Few other events make us as patriotic as the Olympic Games, but short of a particular sport or two you probably wouldn’t argue the Games themselves can be pretty boring. Let’s face it – it’s not the World Cup, and at times, you might feel the best thing about the Olympic Winter Games is that [...]
Everyone, it seems, has a thing for the “Golden Girls.” Or Betty White. And who wouldn’t, as the actress stole the ad show, aka Super Bowl, with one perfectly timed line. See which other spots were most liked and most recalled this year.
After Tuesday’s flurry of signings, just 10 members of the Reiter 50 — SI.com’s ranking of the top 50 free agents on this winter’s market — remain available. On Tuesday clubs snapped up four players on the list: Ben Sheets (who got a one-year, $10 million deal from the A’s); Jon Garland (one year, $5.3 [...]
To leap and freefall for 30 feet in a pair of skis is a harrowing stunt. But to do it from the top of the 10,450-foot Rendezvous Mountain at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in Wyoming, where Corbet’s Couloir cuts a steep white scar between towering cliff faces, is to perform a skier’s sacred rite of [...]
There are a number of rules, customs or traditions that exist in sports that, at one point, may have been logical, but today they no longer make sense. These types of enigmatic practices range from the mundane, such as the “foul pole” that marks fair territory in baseball, to the more serious, such as the [...]
With high-resolution images all over the globe, Google Earth has captured many sporting events actually in-progress, so today we proudly present – The Top 10 different sports you can actually see people playing on Google Earth! As a bonus, we’ve tried to work out how each game is going, and to make things even more [...]
The most common sports related injuries, are overuse and strain injuries. An overuse injury results from excessive wear and tear on the body, particularly on areas and muscles subjected to repeated activity such as ankle, knee, shoulder and elbow joints. The most common high impact sport that leads to injury is running. Sports medicine experts [...]
Boxing Daily hasn’t done a list of who we think are the best pound for pound fighter is the world in while, so here’s an update.
Here is our list, in no particular order, of 10 things Bears fans can look forward to next season:
Celebrating a recent birthday for boxing great Muhammed Ali, the Daily Mail put out a article titled Ali’s top 10 fights. We figured, why not show everyone the fights they talk about. So without further ado, here are the Top 10 Muhammed Ali fights of all time. Enjoy!
Sports Illustrated assigned me to Team SI NFL this fall, writing on America’s Real Pastime. I’ve done some NFL coverage in the past, but much more college football. The differences between Sunday football and Saturday (or Thursday) football have been dogging me since August. My top eight:
I got a lot of e-mails during the Olympics asking me why I had to be so negative about the home team during these Games. And all I could say was that it was because there was so much to be negative about. And, while there were plenty of “happy-happy, joy-joy” stories which are chronicled [...]
One year maybe the sports world won’t offer up a gaggle of nominees for Turkey of the Year, but it certainly wasn’t 2006. So here they are, from A to Z (A-Rod to Zizou), the top 10 sports turkeys of the year.
SEMA Hot Rods and Horsepower – Top Ten: Any kind of car could be a hot rod, and there are some folks who would tell you that all cars are hot rods – somewhere, deep inside. If it goes fast and looks, eh, outrageous and beautiful in its own artistic way, it’s a hot rod [...]
The most common sports-related injuries primarily are overuse injuries. As the name implies, an overuse injury results from wear and tear on the body, particularly on joints subjected to repeated activity. By far, the most common sport that leads to injury is running. “Running jars the body from the foot all the way up into [...]
The top ten new and original alternative skateboard-style boards out there. Plenty of these are so different that they are skateboards in name only, and most have reviews to read more. Skateboarding has taken many forms, with the current norm being regular trick skateboard decks and longboards for cruising. Take a look at this list [...]
Don’t get much cricket on here, in fact this is the only list we have. If only there were more…
OK, first let’s get this out of the way. I am no spring chick. I am old enough to have seen Teddy Ballgame play many games (on TV and in person) and old enough to have spent many hours imitating his swing in my backyard when I was a kid. Except for the constant reminder [...]
