Drew The 2026 FIFA World Cup runs June 11 to July 19, 2026, across 16 stadiums in three countries — the first World Cup hosted by three nations and the first with 48 teams. The United States hosts 78 of the 104 matches (every game from the quarterfinals on plays on American soil), with Canada hosting … Read more
Juan Soto’s $765 million contract with the Mets is the largest deal in the history of professional sports. Not just MLB — all pro sports. The 15-year deal Soto signed in December 2024 surpassed Shohei Ohtani’s record-setting $700 million deal from just one year earlier, and capped a five-year stretch where the ceiling for elite … Read more
The “biggest” MLB stadium isn’t really a question of dimensions — it’s a question of what actually happens when hitters step in the box. Comerica Park has the deepest center field at 420 feet, but Oracle Park in San Francisco is consistently the hardest stadium to hit a home run in. Coors Field has fences … Read more
Babe Ruth’s 182.6 career Wins Above Replacement is the highest mark in MLB history, and like Cobb’s batting average and DiMaggio’s hitting streak, it’s not getting broken anytime soon. Ruth’s WAR total reflects both his dominance as a hitter (162.3 position player WAR — second only to Barry Bonds) and his early career as a … Read more
How far would your swing actually travel? Exit velocity tells you how hard you hit the ball off the bat, but on its own it doesn’t tell you whether that screaming line drive would clear the wall at Fenway or be a routine fly out at Comerica. The answer depends on launch angle as much … Read more
The 500 home run club is the most exclusive power-hitting milestone in baseball. In over 150 years of MLB and across more than 20,000 players who have ever stepped to the plate, only 28 have crossed the 500-homer threshold. Babe Ruth was the first to do it in 1929, and Miguel Cabrera was the most … Read more
Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak from 1941 is one of the most untouchable records in all of sports. To put it in perspective: in the 84 years since DiMaggio set the mark, only one player (Pete Rose in 1978) has come within 12 games of breaking it. The all-time hits leader, swinging in the prime … Read more
For 50 years, you could spot an NFL player’s position by glancing at his jersey number. The 70s meant lineman. Single digits meant quarterback or kicker. The 80s meant receiver. That system, built in 1973 finally cracked open in 2021 and 2023, and now a wide receiver can wear #1, a linebacker can wear #0, … Read more
The average Major League Baseball umpire earns about $300,000 a year — more than NFL referees, NHL officials, and the median income of every single state in the US. Top crew chiefs clear $450,000, and an October trip to the World Series adds another $20,000 to the year. It’s a job most people couldn’t get … Read more
For most of football card-collecting history, $300,000 was a stratospheric price tag. Then 2021 happened. In a six-month stretch, the auction record went from $556,000 to $4.3 million, with Tom Brady and Patrick Mahomes accounting for nearly every record-breaking sale along the way. The market has cooled since the pandemic boom, but quarterback rookies — … Read more