Eight countries have won the World Cup. A stranger group has reached it and never won a single match. Earlier today in Vancouver, Canada finally escaped that club, hammering Qatar 6-0 for the first wi...
The 2026 World Cup, now underway across North America, offers a fitting occasion to consider a question that has long divided supporters and historians of the game: which of the tournament's finals st...
Some World Cups are won by teams, and some are simply taken by one player while everyone else watches. We built a 100-point index to rank the ten greatest individual tournaments in World Cup history, ...
Allen Iverson turns 51 today, and that matters for exactly one reason: it starts the four-year countdown. On June 7, 2030, his 55th birthday, a trust fund that Reebok quietly built for him back in 200...
Every World Cup leaves behind one result that people refuse to believe even while watching it happen. The fun part is that for every single one of those matches, somebody had already measured the impo...
Every World Cup hands us a team somebody swears is the best they have ever seen, and then four years later we do the whole thing again with somebody else. But best and most dominant are two different ...
The New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship since 1973. Fifty-three years. The longest drought of any major-market franchise in American sports, served up with a side of the world's most famo...
The 2026 World Cup is shaping up to be the richest tournament in the history of sport. The champion will pocket a record $50 million, the 48 teams will split $871 million, and FIFA is on track to bank...
Michael Jordan signed a 5-year, $2.5 million contract with Nike in the fall of 1984 that nobody, including Nike, expected to amount to much. Forty-one years later, the Jordan Brand crossed $7 billion ...
Michael Jordan won five NBA MVP awards. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6) has won more. But ask almost any longtime NBA observer how many MVPs Jordan should have won, and the answer is always a bigger numb...
LeBron James has won four NBA MVP awards. Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (6), Bill Russell (5), and Michael Jordan (5) have won more. But ask almost any longtime NBA observer how many MVPs LeBron should hav...
On June 14, 2026, the UFC will stage the first professional sporting event ever held on the South Lawn of the White House. The choice of sport, given the building's athletic history, is not as unusual...
The Montreal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup more times than any franchise in NHL history. Twenty-four championships, spread across two transcendent dynasties (1956-60 and 1976-79) and three additi...
Coming back from a 3-1 series deficit in the NBA playoffs is, historically, almost impossible. Of the roughly 300 best-of-seven series in NBA history that have reached a 3-1 score, only 15 have ended ...
Modern athletes get traded for failing to play through a sore knee. In 1934, the captain of the Chicago Black Hawks won his team its first Stanley Cup while a tonsillar infection silently destroyed hi...
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