Andrew Kerth 
Since 2016, MLB has used Statcast to track home run distance precisely, and by that official measure, Juan Soto’s 520-foot bomb at Coors Field in 2021 is the longest ever. But the Derby has been crushing baseballs since 1985, and the pre-Statcast era produced legendary estimated blasts, most famously Sammy Sosa’s reported 524-footer, that may … Read more
The all-time single-Derby record belongs to Vladimir Guerrero Jr., who hit an absurd 91 home runs in 2019, and then lost. That heartbreak is part of what makes the record so memorable. But “most home runs in a Derby” actually has a few different answers depending on whether you mean a single night, a single … Read more
Understanding how it works matters, because the All-Star vote regularly produces drama: ballot-box stuffing by passionate fan bases, surprise snubs of deserving players, and down-to-the-wire finishes for the final starting spots. The 2026 race is already heating up, with Shohei Ohtani and Ernie Clement leading their leagues heading into the decisive phase. The chart below … Read more
If you have ever flipped on the Tour de France in July and felt completely lost, the jerseys are the key to everything. Amid a blur of nearly 200 riders, four colored jerseys, yellow, green, polka dot, and white, tell you exactly who is winning what. Each one represents a completely different competition happening at … Read more
Wimbledon is the oldest and most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, first played in 1877 and still the only Grand Slam contested on natural grass. Winning at the All England Club, with its strict all-white dress code, its strawberries and cream, and its Royal Box, is considered by many players the crowning achievement of … Read more
Every July, the best players in baseball gather for one night to settle an old argument: which league is better, the American or the National? The All-Star Game has been asking that question since 1933, and across more than nine decades the answer has swung back and forth in long, dramatic streaks. The series is … Read more
The general manager is one of the most important people in any Major League Baseball organization. The GM builds the roster, makes the trades, hires the manager, oversees scouting and player development, and ultimately answers to ownership for whether the team wins or loses. It is one of just 30 such jobs in the sport, … Read more
It is the rarest individual feat in baseball: a pitcher takes the mound, faces 27 batters, and sends every single one of them back to the dugout. No hits, no walks, no errors, nobody on base, ever. Across nearly 150 years and hundreds of thousands of games, it has happened exactly 24 times. More astronauts … Read more
Imagine being 17 years old, not yet able to vote, and walking onto an NBA court to guard grown men in their physical prime. For a brief window in basketball history, that actually happened. A handful of teenagers were drafted straight out of high school before they had turned 18, and one of them remains … Read more
Every NBA Draft has a number one pick, showered with attention and expectation. It also has a final pick, the very last name called, a player no team valued above anyone else in the entire class. Borrowing a term from the NFL, that player is often called “Mr. Irrelevant.” And most of the time, the … Read more