For nearly two centuries, runners and spectators have gathered on a steep Cotswolds hill for the Whitsun cheese rolling. The rough and tumble spectacle sees daredevil competitors chase a 7lb wheel of Double Gloucester down the 200-yard incline in one of Britain's most eccentric traditions. But organisers have been forced to cancel this year...
Teddy Tamgho of France has set a new world record distance to win the triple jump at the world indoor championships.
With the biggest fight crowd in the U.S. in 17 years cheering him on at Cowboys Stadium, Pacquiao dominated a strangely passive Joshua Clottey from the opening bell Saturday night to retain his welterweight title and cement his status as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world.
Pacquiao is widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world, but that's always a tenuous perch. And he's facing a guy who may be as much as 15 pounds heavier when the fight begins. Clottey is a significant underdog in the eyes of the casual fan, but he's not nearly as big of an underdog to those in the boxing business.
Likes Like shoes, it's wise to only buy a bike that fits properly. This means not only that the geometry of the frame suits your body, but also that gearing matches your pedaling power.
The Pakistan Cricket Board has banned former captains Mohd Yousuf and Younus Khan for life, besides imposing a 1-year ban on Shoaib Malik in the wake of the team's disastrous tour of Australia.
Obscura Digital Cuelight Interactive Pool Table. It turns a game of pool into an amazing interactive art display. Obscuras projection, sensor and tracking system reveals images and animations that follow the movements of the pool balls as players hit them around the table.
Screw-ups, blunders, bloopers, errors, mess ups, or mistakes; whatever you call them, sports are full of them. However, there are some screw-ups that rise above the rest. Some so embarrassing that they live forever in infamy...
Here's a tip for the thousands of people participating in the growing phenomenon of daily fantasy sports: Watch out for Tippy. He's consistently a top performer on sites like FantasySportsLive.com and FanDuel.com. Tippy also runs two sites—FantasyHandicapping.com and FantasyBasketballDaily.com—dedicated to daily fantasy strategy. He has no mercy.
During a recent screening of WWE Friday Night SmackDown, wrestling enthusiast David Graziano fluctuated between an awareness that the match he was watching was completely scripted and a willingness to treat the event as though it were 100 percent real.
Where does a poker tournament fit into the pantheon of armed robbery? The European Poker Tour found out when six men armed with machine guns strolled into the tournament and hijacked everyone for 1 million Euros.
These sportsmen just didn't learn their lessons.
Professional and collegiate athletics have become less about the performace and more about the show.
Paddling across the sky, 13,000ft up in a kayak has become a new daredevil craze dubbed Skyaking.
I would pay double to watch those girls.
The sports world is rife with totems celebrating athletic excellence, such as the 17 Boston Celtics championship standards displayed at Boston's TD Garden. Then there's the other stuff; the lamest banners in the sports world. Here are a few examples.