Sports

Ah, the days before NFL safety regulations.

They date to the 1964 World's Fair.

A Chinese and American group team up to turn the extreme sport into a daring art.

A 100-mile stretch of the state claims to have come up with baseball, basketball, candlepin bowling, and more.

In summer, rain boots are thrown for sport.

How does an athlete without athletic prowess maintain a 20-year career?

The modern pentathlon has a brutal history.

But the women's-only Olympics of 1922 disproved doctors, doubters, and the IOC.

At an annual cheese rolling event in Britain, competitors chase a wheel of Double Gloucester.

Here are the complicated moves you may (or may not) see during the finals.

It dates to at least 1896.

While Greece and England were trying to revive the Olympics, the rest of the Western world was obsessed with hunger artists.

We've known since 1844 that freestyle is a superior stroke.

Sadly, historians lack good documentation on the badass Heraean Games.

Margaret Abbott spent her entire life unaware that she had won the top golf prize at the 1900 games.