A triple prizer?!
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Before the LA Bowl, there was the Los Angeles Christmas Festival
100 years ago yesterday, one of the first college bowls took place in Los Angeles.
For JSTOR Daily, Livia Gershon looked back at “The Rumble in the Jungle”, the World Heavyweight Championship match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali held in Zaire (now Democratic Republic of the Congo): The 1974 Rumble in the Jungle was freighted with symbolism regarding American racial politics and the pan-African struggle in the context of the Cold War.
Simone Biles landing the first ever Olympic Yurchenko double pike
I don’t have any words left. Just sublime.
Today I discovered 'Spikeball'
Can you keep a rally going?
Jamie Nesbitt Golden wrote a great piece on Chicago Prairie Tennis Club, the oldest Black tennis club in the US, and their latest fundraiser to repair decades-old courts and revive a youth program that launched pro players
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10 of the best football kits with a sash
It might look like a seatbelt to some but this is one of the cooelst shirt template designs out there.
Detroit Pistons's tribute to J Dilla's 50th birthday
Like Dilla said, he was ‘from the D, y’all’
The Smithsonian on the rise of pickleball: In 1965 on Bainbridge Island, two friends, Washington State Congressman Joel Pritchard and businessman Bill Bell, dreamed up pickleball on an old badminton court with a pair of ping-pong paddles.
The Conversation on a lack of majority black-owned basketball franchises
How a basketball team in Harlem paved the way but no one is left to walk it.
TIL: Matthew Perry appeared as a secret character in 'NBA Hangtime'
Could I BE any more on fire?
That time when The Rock said 'who are you two roody poos?'
You can guess the eventual response.
Simone Biles wins a record-breaking 21st world championship gold medal
Flipping heck!
Coco Gauff is the 2023 US Open Women’s Singles champion
And she hasn’t even reached her final form yet!
Watch Skyler Woodward sink a golden break for USA against Europe in the Mosconi Cup. I had to look up what a golden break was as I’m more familiar with 8-ball than 9-ball pool. Incredible time to get it as well!