Sports

242 cards. Each one is a 40-second story with a five-minute read behind it. Page 5 of 5.

How a frustrated Montreal referee transformed a field game into an indoor sensationFrustrated by the constant interruptions of balls going out of bounds during field lacrosse, Paddy Brennan began experimenting with indoor matches in the early 1920s. This modific…
The high-stakes physics of the canine long jumpFrom the 1997 Incredible Dog Challenge to modern-day triathlons, dock jumping has evolved into a precise discipline of distance and height. It is a sport where a single inch or a …