Pitching is so important in baseball that as the position players arrive at their Florida and Arizona stadiums this week for spring training, they’ll find the pitchers and catchers already there, limbered up and ready to go. For pitchers, mental toughness is just as important as talent and physical conditioning, and they need all the … Read more
Head coaches in professional sports are masters at their crafts. They are paid handsomely to put up with onerous owners, petulant players, and fickle fans, all the while knowing that no matter how many championships they win, they’re never more than a losing streak away from the unemployment line. It’s long been said that coaches … Read more
A football is often referred to as a “pigskin,” though it’s been a long time since that term was accurate. Modern day footballs are made out of cow leather, which is manufactured from the hides of slaughtered cattle. That got us at Book of Odds wondering: Forget human beings, what are the odds a cow will … Read more
It is a story almost too good to be true. Yankees outfielder Brett Gardner, accompanied by Linda Ruth Tosetti, granddaughter of legendary slugger Babe Ruth, visited New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital on May 15, 2009, to read books to sick children. The visit was sponsored by Project Sunshine, and when 18-year-old Alyssa Esposito heard … Read more
A football is often referred to as a “pigskin,” though it’s been a long time since that term was accurate. Modern day footballs are made out of cow leather, which is manufactured from the hides of slaughtered cattle. That got us at Book of Odds wondering: Forget human beings, what are the odds a cow will … Read more
Oldest annually run marathon on Earth—first held in 1897 with 15 entrants. William McKinley was president. Second Boston Marathon was won by a man named Ronald MacDonald. Current course record: 2 hours, 4 minutes, and 17 seconds, set in 2006 by four-time champion Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot, of Kenya. Comedian Will Ferrell ran the Boston Marathon … Read more
For the first time in 27 years, an American male just might snatch the laurel leaf at Monday’s Boston Marathon. An unlikely combination of factors have come together to increase those odds. A massive cloud of dangerous ash, issuing from a volcano in Iceland, has closed much of European airspace, forcing an estimated 500 to … Read more
March Madness kicks off every Spring, and within a few hours of the start of the NCAA Basketball Tournament millions of fans across America will be despairing over their already-ruined brackets. Americans fill out 40 million March Madness brackets every year, trying to correctly predict the winners of each of the 63 games in the tournament. Many … Read more