American racers earned a reputation for deception, and Cuckoo Collins led the pack with an outsize talent for cheating.

The sport of Newcomb ball was created by Clara Gregory Baer two years before volleyball. Now forgotten, it's a good bet it lives on in the gyms and beach courts of today.

Apartheid policies that segregated sports in South Africa were challenged by its own athletes, as well as internationally.

The effects of climate change are already being felt by some ski resorts, but filling in the slopes with artificial snow may not be a good solution.

Swing for the bleachers with these awesome lantern slides from the early years of professional baseball.

A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn't shatter our bones.

Hardy athletes called pedestriennes wowed the sporting world of the nineteenth century. They also shocked guardians of propriety.

Through crazes of pigeon-fancying, these birds have been reshaped into a dizzying variety of forms.

Since its invention in 1743, roller skating has been tied to Black social movements.

Contrary to the widespread idea that white missionaries stamped out the sport, evidence suggests that Native Hawai‘ians never stopped surfing.