Andrew Kerth 
The Ballon d’Or is the most prestigious individual award in football, the closest thing the sport has to a most valuable player trophy. Every year it crowns the best player in the world, and the list of names who have lifted it reads like a history of the game itself. But how long has it … Read more
The penalty shootout is one of the most nerve-wracking spectacles in all of sports. After 120 minutes of soccer with no winner, the entire match comes down to a series of one-on-one duels between a kicker and a goalkeeper from 12 yards out. For new fans, though, the exact rules can be a blur of … Read more
If you’ve ever watched a big soccer match end level after 90 minutes, you’ve seen the game roll on into extra time. For new fans — especially in the U.S., where we tend to call it “overtime” — the rules can be genuinely confusing. Does the first goal win it? How long does it actually … Read more
If you’re new to soccer, one of the first things that trips you up is the clock. In most American sports — football, basketball, hockey — the clock counts down and the game ends when it hits zero. Soccer does the opposite: the clock starts at zero and counts up, and it never stops. So … Read more
Baseball names its best pitcher award after a man who won 511 games — a number so far beyond anything possible in the modern era that it functions less as a benchmark and more as a monument. Cy Young pitched until he was 44 years old, threw complete games the way today’s starters throw four-inning … Read more
The 100 largest college football stadiums ranked by capacity for 2026, from Michigan Stadium at 107,601 down to the 30,000 seat tier, with the biggest in each conference and the records behind them.
Every July, the game stops pretending baseball is about pitching for one night. Eight of the biggest power hitters in the sport step into the cage and just swing. No defense, no strategy, no stolen bases. Pure distance and volume, counted out loud while a crowd loses its mind in a stadium that was built … Read more
The World Cup has always been the biggest stage in football. What it pays, though, is a different story depending on when you showed up. When Italy won in 1982, the prize for lifting the trophy was $2.2 million split among a squad of players and staff. Good money in 1982, but pocket change by … Read more
Baseball is the only major sport played without a clock. No buzzer, no horn, no timer ticking down — just outs, and when both teams run out of ways to get them, extra innings. Then more extra innings. Then, sometimes, a few more after that. Most extra-inning games resolve themselves in the 10th or 11th. … Read more
Baseball has never had a 7-footer. That’s the strange thing about a sport where size is supposed to be everything — the NBA has had dozens of players taller than 7’0″, but in nearly 150 years of major league baseball, nobody has ever cracked that mark. The average big leaguer stands around 6’2″, and anything … Read more