It ain’t over till the fat lady sings.” We’ve all probably heard that phrase once or more in our lives, which means the outcome of an event is unknown until ...
The odds of hitting a hole-in-one is about 12,500 to 1, but even though the odds are low, golfers in Japan don’t like to take any chances and protect themselves ...
It seems like tennis balls have always been yellow since that’s the color most of us have likely seen in our lives, but that hasn’t always been the case. Not ...
A typical, not so dangerous golf course Golf is challenging enough without worrying about what surrounds the course outside the boundaries, but one course in Panmunjom, South Korea, makes playing ...
A National Hockey League game can be an exciting event, but something is done to the hockey pucks that keep the games from becoming a little too exciting. A hockey ...
ESPN won an Emmy for the simulated yellow line that represents a first down in football games, the same one that is common in every game today. But the simulated ...
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