Andrew Kerth 
Every June, Wimbledon delivers drama on its famous grass courts, but no match in the tournament’s long history compares to what happened on Court 18 in 2010. Over three days, American John Isner and French qualifier Nicolas Mahut played the longest tennis match ever, an 11-hour, 5-minute marathon that shattered records, broke the scoreboard, and … Read more
No name carries more weight in the baseball card hobby than Mickey Mantle. Alongside the T206 Honus Wagner, Mantle’s cards are the cornerstone of the entire collecting world, and for good reason: he was the most popular player of the post-war “Golden Age” of card collecting, a switch-hitting Yankees icon with 536 home runs, three … Read more
Baseball and the movies have always been a perfect match. Something about the game’s pace, its mythology, and its place in American life lends itself to great storytelling, from tear-jerking dramas about fathers and sons to riotous comedies about lovable losers. The result is one of the richest catalogs in all of sports cinema, full … Read more
The 1981 Topps baseball set holds a special place in hobby history. It arrived at a pivotal moment: 1981 was the first year in decades that Topps faced real competition, as Fleer and Donruss both launched sets the same year, ending Topps’ long monopoly on the baseball card market. For collectors, that makes the 1981 … Read more
The 2026 World Cup group stage is complete, and the knockout bracket is set. After the largest group stage in tournament history, 48 teams have been narrowed to 32 for a single-elimination run to the title, beginning with the Round of 32 and ending with the final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New … Read more
Earned run average, or ERA, is the classic measure of a pitcher’s dominance: the average number of earned runs they allow per nine innings. The lower the number, the better, and the lowest figures in baseball history belong to some of the most legendary arms the game has ever seen. But asking for the “lowest … Read more
The All-Star break marks the unofficial halfway point of the Major League Baseball season, and every July it doubles as a checkpoint for the game’s biggest power hitters. A monster first half can put a slugger on pace for a historic season, and the question fans ask every summer is the same: who has hit … Read more
If you have watched a soccer match or listened to any commentary, you have almost certainly heard the phrase “clean sheet.” Pundits praise goalkeepers for keeping one, managers build entire game plans around earning one, and fans celebrate them. But what exactly is a clean sheet, where did the strange name come from, and why … Read more
The Travelers Championship is one of the most beloved stops on the PGA Tour, a Connecticut tradition played each June at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, the week after the U.S. Open. Known for its electric atmosphere, charitable impact, and dramatic finishes on a course where legends are made down the closing stretch, it consistently … Read more
Striking out 20 batters in a single game is one of the rarest feats in all of baseball, rarer, in fact, than a perfect game. It has happened in a nine-inning game only a handful of times in over a century of major-league play, and the names attached to it read like a pitching hall … Read more