No matter which team you were rooting for on Sunday, Super Bowl weekend highlights the best aspects of sports—skill, determination and teamwork.
A Giants fan and a Patriots fan, their cubicles separated by a mere 10 feet, have talked trash for two weeks leading up to Super Bowl XLVI.
Punters aren’t supposed to look like the New York Giants’ Steve Weatherford.
On Super Sunday, the New England Patriots and the New York Giants will face off in a rematch of Super Bowl XLII, as the two squads showdown at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis for Super Bowl XLVI.
Being able to squat 143.3 pounds and deadlift 176 pounds may not be the most impressive feats of strength ever recorded.
For the average cyclist, the first falling snowflakes of winter are the ceremonial end to biking season.
As family and friends mourned the loss on January 19 of the 29-year-old Canadian X-Games champion, Sarah Burke, the debate over the safety of extreme sports reignited.
Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay. From stamps and Olympic hopefuls’ sports bras to advertising space on the arm of a track star, eBay really does have it all.
Forget everything you know about modern science (which, understandably, might not be much anyway).
It had echoes of an age-old story —with fame and money comes drug and alcohol abuse —but there were other puzzle pieces to investigate when Minnesota Wild enforcer Derek Boogaard was found dead of a drug and alcohol overdose in his Minneapolis apartment in May. It was a macabre request to his mourning family when researchers asked that they donate his brain, but they didn’t hesitate, and scientists at Bedford V.A. Medical Center were able to unlock clues as to why the 28-year-old had really died.
It takes an elite kind of athlete to advance on the field of play while managing a major league appetite and the extra weight that goes with it. From David Wells to “Butterbean,” these athletes have reached levels on the field nearly as high as their caloric intake. Here’s a comprehensive look at some of the fattest first-class athletes.
In 2009, competitive swimming went through a period of constant questioning around the advances of suit technology used by racers. And rightfully so. In the same year swimmers began to use them, 168 world records were broken. FINA, an international organization that oversees swimming and water-related sports, ultimately banned the questionable polyurethane “supersuits” at the close of the year. But it looks like new advancements in swimming equipment could make supersuits look like a Betamax, and also raise questions as to whether it gives swimmers another unfair edge.
