Golf continues to evolve. Once known as a sport for just the wealthy, the game has become much more accessible. With over 16,000 golf courses in the United States, there are more courses nationwide ...

Groundout. Flyout. Lineout. Popout. Strikeout. All of these have the same result — an out — but only one of them generates oohs and ahhs. That would be the strikeout, aka the whiff, aka the “K.” There ...

Individual performances are based on key statistics and metrics (namely, Wins Above Replacement/162 games), historical significance and team success, in that order. Each team includes nine players who ...

Nearly one of every four NFL games are tighter than lockjaw in the final minutes. Many of those are decided by a placekicker who had lugged his helmet around the sideline for all except a few seconds, ...

According to one study, 89 Major League Baseball umpires combined to butcher 34,294 ball-strikes calls in the 2018 season. That’s roughly 1.6 per inning. Or 34.3 million per century. That doesn’t ...

Baseball, football and basketball have endless statistics for measuring achievement. For fighters, the only stats that matter are wins and losses. They don’t play in leagues, and many rules are ...

For decades, Mount Rushmore was a large hill and tourist attraction in South Dakota. Then, fans and media turned it into the Mount Everest of sports, the most visited final four of all-time greatness.

Perhaps Finland’s greatest player, Teemu Selanne won the NHL Rookie of the Year award in 1993 and was a 10-time All-Star in 22 seasons. Selanne led the NHL in goal scoring in 1999 to take home the ...

No position defines college football more than quarterback. Since Notre Dame’s Knute Rockne and Gus Dorais figured out how to use the forward pass to their advantage as lifeguards in the summer of ...

There’s something special about growing up in a small town. The traditions. The bonds. The community. And, if you’re lucky, you might mix in a pretty amazing high school basketball team. Small towns ...

Longevity doesn’t always determine greatness in sports, but it does show how tough a player was. And the players who last the longest in any sport also end up being some of the greatest, most beloved ...

While NHL franchises still lag behind their counterparts in the NBA, MLB and NFL in terms of value, they’ve actually seen their values skyrocket in the last decade just like the other three leagues.